CEVO is cheaper; that alone will convince many to choose CEVO over ESEA. Sure, ESEA might have a better website/stats/prizes/whatever right now, but that's not what most people are paying their league fees for; people are paying to play the game, which they can do in CEVO for a lower cost. It's also possible that, in a season or two, CEVO's entire system will be better than ESEA's.

Additionally, CEVO does not have the recent bad blood that ESEA has. In the past, CEVO was worse than ESEA, but CEVO has made huge efforts into convincing players that they have improved, and that effort has largely worked. What has ESEA publicly done to show that they have improved? Their strategy of offering more of the same is not going to work for people who do not want more of the same.

There are a plethora of Open- and IM-level teams registered to play in CEVO right now. Most teams serious about improving spend more time playing scrims than matches, and scrims are not dependent on any league. Therefore, there is no reason that players below Main (which is the vast majority of the TF2 playerbase) can't improve while playing in CEVO. Will it make it difficult for Main/Invite teams to improve if teams like Mixup quit? Probably. But why should a UGC graduate care about them?

People aren't trying to "let ESEA die." Most players aren't concerned with supporting a LAN or anything like that, they just want to play TF2. The reality is that many people can't or won't play in both leagues at the same time (even more if they might be playing UGC). CEVO has convinced them that it is a better league for them than ESEA, and for good reasons, given that CEVO is significantly cheaper. Main/Invite-level players might see significant value in ESEA's offerings that validates the cost difference, but that is a small minority of players compared to the lower-level players that constitute the vast majority of the whole playerbase.

p.s. new bow weapon incoming, promo for thief:

http://i.imgur.com/2nBLSF6.png

(might just be a reskin though)

The icon is always "installed". Some HUDs have it hidden but you can unhide it by making the necessary changes to PlayerStatusMarkedForDeathSilentImage; you will also have to edit PlayerStatusHealthImage if the health cross is positioned off screen.

ellshud works particularly well on low resolution due to lack of antialiasing

please send me a new isp

http://i.imgur.com/Hmla4nq.png

...Then what were you talking about? Because you asked why they changed the HUD. I gave a couple of reasons why it was a good idea to do so.

Firstly, the HUD is probably objectively better. Roboto has better legibility at smaller sizes on screens (it was designed by Google for Android smartphones) than Futura. The font sizes are consistent throughout the tournament spectator player panels, and the health background makes it easier to discern the health of either team at a glance.

Secondly, using a custom HUD helps reinforce the identity of the casting organization. You can tell it's VanillaTV/European TF2 by their (incredible) HUD, and now you can tell it's TeamfortressTV/NA TF2 by theirs.

I stands for Item; the slot is shared by many other items, including cloak, banners, sandviches, etc., and there is no way for the game to differentiate between them in the HUD except by a labeltext reference in tf_<language>.txt, so I can't use an icon for that meter, which means, for the sake of being consistent, I can't use an icon for any meter.

pointless teaser for bad hud

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/3407272149000979858/378294B6071D1FAD468B4E5AEEF7E8AB4407049B/

Thanks! I didn't post a link because it's not ready just yet, but it should be there soon.

wip, (very) loosely based on the hud from destiny

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/886381901496653595/58EEECF4D2087607870F23173CD95968CD473E88/

destiny's hud for comparison: https://www.bungie.net/pubassets/1310/Destiny_41.jpg

practices tf2 often and is sweet as an angel
everything he says gets +fragged
i assume he is god

This is awesome, thanks!

What do you mean by a completely square chat frame, though? It's easy enough to give the chat window identical height and width values, so I don't think that's what you mean.

The AmmoNoClip label is centered. The HUD is also a dead project now.