I think what's particularly frustrating with posts like this is the seemingly arcane and arbitrary process that the admins have used to make this decision, as opposed to my earlier suggestion of involving the community more. As is often the case with ETF2L admin decisions it seems that there is no set decision-making process and no accountability whatsoever; even from the language of this post it seems like the admin team have basically taken this whole decision on a whim. Given the tight-knit nature of the ETF2L it is ridiculous and frustrating that such decisions which really affect a lot of people should be decided by a what is really a very arbitrary process by a small circle of admins.

add cardinal remove metalworks

A good way to solve this problem could be either to have a vote on which map should be cut or even to see which map gets banned the most in pugs to gauge popularity- I think if ETF2L used some actual stats measure their strong and weak maps, rather than somewhat anecdotal evidence, it would probably make people less upset when the map they in particular like is taken out of the pool.

shot every time tf2 is vaguely mentioned in another scene/area and we get a "we esports now?" thread

At i61 our med marten's game crashed in the knockouts vs SVIFT. We asked if they would let us build uber again and graciously they did. Little did we know b4nny had used the downtime to go cloak and dagger spy behind us, so as soon as we got uber (his teammates actually gave us saws) he decloaked and killed marten. Needless to say the game would have been a 5-0 either way so I really didn't see why this was necessary.

20 teams well done bois

just sign up with some mercs even if you can't get ur full team fuckers

tickets booked- cu@

https://clips.twitch.tv/CulturedObservantWaterDatSheffy

With the high level pov videos/demo reviews to what extent should I try to explain the basics? Or should I just assume a fairly high level of knowledge?

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/254657020

no toxic/tilt in scrims :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiZNSzWIaLo
smh funs

https://youtu.be/hlIg0fHVnhM

I keep getting this weird glitch where I can only see scouts' cosmetics/ half their body/ not at all- can anyone help?
Doesn't happen with any other class; isn't because of recording a demo; was happening about 30-50% of the time in the last game I played.

This is true in the sense that it won't help the game grow externally as an esport, and with Pugchamp we may lose some of the benefits of a FACEIT's interest in the game. But it is really a far greater loss to tf2 to have interest in pugs fall dramatically, so much so that situations like this

occur all too frequently. Regardless of how seriously outside sources may/may not take our game, the fact remains that the pug scene is a staple of the community and its being dead in EU made the game far closer to actually being dead than a loss of interest from any big company, which I might add we have never had up until now, ever could. So while personally I would be willing to get over the issues with FACEIT if I knew the site would continue to get better, I cannot abide the serious reduction in pug frequency that it brought.