Could you be more specific about the categories into which you are dividing players? You say "amateur" and "professional," but there is only one professional TF2 player. Everyone else is an amateur. Are you just looking at competitive players or also at pub players? What about competitive players who play UGC instead of ESEA? What about retired players?

(Also, Google Forms works pretty well for polls. PollJunkie sucks if it doesn't let you fix mistakes in the poll.)

Hey, when saying "professional" I guess I am just talking about premier/ or invite players. I understand technically it is not professional. For the surveys I am only looking at competitive players but I am doing some experiments with a majority of pub players. Which I can explain it to you if you like but its pretty long too. With UGC 6v6 I just assumed in NA and EU it was not taken as seriously as at least other here I feel like UGC 6v6 is a joke. That is why in the survey I only put the options for Invite/prem, High, Intermediate and open. I have not really thought about doing something to do with retired players. I feel like I have not answered your questions properly. I would consider maybe including some of those questions within my research but I feel like with all the other stuff I am organizing for it I may run out of time. Thanks for some ideas.

Thanks for the responses so far, Feel free to share this survey with your friends and other people as the more responses I get the better

97 responses so far guys! Lets get this to 100. Thanks for all the help and support so far and also all of the feedback

We up to 111 now thanks guys

We are over 200 responses now. Thanks

46% of people said they dont play matchmaking.

what a fail it is lol

http://puu.sh/qhrvA/0250e44419.png

Oh boy

Generally a pretty decent survey :)
I think a good question to ask is "do you believe fps configs and r_drawviewmodel command should be allowed in matchmaking?"
So that valve can realise that nearly the entire fucking community doesn't understand why they are locked

I think the fact that 46% of the people for my 6v6 survey and 43% for my highlander survey shows that they must have done something wrong. Like pretty much half of the community does not play matchmaking and the half that said they did probably played it only that day and never touched it again. But its supposed to be 6v6 matchmaking and more highlander people play it according to my surveys. I think I might make a separate survey with that question. The problem is that the competitive community is actually a small part of the whole tf2 player base so really they are making competitive for the casual people that probably wont even play it because they just get rolled every game because there is no rank calibration. It is just sad that something we wanted forever is something that we almost wish never happened but I guess its a step in the right direction we just need to try get our voices heard. Maybe if we could also get normal players saying they want fps configs and r_drawviewmodel command etc maybe that would make valve change it.

I don't know that you wouldn't see similar numbers in CSGO among ESEA players tbf

Likely for different reasons, but success with existing comp communities isnt success with the main playerbase

I think that's one of the biggest issues with matchmaking. We want that pyro with 150 hours in the game to be playing matchmaking over and over again, but even pubstompers will push the newer playerbase out of matchmaking. Compare that to CS GO where even the newest of players have a place to go in matchmaking.

Hey guys thanks for all the responses. We are up to 285 now and just need 15 more for 300!! so please try share it around