If people want to donate to him, that's their choice, I won't tell him to "get a job" or judge him for his situation, but I won't donate to him, I have made that choice. Good luck with the donation drive Powah.

Bias

So Poland have the two best European Pyros and neither of them are playing, I am favoring the Danes here and the LEGO dynasty..

No it won't be as i55 admins announced they will not allow it.

I seem to remember the yanks used to always call it "Closet" but now the Euro term "Shithouse" has taken over in popularity.

There are a lot of interesting stories to the names of areas on maps and their origins. Haunter, Africa, Cheese, China, Lunchbox etc etc. I will forever lay claim to naming "Japan" though! Think I will patent that shit

When I went to Infoshow LAN, my colleagues asked why I was going to Lithuania and I said a Video Gaming event. They seemed to be under the impression I was playing a big tournament with huge amounts of money up for grabs. When Kraftaz gave me that £20 I have to say I felt pretty good...

Also from a couple of weeks ago I cancelled attending a non-important work event in the evening to play the HL Nations Cup game vs Belgium. When asked why, to toy with the Manager, I said "England are playing Belgium in TF2", I do find it amusing to gauge people's reaction to something they don't understand.

Yes the scrim schedule of each team should be top priority to admins when they make schedules for the season.

Well if it is the UK government we could do a petition on https://petition.parliament.uk. We won't get 10k signatures required for them to give us an official response but it's sort of thing that we may be able to get some sort of media reaction about. If I started a petition, I would then try writing to local media to explain the story. Sadly sort of campaign's likelihood of being successful (with 4 weeks to go) is unlikely. But I feel like we got to do something, it's such a travesty in my mind.

This is indeed a shitty situation, really gutted for TLR, and Shadowburn, I donated specifically to see him play as I was excited. I don't want my money refunded, Shadowburn can keep it or donate it to i55 prizepool, I am just gutted for him if he cannot some to the event.

Why would deny his visa? Only wants to play some vidya games? This world is fucking stupid sometimes...

The Silentes comeback?

I thought this was going to be a Pyro fragmovie from my man Satan - I was pleasantly surprised.

Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
"Relax, " said the night man,
"We are programmed to receive.
You can check-out any time you like,
But you can never leave! "

Hey all,

We at Saloon.tf love our TF2 frags as much as we like to throw hats at our favourite teams and players. This is why we're floating the idea around of producing an i55 fragmovie, to be made a few months after LAN. We may be prepared to offer some form of incentive to ensure it is of high production value and on time.

There would have to be a few discussions about conditions, but we're just posting this to find out who is interested, PM us here if you you have interest.

Euro gimmicks?

I think it isn't about amount of hours you spend, more like the hours you spend developing.

Look at this way, we all grow up in a society where we speak the native language, but we don't advance our language skills without the right resources. I developed my vocabulary to a certain level in School/College doing English Literature, reading multiple books and examples of great literature and word play. Granted over the years my career has shifted to utilising these skills less and less, so as a result I have had to use the spellchecker no less fewer than four times, though it is mostly your Americanized use of the 'Z'. But as I attempt to learn German, I notice I can consistently do the easy/basic stuff but then it takes a lot of practice to move to more intermediate and advanced levels of the language, something I have to consistently do. So I can keep practicing basic German phrases and sentences like "I have a dog" all day long, but then if I want to expand on it I need to step my practice up and do more advanced types of learning.

How does this relate to TF2? Well, I have just gone over 10k hours, I estimate 95% of that time was actually me playing so I think I can say I fit into the discussion well. Of this time, I don't think I played competitive TF2 until after I had played at least 2000-3000 hours of the game (Can't remember) but I spent most of my gaming time, several hours a day sometimes on cp_lazytown or Goldrush or Dustbowl or other choke point spectaculars playing Demoman and Engineer, camping with a sentry and being the master of sitting back on my last or alternatively as Demo, spamming choke points waiting for the inevitable 12 fov pub player to run into my spam and die.

So after 2000-3000 hours I try pugging vs what is by todays standard, bottom feeding Div 6/Open/TF2center level players and get rinsed upon. All my experience spamming a choke point tinier than the Oesophagus of an ant and camping on a point with a sentry meant nothing when scouts could press A and D once or twice and wow my puny public player game. When you compare this to the majority of competitive players who sit aroun 2k-3k hours mark, some of them are quite good but that is because they spent the majority of their practise time learning TF2 in a more advanced competitive environment, on bigger maps which require more advanced skills, versus better players and of course utilising the cookie cutter setup, so you can try appreciate the disadvantages of certain classes in a higher stake, higher skill matchup. I spent most of my early hours not learning much, just repeating the same basic and easy skills it to be successful on certain classes. It was only when I started spending the next few thousand hours practicing in more advanced settings (and learning about the game) did I start to see improvement that enabled me to play a higher level.

Once in a blue moon I revisit Lazytown where I started to game and see some of the same faces there, their TF2 hours starting to jump into the 5k+ region and still, still they run in straight lines into sentry guns as Pyro. It isn't the amount of practice you do, it's the quality of practice.