http://i.imgur.com/TKEhF.png

In all seriousness though, as an engineer, fuck everything about the US Imperial system...

Shit. The aussie's are going to come in and stomp everyone and now NA and EU will be sad :(

http://memecrunch.com/meme/IFTF/highlander/image.png

I'm having 0 input on this, I just want to point out things because I like making fun of Shoe.

In fairness, the number of viewers that consistently watch streams this season are WAY higher than in the past. While I think a large part of that is tf.tv's doing (amazing job Enigma, seriously) in aggregating all of the streams, I'm confused why people think that i46 did nothing. I mean, what were some of you expecting? That we'd suddenly put up League of Ass Legends numbers and sponsors would be leaving SC2 to pay for b4nny's shampoo? Here's how I see it, i46 did several things that are worth noting (not saying that NA vs EU i49 would do the same/improve anything):

1) It got people interested in tf2 that weren't otherwise interested. Look, we're not going to suddenly pick up thousands of viewers, but from my own, anecdotal experience I had several roommates watch just because they heard it was "NA vs EU" and it was a game they played a year or two ago. Did they suddenly jump into 6v6 and keep up with all of the league news? No. But they'll occasionally watch a big game (and ESEA LANs) because the i46 games were exciting. Stream numbers have been WAY up since then and seem to be continuously growing.

2) It bridged the gap between the NA and EU fan bases to an extent. Outside of a few select people, how many people here gave a flying fuck about the teams across the pond from you? I'm willing to bet one of the reasons that ESEA casts are consistently getting 1000 viewers a night is because you now have two different groups of people interested in the same project. I watch WAY more EU 6v6 than I did before i46, and based on some of the comments in streams that I watch, the same is true for many people on both the NA and EU side.

3) It SERIOUSLY bridged the gap between NA and EU communities. Before i46, the only time euros came to post on an NA thread was to say "lol our demos are better. gg Epsilon OP haha" or something similar, while NA just went over to say "lrn2 airstrafe". Essentially, there was a distinct feeling of two separate communities. Now I see the communities working together on a lot of projects. I've seen several EU contributors donate to ESEA LAN funds just because they want to see great TF2; it no longer matters what continent they're on.

4) Lastly, it inspired a lot of people IN the community to really start thinking about ways to promote TF2. After i46 we saw a boom in people pushing for Twitch front page, featured articles, and ESEA stream spotlights. Did i46 cause this? No. Hell, it may have even been in the works before i46. What it did do is convince people that we (as a community) really can do a lot to promote this old, hit-scan-never-fucking-works-for-me-I-swear-no-reg game.

Did i46 have the immediate, dramatic results that several people wanted? Absolutely not. Will doing it again at i49 further promote TF2 to the outside world and continue to increase on the 4 things I mentioned above? No idea. What I do know is that telling people "we shouldn't do this because we won't get sponsors" seems like a really stupid response when the community (especially the EU one) really wants to set up a rematch.

tl;dr If the community wants another international LAN and is willing to back it up, why the fuck shouldn't we do it?

Will easily be the most chill, mannered player on your team. Great scout, good soldier, and an even better dude.

Plus he's black. If your team still needs a token black man or is struggling with your affirmative action quota, he's your man.

People who say GPit for A/D.

May I ask why you prefer it over Steel (for HL)? I know it's just my opinion, but for A/D Steel feels big enough and varied enough that it actually plays well for HL, whereas GPit seems to fit more for 6's. Serious question.

My body is ready.

Really cool dude, great scout, and an amazing utility player. 10/10 would bang.

How much to get you to return to TF2 on a team with GGLYGY and Ghos7ayama? My checkbook is waiting.

I'm not sure my body is ready for ghos7 and GGLY on the same team.

UGC 6's.

They appeared to be winning with a full time heavy, he was getting to mid before the opposing demoman even though he was getting there around 9:45, and players were literally walking onto a carpet of sticks.

Not taking anything away from Thief's ability to use the SR, but against low level opponents pretty much anything will work if you are half decent at it.

This is what the cast led to:

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"What a bitch, amirite?" CBear 2013.

Never forget.

Champions of our heart.