The ladder drop has resulted in a lot of really vicious BM pvp. It's funny watching all the trash talk and BM between Ladder and NL players. The NL players tend to simply not host each other when there are players they recognize as L in a game, and pile in on them. Ladder players join with x1 or x2 other duelers and nk the game. Imo the total level of skill in NL pubs hasn't risen at ALL since I was last here, which is kinda unfortunate. Actually, it's pretty much exactly the same as Ladder.
It seems strange, but the very best pkers on ladder have had very little beef with the top NL clans, which is the opposite of last season when the drop led to a lotta L clans getting smashed by NL in tvt. Most of the ladder clans stayed on ladder (LoH is pro @ pvm lol), some of the ladder players were running NL clan tags before the reset even happened.
In sumation, pubs are still bad, but the NL level of team dueling is fantastic