By front paged I mean on the "top games" list. I don't monitor twitch all the time so I can't say it's never been there, I just I haven't seen it. For example, there's a total of 212 viewing TF2 right now while even fucking Runescape has nearly 2500 viewers. Runescape. Are you shitting me?

The point is that games like SC2, DotA2 and LoL have a consistently high viewer count, and if TF2 is ever on the front page of twitch it's only because a major tournament like ESEA LAN is on there. On the other hand, almost every player from EG on SC2 and DotA2 (I don't watch much LoL streams but I know the solomid guys get more views than both of them combined almost) get thousands of viewers just from them playing matchmaking.

almost all the casted invite matches get front paged

Pardon my ignorance then. Like I said, I don't monitor twitch all the time, especially not during match time because I have my own matches. I still think it speaks volumes that during "downtime" where there's no matches happening that TF2 gets ~1k or sub ~1k viewers total and there's 17k people watching voyboy stream matchmaking on league of legends right now.

I'm not picking on TF2, I'm saying FPS games in general don't get consistent views. They get spiked views during tournaments, and even during tournaments they'll always be behind DotA, SC2, and LoL even when there is no current tournaments being streamed for those games going on.

everyone knows this and it's been said a million times before. what's your point

Didn't realize you weren't the same guy who was trying to argue that LoL was only popular because Riot invests a lot of money into tournaments. I also don't know if "everyone knows this" because it seems that "valve doesn't care about tf2" seems to be the #1 excuse people make why TF2 isn't a huge esport. I'm also derailing this thread horribly.

TO ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT THE TOPIC.

Should be kinda cool. I always thought painkiller was a good game even if it was just a quake clone. I also cringed reading that article because the TL;DR was "fatal1ty has never lost anything ever in his life, can relic take this away from him?" - so rip him up relic. Rooting for you.

which pk game do they actually use to compete

fatal1ty's stream had painkiller black edition

This announcement is full of amazing flavor text.

fatal1ty is the kinda guy that baits his teammates in ql ca pubs. relic is going to take a shit in his mouth

i was standing on dm6 bridge with my lg out looking straight at fatal1ty. he had his lg out too. i did a 360 to make sure he wasnt baiting me with 2000000 of his teammates around to save his ass. i thought it was just going to be a normal, man-to-man, 1v1 lg duel, professional accomplished video gamer jonathen fatal1ty wendel vs. young asian high school boy collin heero yeung. the clock ticked down. FIGHT. i started lging, i was winning, i was ecstatic, oh my god i was beating fatal1ty.............. and then he dropped off of bridge. i chased him - my fatal mistake. i had been duped - there was the rest of his team, ready with lg, and i was no match for fatal1tys fucking gay ass jewish nigger tactics. as my corpse fell gracefully to the ground i hear a beep and i read the chat:

fatal1ty: lol ez

just imagine this fucking face

http://www.actiontrip.com/images/features/fatal1tyinterview1s.jpg

motherfucker

You are just mad because you are still eating like a noob! No wonder you get outskilled!

http://allplay.pl/uploads/news/Fatality-stop-eating-like-a-noob.png

oh my god

half of lol's comp scene is bigger than any other games comp scene friend. this is ignoring the fact that you're horribly wrong in the first place

he's such a weird guy. he seems to only stream ffa and only duels people new to the game.

he is really good

srs

gl relic

So whats the story on fatality? Does he have control over how cheesy his marketing is or is he just sitting back embarrassed but happy the check clears? My assumption is that since he spelled fatality with a "1" before being famous he is all for cheesy marketing, but I need this confirmed.

I'm sure he laughed his ass off while coming up with the "cashews of chaos"

or did he think it was "sick"?

these are the questions that need answers.

http://www.gamerfood.com/cashews-of-chaos
http://www.gamerfood.com/nuts-of-destruction
http://www.gamerfood.com/seeds-of-victory

what combination of the three must I consume to become invite?

Crush em up and snort them before every match. The gamer high will give you the reflexes of a god.

Start off with seeds, cashews for longer sessions. Only boost with nuts of destruction once you are sure you can handle them!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I7LMGfSKScQ

This is too good not to justify a double post.

http://youtu.be/aChTs0mwXt4

Dat triple air.

Less QQ more Cashew!

http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/286756/286756,1308813405,1/stock-photo-man-laughing-hysterically-at-his-laptop-computer-79758133.jpg

no fucks given

http://www.pcper.com/files/imagecache/article_max_width/review/2011-08-04/IMG_0394.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/GpjxvDT.png

http://i.imgur.com/e00pOaR.png

http://i.imgur.com/1mix27W.png

nuts_destroyed

Seriously, they used a clip from toxic vs. fatal1ty?
Don't get yourself into shady busines, relic!

so hyped