It sort of feels like being top 4-ish in 2010-2015 is considered more significant than it is now. I forget their name, but I think grape's and showstopper's team was like perpetually the fourth seed, but they were considered quite good (grape was considered insane ofc). IIRC grape got second at lan once, but I think that was the time someone was cut mid game.

Would many RGL players, who never joined a winning team, appear on an updated version of this top 100 list? Anyone from the last few years? Like is there a modern RGL version of grape? Someone who never won, generally stuck below the second seed, but is definitely top 100?

(Not saying there aren't any, I'm just curious since I don't follow the scene much and it seems like no one has named any.)

a lot of ml papers are essentially math papers and the main contribution is their analysis, but a lot are also basically just "we use different linear algebra, make big, state of art result!!!" (and then take some math from a textbook / other papers and add it related work / background to make look cooler.)

edit: ninja'd by 20 minutes :-) agree w/ u bby

I think it would also help if these games had first-class support for "practice" game modes. Like the game hosting defrag servers and including a clone of kovaaks. It would be even better if there was a matchmaking system and you could play these practice modes while waiting :-/ would help with low player counts.
It's easier to meet people while messing around on jump servers vs dueling and it would give people more stuff to do while waiting for things to start and/or friends to sign on, which has always been a pretty painful part of afps for me :-(.

I can kinda agree, but keeping track of item spawn times honestly is just one of the more important skills for quake :-/ it's part of what makes it competitive / interesting. Otherwise, it would just be MGE with better movements, weapons, and maps lol. feels sort of like saying 6s is gatekept because you haven't played long enough to know how to track ubers or rocket jump.

I too expect that the free, decade-old speedrun community server managed by volunteer jump mains to be better run than a paid competitive league.

recommendations for fk1 replacement? I've been using it for 10 years and it finally borked. I liked the fk1 so much I never looked at other mice, so I have no clue what the market is like... (I don't even know if zowie is still good and wireless mice have suddenly become usable...)
1. Something similar to the fk1, (I don't really care about ambidextrous, but I like the size and claw grip.)
2. maybe something ~slightly~ larger than fk1, I don't want to go any smaller.
3. I'd like to try wireless (unless wired is a lot cheaper)

Some things that caught my eye are
1. the new FK1-c. (cheap and I like fk1. (IDK why they don't have a wireless version?))
2. wireless ec2-c (not cheap, but wireless and I like zowie.)
3. vaxee xe (not cheap, but wireless and similar to fk1, made by some OG people from zowie?)
4. razer viper (very expensive and razer, but heard it was an fk clone)

I don't even game that often now, so I'd prefer something <$100, but a lot of the wireless mice seem more expensive than that... I'd def go a little higher for good wireless :-/

isn't it actually lansky who really started shift to the double gunboats meta? b4nny pocket scout was so heal heavy that lansky had to switch to using gunboats. His DPM kinda skyrocketed, so more people started doing it...
I know there's lots of people who tried it, so froyo wasn't literally the first, but my memory from being a spectator back then is literally "every top invite pocket running shotgun, lansky switched, then almost everyone started doing double gunboats."

starts around here https://www.teamfortress.tv/21833/esea-s18-tf2/?page=16#473

phrakture. He would also farm elo against his alt :-D This was revealed in the sp00ky mge alts eXposed threads

Not always drama threads, but stuff from rando_fan_69 and harbleu_HIVpositive are classic

I found an old gif of blaze hittin' the hair flip ^.^

I always found mge pretty enjoyable because it's the one place you get to hit many airshot that make brain happy :D

Oh, how I yearn for the lost days of tftv drama threads. When teams publicly died because of an invite player love-hexagon's untimely collapse. When people think they're in a relationship with an e-girl, only to find out they're dating another teammate. When a shirtless guy looked like lansky. When players would threaten to kill themselves (?) by running into a forest. The love, the heartbreak, the meltdowns, ... the drama.

striker1337

i'm too invested in the drama, I MUST know what the smoking gun was ;-;

This has probably already been said, but i'm not reading everything.
I feel like if rgl is unable to make strong decision about the guy who was unbanned like 5 months ago and is still super sus.... then that's actually a really, really good reason to give permanent bans for first time cheating offenses (at least for adv/inv players)
like if it's not possible for them to follow recently-unbanned players, then they need to disallow those players from rejoining the scene. Especially considering the ac team apparently barely functions or is overloaded.

by cheating you lost all thrust i could have in you