I don't know, the same person who suggests using them to validate the result of a streamed game?

It's hidden on page 1, you're safe. Nobody reads that shit.

Did someone say they couldn't? The context was Hildreth pointing out that for the etf2l finals an admin might actually bother watching them, and as such insisting on a screenshot would probably be a waste of time. Positing using logs.tf as a way to validate the prem final over screenshots is ludicrous. Pointing out an admin might bother watching them is not.

Easy to fake

I think I have failed to explain my point because you are not an unintelligent man but it's not worth trying again. Well done on winning high. I don't think it was surprising.

Pretty sure given the current state of the game that's a prem team (easy to say now obviously...), running some offclasses versus the roamer isn't that big a handicap. Probably wouldn't have worked out a year ago

Getting our freedom and democracy back apparently. North Korea style

Think you're probably aiming a bit high here. The depth of MGE is severely cut down because of it's training mod background, 1v1 high skill is Quake in a custom made arena and many weapons and items that allows lots of deep strategy. Your suggestions don't feel like they'd bridge the gap, just make it sort of gimmicky, although you're right that it probably needs something extra. Niche classes like Pyro would produce really derpy matches though, not sure I'd consider that good viewing.

Yeah it's flawed data but it's probably not too bad for broad classification as long as it's not taken too seriously.

Regardless you don't need it for a Swiss system. By about half way through you're playing people at your level so with a 32 man field the most suffering would be a couple of games then it should be fairly competitive for everybody. You could run 5 rounds with 32 players to get an outright winner or use it to select a playoff field for a knockout at the end.

It is 100% possible, available and suitable - it's what it was designed for. If you're paying you get your money's worth, you're guaranteed some competitive games against people at your level, and you get the chance to play the best. You can always drop out if you get bored. A classic win - win in my view.

Also the point of seeding is to give an advantage to the best players and put them against the weakest. The point of it is to design the tournament so that the 2 highest seeds meet in the final. You never randomly seed people, they're not seeds, they're just random matches.

B4nny would lose handily to a DM donkey, the kind of player who pushes on 9 health but spends all day on MGE servers.

MGE servers are crammed with rankings from people who play it every day.

Would you accept a Swiss system?

If there aren't at least a handful of mge lords out there who can whip him I'll wear my underpants for week of vigorous exercise then eat them

To ensure players have a decent chance of getting some matches for their money obviously. There are numerous sporting precedent for this in esports and normal sports, open qualifiers into the seeded section are a regular occurrence. Nobody thinks Novak Djokovic should have to play people ranked 587 in the world rankings to qualify for the US Open. He's in already because he's proven to be an elite Tennis player.

If someone has played MGE often enough to get a reputation then if there's an MGE tournament there's no reason it shouldn't be recognised because a) they've already earned it and b) it means that if you run a tournament 2.0 you might get some people who were weak the first time signing up the 2nd time instead of having paid their money and having had a horrible experience for 5 minutes.

A serious alternative suggestion might be a group stage.

In case you hadn't noticed TF2 cup series in general fail continuously because people get sick of being destroyed in the first round when they had no chance. Cup organisers fail to account for this repeatedly so platforms like Razer, who were all for supporting us to begin with, die through lack of numbers.

Is he known for being particularly good at MGE?

Give strong players byes into later rounds. Maybe stagger that so the first round or even 2 is open, then bring in mid tier MGE players for 1 or two more rounds, then bring in the final group of very strong players. Depends on how many rounds you expect to have, but at least that gives weaker players the potential to have a couple of decent games without being crushed by an MGE god in round 1.