2v2 BBall Tournament July 28th 6pm EST - 12pm EST.
Sign up below with team name and player names.
We will be using bball.tf servers and discord.
Winning team will get 3 keys, 2nd place team will get 2 keys, and 3rd place team will get 1 key.
There will be no buy in to play in the tournament, just sign up below. I will be taking donations to any kind people who want to bring up the winning prizes and make the tournament more competitive. All of the donations will be used as prizes for the tournament.
Registration for tournament will close July 26th at 12pm EST, so sign up before then if you want to play.
I would like someone to stream and cast the tournament also, so just let me know below if anyone would be interested in that.

I put in command : tf_use_min_viewmodels 1, and it seemed to have fixed it.

I keep having this weird glitch where my TF2 character's shadow or weapon keeps getting in the way of my POV. It usually happens when I rocket jump or turn my mouse fast. Is there a way to fix this?

NF is a rapper that I started listening to back last summer when I was going through a dark time in my life and I was full of anger and regret. Listening to his music really does change, motivate, and inspire me to be better and his new album (Therapy Session) came out today and I just wanted to let people know because his music is great. He is an underrated rapper that needs recognition because he has worked hard to get where he is at now, and is one of the only rappers who put real passion into his lyrics other then singing about sex, alcohol, drugs, money, etc. He sings for a purpose and I think that's what music should be about. If anyone has any time to listen to some great new music, here is a link to a song that maybe some people over the community might can relate to. I personally can't relate to it, but it does get my emotional because I know friends who are probably in NF's same situation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9tqvCYlZSQ

What is the craziest spring break experience you guys have had?

The thing that frustrates me the most is that I only have 3 epic cards right now, and they are the shittiest ones. I have the skeleton army, lightning spell, and the giant skeleton. My dad plays it too and he started after me but has 6 epic cards like the goblin barrel (which is pretty irritating at times), prince, witch, balloon, and 2 more I can't think of right now.

I have been hearing a lot of talk about this game. Does anyone play it? Thoughts of the game, and best strategies/card decks?

I noticed it when I started having these random numbing sensations kind of like both my hands are falling asleep, but they aren't in a weird position to cause them to fall asleep. Then it started happening more often today (Probably 40-50 times total today), which is what got me worried after I started talking to friends about it, and some friends who have had nerve problems. They all said it sounded like it might be nerve related. I talked to my parents and the only logical explanation they could come up with was tennis maybe, because that's the only thing that really stresses out my wrists and forearms. Just recently, the feeling has moved up into my individual fingers and every time I pick something up, or press a button, etc. It feels like someone is sticking me with a pin in my finger.

The past few days I have noticed a tingling and numbing sensation in both of my hands that comes on randomly like a shock wave (that"s the best way I can explain it, a shock wave). And it keeps getting worse. Now, my individual fingers experience it too whenever i push a button on my phone, or spray cooking spray on a pan, maybe picking something up, or pushing a door, etc. I didn't know how many people here on the teamfortress.tv community would have Carpal Tunnel, because I know one well known way to get it is by playing video games. Other ways are like, working on vibrating tools, or anything that disrupts the median nerve in your wrist.
I just started playing tennis a few months back, and I'm thinking that may be the cause of it, because of the vibrations on the strings after you hit the ball, etc. It also works the forearm/wrist and maybe it disrupted the nerve in my wrist by an over use of my arm. Any thoughts would be helpful. I'm planning to see my school trainer tomorrow, but would like to have an idea if I should rule Carpal Tunnel as a possibility or not.

I have been pretty busy lately with a new career in rapping. Thanks for all the support on the last thread I made, because I realize that life goes on even if it gets tough, it will get better. I am officially turning in my two weeks notice to the teamfortress.tv community, to everyone who plays bball, to bball.tf, and most importantly Damon Albarn of the TF2 community. Thanks for doing what I never could, it's great to see the dream I had 2-3 years ago being fulfilled. But I'm moving on to continue with my rap career and spitting hot fire and bars. I will occasionally play TF2, but my new dream is to spit fire like a dragon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXOcBI5g1mw
JDawg young money moolah JDz officially out.

There is this girl at my school who I have been in love with for a while now. I have known liked for 3 years, and the past few months I have really fallen in love with her. At the beginning of the school year, she said she liked me back but it wasn't near as much as I liked her. I got way too deep in my feelings, and she has moved on past hers. Now I am having a lot of regrets of the past asking myself why I didn't do this or do that, etc.
I feel like love is the strongest emotion. Is it possible to fully get over the person you love, not just for looks, but for who they truly are? Because I feel like I may never see her the same way again, I have taken space as much up to a month to stop talking to her, but it only neutralizes my feelings for a short period of time until they come back again.

Hey, I posted in the recruitment a few days ago looking for a bball.tf partner, but the league starts tomorrow so I really need to find someone soon. add me here if you need a partner too or are interested in playing with me. http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198043151908/

My brother went through a very hard time during his Senior year in high school last year, we didn't think he was going to pass high school. He was very very smart, use to be an A/B student, had a lot going for him, made a 28 on ACT on second try. He could have done so much better but he just lost all of his drive. He is honestly one of the most intelligent people that I know, but as a young child he was diagnosed with aspergers, a form of autism. Over the summer between his 11th and 12th grade year, he was having panic attacks everyday, he couldn't sleep for days straight, he was having hallucinations (auditory and visual), and he could not function in society. It really hurt my family. It was really painful to see such a bright kid with a good future ahead of him to lose it all because of bipolar disorder. He is doing a lot better now though, he got some of his basics out of the way at a local community college and now has a job.
I personally struggle with a bit of depression, not near as bad as my brothers, but sometimes I get really down, and sometimes for no reason at all. Sometimes I feel I can be a bit bipolar, but I can't just diagnose myself on it. This is a great cause that they are going toward because so many people have mental illnesses that you might not even know about.

Hey, I am looking for a new bball partner to play in bball.tf league with. I'm mainly doing the league for fun, so anyone feel free to hit me up over steam or add me here. http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198043151908/

Looking for either a good DMer that I can cap well with, or a good jumper that I can support with my DM. We MUST have good teamwork though.

Hey tv.tf, I just wanted to share a story that recently happened to me, and I honestly have no idea what to think of it because all of the friends I have talked to (irl friends) have said that something like this has never happened to them.

I recently had my birthday about a week ago (on the 12th), and I wanted to try smoking weed to see what it was like. I heard you usually never get high your first time, so I went all out with one of my friends and we smoked a few bowls together. I didn't really feel anything but a little light headedness, dizzy, I zoned out of stuff a lot, and could really only concentrate on one thing at a time. So I thought, "weed really isnt worth it, if that is all that I get out of it". I thought it wasn't anything special and I would probably never try it again.
I got grounded for Christmas Break (not for getting caught smoking weed), and so I thought, "I am going to need something to relax me over the Break and just chill out". So I decided to buy a bamboo pipe and 10 dollars of mid to smoke a bit over the 2 weeks I'm out for Christmas. So last Friday, the day we got out of school for the holidays, I went home and smoked a small bowl of weed before my parents got home, I got about 2-3 hits from it and didn't feel a thing so I went to take a shower to clean off and I hid my stuff.
After my parents got home, they left shortly after to go to a Christmas party for the night at their work so I decided it would be a good night to try smoking again to actually experieince a high. So, I go outside without shoes on in 45 degree weather and I spark up a big bowl and start smoking it for about 10 minutes. I didn't even feel the cold anymore about 5 minutes into smoking. I took about 8 really good hits, and after each time I would spark up the bowl, and get a big hit, the bowl would still kind of be on fire a little bit so I would get about 2-4 smaller hits in between each big hit. It got to the point where it felt amazing just to sit there and smoke and it relaxed me so much. I didn't really know how much I smoked, but all i inhaled for the next 5 minutes was cannabis. I decided that it was enough to get a high, so I stood up to throw away the disposable bowl I had made from tin foil. And thats when it hit me, everything started spinning and I felt light as a kite. All I could remember thinking was, "holy shit I'm high" and that voice kept replaying over and over in my head until I snapped out of that daze and was in my bed staring off into nothing. On the way to my room, I remember not even being able to hide the pipe and rest of the weed (enough to smoke another 2-3 times), so I just put it in my car and slammed the door shut and stumbled across my house into my room. And thats when I thought, "What if I accidentally kill myself?"
I kept snapping in and out of reality, time went by so slow. What felt like an hour had only been a few minutes, or moments. I snapped out of it, stood up, and the only thing I could think to do was to call one of my closest friends who smoked weed. She talked me through stuff until she had to hang up. I went outside to sit down and talk to her and felt my mouth getting dry so I ask her what the feeling was and she said I got cotton mouth. In my high state, all I could think was, "Ohhh, this is why they call it cotton mouth." Because I felt this tingling feeling on both sides of my mouth and for some reason I felt like a cotton mouth snake. So i got up and went inside to get some water, poured about half a cup out and drank about 20-30 sips. Then I set the cup down and started talking to my friend again, then I went into this weird paradox of time and when I snapped out I told her that I thought I took 20 sips of water but the water on the counter was still as full as I poured it. I started freaking out, I kept losing concentration and kept going into weird dazes and kept getting disoriented.
My friend had to hang up because she got to her dads house, so then i decided to talk and message other close friends because it was the only thing that could keep me sane at the time. Then I really tripped out, I thought I blacked out but I think I only blinked. It felt like hours but was probably only a few moments of actual time. I kept opening and closing my eyes thinking I kept blacking out and kept forgetting how to actually function. I dropped my phone out of my hands without even realizing it, blacked out again, and came back into it, then I dropped down to the ground to check my phone, stood up and ran around my house. I never blacked out again, or tripped out that bad anymore on it.
Probably the hardest thing to do is to take a shower while high. I had no sense of direction while I was high. I remember running into my garage, garage door still open, I was naked and outside trying to make sure I had hidden my pipe and the rest of the weed under my passenger side of my car seat. Then I ran back inside, and put my clothes in the washing machine to wash them, forgot what I was doing, then I went to take a shower, not even starting my clothes in the washing machine. As I was taking my shower, I kept dazing in and out, it felt like my shower was at least 20 minutes, so I jumped out as fast as I could and dried off still snapping in and out of reality and time. I got to my room and saw that only 6 minutes past. I remembered that I had to start my clothes in the washing machine so I ran in there to do that, then i put on some clothes.
The rest of my high wasn't as freaky, because the rest of it was more relaxed and calm. I sat down and turned on a movie and discovered that the movie was slowed down when I started watching it for a long time which now seems pretty awesome but at the time, I hated the feeling of time being slowed down. Food tasted so much better, I ate a double decker peanut butter and jelly sandwhich, the jelly tasted like actual grapes and strawberries, the peanut butter melted in my mouth and the bread was so soft. When I listened to slow music, it slowed down time, and when I listened to rock music or faster music, it helped me keep time better. Nothing anybody did made me mad at all, I remember my brother got really mad at me for something, but I turned around and shrugged it off and walked away with this joy in my chest and I just wanted to laugh and smile.
Later that night, I had a horrible night of sleep. I kept slipping in and out of sleep back into actual reality like how i slipped in and out of dazes when I was actually awake. I woke up around 6-7 times throughout the night all seperated by an hour or 2. I woke up the next morning still kinda buzzed, I was starving, it was hard to concentrate on anything. I was laid back, and felt like just being lazy.
I don't know what happened when I tripped out, a few of my irl friends said it could have been laced with something (possibly roach killer) or maybe it was really good loud and I just got really fucked up from it. Has anyone ever had a trip like this from weed (or any drug). Feel free to share.