I don't necessarily agree, the fun of being able to play the game is very valuable too and let me tell you it's not fun to play with a player down and/or at a large ping disadvantage.

This does sound like a pretty good system, it would definitely beat having to spend half an hour cycling through mercs that will just get denied

@ SAAM_ You can check the matches the team played on their etf2l match page, the division is always mentioned together with their score. It is possible you'll need to check individual player match history if the team is new.

Hi, I'd like to discuss something with you all. Today were scheduled to play our official against Red Bearzzz . Unfortunatly we didn't have a pocket that could play in time for the game and when we asked Red Bearzzz, the team we were playing, for mercs they denied every merc we offered all the way up (or down, whichever you prefer) to a div 6 merc.

Aside from denying every merc they also forced us, through a loophole in etf2l's rules, to play on a server where 3 of our players had severe ping issues (200-400 ping). We didn't hear about this until just before the match.
The team had been very slow to respond to any requests/questions in general and the leader blatantly ignored me adding him. This type of bad sportsmanship allows for one team to ruin a whole div/group and makes the comp environment a pretty negative place.

Not exactly a good way to draw in new players, wouldn't you agree?

So this makes me wonder if there would be any alternatives to prevent this in the future, since these issues have been around for a long time in every div I played in up to now.
Could we get a wildcard system that allows for a mandatory merc of one div lower or something like that? It would save everyone a lot of headache and angry text-wall writing.
This is something that could be very easily fixed and that would improve the general atmosphere of competitive European TF2. As well as stop people from misusing the rules to win a competitive match in a skill based game. Last time I checked we were clicking shit, not having a lawsuit.

I would encourage my fellow comp and div players to stop scrimming/helping Red Bearzzz, as a sort of boycott to show we do not agree with such lowly strategies and unsportsmanlike play.

If you want to read up on the match here is the link feel free to share your opinion in the comment section :)

Cheers,

Guildy

I'm a failure

well eventually i fell asleep after 65h of streaming guess i should have the longest tf2 stream now ;)

Do you have any idea how long? I'm not done streaming yet. :P

http://www.twitch.tv/guildybram

I think I've been streaming TF2 for about 30 hours now and I'm planning on continuing to stream it as long as i can.

So is this the longest TF2 stream? What would the longest stream be if it was not?

hi.
I'm Guildy, a Belgian livestreamer. I've been streaming tf2 for about a year now, I do 24h streams whenever i can. most of the times that's during holidays. I also do Drunk streams occasionally.
I mainly stream pubs, though i'd like to implement more comp tf2 in the future, I'm a div 5 6's scout, i can also play and have played medic competitively, I have played some too highlander in ugc and etf2l .
I used to stream more then i do now this is mainly due to school. though i should have more time soon.

stream: http://www.twitch.tv/guildybram
steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/guildy
etf2l: http://etf2l.org/forum/user/71490/