https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/1664271081161764865

what a shitpost

they beat the washed allegations

catface derailed my last lft so I had to make new one
new pc + 240 hz make playing tf2 fun (copege?)
think I'm finally ready to play invite scout
was doing well against anglerfish during scrims throughout the season so maybe comfortable saying that I can hang in that mid-ish invite area
focused a lot on combo this season but flank scout is my passion...

Your main uber target is getting like 0.2 seconds less of uber man, relax. It’s hardly going to be the difference between life and death for them, especially since this would only be something you do in a trade that you’re already winning. You only benefit from getting more people into the uber if there’s non-ubered people to shoot at with it. In that scenario, if they commit to shooting the guy that you just unflashed, they are also committing to getting nuked by all the people that you just brought into the uber.

This was written up in a kind of difficult way to read, but the basic takeaway for me is that players who are ubered while not actively being beamed drain the uber at a faster rate. That's why when you beam them, overlapping your "free" uber with the "flash" uber, the drain goes back to normal.

Some gameplay applications:
1. Breaking beam during a solo uber proportionally as bad as flashing, so don't do it lol. Or account for it if u do and leave earlier.

2. The "free" flashes at the end of an uber aren't technically actually free, it's just that the tradeoff (1 second flash for 0.5 off the original uber) goes from a 2x ratio to approaching an infinite value as the uber approaches its end. (flashing x people with y < 1 second of uber remaining will shorten it to y/(1 + 0.5x) while generating x total seconds of flash. Let's say we have 0.25 seconds of uber left and a robotic medic who flashes 4 people in that span. That shortens the original uber to 0.08 seconds and creates 4(!) seconds worth of uber from thin air. Your net uber gain is 4/0.16 = 24x return!

That said, gaining real value from it is easier said than done. It won't matter in even uber trades since both medics have access to this (unless one medic diffs the other? OMG), and if your uber is clearly better to the degree that you can take advantage of this by having your team flood at the last second, it's likely the other team will already know this and back off/scatter enough to where it doesn't really matter. Teams pretty much already run away to reset towards the end of uber trades regardless.

I think the most realistic way I can see this getting value is an aggressive yard to second trade on granary where you flash your entire team in at the last second and count on trading out favorably or forcing the enemy out of the point. Even then, there are complications since the force has to be near instantaneous in order to gain value from forcing flashes.

Also theres no point when u can just run a sniper or something and be way more successful with no risk LOL

edit: wait it might be goated on koth tho

https://clips.twitch.tv/AggressiveHonorablePheasantJebaited-EycUApyk-Y9hDwrk

This is already the reality of discord pug groups right now. Players add up, an admin rolls randomized medics, and the medics then captain for their teams. Throwing isn't an issue because everyone understands that pugs would suck ass without medics and that they will get banned if they troll. People are still able to volunteer to play medic for a pug if they want. The only issues that we have right now are that rolling medics/setting up servers needs to be manually done by an admin, and that there isn't class-based picking so pug quality is inconsistent depending on what people feel like playing. Solve these two issues and people will be lining up to pug.

+1 Seriously all we need is random medics+pugchamp style picking after that.

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has been a thing before, but never for the pick ban match format. usually at worst you just have to play on dallas if the other team cares about it.

ok I'm not going to deny that I was wrong about the classes but is monsta going 5-11 with 2 forfeit wins on kcrew 12 seasons ago really proof that he's going to roll advanced

https://i.imgur.com/YBpdfhf.png

monsta has played one season of scout in RGL, 8 seasons ago, and got third.
Prior to that, he never played scout in ESEA.
Apparently this means he has “proved to be an outstanding scout through and through, especially for advanced.”
The other bans are w/e, it's the main cast of kronge + what they played last season. But monsta's restriction seems to completely deviate from past guidelines for restrictions.

RGL S7