So the winning invite team will get like $12000? every season? if so that's insane and we should all just play this instead of RGL

also if you have this much money to spend on a league, why not just buy RGL?

Definitely yes. For your situation:

• If you get consistently above 144fps, it's a no-brainer
  
• If you get consistently between 60-144fps, you should still get the 144hz monitor. If you get bad screen tearing (you likely won't but just in case) you can turn g-sync on.

However, like Tob said, 240hz is becoming the new standard for gaming. A lot of 144hz monitors cost <$100 today, and many 1080p 240hz monitors only cost around $150-200 or even less. So you'd only be spending 50 extra dollars (or so) to get a 240hz monitor instead of a 144hz one. IMO if you're planning on upgrading your PC anytime soon, go with a 240hz since they're super cheap right now. If you're not planning on upgrading, go with 144hz.

What's the point of getting so mad ? Like oh no somebody thinks branslam is better than SolidSnake and mackey ... oh the horror ! It's like getting mad that someone has a different favorite color

Really good point. Being at the top in a more competitive era is more impressive than being at the top when you're playing against hunter-gatherers and typewriter repairmen. Saying corsa and duwatna should be ranked over people who literally played in 2008 is like the most mild take ever

it's been like 4 years since the original top 100 list. how do you think the list has changed since then? anyone new in the top 10? top 20?

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Btw, I was testing 8k for fun earlier and on an MGE server with 2 players there was 0 noticeable stuttering, but when I switched to a 6s pug it started stuttering. So idk what is up with the engine.

update: i got the op1 8k. 8k hz doesn't work in tf2, but i set it to 4k and don't seem to be having any problems. thanks for the help!

i'm thinking about getting a new mouse that happens to have an 8k polling rate. does that still break the game or has it been fixed? should i go for the 1k polling rate version of the same mouse instead? thanks

There are a couple of options to shorten game time while keeping the benefits of the NA config (less garbage time, not being forced to push when it's bad because you're down rounds).

• Option 1: Shorten the match time limit by 10 minutes. This is the simplest option and would reduce the time of all matches by 10mins. The problem is that you'd still sometimes have long games (45+ minutes), although these would be partially "balanced out" by also having very short 20 minute games that end right after overtime starts.
  
  
• Option 2: Shorten the round limit by 1, so 4 rounds wins on 5cp instead of 5. This would also reduce the average time of matches, but not by a fixed amount. The con is that it would only reduce match time for the portion of games that get to 4 rounds won in the first place, so long 2-1s or 3-2s wouldn't be affected.
  
  
• Option 3: Forced halftime after a certain number of rounds. One of the reasons I think the NA config became accepted here is because we used to have a 2 half config that caused most matched to be 1 hour long. Most matches in NA now are actually shorter than they were under the old ruleset. However, one of the things people like about the old ruleset was that you'd get a guaranteed halftime to strategize and take a breather after 30 minutes. While having any hard time limit wouldn't work with this config because it creates garbage time, a way to still get a halftime break would be to code in a halftime pause/unexec after, say, 3 rounds total had been played. So if the score was 2-0 and a team won a round to make it 3-0, there would be a 5 minute halftime break like there used to be. The pro of this is that teams won't get as fatigued, but the total match time would be unaffected.

I'd be open to testing any of these three options and seeing how people feel. I also think that the matches went longer than usual at this LAN because teams were understandably taking fewer risks (because of how high the stakes were). Fewer risks taken will naturally lead to slower games on any config.

I also think that the config delivered on its core aims during the LAN, at least from my experience as a spectator: games were exciting, the comebacks (and failed comebacks) were really fun to watch, and not having to watch the losing team desperately try to win 3 rounds in 5-8 etc. minutes made for a more enjoyable experience. Since getting used to the new config a few years ago, I've gone back and watched a few old demos/matches and they seem so much more boring, so I don't think it was just a coincidence that this LAN had more exciting games.

I also think that there would probably be some pushback if RGL tried to reduce the match timer to 20 minutes or the round win limit to 4, but these numbers are basically arbitrary and thinking that 30mins, 5-to-win is the best ruleset seems like the result of "status quo bias," as Rumpus said.

GG!

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dellacious ubers LFP invite quals s18

combo scout: jw
flank scout: della
pocket soldier: skull? crazy?
roamer: Peppa Pig
demo: alfredodan
medic: foxxy

Let's Get Dellacious

All this being said, it is almost 100% certain that cukei was cheating before that one night of pugs -- maybe for months or years before, cheating over and over and over -- so even if the ban is for the wrong reason, he probably should have been permad anyways.