Is there any working way right now to search for ESEA profiles by steam id? Not for the sake of any requirement, just so captains have that information available.

Legit-proof hasn't been updated in years, and I don't know of any other site offering that service for ESEA.

Come play some video games with us.

My mom said we can even stay up late and order pizza.

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Why are the payouts on this site so low?

Betting a value of 7.33 on a 43% underdog only has a potential payout of 4.18, which is a very paltry sum for betting on the team with worse odds.

https://i.imgur.com/YtH6wtQ.png

For comparison, betting roughly the same value on an underdog with the exact same odds on CSGOLounge would yield a payout of 9.58, which is more than double what would be won from the same bet on Saloon.

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

There is currently a bug where the bot crashes right when picks finish. This kills the pug very often because nobody remembers what team they were on after the crash forces them to reload the page.

Then instead of having an ESEA profile, make the requirement to have an ESEA account with at least 1 pug or match played in any game (including CS). Alt accounts will stop bothering with how much that requirement forces them to feed lpkane's wallet.

https://i.imgur.com/XYBgt.gif

There are less custom maps in the rotation this season than in many previous ones. Process, snakewater, and gully were in the competitive map canon long before Valve added them to the game.

It's not like adding a few ammo packs and tires on mid would make granary a completely foreign map. Even lobby players figure out viaduct_pro fairly quickly.

And if you care about the distance the comp community has from pubs there are much bigger issues than requiring four 50 mb map downloads instead of 3.

edit: how do i proofread

Generally speaking, IRC as a whole is dying. It's getting increasingly difficult to find quality scrims on irc at most levels of play. This is especially annoying during the offseason because most teams don't have rosters yet to add team leaders from. Like the recruitment boards here, it would be available as a resource for any div/league but with an implicit assumption that the board is primarily for ESEA 6s because ESEA doesn't have an equivalent available. ESEA does have a scrim finder built into the client but nobody uses it because of it forcing you to use their servers and requiring everyone in the scrim to have premium.

TFTV should add a scrim finding board to fix this. There are at least a few people already posting scrim threads here, so it's not like the board wouldn't see any use. It can also be marked as not visible on the sidebar by default since most people not looking for scrims won't care about those threads.

They're both really chill and friendly and good at/quickly improving at the game.

Only downside is they're kinda gay but who isn't these days?

SICP is a very dense and technical book written 30 years ago for MIT students who went into the course with a strong engineering background. Many of the examples in the book use a lot of higher-level math that isn't really needed to learn programming, because it was expected that its target audience would know it already. And nobody except the stuffiest of academics still use Scheme to do anything. SICP is good for what it is but it's not a very helpful book for beginners.

"Learning to program" by reading through a textbook was honestly never something I found very engaging. The best way to learn is by working on tangible projects; you'll probably learn many of the concepts from any textbook just by googling to find out how to solve a problem you run into while coding. The language you start with really doesn't matter as much as people think it does. Python works fine, although I personally think getting used to a language with C-like syntax early on is helpful but that's just my dumb opinion. Once you're really fluent in one programming language, learning others comes very easily.

If you need ideas for programs to write that are beginner-friendly but still challenging, the DWITE problems are a good place to start.
Once you have a good understanding of the basics you should also take a class about data structures and algorithms, since they are very important things to understand for anything past the most basic programs. The Khan Academy course on algorithms looks well thought-out although I haven't personally used it.

It's not so much a UGC vs ESEA issue as it is a difference in philosophy between 6v6 and HL as a whole. ETF2L highlander has very similar allowed unlocks to UGC.

The idea for 6v6 choosing what and what not to ban has always been "ban everything that isn't fun to play against." This leads to banning out most of the unlocks in the game and only ever playing one map type.
Highlander tries to make a competitive mode that actually resembles the stock game, by making as few arbitrary rules as absolutely possible; item bans will always be arbitrary rules from an outside perspective, even if they are for well-justified reasons. This leads to a lot of things that some people don't like being left in the game (soda popper, the pyro class, etc).

And highlander with the ESEA whitelist would be much worse than highlander right now. Teams would literally choose to turtle on second instead of attempting to go to the midfight because it will take too long for the heavy and engie to rollout without gru/disciplinary action/gunslinger.

It's worth pointing out that the demo in that scrim, lymphatix, is the account that was banned by ugc for hacking right before the current DDoS attack started.

Also this thread needs more entertainment value so have a pastebin (for my beloved = bullet alt and/or associate)
also note that for my beloved is the only one to mention hacking in that chatlog.

http://play.esea.net/index.php?s=forums&d=topic&id=635866&find_comment_number=92#n92

In case the thread gets nuked:

http://i.imgur.com/BzPQilR.png

I used to use this dinosaur of a machine:

http://www1.pcmag.com/media/images/14447-dell-dimension-8200.jpg

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,484752,00.asp

It somehow got 50-60 fps consistently with Chris's maxframes config through some black magic. It took a solid 10 minutes to load into a map, though.

bumping for badlands week