for every subject you take (typically 6 but max 7), you have to do what is called an Internal Assessment (IA), or an equivalent but differently named assignment for languages, and the grade from that is a part of your final grade, along with the final exam grade. idk if this is very different from other systems across the world, but here in Finland at the "regular" high school, only the final exam grade matters for the diploma grade so that was very different for me.
There's also what's called CAS (creativity, action, service), where you have to do 50h of extracurricular stuff for each of those categories, so 150h total. you do this over the 2 years of the diploma programme, and then you have to write short reflections after.
Another big thing is the Extended Essay (EE), which is a 4000 word essay you need to write about a topic of your choice (for example, i wrote mine on the portrayal and representation of mental illnesses in two sitcom shows) and that also gets graded for your final diploma
The last one i can think of now is TOK (Theory of Knowledge), which is an extra subject mandatory for all IB students and is... the definition of wacky, really. think philosophy but on drugs, and specifically about what it means to know something and how knowledge can be defined. it has its own graded assignments, which are notoriously difficult.

the only costs i had were the final exam fees (about 500€), but high school in general is free in finland so that's why. some IB schools around the world have super high tuition fees.

EDIT: oh and a big thing is that the IB is only offered in a few languages worldwide, so despite living in finland and speaking finnish natively, taking the IB meant i had to do high school in english (and study english as if it was my native language instead of a foreign one like i had until that point in middle and elementary school). as a result i have a "bilingual diploma" which acknowledges my fluency in english and would enable me to skip a language test if i were to apply to a university in an english-speaking country.

IB is International Baccalaureate, an international high school system used in various schools all over the world. It has a lot of wacky "special" assignments, subjects and requirements for completion, and it's very academically demanding.

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as others have said, this is definitely true right now and will probably be true for a while still, but i think (and hope) that it really is just a temporary issue and that as the GC scene grows (since we are barely 2 years into the game being live and even less time for the current competitive structures being in place), the issues will disappear as GC teams and players manage to climb their way up to the top

W

finnish team to stop them all ayo

W post, like the analysis

c9 stomping 2-0

fair enough, would love to see that matchup

what makes you think so? i'm curious

Last week there was a thread here discussing which is better right now, c9w or c9a. I think that discussion has now been settled: c9w beat oni 2-0 last friday (and in no uncertain numbers), and oni already took one map from c9a in their currently ongoing matchup. The last map is still underway and it's looking fairly tight.

edit: c9a just lost the match 1-2

if they have practiced tactics and setups, surely the terminology related to those is easy to pick up quick. im sure it wont be a big problem

theyre streaming open quals now and they have at least 10k fewer viewers than during the GC finals.

there's one happening towards the end of the year, isnt there?

actually criminal that this isnt being streamed

c9w 2-1 please

:(

maybe they should just full save pistol and 2nd round to get an economy boost if theyre gonna lose those anyway
edit: or fullsave 1st and force 2nd
edit2: nvm they just won a pistol

c9w HOPIUM

sometimes the chemistry just isnt there between players, we dont know what was going on

can't believe you did me dirty like this, i was just trying to help you out :(

thanks for the tip! thats cool

messed up your negation there bestie, you accidentally implied you are not pro-equality. we wouldnt want that, would we?

EMEA: fnatic m3c liquid
NA: c9w and optic

• after their reykjavik run im a fan of anything ZETA does

in case youre serious (and curious), its about regional league teams in the german regional league :)

respect

huffing that c9w hopium but its gonna be a tough match

top 15 is a big stretch imo (and i say this as a c9w fan), but seeing as they did just get to ro32 + 8 teams have already qualified, top 40 is for sure. possibly around the top 30 range others have been discussing, will have to see how they measure up in their next match!

did you watch their match just now? definitely not just "mel and friends"

i second this! it was the most intense match ive seen, i was on the edge of my seat the entire time. what felt like infinite overtime on split was just another level to watch

2-1 nice

yep, a whopping 88 viewers on nerdstreetc rn

i'd like to have a word about broadcasting some c9w games with whoever picks them

man in what world is matchfixing on the same level as SA