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I don't have permission to reply in that thread, evidently. But I'll help in any way I can. Just give me an idea of what stats you were working from in the Shoddy days.
@plagiarism: I'll admit to akela v. Arcanite (because I honestly have no clue of what else to say), but in no way your opinions influenced mine. I went by seeing each other's teams and decided based on what I know of them.
Hey birkal do you think you could delete some of the threads in the mentorship forum? They're starting to clutter up everything and I think the presence of one-question-threads seems to encourage people to post MORE of them