[EricH]

Originally Posted by niklas674

That kinda sucks. Why should a team who doesn't check regional waitlists benefit when I forsay find out that 4 top teams are going to regional x. Folks basically benefit from work they didn't do. But hey, I'm just here to compete.

The reason it's done this way is exactly because of some situations where people were doing exactly that, and people didn't have a chance to pick up decent teams that happened to officially add while they weren't around. (BTW, people aren't supposed to be able to--they aren't publicly available as far as I'm aware.) I myself will admit to scanning through a list of teams that would be available as soon as someone was booted and pre-preparing a post to get a good team as soon as the boot was announced (this was before waivers)--literally, see post, click "submit post"--and I wasn't the only one.

Instead, all the teams that are on waiver are announced at one time, if at all possible. This hopefully obscures the good teams in a cloud of mediocre teams. And, you still need to do your homework. There's been a few times where I've looked at a team on the waiver, compared to teams I had, and decided against making a claim.


Oh, and BTW: While you're checking those regionals, you might want to check that your teams are still ON those regional lists. Everybody's missing at least one team.