True, the plane ticket to somewhere like philadelphia alone is 10x what it costs to travel around europe for me (UK travel, local bus to airport for £2)

I can quite literally have the whole trip in a thursday to monday (hotel, food, drinks, even the lack of pay for missing work on the weekend) going from london to any major city in europe for less than a plane ticket to the US, and that's just for me, someone who lives in one of the most accessible places in the world for travel. It's only going to be worse for anyone else in europe or america.

Plus the problem with the age and size of the community. The community is small which makes fundraising money harder, but also the average age is quite old. A lot of young adults who would travel to these events have more important things to spend money on (like rent or food). So whilst sure they could afford to drop money to support people to go play games, and donate to a fun event, it just isn't worth it for them.

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Garda beat both TLR and Skedda in the main season so they would have no problem getting through in third place in case of a 3 way tie. The SB tiebreaker isn't needed.

Nice article, but a couple things were wrong.

One is that garda were always guaranteed playoffs. This is due to even if TLR get all 6 points, they lose the tiebreaker to garda as they lost the main season offi to them. Both end on 23 points, but garda won 5-1 against TLR in main season. The results for france vs garda are already in, but garda always had playoffs guarantee.

Also to note is the result of germans vs poles doesn't matter at all for playoffs, only for final placings. Germans best case scenario 5th, but that doesn't deny anyone of playoffs since their match is against last place team who cannot get anything but last place.

Nandem vs skedda must result in one team having over 20 points whereas germans can only get 19. (4-2 to nandem puts them at 19 vs skedda 20 and 5-1 to nandem puts them at 20 vs skedda 19 table points, these results leave it up to whether tlr gets their 3 points in their offi to take 4th place, otherwise either nandem or skedda take the fourth place).

The tiebreaks will be for 5th place against germans if they 6-0 poles, which skedda will win and nandem will lose due to their individual scores against the germans.

So whilst it's nice to think the offi means something, unfortunately for both the 7th and 8th place teams it is just a match for honor, as the 5th place tiebreaks mean nothing for playoffs, and in my experience coming 5th isn't different to 6th or 7th in a close season like this.

It will be interesting to see if mandem tryhard to attempt to secure nandem in playoffs as their sister team or if they will relax a bit to try to get TLR over skedda as skedda was the only team so far to take a map off them in the main season. Keeping in mind, skedda still has complete control as a 6-0 against nandem guarantees playoffs no matter what.

All you can think about is bagels huh?

I don't know exact measurements for everything (personally I just taste as I go), but here is a rough recipe for a good sauce you can toss wings in:

150g butter
250ml hot sauce (any sauce that is mostly chillies and vinegar is fine to use)
100ml ketchup or bbq sauce depending on the flavour you want
1/2 cup of brown sugar (idk weight of this)

Melt butter over low-medium heat in a pot and add all other ingredients listed together until sugar has melted. This is the base.

From here on add whatever you want, personally I use varying amounts of:
Siracha, cayenne pepper, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, liquid smoke, tobasco, MSG, soy sauce, worcestershire sauce, mustard, honey, black pepper, salt or literally anything else you could think would work well in a barbecue sauce.

Remember you can add more, but not take it away.

Choose your extra ingredients and add to the pot and let it simmer away with an open top to thicken to your desired consistency, sitrring to mix sauce thorougly and to let the spices do their thing. Usually taking between 15-25 minutes. This sauce tends to be good for either tossing or dunking wings into, it isn't that thick but isn't that thin and is the perfect mixture of sweet and spicy. It is also extremely unhealthy since there is a lot of sugar and butter.

For oven wings (im not as good at the chicken bit), split the wings into drums and flats.
Create a dry seasoning of salt (decent amount), pepper (similar to salt), plain flour (this is like 70% of the mixture) and bicarbonate of soda (a few teaspoons).
Cover chicken with dry mix, like how you do a dry dredge for a deep fry batter, and arrange on a baking sheet for the oven, cook depending on size but I usually find 200 celsius for 18-20 mins skin side up, then flip and cook for another 10.
Try using greaseproof paper with oil on it so the skin doesnt stick, but ideally it crisps up enough in the first 20 mins so it doesnt when you flip.

I also like adding the chicken juices into the sauce.

I looked homeless, bald and 40 when I was 23. I was doomed from the start. If I look 55 when I'm 30, it'll be a blessing.

Why do you need to play competitive? Most people who have a sense of belonging usually play on the same community servers with the same people. Competitive is a pretty niche subset of communities in this game.

As an example, plenty of furries and weebs stack uncletopia together and they have 0 competitive games.

I mean, the dude literally said he would rape you and you are still trying to defend him. He didn't even say it to you, in confidence as a joke, it was in a public place where it seems you weren't even present. No words honestly. Whether it was a real threat or not it doesn't matter. If you find it funny then fine, but the other person didn't.

This doesn't really make sense. This conflict has been ongoing for years. It didn't start at one point, you need to look at the whole, not just one date to justify abhorrent acts of a nation towards innocent civilans. Also, can you justify these sorts of acts? You say it "improves" the justification, but how can you improve the justification of something that is unjustifiable? It still remains as unjust as it was before.

If someone started attacking me in my own home, I'm going to fight back. If I just sit there and take it then I should expect to be homeless and beaten into the dirt, dieing. Surely it is a natural reaction to defend what you believe is yours and also your life? Sitting doing nothing to improve political standing will do nothing but kill them.

"brock may shot himself RIP"

You are unhinged brother, gl in life for what you do.

r u ok?

like mentally though?

You simply go "oh shit, i'm in third row, wait, 2nd row, WAIT TOP ROW, 2nd row still ok, ahh third row, average is fine, second row! SECOND AGAIN! FIRST!!!! ahhh fourth,, AHH FIRST.

Very easy usage actually.

I also know a guy almost entirely in high brow, and his name is jordy

Bumfreeze just got golfie WR, came so far from casting mid-prem games and missing every rocket on sunshine mid.

https://clips.twitch.tv/SullenExuberantOpossumSMOrc-S8mNzxFrDfwwuSRu

From a viewers pov it looked really good. It seems you guys did everything right you possibly could and it showed.

It's just a shame the venue and event sucks and I truly have no wish to go back to the NEC any time soon. I really dont feel like i've missed out the last 2 years I haven't attended. Sure the dates were worse this year, but the venue itself just seems grotty and like a tourist trap. Compared to most of the other clientel who attend, tf2 players seem like well functioning humans aswell.