isn't the point of being captain to try and pick a good team?

Not in mix

So the losing team technically wins? O.O

wait... so if the game ends in a roll the rolling captain gets banned and not the rollee?

No, the goal of both captains is to pick a fair game based on the average skill level of those added. So if 3 platinum HL players are added, picking all 3 of them would be frowned upon, but if the other captain starts to pick them, you're supposed to know enough about everyone's skill level to know that you should pick a competitive team.

If you mess up, you might get restricted temporarily from captaining, but you won't be banned. It's really complicated and I'm not really a fan. It puts too much pressure on the captain, when it should be up to the players to know their placement.

What actually ends up happening is that both captains just pick as many plat players as possible and everyone looks the other way as long as nobody is fatkidded too many times in a row.

I know several people who were banned or crestricted permanently because the team they picked was "too good." I will pull up chat logs if I can find the pastebins.

And then everybody RTV's to viaduct for the 30th time that day.

if you don't know the roster, don't captain.

That's because the admins are inconsistent with their own policies and the rules change every 2 weeks.

moreso than the questionable ban/restrict practices, elena has point blank stated she's purposefully gimping mix with the random mode, which has reduced mixes by a large degree of late, in order to try to get pug.nahl running up again.
getting people to add up currently is like pulling toenails, and i doubt anyone actually feels like adding up to pug instead because that's what they want you to do #fighttheman (also video games are hard)

it's true that it's her prerogative as mix admin but i wish there was a better way to repopulate pug.nahl that didn't include screwing over the audience mix is actually aimed for

that's pretty pretty ridiculous

I understand banning people for repeatedly and purposely stacking teams to troll around and offclass, but for a one or even two time occurrence with no intention its pretty dumb.

Usually its because its a player that she doesn't like, or because its a person she thinks might offend again, so she will just ban them completely in order to not deal with it.

Be that as it may, they're still her servers/channel. I know almost every post that has not joined in on the fuck Elena circlejerk has been downfragged to oblivion, but oh well.

The fact of the matter is, this thread will change nothing. She still owns those servers, regardless of if she treats the players on them well or not. You COULD get a band of people to go on strike or whatever you want to call it, but I doubt that it will change much. You could ask her to be more kind, but she already stated that she didn't care. I think that the best option for people who are unhappy with her to take is to find another place to play (which was already stated), or -if they're banned- change to an alias and play without getting too involved.

http://pastebin.com/NEAvj1jG

I think I have done more reading from this last month on pastebin than I did in all four years of high school.

this thread sucks

thanks loops, couldnt find it.

getting schooled by mustardoverlord must really suck

[18:02] <mustardoverlord> I have a bad attitude towards you because you've done 30 damage per minute in every pug of your life for a year and a half and ban people because of personal vendettas constantly, and then make looking threads for gold and try to act like youre justified in your admining

damn i don't particularly like either person involved in that pastebin but that callout on the dpm had to hurt

you do damage like a girl !

mustard doesnt joke around i guess

http://logs.tf/136199

ded

she actually did -266 total damage (heals - damage). i've never seen that before, ever.

I WANT IN!

I should be studying for midterms but these callouts are too good

I don't think I'd EVER see mustardoverlord call someone an idiot and have other people agree

I don't think it's necessarily because no one agrees with his intention but the average guy is going to read what steve had to say and feel some anger towards Elena. Lange is definitely right. But for the average person on this forum, not a lot of people know how Elena is or the background of the conflict so we just go off of the OP.

Also, you saw how Elena made fun of Steve for being asian and 'small' so you can't fucking tell me that we can't insult her back. That's the problem with society. Everyone is a pussy. In real life if someone calls you a chink or something else racist, you're not going to go "Sorry but let's try to be civilized here and talk this through." You're going to sock the motherfucker.

You can pay Elena to get unbanned, but can you pay her to ban other people?

i remember that..

Of course it's the pug I bottom fragged...

I wasn't going to post here because this didn't concern me. I wasn't involved in this issue, but apparently people had to slander me just because they could.

http://sizzlingstats.com/stats/112012
^ Here, use this one instead. Which more OBVIOUSLY depicts the fact that I wasn't even PLAYING for 90% of that game. I left very early in the game because my computer decided to download updates that were causing my fps to drop to approximately 5.

I'd like to see an invite player play pyro for about a minute with 5 fps and do much better.