A number of common hashes are basically shit these days as well, and it's an old enough system to use something like md5

It might be worth considering weighting the votes to include likely class bias. Scout unlocks getting support might be due to a preponderance of scouts voting for example, and in 6v6 there are a lot of them

In case you hadn't noticed somebody here has difficulty getting along with the humans. Or is it ants now?

Whitelists and class limits are default tf2 features. Promods putting custom code on their servers are completely different

I believe at the time it ruined the esea grand final the main theory was that it charges too fast not to use it because other mediguns are too slow in comparison, but it's not strong enough to get through sticky traps and very defensive setups leading to never ending stalemates. Anyone remember which esea season it was in?

Disappointed by the lack of response to this tbh

Just to illustrate a bit more clearly what I was trying to say about this unlock, I think if it doesn't get used ahead of the ubersaw I don't think it's a problem. If it does though then I think you've lowered the skill ceiling for the game a bit, and with many unlocks across multiple classes that's a problem that builds up.

When you said airblast and minigun are also low skill, that's fine because heavy and pyro aren't first choice options. If disciplinary action or GRU were unbanned though we'd see Heavy a lot more and they're also relatively low skill and frankly boring as shit.

I think it should be a design goal for a game that takes competitive seriously to ensure low skill loadout options don't override other options that may be situational or reward higher skill. Pyro and to an extent Heavy are for people who are new to FPS games IMO and should be superceded by other classes as a player's skill develops. YMMV

What is the goal?

If having an open whitelist were some kind of panacea to convert the masses into competitive gamers then MyM would be overflowing with massive numbers. It's not.

I'm interesting in seeing other types of maps brought back in, AD, even some PL, but that's in MyM too and it makes little difference.

The 6v6 game isn't going to be made appreciably better by allowing an extra unlock or two and it could be made a lot worse if the wrong ones are let through, and the true nature of how an unlock changes the game often doesn't become apparent until a really important match. Remember the Quick Fix ESEA final. What reward is there for taking this risk?

Forget Valve making any decisions based around or supporting established competitive activity. They obviously still do not get it. It's clear now that MyM was a least-effort-required attempt to provide a feature Overwatch was offering, not the sea change we all hoped for in their attitude to competitive.

Why break something people have worked so hard to create and establish? If meaningful Valve support and active item balancing were going to materialise as a result of going no-whitelist I'd be for it, but those things simply won't happen.

Depends on how the map picking goes, if it gets used in a large proportion of bo3s then it will add up. It's not likely to go to max rounds very often either, but it needs to be modelled if scheduling is your concern

I'd assumed the compromise regarding not having the full hour was also made with tournament admins, it's surprising that it's taken until now for tournament disrupting rule decisions that don't matter much to be adjusted.

I'm not sure if 8 minutes worth of pauses are still justified for a 30 minute game, that now potentially adds over 25% onto the overall play time for a map which seems excessive considering that it will be 8 minutes of frozen players doing nothing. Also first to 4 for koth leaves that at around the 45 minute time limit if all rounds are played to the full so those maps will potentially still stretch the schedule. I wouldn't say it's entirely cleared up.

It's a design flaw leading to undesirable behaviour that needs to be addressed. It doesn't really matter what you call it, but something is clearly wrong

Sounds like insecure system design if the info is accessible before it should be

Sourcemod is unlikely to go anywhere any time soon and has an open source release requirement for plugins iirc. But I don't think most people are thinking of just some server plugins when they think of a promod, more like a new game client.

I don't understand how offending a FaceIt tournament admin who was privately helping promotional efforts both with b4nny and others works in the favour of competitive TF2. The excuse simply doesn't work.

The quality of their client will probably make or break the service, other commercial efforts have gone down to their free alternatives in the past due to a shitty AC client