Shoutout to the entire tf.tv team, it's a pleasure to work with you all. An extra shoutout to all of those who postponed their drinks or gave up sleep to fix any issues.

Special mentions:
Wolfmachina for bringing a lot of gear, buildup, teardown and dealing with the video rentals
Beta for once again lending his credit card for the tiny deposit needed to rent all that video gear
Ash and Kermit for their dedication and all the AV work they did. If you enjoyed watching the two huge TVs at the event, thank them for fixing all the issues we had for the local viewers by working deep into the night on Friday.
David for replacing dashner without any notice. It's the most stressful job of the entire production and you did an outstanding job.
Geel, for financially supporting competitive TF2 once again
Extine for killing it as the host, being one of the nicest people at LAN too
Bones and Anders for all the hours on the cameras, drinks, banter, secret walkie talkie conversations
All the analysts for adding so much entertainment and insight to the stream. What a great mix of personalities.
Fiyastorm and Nymthae for putting up with our plugin shenanigans and other special requests, and for putting up with the teams
Lange for helping us figure us out what to do when dashner got denied entry
Wiethoofd for all the r/tf2 stuff!

And of course, dashner, for dreaming this all up and showing us it can be done. This time even without him there, slacker.

VPN. A good one that is close to you will add 10-20ms of latency, perfectly playable.

Mirror: http://fakkelbrigade.eu/i58/i58%20STV%20pack%20+%20ticks.rar

Allowing coaches for ETF2L matches would force every server owner to run the CompCtrl plugin (and Metamod+SourceMod), while currently a plain server without any plugins is sufficient.

Also, if having coaches makes more teams play like Crowns, TF2 will be dead in a week. Zzzzzzz

Still figuring that out. We'll make it work.

Worst case, a setup like i52.

Guesses: "My brother...", "Drunk", "Hacked"

Place your bets

To answer the thread title: No.

To answer the question how someone would get rcons for serveme.tf reservations, admin abuse. Specifically this cunt who was granted admin privileges in Feb 2014 and decided to raise from the grave and be a dick today: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198025102049

That's ETF2L's Solid, from the anti-cheat team, abusing his serveme.tf privileges (granted to him to catch cheaters) to disrupt games in progress.

Here ya go: http://fakkelbrigade.eu/maps/cp_cardinal_a1a.bsp

Recenty finished:
Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline pretty great, maybe a bit too many pop culture references. Spielberg is making a movie about it, not a clue how he's going to pull that off.
The Three Body Problem (trilogy), by Liu Cixin really looking forward to book no. 3 in september. It's by a Chinese author and I thought I might not like it because of that, but these books are awesome.
Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson, basically a way more badass version of the Imitation Game. If you're just slightly into programming or cryptography, this is a great read.
Seveneves also by Neil Stephenson First 2/3 of the book are great, the last third is OK. Long read, but totally worth it if you like world ending apocalypse/sci-fi stories.

Currently reading a Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking

I like cheat feed (but I'm biased). CS:GO events are casted with no delay and despite some great observers they regularly miss flashy/important plays. It's such a shame to see multiple kill feed lines in the top right while in-eyes with someone doing nothing.

CS:GO has big live audiences watching the teams on a stage, so delays to enable cheat feed don't make sense.
We don't have that so I think we just gain things by using it properly without any downsides.

ikr, I apologize to the player of the ETF2L match tonight that mentioned this on twitch chat after the match and its premature STV death.
Just because the previous 9 times players were messing with rcon, I shouldn't have assumed it would be more of the same tonight xD

Removed the default sourcemod plugin "nextmap" from all servers in all regions, when combined with SOAP DM this would lead to unplanned map changes when the map timer ran out.

Casual mode is a pleasant surprise

Could have fooled me.

You have an idea and now you "just" need people to build it for free, genius!

Only the medic had mostly moved out of the way (medic's client side) when he shot. His game predicted the medic to be there (based on his typical ping and both their movements), but when the server looked at the actual positions and shots he mostly missed. Now that seems unfair, and it probably is, because he hit those shots on his screen.

But consider the medic's perspective, he sees most or maybe even all pellets miss him, it isn't fair either to have that register as a meatshot.

You can't have both perfectly fair hitreg (for the shooter) and perfectly fair 'dodge'-reg (for the one being shot at) in a game with lag compensation.

If you want to have perfect hitreg you need 0 latency or 0 prediction (including movement/mouse-look!). John Carmack wrote about QuakeWorld's netcode way back in the 90s. He settled on instant movement/mouse-look and delayed shots, requiring you to lead your targets in that game. http://fabiensanglard.net/quakeSource/johnc-log.aug.htm
Half-life and later Valve games went with lag compensation. Giving you instant movement, mouse-look and shots

That's what Overwatch does. The downside is you might get hit by a shot you actually dodged.