First of all, the tool that suggests you're being routed through US/BR is using geoip information that seems to be incorrect (also you'd ping much higher than 100ms). But you are suffering from poor routes through Sweden and Poland, which is not ideal if you're from Croatia.

Your Dutch/i3D route (Bolus/KroketBrigade) looks alright:

Zagreb->Vienna->Munchen->Frankfurt->Amsterdam->Rotterdam.

Pretty much what you can expect, mostly a direct route.

Your German/Hetzner route goes via Stockholm adding 2x1200KM to the route:

Zagreb->Vienna->Stockholm->Frankfurt->Nuernberg

Your French/OVH route goes:

Zagreb->Vienna->Bratislava->Warsaw->Amsterdam->Gravelines

This is beyond dumb.

The three German machines are located with two different datacenters. DusselBrigade is myloc.de, Fakkel/NewBrigade are at Hetzner. The two Dutch machines are located at i3D in Rotterdam. Baguette/PhoenixBrigade are with OVH in France. We purposefully use a bunch of different datacenters, so there's always one that pings/routes well.

tl;dr your ISP saved a buck or two on routing

https://i.imgur.com/DE9Gu9O.png

L 03/17/2021 - 20:31:42: "Zucch1n1<6><[U:1:928918444]><Blue>" say "he is prem"
L 03/17/2021 - 20:31:56: "Zucch1n1<6><[U:1:928918444]><Blue>" say "we can create some drama"
L 03/17/2021 - 20:32:57: "Zucch1n1<6><[U:1:928918444]><Blue>" say "I should probably post this somewhere"
L 03/17/2021 - 20:34:11: "SynciNG<4><[U:1:31914324]><Blue>" say "yeah"
L 03/17/2021 - 20:34:17: "SynciNG<4><[U:1:31914324]><Blue>" say "let's that bitch cry more"

Big brain alts

Well....for the first time in 20 years of hosting gameservers, one actually burned to a crisp xD

https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/1369504527544705025

RIP CroissantBrigade

Update: Welcome PhoenixBrigade, 10 gameservers to replace the ones that are now a puddle of molten metal.

It's a VA panel, most of those have lots of black smearing. The VG248QE you're used to is a TN panel. Get an IPS or TN panel instead (or a Samsung Odyssey VA panel).

100 tick wasn't tested at the time, no, at least on serveme.tf. It should be easier to run, still I'd plan for 50% higher CPU usage, which might be an issue on some machines and VPS-es. Server CPUs are typically many cores at lower clocks, and with HLDS/TF2-server being very single threaded that's an issue for (at least) HL matches at these higher tickrates.

Most people didn't feel 133 tick was a huge improvement, so I expect 100 tick to be at least equally underwhelming. Also, the bugs you describe are the same as for the 133 tick experiment, so the other ones are probably also still there, which I expect to be a deal breaker for the competitive community and leagues.

If you're looking to revive that experiment, I'd just aim for 133 tick instead. Let me know if you'd like a server set up for that in one of the serveme.tf / na.serveme.tf locations, that way you could try and organize some scrims to test it.

Bugs, people didn't care and server load (especially highlander).

Want your league to police language AND skin color?

Some services updates and an apology to NA players:

After some required security and dependency updates to the serveme project, a critical component of the NA site was not functioning correctly. This caused reservations not to start, making the service unusable on a normally busy night, which sucks.
As an apology, everyone with premium in NA has received a premium code for a free month. You can choose to use this free month for yourself, or give it away. Use the settings page to claim the code or give it away to a friend.

Service updates:
We've added more DDoS-protected servers in NA, and removed some servers that did not have DDoS protection. Most servers have at least some form of DDoS protection now.
In EU we've added 16 extra gameserver (DusselBrigade) in the same datacenter as the current WilhelmBrigade servers. The new machine is faster and cheaper, so WilhelmBrigade will be phased out at contract end.

First time?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMG5A_zlkP8&feature=youtu.be

You're playing a rigged game, I wish you'll succeed, but the odds are literally stacked against you.

Took them longer than I thought.

He streamed all of Mr Robot, a bunch of movies and other copyrighted stuff. Also all the talk about the people he was going to kill.

https://i.imgur.com/0HRH83A.jpg

Respect the beard

All sourcemod plugins are open source under GPL license. So you can copy, change and redistribute it any way you please.

That's only true with interpolation and prediction disabled.

Every serveme server uses TFTrue, I know of no mechanism in TFTrue that could cause FPS lag. In 9 years of running the plugin I've never heard of FPS lag and TFTrue.

Pugchamp also does not use TFTrue.