If this was 6s I'd get that, but this is Highlander which is very very big, for the most part has no one arguing over weapon bans (except Wrangler), and has very few weapon bans in the first place.

tbh I bet Highlander is a pretty substantial part of the community already, so i don't think it's that far of a stretch to look at the banlist.

dota did it first so who cares what they think

The issue with a pick/ban system is in DotA ban/picks work because they are essentially a (at the highest level) very deep metagame with a lot of strategy behind it to try and net your team an advantage over the other team, after all if you pick a hero in DotA the other team can't use it, so you deny them that hero. I mean, it's such an intricate thing that there are people famous in the competitive community solely for their ban/pick skill.

A pick/ban system in TF2 wouldn't serve the same purpose and would just be kind of dumb. Items in TF2 simply do not have the same effect as a hero in DotA does, and a pick/ban system would be picking/banning which things can be used by both teams, not each team picking what they themselves have so most of the strategy goes flying out the window right there.

People are just going to ban the most OP stuff since they won't want the other team to use them.

Which is what we do already for the most part with neigh unanimous agreement barring a few quarrels.

To me, it really seems like Valve should just look at the UGC banlist (which is used in ETF2L Highlander as well) and just go from there.

you forgot the best part:

each of these sniper groups has the exact same people in them for the most part except for like 1-2 people in each one.

(at least that's what it seems like to me)

They fixed it a while ago yeah.

Assuming you are on windows your server list is at:

%APPDATA%\Mumble\mumble.sqlite

I tested it in some really bad pub and while I couldn't hit shit as Sniper (unless there was a lot of distance between me and someone) I tried it on Ambassador Spy and I'm convinced that if you are vaguely competent and capable of toggling this properly it will instantly make you the greatest Ambassador spy in the universe.

The hat idea is good.

I feel like the ribbons aren't a good idea simply because it'd be yet another misc item that overlaps the medal body slot which means not too many people would actually wear them I think, plus people are way more picky about their misc items instead of their hats in my experience.

Go for hats or special reskinned weapons (if possible).

e:

#4 the idea isn't to raffle them tho, it's to put them in the in-game store so the event gets more notice and also more donations. :p

Hey so mabe it's just me but I can't seem to see the Source multi-choice option box that usually comes up on the left side of the screen and (usually) displays map choice options in pubs with this HUD.

Also means I can't see if I was top 3 if my team lost on Skial.

As I'm sure you can imagine, this is utterly imperative and game breaking for me.

If it uses the interp exploit, then no since you can't change interp on ESEA.

Bing's the best search engine to find porn videos so makes sense.

alternate vote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7QaOIvV4q4

this set of 5 is da best

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMfLZ-cOvbI&t=2m43s

i miss leogeo :<

If I spectate a Medic using the Center version the target ID of the medic overlaps the target ID of the person he is healing.

Yeah, I know it's a somewhat rare situation, but whenever it does happen it's a pretty stupid scenario. :/

Some unlocks are already banned because they promote R-P-S-esque mid fights as is, why promote RPS with damage types/resistances. I'm not quite sure it adds anything to the game, except for a really cool uber mechanic that would be tight on the actual Medigun.

The biggest problem with the Vaccinator imo is it essentially turns the game into literal Rock Paper Scissors that the Medic can shift around so he always wins. If you get in a situation where you can't mix damage types, you auto lose against the Vacc.