People who take the time to vote for which map they truly want up next in dm instead of just pressing F1

Piggy-backing off of this one, people who dont vote for granary or badlands, you a hero.

This has always caused issues in source games, or atleast where mods for source games are concerned

often the vote for the next map is tied to the number keys, so if you have any binds or a cfg that utilizes these keys, they're automatically utilized to vote for a map I didn't even see and only briefly popped up for a fraction of a second.

I swear, that god damn method of map selection was the reason I had !revote bound to a key for nearly every valve multiplayer game

Anyhow to stay on topic, this might have been mentioned already, but I appreciate Soldiers/demos on MGE who don't prefire as soon as I respawn. I understand it's a valid tactic, and if it's like an MGE tournament for money or something that's fine, but this isn't quake dude, you don't need to practice spawn fragging people on blands spire

Marxist for all of his super informative videos that are still mostly relevant.

For those curious https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL757vsS-wvM4kwvSGBJ00yEOo5A2G7_Al

salamancer for starting it all (the international rivalry)

Mr slin, nuze and everyone else that does analysis/tutorial videos that introduce new players to the format and help somewhat experienced players get better

Any and all "pub" youtubers that give positive exposure to lans and the competitive community in general to a much wider audience than anyone else could

And last of all (and I know I'll get downfragged for this) everyone in the TF2Center developement team. They get nothing but negative attention but they've coded, updated and hosted the largest tf2 pug site for half a decade

if it weren't for tf2center i don't think i would have gotten into comp tf2, or at least a lot slower. it's easy to say 'join a team' but remember most of us legitimately have no idea how good we are after playing pubs for years. tf2center is a useful yardstick that says, "oh, yeah, i can play comp tf2 at some level, at least. time to start climbing."

Also shutout to b4nny for being such a big influence and the best Chief Executive Officer ever!!
!!QUE VIVA PEDRO VINCENT!!!!!

people who dont get genuinely mad at other individual players in pugs if they arent good

people who have the medic icon in their faceit profile and actually play medic

mappers

special thanks to what is schwa for making swift water so pubs can ever be fun

normal functioning people who dont hold grudges in a cartoon game

Jarrett doesn't get the recognition he deserves for how much he cares about the development of tf2's competitive scene