So you ask to be taken seriously in a position of leadership, ask for people's help, publicly shit on their work, tell them they are irrelevant and then it proves some kind of point you are trying to make when you receive a single, albeit terse, negative comment from an affected party who literally a couple of days ago was feeding you excellent promotional ideas you have said you intend to implement.

If I could see it coming why couldn't you? Just something to think about

It's got nothing to do with any specific outspoken personalities you may have a problem with, these are people who have been quietly getting along with helping you right now.

B4nny there's no problem with you being a FaceIt salesman but you might want to hold back on publicly announcing your campaign to destroy the hard work of community members when you're also asking the same community members to run FaceIt cups for you in the run up to Rewind lan, even if they have conspicuously appeared to take the moral high ground previously.

You might find this kind of thing has a negative affect on their morale.

Don't know if the tournament servers will have logs.tf integration, how stable teams will be far enough in advance to put all the relevant data in, or if I'll have an admin for it

Remember to take the lens cap off and you're ahead of the game already

Beater's Herculean task has finally come to a close, the final log has been uploaded and Fantasy TF2 for ETF2L Season 25 is over. The top 3 are:

Le sang, la cervelle de leur morts! takes 1st place for Medico
Aeroplane trolls get 2nd for Dubbs
Fully Erect get 3rd for Kilgors, just beating Kaidus into 4th

The pixel trophies have been duly awarded, bathe in your fantasy TF2 immortality gentlemen

A big thanks Beater as always who did all the work, as well as casting and frag clipping the season

I miss the delving too greedily and too deep myself

I don't think I've said anything that contradicts anything you've said. I just wanted to point out that at the start of a player's career in a rating system they should have a clear period of adjustment which should be evidence that they are either being moved up or moved down the rating system to their appropriate level, and it will probably be characterised by a consistency of results that don't appear thereafter.

The only bone of "contention" if you want to put it like that is that some games will have more random effects or meta games that don't produce close games no matter how close in skill players really are. These would probably be fairly low skill ceiling games anyway.

Assuming no random placement matches occur, if we make the assumption that a new player is low skill and the system adds them at medium skill then they will lose their first game. The system will reduce it's opinion of their skill and try again, they will still lose. This will continue until they also start to win games at which point the system will stabilise it's opinion of their skill and their results should start to even out.

This assumes that the system is not tuned to overreact to their performance and actually reaches a stable position. When they first enter the system they should definitely experience a set of similar results based on the differential between the system's assumption about their starting skill and their actual skill unless those things happen to match which won't be the case for most players.

There is also the matter of population movement. In a system where all the players start at the bottom (a season for example) different skill level players will experience change differently. The best or most dedicated (activity is always a factor in this kind of situation) should very quickly form a vanguard that separates itself from the main bulk of players, but a medium skill player will spend more time sat in the general body of players including the weakest because they are all dominated by the better players.

A regularly resetting skill ladder is an example of this kind of situation. A mature rating ladder that doesn't reset doesn't really see this problem. This is why some games that have seasons use a placement match system to separate their players so they can more quickly arrive at a skill appropriate level without this experience. In TF2 if you look beyond match results it's fairly easy to bracket players quite quickly off the back of 10 games or so.

So depending on how the placement matches system work, a game with seasons that uses them could well produce the 50/50 experience you discuss. A system that relies purely on it's rating system and has a mature ladder must make an assumption about new player skill at the start which will very likely vary from their objective skill that should produce an initial adjustment that creates a streak of results that reflect that.

Rating systems have moved on from Elo of course, it's not really used any more and dominates things like Chess for historical reasons rather than quality.

Streakiness is another consideration, and is related to random elements of the game being measured. Hearthstone is a notorious example where the best players who operate at a very high level can still lose many games in a row due purely to random events inherent in the game design, and the way that those random events can snowball into a huge advantage. Competitively configured TF2 is probably pretty stable in this regard, the vanilla version has a lot more luck involved.

To not be able to tell the difference you would need to have been placed by accident at exactly your level (assuming the system is not random). If you begin by having a streak of good or poor results then even out to 50/50 then you almost certainly have been placed in an appropriate skill bracket. A player's whole experience over time matters.

Regarding rolls vs close games that depends a lot on the nature of the game and it's propensity for one sided results, and the effect of other factors on that such as (assuming a team game) whether having a very large skill gap between players on one team will render it more likely to lose than the other even though overall team skills may appear equal.

Although the question refers specifically to RSI from mouse usage, if you do a lot of typing a natural keyboard layout will help reduce the stress on that wrist as well. Mechanical versions are very hard to find though.

The license on github says that you can use it

Why would me being logged into steam make a difference?

Try twitter

I don't know, I've completely lost track of what I was talking about and who you are. Thread derailing complete.