Photos are up!

I'm pretty sure I managed to get a decent candid of every single player at the event :) Photos are all tagged with the players in them, with the exception of some of the crowd shots. I also have photos of most players individually in front of the step&repeat banner that I still need to edit sometime. Message me on Discord @dubthink with any comments/corrections :)

By the numbers:
- 2812 photos shot (238 GB)
- 520 photos edited/cropped/tagged for the gallery (ended up using a midi controller with Lightroom to speed things up)
- 90 GB of video (B roll, players+crowd in PC area, stage footage) if anyone's doing a video project on the event, just hmu
- ~20 hours editing + 15 hours webdev to build the gallery site (no imgur no ads :) )

shoutouts to:
- dave2 and sandblast for bringing unrivaled spectator energy
- bungalow for having the worst names to type when tagging photos (and soapy, and the GOAT, san antonio 1998 green mustang)
- bethnicz and Plum for helping with photography throughout
- everyone on production for working with me to do the stagecam, I'm really happy with how that came out
- all my previous teammates/opponents I got to say hi to, it was cool to discover how many people remember me lol

There's a lot of photogenic mfs in the TF2 scene, y'all were fun to shoot, CU@ the next ???

Photos are up!

I'm pretty sure I managed to get a decent candid of every single player at the event :) Photos are all tagged with the players in them, with the exception of some of the crowd shots. I also have photos of most players individually in front of the step&repeat banner that I still need to edit sometime. Message me on Discord @dubthink with any comments/corrections, would love to hear faves as well :)

By the numbers:
- 2812 photos shot (238 GB)
- 520 photos edited/cropped/tagged for the gallery (ended up using a midi controller with Lightroom to speed things up)
- 90 GB of video (B roll, players+crowd in PC area, stage footage) if anyone's doing a video project on the event, just hmu
- ~20 hours editing + 15 hours webdev to build the gallery site (no imgur no ads :) )

shoutouts to:
- dave2 and sandblast for bringing unrivaled spectator energy
- bungalow for having the worst names to type when tagging photos (and soapy, and the GOAT, san antonio 1998 green mustang)
- bethnicz and Plum for helping with photography throughout
- everyone on production for working with me to do the stagecam, I'm really happy with how that came out
- all my previous teammates/opponents I got to say hi to, it was cool to discover how many people remember me lol

There's a lot of photogenic mfs in the TF2 scene, y'all were fun to shoot, CU@ the next ???

Just finished tagging and individually editing all 522 photos I picked (out of the 2812 shot) - waiting for my DNS to switch over so that I have CDN set up for this, and need to actually populate the album site. (total will actually be a bit higher than 522, I haven't done most teams' staged individual headshots - just the team photos, candids, and event photos)

Aiming to finish up this weekend :)

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https://push.dubthink.com/2024/05/20201024221314_1.jpg

https://push.dubthink.com/2024/05/20210319225247_1.jpg

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This so much, imo it's one of the best renditions of the tf2 spytech aesthetic - every once in a while I'll load it up locally just to wander around and explore it for an hour.

Yes lol, like back when feno was *super* obviously cheating his ass off and and it was just kind of public knowledge, no one had ever submitted any reports. The only reason he got banned is bc one of the 6s admins mentioned it to our AC team.

Just please, for the love of god, report players you think are cheating. Even if they've already been reported, report them again when you see more sus ticks. Reports with stv demos and ticks save literally hours of AC time, since that means the AC team doesn't have to trawl through as many demos themselves. More reports is literally always better (other than resubmitting evidence you know someone else already did obv)

The short answer is money. The long answer is that for an AC client to be even remotely effective, you need it to both be closed source (so the community wouldn't be able to verify its benevolence), and have *far* more access to your machine than a community league with no legal responsibility or fiscal reputation to uphold should have. Additionally, AC clients take ridiculously specialized skills that it's very unlikely anyone in the scene has.

My brother and I weren't allowed to play video games other than Minecraft growing up bc "violent video games" or whatever, but our friends got us into tf2 and we'd play late at night after they went to bed. One night after a month or so of this, my brother stayed up way too late and when asked why he was tired, fessed up the next morning (snitch).

But then we pulled out the pyrovision goggles and were like "see it's cartoon violence it's totally fine :)" and they let us keep playing lmao

Lowkey owe my career to that tho, bless pyrovision

https://pm1.aminoapps.com/7175/c1b4b1ea03e6e442cf15fe76e228c956015ad8dfr1-260-267v2_uhq.jpg

I've got a few clips from years past - idk if any of them are what you're looking for, but I at least had fun looking through my old shadowplay folders :)
frags as med:
https://streamable.com/0195jl - med2kWithAirshot.dem
https://streamable.com/dqiesg - med2kOnDemoMed.dem
I also had some old med frags from RGB4, but I only have POVs and it looks like they can't load any more?

Not a frag, but a bonkers surf + arrow on 1 hp scout:
https://streamable.com/j91nn4 image - surf1healtharrow.dem

Just dumb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S-6rPt-UEA - 4airstrikes.dem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-V95Y5HVmY - Idk if there's anything good for this project in here, and it's like a dozen ticks, but I can hunt down the demo if desired

I wish I had a picture of it, but StarSucker would play on his shitty college mandated laptop with Quadro graphics, sitting on his bed, $10 Walmart mouse (no mousepad, just fuckin rawdogging it on the bedsheet), and used the left half of a controller for movement rather than keyboard. When questioned about the controller, the only answer he would ever give was "360 degree movement".

We could also tell whenever someone used the microwave at his place since the router was right next to it and his ping would hit like 400.

Edit: pom found it, I forgot about the cursed headphones too

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/356572176779968513/1127476086335352842/starseup.webp?width=516&height=917

Why is this being downfragged? Like ik people sometimes like to cj on Rendoas, but it boggles my mind that "maybe we as a community should do something more serious about blatant transphobia/racism/etc" is seen as a bad take. I've been getting an irl friend into tf2 recently and I'd love to show them some competitive stuff, but I'm too fucking embarrassed to show them with how y'all act.

bro I gotchu

https://i.imgur.com/YzcLCHt.jpg

Home status goes to the team that's been home less so far. Iirc if both teams have been home the same number of times, it goes to higher seed, but it might be random.