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This bug has been fixed. You should no longer crash.

The trophy is at my folks place. I'm down in San Diego at the moment while I finish up school so I didn't have it on me.

We are aware of and are working on fixing this bug. What crashes you is if you use the quick loadout swap hotkeys or buttons in the loadout menu. If you manually change individual weapons by themselves it will not crash you. For now please be aware of that until we get this fixed.

This often is the case. Sometimes on huge update nights it ends up taking large amounts of server resources to update all of our CS servers. This unfortunately causes lag among the rest while we try to get stuff like CS:GO servers up to date while matches go on so we don't have to cancel all CS:GO matches completely. I do apologize for this happening; a CS:GO update was released late today that was likely the cause of the lag you were experiencing.

You can always open a support ticket or message Killing or myself. We will usually switch it over to a new server for you.

Thanks for having me on! One criticism was that I felt we weren't able to get to a lot of the questions people asked. That was probably more due to time constraints however if we were keeping this thing within an hour. I went ahead and answered every question in the other thread that we were not able to get to.

I don't really know anything about how stat parsing works myself either so it's not something I have any authority on. I appreciate it; I figure if we have something to go off of it will make it easier for them to implement.

Several questions in this thread are about people wanting heal stats. It is a possibility that we might be able to get that implemented in the future. What would definitely help speed along the process is if someone could get the source code for those stat gathering programs to Killing then Killing can work on getting it implemented. A gigantic overhaul of the ESEA stats system for TF2 is unlikely, but we will try to get healing stats implemented as soon as we can.

I tried to get Swatt unbanned. The problem is that ESEA takes a hard line approach to account security. If your account gets compromised ESEA views it as your fault, and anything that anyone did on your account as a result of it being hacked are actions that you will be held accountable for.

Going great. I just need to finish my senior research project for my PSCI major and I'll be done with college for good.

ESEA will never allow plugins. Things like increased FOV do give players advantages over other players and are outside of developer intent. If TF2 will not allow you to it do within the engine by default then ESEA does not want you to do it either. We may balance the game through things like class limits or weapon bans, but we won't actually change what you are able to do within the scope of the engine.

If you believe that allowing players to have 120 FOV has zero impact on the way that the game is played I believe you you should play on 75 FOV for a week.

I do. TF.TV has effectively taken over the role of then gotfrag and natf2. This site has much better functionality than the previous two sites and is run by someone who is entrenched in both the TF2 community and ESEA-Invite. I see TF.tv through streaming even being a better way to connect the comp TF2 community to the pub TF2 community. Our streamers are pulling pretty solid numbers and our casts even better than that.

Usually updating the client is a simple matter that doesn't take much time. However, sometimes there are TF2 updates that make substantial changes to the engine; In this case the change to fix the DX8 crash quite possibly. When stuff like that happens it can screw things up in the client pretty nicely and take a while to fix. That's what happened this season and I apologize for it. We tried our hardest to get it updated as fast as possible and did manage to save the Invite cast for that game at the last minute.

I would love a Main division, but in order for us to have a Main division we would need an even larger IM division. One of the problems that I try to combat every season is the epidemic of IM teams dying en masse. If we can manage to continue growing in TF2 and get a semi-large IM then I could feasibly get ESEA to implement a Main division. I would say that the bare minimum amount of teams that I would require to have in IM before I would gut IM to make a Main division would be 36, so that we could have at least 12-16 Main teams. Even then though I think that 36 is possibly too small of a number if we end up having similar levels of attrition that we see in Main currently in IM.