It is tight, but that's sort of down to it being so unpredictable so there's not much spread in the pricing and a few roaming soldiers who are predicted to score no points drag the averages down. They key is finding the bargains.

OK, should redirect you to login now if you're not authenticated

The i55 Fantasy TF2 game is now live

Create your team here

It's the biggest TF2 event of the year and this is it's Fantasy game. Sign up and play.

Updated the OP to start listing the various youtubes/twitters/snapchats referenced in the thread

It might be better just to redirect the domain to tftv if there's not going to be much content I can bring together, the tftv twitter is much more active now and snapchat stories should do a better job of conveying the experience. Also tftv will probably have much more active editorial content and probably brackets this time around so the need for a hub isn't the same as at i52.

Snapchat has no published or supported api so I'll need to look into what I can do. There are some homebrew solutions but it's all pretty DIY so I'm not sure I'll have time figure out how to integrate them.

OK, I'll just keep all the channels and snapchats and stuff for i55 listed here as this is what the thread is now useful for:

Shade
www.youtube.com/shadetf2
www.twitter.com/froyotech
snapchat: FROYOTECH

Kos
snapchat: i55ayogurl (should feature the consumption of animal parts)

alfa
www.twitter.com/alfatf2

TheFragile
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheFragileITG
https://twitter.com/thefragiletf2

Sideshow
www.youtube.com/user/Sideshow1994

Apologies for getting well behind with OWL, it should be up to date now with the playoffs starting this week.

Blame Sideshow

hg takes no prisoners

Updated, thanks for digging out the logs.

ESEA Season 19 Playoffs Results

This competition is now over, check your team placing here:
http://beta.fantasytf2.com/Home/TeamList/7

hg's team Sinister Six takes 1st place
radio's team Garlic takes 2nd
teampot's team Omnipots takes 3rd

After running 4 full competitions for season and playoffs with numerous weekly competitions too, I've compiled some overall wins stats.

hg is the undisputed master of fantasy TF2 with 7 top 3 positions, including 2 first places
The only player with any bragging rights against hg is eu veteran atomic, who has 3 first places, although he is in a unique position to affect the games.
Fantasy obsessive Sideshow has 3 teams in top 3 positions and tied for 4th spot are omochi, Shawns, Radio and neon with 2 medal position teams each.

He's probably falling down on the specifics of showing he can support himself and showing that he will definitely have the money to return. If he's not able to show clearly that he's employed and making money then realistically someone involved in his org needs to get involved, but his org is far from the kind of international powerhouse orgs you see in cs (it's basically one guy afaik), so they can't offer the support to make his case. You can't ask Multiplay to do much more than send a letter, they don't know who this guy is. You have to consider how different his situation is from the vast majority of visitors from Russia.

The UK government has also recently tightened up student applications, so his status as a student counts against him, and even exceptions for the super rich have been suspended in the midst of economic sanctions. It's a shitty situation but he's basically a victim of circumstance.

I've updated with today's ozfortress games.

Last call for team updates for the ESEA lbf in a few hours! You should have a shit load of transfers now.

Oops, should be back now. Also old seasons that have legitimately expired should be in your profile.

It's pretty much why I've run the last few seasons when I did, to get it running reasonably well for i55.

Probably part of the planned events they don't want to divulge here and now. This one seems to be a handy event for EU teams warming up for i55.