https://clips.twitch.tv/EntertainingThirstyNikudonChefFrank-RHPdL25Y-Pn93IFN

My immediate thoughts are that it takes away a lot of the rhythm - like everyone else is saying, it's constant DM, and while a lot of people watching the stream were enjoying that, and I would agree that pushing should be incentivised over holding, having breaks in that action is important. In the few games I watched I didn't see a single spy play, for instance, because there just isn't time to set it up. I agree with #22 that the stalemate problem it's purporting to fix isn't really happening in 2022 at the top level, and maybe it's still common in lower divs but teams there just aren't as good as breaking them.

Having said all that, one event isn't enough to draw conclusions, and if teams practised this more they'd get better at playing it to its limits and maximising that 3min timer. It's possible that a good middle ground would be at 4 or 5 mins, as some people suggested, but I don't think we can say already that it's objectively good or bad, and tbh the best thing we can do is experiment with an open mind.

EU fixes this by adding a 15min limit to golden caps, and if this expires going to a golden mid (ie new round and whoever wins the midfight)

obs will not eat my internet
obs will not eat my internet
obs will not eat my internet

Just had a look at a log file (link, vod) and it turns out neither of us are right - it almost measures the time between spawning and healing damage (ie not just buffing someone on rollout) but that doesn't seem to be what it's actually doing. Looking for

"4.T Domo<3><[U:1:96525192]><Blue>" triggered "first_heal_after_spawn"

and working backwards, we see that on the first mid, it took Domo 20.1s to trigger this (healing toemas). Before that happened, he buffed players from full health to rollout, healed papi from his pocket rollout, then at mid papi took damage and was healed (though not enough damage to remove his buff). Finally, toemas took damage from the other team, taking him below full health, and was healed by Domo to trigger the log event.

I've not checked in this detail on other logs, but this suggests "Average time before healing" is time before healing damage done by the other team to take a player below full health, and as such is not only difficult to reverse engineer but also mildly pointless.

Fwiw you can get this by multiplying avg time before healing by deaths for each log, to get total time, then add this up and divide by total deaths.

that fifth map is one to be rewatching for a long long time

goated draft panel tbh

ETF2L's API accepts ID1, so you can convert ID3 to that using 24's link then get (some) player names from that

u saw nothing ;)

FWIW all "unknown" mediguns are ubers, it was a problem with certain medigun skins

edit: now fixed but that doesn't help past logs

TFNew are also running a team drive - for more info see their thread

the api doesn't give you times for anything, it's the pre-parsed data that you see on screen

to get ticks you need the raw file with events, which is what you get when you DL it

After the group stage we will be doing another article so if we missed any team that's doing well they'll be covered there

this will come when we roll out our new and improved stats system, which should have happened last month