actual reason that pugs are dead is that people are super selective about who they play the game with.
everytime I invite someone to play a pug or a dmix they ask who is in it, and if theres a player or two they don't vibe with they don't join.
so we are stuck in this divided hell of a bunch of different discord dmix servers etc.

essentially people don't play for the love of the game, they just want to play with people they like, and because the scene isn't big enough, we cannot maintain a public pug site.

not much to be done about that, just get used to not playing much tf2 outside of your happy little circjelerk, or your team

Actually though, the production quality of this lan was insane. I think this is exactly what a tf2 lan is supposed to look like. All the fun segments for the downtime were a blast, and the stream just perfectly encapsulated how awesome tf2 lans are.

It's honestly such a shame froyo couldn't go, that would've made it even better, but I can't believe how much fun it was to watch regardless. And I agree the NA team did fantastic considering it was a team made just for the lan and they didn't have nearly as much exp together as the eu teams.

We legit had commanderx co stream some of the last day, pulling an extra 300-500 viewers for the tournament, glazing tf2 as he was doing it, I really hope someone saves those vods. :D

Can't remember the last time I had such a great time watching TF2, congrats to everyone involved in that masterpiece.

Woah, settle down guys it was a joke! No need to be pulling up my logs!

seeing that the NA players that dodged lan were like extremely mesmerized by the default sunshine hold that eu has been doing for 5 years (with the gun holding a door instead of holding nothing), I'm not sure they could field any roster that would reach top2

I think anyone that knows the mandem guys would be able to deduce that the team picture is obviously a joke they thought was funny, though personally I think its a major improvement from the team picture they had before, I have a hard time beliving that is what syrus is referring to?

Their team is not an org, its not reasonable to expect them to hire a logo designer with their 0€ prize money winnings for a tf2 team.

I'm sorry, maybe I don't understand the ethical implications as well as some others do? I'd be happy to be educated on that topic. But didn't we already establish that its obviously AI slop and does not in any way rival actual graphic designers work?

If you are so worried about their logo, then maybe go make them one.

TORILLE

couldn't find a better place to post this but:
day1 production was awesome but we dont really want to see only witness interviews
give us some andidude, smile, dmoule, dejvi, ympo, jekeb, f2, helberg, zambz etc.......... interviews
so many cool people at this lan, and you are choosing to interview these old farts
missed potential IMO
edit: think about the potential of the convos you could have with the boomer danes about why they are still playing, and how the tf2 they play now differs to what they did 10 years ago.
think about how everyone discredited andi for so long and how hes showing up at this lan
theres storylines to be had here, you guys just seem to not want to build upon them

The Virus is just who you are. You instinctively minmax the shit out of your videogames because that's how you extract the most satisfaction out of them.
Those who aren't like this don't have to purposefully try to stop themselves from doing so.
Its just you wanting to do the best you can at whatever you do.
Its a gift, cherish it :)

Ggs @NA. Feels so good to finally win one back :D
WG Eu are proven to be eu goats now, so happy for them
Heres hoping this wasnt the last one and we get to see that again soon :)

https://www.tiktok.com/@tf2esports1/video/7508662808289053974

https://www.tiktok.com/@tf2esports1/video/7508363533969542422

Sniper is a totally fair and balanced class, all these arguments of sniper being a bad class root from players who are unable to dodge
You just have to dodge the sniper and kill him, its not that deep
The game doesn't need fixing, just stop being bad at it

https://www.twitch.tv/amppisss/clip/ShyCharmingOilMau5-XYyVrXFCoQhEzANO

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On paper tf2pickup.eu was a good replacement for tf2.online but in hindsight its completely ruined high level pugging in eu. The automatic hidden elo based balancing on tf2pickup.eu doesn't really work and I don't think its actually even possible to make it work properly. The only way to create good balanced pugs is a pick/ban system.

I also think there should be a 5 minute join timer. U shouldn't have to wait 15 minutes for people to join the server because someone had to do their laundry after they readied up? Also it tends to be the same people who are always late to join those games, there should be a system that bans you after you fail to join within a given timeframe enough times.
Ready up -> join server -> play. 5 minutes is more than enough time to do that

And please make it use mumble. Discord voice is garbage bloatware that makes ur game lag