DarkdwarfSo you get hit by an arrow and then have a certain amount of health regen for a certain amount of time? Interesting.
Either that, or healing that scales down with increasing uber percentage, so you can still have a lot of impact in post-uber team fights and mids but you are unable to slow down the game in stalemates because the crossbow would practically be useless while having uber.
GentlemanJonTeams incessantly defending in order to make the game as boring and uneventful as possible hasn't stopped soccer becoming the world's most popular sport. Competitive TF2 has other problems.
It doesn't make sense to compare two completely different things. Football is played because it is easy to get into, it is watched because it creates a sense of togetherness. If a team slows the game down and makes the match unwatchable, people distract themselves by talking to the people they are watching with or by chanting in the stadium/creating atmosphere. This doesn't exist in TF2. You're right though, theres more problems than just stalemates. I played this game for 8 years, however for 6 years I did not realize there is a competitive scene. There is no exposure, the majority of the community probably doesn't know we exist.