They're doing something that will break most plugins and mods in a big way, and may introduce bugs and weird behaviour unpredictably. But instead of just releasing it and shafting everyone they're actually giving us a heads upso the impact isn't too bad. Worth testing competitive mode to see if there's anything wonky

TF2 Center lobbies by month January 2015 to January 2017

http://i.imgur.com/he0YA3v.png

Well down from it's peak but still doing 5k lobbies a month, well over 100 a day. MM and FaceIt seem to have taken their share though

I am looking for server a config guru

I'm still getting an occasional messed up bball log where there are loads of players, for example http://logs.tf/1646627. I've tinkered with tftrue a bit but nothing is make much difference, in the log I've linked the there is more than one full game as well as the end of a previous game in there. There are no error messages logged. Is there a tftrue or server config option that might cause this? It seems like perhaps they started one game causing the tournament mode start to be shown in the log but then cancelled the game at some point and that isn't logged. Is there anything I can do about that?

For the most part there's no problem but this is ruining logs for normal games at random.

I think you might overrate his sticking power. 2 minutes.

Stadium needs a promotional plan and the willingness to work through the tough period of building up regular players, not least by having a core (and quite large) group of players that are committed to consistently playing on the site always ensuring there's a game available until it develops it's own self sustaining following

But there's tsc/erynn's pug sites and faceit now so...

If you want to draw wide ranging conclusions about Mirelin's character from his CS ban feel free.

I didn't say it made him a good person or that he improved people's lives by cheating. He got a ban, that's the end of it.

I don't get what people are up in arms about either. What difference does it make if someone straps on a cheat in another game to fuck around in a pub? Completely different to a competitive setting.

No I don't track the data that would even allow me to start making precise estimates of scores

Plugins broke

It would probably need some work on Elo to make it more responsive to the result like scaling the K factor to a log of the winning margin. 7 would be further ahead than they currently are if that was done for example.

Elo has nothing to say about the number of rounds that will be scored only how close it thinks the game will be. 5 is chosen arbitrarily as a reasonable proxy value for the winning team

After i60

99.9% of everything collected is output to stream or on the ranking site

The (probably not really) interesting thing about Trueskill is that it's a 2 part rating system, the rating and a level of uncertainty about the rating from which you can generate a conservative rating figure (shown in the site).

Trueskill only gains confidence about a team's rating when it has both wins and losses to look at, because Nunya lose so many games Trueskill is not really sure of where the bottom of their rating really is so it's conservative estimate of their position is really low despite receiving an improvement.

By the same token 7's rating is far higher but they never lose so Trueskill isn't really sure how high their comparative skill level really is compared to the field, particularly given their relatively low volume of scrims

I've run an update on Elo and Trueskill to reflect the tiers teams play in. Open has the lowest Elo and Trueskill, Mid's are unchanged, High has been given a boost and Prem has also been given a boost.

It's possible that these changes are a little strong, I'm hesitant to have all High teams rated above Mid teams when some of them are certainly weaker but I have to update the tier as a whole and in a comparison of overall win/loss rate between the two divisions the change is justified.

This now gives teams in lower tiers more ranking point incentives to take on teams in a higher tier.

Trueskill is a more complicated consideration because of it's uncertainty element, I've boosted those ranks but we'll have to see how that artificial change plays out over time.