Sticky nerf, unstable rosters and the lack of competitive depth would be some differences.

Oops, I messed up the dates for the competition and it wasn't available for a few hours, I can only humbly beg your forgiveness. Entirely my bad, not Beater's fault at all.

However we do have winners:
1st: Wholesome Gamers - by Prug (or Prog or Fantasy GodKing or something)
2nd: z4k4head - by lock
3rd: 20b - diashock

Thanks to Beater for putting it all together

Step 9 - make amends

Transfers are for the whole event

Due to the fairly large timezone differences Beater probably won't be able to entirely keep up with the later games. You should still be able to do things like make trades and so on safely, the important thing is to have the players on your team when games happen and as long as we enter the correct times when uploading logs later then you should get credit.

Pankeyman needs his own organisation. Alex Jones is too moderate, we need someone who tells it like it is

Recommended max res on your new gpu for decent frames

From what I can see it's you and your mom

The current 10 most picked players:
-blaze
Paulsen
Yui
b4nny
Bdonski
Drackk
yomps
stark
corsa
ninjanick

And the 10 least
Knuck
Cozen
HighFive
paddie
Pelt
alle
broking
Skeez
marmadukeGRYLLS
Hassassin

Teams switch roles around too much. When the website was built Zebbosai was literally scout one week, pocket the next, roamer the next. It creates too much confusion.

I don't blame Valve for not predicting that Twitch and esports was going to become massive 10 years ago, that would be ridiculous. When whitelists came in we were a small part of their customer base and have remained so, but there's a reason Blizzard have made the huge commitment they have now, and it's been coming for long enough to see it from far away.

For a game that had nearly a decade of market position to be comprehensively usurped effortlessly by a new competitor in a matter of months with the insipid reaction from Valve is shocking. Yes, it's in the competitive esports space, but you work at Twitch, you know what the direction of travel is and you know esports is only getting bigger and bigger. It would not have taken the same resources Blizzard had to throw at Overwatch to make TF2 relevant. It has a different set of problems, but the main one is that Valve, as a company, is not willing to commit the resources necessary to get things done in a timely manner.

You can pin it all on the flat hierarchy or whatever, I have no beef with the specific devs who work on TF2, they can only do so much, but Valve as a company has completely dropped the ball and whatever criteria they are working on just isn't going to cut it. Blizzard aren't going to waste their new market position as the leading competitive class based shooter and every day Valve work at a snails pace Overwatch just tightens it's grip.

At current pace by the time Valve releases 3 updates based on the unlock feedback (this is the optimistic scenario as well) Blizzard will have established a global league with city based franchises, professional players and huge prize pools. This isn't about doing the TF2 devs down, there's just not enough interest in what was (and just about still is) a huge potential growth area for the game within Valve.

The only hope for growth at the moment is that esports overall growth leads to an "all boats rising" effect with TF2 and it generates enough tertiary interest to prop us up for longer. That's almost certainly not going to be the case to any meaningful extent though, it's going to lead to the primary titles sucking everything up and our scene being left behind. To exploit the potential of what is still one of their major IPs in the new esports era they need to fight for it specifically because they've ignored it for so long.

Unfortunately Valve just isn't set up that way and has no experience doing it. They didn't have to do it with Dota or CS, those games naturally assumed their position because Valve hadn't spent 10 years pursuing an anti-competitive agenda. If they come up with something then that's great. But don't expect it or rely on it.

Bumping for timezones

Of course you're not banned you chump. Even b4nny can take part

Valve time has been well established long enough to expect nothing less really.

Thanks to your incomparable master of ceremonies Beater, Fantasy TF2 lives again for ESA Rewind Lan*

You know the drill by now so head on over and sign up for free!

FantasyTF2.com

*Disclaimer - although the servers should be setup to upload logs, etc, at a lan environment that has never run a TF2 event before anything is possible so assuming this works we'll be in business