Night from Pirate Hunters here.
Given our top player was banned exactly a month ago, the Hunters have been basically close to square one in establishing an identity and finding our footing. We've put up mixed results against teams throughout D8 and D9 and really have two teams in one, which I'm aware makes it difficult to seed us.
The majority of our team was stunned at the news of being placed in D8. While I think we can hold our own to a degree, it's clear given the skill gap in the roster that D9 would be a better fit for us given we have 15 players active, with nearly a third being from Europe and some brand new to warring.
I respect your decision regardless, but here is some proof as to our mixed results below:
Savage is in our current division and we lost to them even with Kyrette in our lineup which is no longer an option for us. Even a European player we believe can not fill the void to one of the top 25 players from D7 last season.
This is honestly one of our top tier lineups, and we did lose narrowly to 8vb. While J0hn did depart for LTK, see the table below on our narrow loss to his team, now seeded in D9.
We lost pretty badly to Red Ribbon, who is seeded below us in the division.
While we did beat 8vb with arguably a meta lineup (King Boo = Tristan) it is abundantly clear that HSB was subbed out. In absence was Myles, Danny Fathom, Sand, Tone, and other notable 8vb players present in the table above.
Without the Europeans, we did narrowly get defeated by Latin Kart in D9.
I know this is all over the board, but so is our team figuratively and literally.
We're excited for MKU and wish everyone the best of luck.