huelessThere was a small issue he addressed in the video about how 5CP is flawed, which I dislike how a lot of the community thinks about 5CP. I also dislike it when people complain about how it's so stalematey, but no ones tries doing anything about it. The leagues continue to only put 5CP maps in the map pool and unban weapons that promote stalemating. I've heard the community talking about how more game mode diversity would help, but they contradict the reasons to why 5CP is flawed. 5CP is too stalematey, but Payload and A/D doesn't really solve that issue; These game modes are literally stalemates. 5CP is uninteresting to watch and is becoming stale; A subjective opinion which I don't think is the root of the problem. The problem to way 5CP is uninteresting IMO is the quality of players in the scene; Interesting and exciting players can make any game mode look interesting. If there was more soldiers like Mike, then I would support MGE as an official game mode. The game mode is not the problem, it's the players.
As far as 5cp is concerned, there is a bit of a push for non-5cp maps (koth bagel is probably the best example right now) but adding new maps to the official rotation mid season clearly doesn't make any sense.
Also, don't use a granary or snakewater stalemate to determine how stalematey a game can be. It's painful to watch at the top level simply because at that level, you can't afford to make mistakes. When you're playing against froyo or se7en they're not going to sympathize with you because you botched a push, but rather convert and capitalize on your mistakes. That's just what the top level of tf2 does.
Of course if there were more MGEMike and ShaDowBurn soldiers that could play as well as they could in the scene (with developer support), it's highly likely that there would be more players like them. But all the "old blood" has kind of left to do something else with their lives. Whether it's onto other esports or just because the real world has offered better opportunities with more sustainability is irrelevant because there aren't exactly a ton of new and upcoming players that can readily challenge the established elites. Not to knock on some of these guys (some of them are insanely good actually) but it's just highly unlikely that there's going to be another super competitive season with well-established players that can take games off of each other and make the top of the skill bracket incredibly interesting and worthwhile to watch and follow.
Also great video FUNKe. There were probably one or 2 things that I would have worded differently but you've addressed them well.