valve is killing this game and ESEA is a joke now

2013 esea open = current invite (except for a couple of teams)

this

http://www.teamfortress.tv/36681/sigafoos-challenge-cup

not so great to be completely honest but quick shoutout for ur avatar

Oh yeah I somewhat noticed this. Ppl who I played in open back in the day are now invite, im sure they've gotten better but it is still weird to see lol

I love my avatar

Is valve actively killing it or just ignoring it and letting it die as it always was?

There's only a handful of people at Valve who care to work on TF2 in 2016, so they're kinda just.. not really able to do a whole lot.

Valve is (trying?) to make 6v6 a thing but with no weapon bans, no class limits and pl as a actual gamemode... So no they are not trying to kill it but the way they put shit together is killing it.

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a good way to put it is that they are not trying to kill it but they are actively killing it as opposed to passively killing it

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+yikes

I posit that invite always has tended to have players that were in open 3 years before.

Especially if we're talking about teams other than the top 2 spots.

don't forget racial slurs

anyways

General

• tf2 has gone downhill skillwise
  
• many oldschool players have gone to overwatch (enigma, seagull, harbleu, clockwork, pyyour, etc)
  
• you can now basically queue up for a lobby now ingame (matchmaking)
  
• i52, i55 and i58 were pretty good
  i52: epsilon was still a thing but they get rolled by froyo in the finals
  i55: froyo is still a thing and they win
  i58: froyo is still a thing but surprise surprise its not the same froyo!, all euro final and the team with a coach wins
  
• demoman is not as good as before
  
• scout is considered the best class in the game and it's yet to recieve a significant nerf
  
• you can now run gunboats on pocket without getting criticized
  
• tip of the hats is still going strong
  
• hl is the minority but in the same time it isnt, like theres many more players in hl but everyone admits that 6s is a better gamemode
  
• 4s is a thing, nobody takes it seriously tho
  
• we're trying to make all leagues to run the same whitelist but some mongoloids tried unlocking way too many weapons, like they tried to unban the atomizer (aka the bat that makes you triple jump) and a parachute item for the solder / demo that makes mid fights pretty much dogfights, everyone complained and they got rid of those weapons but the rest of the aids whitelist is still there
  
• faceit tf2 is a thing
  
• the main site to pug now is pugchamp

NA

• b4nny plays everything but demo now
  
• showstopper was part of the biggest upset in na tf2 history
  
• the old froyotech was the shit now its just a bunch of kids getting microed by b4nny feat. blaze and shade
  
• ascent / ronin / exertus / elevate / lost in translation / the team with ma3la on it always ended in second place except for one season
  
• everyone expects esea to drop tf2 in the future
  
• cookiejake is an invite medic

Drama

• "drunk" b4nny had a beef with thalash (prem scout) and basically shittalked all euros and full tilt (aka thalash's team at the time) knocked out b4nny at i58
  
• the medic for ma3la's team got cucked by rando
  
• oh yeah tf2lobby died
  
• if you use tf2center you're hitler and if you're a mod there you're literally the antichrist accor. to most of the community
  
• meanwhile god bless kevinispwn and tf2stadium even tho nobody uses it because everyone is playing tf2center

EU

• eu is currently better than na
  
• after i52 / i55 (i don't remember) numlocked tried to reform epsilon but everyone played like shit and they gave up

i'm gonna edit this post as soon as i remember more stuff

cheater in invite, smh

u havent missed much, unf is still bad even after playing since s4

It's not that valve is "killing TF2", TF2 has always had a ticking timer of relevancy. The issue is valve at this point in time are pretty much the only people capable of resetting the timer. Issue is, the way they're handling things, they're making the timer tick even faster. Half-baked releases, slow confusing response times, seemingly disconnected decision making. These have always been prominent valve issues but they become even more apparent now more than ever with the handling of matchmaking and maintaining interest in the game.

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lol i hit a nerve

why was my post removed????? Wut

Edit: Its back

lol this pretty much sums it up

That's exactly what I'm saying.

Rather than letting the timer go on normally, passively killing the game by not doing anything, they're taking an active approach to try and reset the timer. However, in reality, the things they're doing are actually making it tick faster.

I was just trying to say it in one sentence.

What a shame to hear tf2 has gone down skillwise. But as long as I can still enjoy the comp format I am happy. Also happy to hear scout is still relevant

What happened to demo, did it finally really get nerfed?

The HL point is something that has been known for a while, even though many top demos came from that format. But from peaking at the UGC rosters it seems that less 6s players play both formats now unlike when I was active :(

people who are talking about how skill has decreased are actually morons and I get triggered everyone someone says it
people fucking sucked in 2013 and idk how ppl like smesi who probably started after s20 can even comment on this at all

wtf even after i used your hud you still bully me....

https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.105179497.9669/flat,800x800,075,t.jpg

yomps won invite

+mongo

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skeez had a perfect game