Toxicity, racism and even disrespect is intolerable.
That being said, punishing people for a comment, a post or a match on third party websites or even a public server is harsh. Of course it depends what kind of comment it was, but up until a certain point, you gotta have a thicker skin.
It is 100% correct to keep your website clean in order to preserve the experience for other users. And yes, people who trashtalk in pubs tend to do that in lobbies as well. But myeehh...

That being said, TF2Center is a good website and a good service... it's what we as users make out of it that makes it cancer. If there are no decent games because gamers are just trolling, guess what: its not TF2Center's fault. MN as has a "distinct" character, his admins are a bit... antsy... when it comes to punishments, especially bans. But you know that and you can just not be an ass to people. Want to use his website? Fine... Don't want to use it? Your call. But don't complain about the system if you are one of the people disrespecting it.

Unpopular opinion.

i63 was always an international LAN. Now it's intercontinental. Pleeeease.

Good stuff though!

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Fricking weebs... kill me

Hey everyone!

We already had a map test cup and due to the delays caused by Copenhagen Games we do not have time for another one...
We decided to put cardinal into the map pool because it was the most promising out of the ones we recently tested.
While sunshine is a solid map, we felt like it does not have a unique feel to it (it falls in the bucket of process-esque maps) and there are still quite some players that deeply dislike it. The nail in the coffin (for S30 at least) was the fact that it is a final map, meaning it is not actually being developed anymore. While this is true for a number of maps in our pool, out of the final maps it is the weakest.
One could argue granary is also bad, but it is seeing some developement - whether for the better or worse we will have an eye on.
We have decided some time ago that we will always switch up the map pool by rotating at least 1 map in order to make it feel a little less stale. Playing, learning and understanding new maps is an important part of the competitive experience and we will hold on to this philosophy for the foreseeable future. Who knows, maybe after playing it more than once in a fun cup people will actually dig this map and the developer will gain enough feedback to make the necessary adjustments! Snakewater and process eventually became what one could refer to as "standart maps"... cardinal may be the next one. (:

Hope you will all sign up to the season and have a great time with your friends! <3

In b4nny's defence, I would probably declare Rewind the superior LAN too if it was only an hour drive from my home...

Looking for a PC that runs TF2 for me and my friend for a small fee and many hugs :3

maybe cu@?

Shoutout to Esport United. For the "average" streamviewer and LAN attendee it may seem like Kritzkast and Essentials carried the workload, but without them this LAN would have been nothing!

Shoutout to the TF2 staff. Crazy how much work was being done with this little sleep.

Shoutout to the caster setup that decided to not work anymore as soon as I sat down at the desk.

Shoutout to shoutouts.

- Updated tournament info
—> final mappool
—> formats for groupstage and knockouts ( 6v6 and Highlander)
- slightly changed the schedule (moved a HL round on Thursday to a later spot, thus 6v6 will start off the LAN with round 1 of groups)
- added tournament rules. We highly recommend every player - at least every team leader - to read through them!

See: https://lan.teamfortress2.com/event-info.php

Good evening!

We will not ban the aforementioned player right away. We will apply the rules and policies on this case like we have done in the past and thus act consistent in our ruling. Our last banpost was published on 9th march, which is fairly recent. We will ban the player for almost the entirety of season 30.
Please note that this is no "special treatment" of anyone. On the contrary: If we were to ban him right now, that would be a special treatment.

The player in question cannot simply blatantly cheat in his remaining playoff games. There are other ways to prove someone is cheating than watching a POV, it just makes things much easier. Furthermore, if he fails to upload again (and lets be honest, there will be demorequests in playoffs) then we will ban him for a whole year.

Is our policy perfect? No, but it is what has been applied for years and we are not going to change the rules right now. You never change a rule in order to apply it immediately. That is arbitrary and absolutely leads to total chaos and individual targetting. That being said, interesting points have been raised during this discussion. We are already and will be discussing ways to handle this differently - better - in future seasons and competitions. So thank you! (:

Cu@, Stinson_Out

Link me cheap hotel pls

Awesome work! 6000 €! Cu @

I think you misunderstood. I was talking about the logistics of getting myself to LAN, not an entire Highlander team.

Tbf, I never said there wasn't gonna be a 6s LAN before summer insomnia and someone else posted my tweet into this (apparently essentials.tf related) thread about a LAN in Denmark...