Did you know that many of the old masters (from around 1420 onwards iirc) made use of lenses and light projection to help them make their paintings? The artifacts of those early lenses - things going out of focus, vanishing points changing as the lense was moved around, distortions of light and scale, flattened overall perspective from many small projections - are painted into the works themselves. It's interesting to re-evalutate your opinion of them based on knowing that many of them "cheated".

There's only one factor you need to take into account here, it begins with P and end with ermzilla

They stopped giving them out about half the game's life ago. I imagine they wish people would stop talking about it.

Good to see this completed, very nice job

This issue is now fixed

I know that there were sponsors. What I mean is that the headline sponsor is arranged by Multiplay, so did the other sponsors come through that channel as well or did essentials acquire them independently?

If they did acquire them independently, are they "true" sponsorships with ROI considerations and performance expectations or are they essentially private donations channelled through a route convenient to a wealthier community member (this would not be a new thing if it were)?

I'm not expecting essentials to spill the beans on their financials, and I'm not trying to piss on anybody's chips, but if you're going to cite them as evidence of commercial interest then knowing where they came from and why they have shown up is important.

On the subject of the Swedish lan funding, Heny is open that it's funded by government grants. One of the unfortunate aspects of this is that TF2's volunteer operational basis is a big part of getting funded, so if there were ever an opportunity to do things on a more professional level then this specific funding would probably drop away. Whether Heny would be able to work his magic on an alternative in that case I don't know, but as it stands that's a Catch 22 to growth.

Which ones did they get?

I've decided to let the domain die, but I've moved it under a subdomain at http://tactics.training.tf to keep the facility alive. If you get any problems that appear to be associated with the domain change let me know.

http://i.imgur.com/vqvwP9s.jpg

Do not mess with TurboTabs

You will have to tear my Steelcase chair from under my cold dead ass before I give it up. Worth every penny. The top of the range or the latest model is probably a diminishing return on any investment though.

Uber counts should now be updated to include skinned mediguns

Net kills per minute
http://www.teamfortress.tv/41723/tf2s-hidden-stats-part-1

Yeah they're probably recorded properly but not added into the output... although they do seem to be counted in the uber ratios like ubers/drop. Might look at correcting it a bit later.

Google docs spreadsheet

https://drive.google.com/open?id=17dZ6fkQucJEn9CDK5lnPVbe7VCv7K06oEElG4WmPVyM

Notes:
Not sure why Marten's ubers weren't displayed properly, probably something to do with a skin or something
Roamer and Pocket differentiation is based on heals received, some pocket soldiers will probably have played maps where they fell into roamer but not played enough minutes to make it into the roamer list
Permzilla given a special dispensation on time limit cutoff

Edit: Uber counts updated