Grape playing again
http://www.twitch.tv/phgp_tv

Upper bracket finals of the cup
http://challonge.com/NAsanetopia

hey I got a copy of this game last week from a giveaway on their stream (huge thanks 16jacobj who gave the copy he won to me because he wanted someone from tf2 to have it ) and I've been loving this game so far.

next weeks are gonna be kinda hard cuz I got exams coming but I would love to play some duels with some low (still getting used to the maps and movement) people if u have it, so if u want add me and we can hopefully play some day

PotD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQADpcyGiWg [60 fps]

I have around 32cm(13inches)/360, after like half an hour if I have to flick constantly my hand starts to get really tired.

Is it really inferior in all situations tho? I understand doing it on spire or gran mid, but for example what would be the advantage of doing it on badlands mid? I kinda find it easier to airshot since it's a lot more predictable air time and gives you time to place yourself properly to surf their rocket, it's just annoying because I have to flick a lot more and since I have kind of a low sens it's tiring.

My criticism (both positive and negative)

That lettering at the begining looked awfully simplistic/out of place compared to the amount of work put in the rest of the video

Overusing effects/particles, sometimes more doesn't equal better. For example I loved synch with the song the pipe firing and the explosion effect at 00:30. I think the explosion effect really fit the sound of the gun, kind of like a bubbly feeling if you get what I mean, but every time u used that explosion effect after that I felt turned off and it looked really out of place. Where as for example I really like the rocket trail smooth u used at 00:22, looked really cool with that effect, but used in every shot and every frag after that it looked a bit too much.

I really liked the transition you did at 1:00, looked very original except the blue thingy, I kinda get what you were going for but that element looked a bit rushed / out of place.

The viewmodels fov is too big, Idk why u went for a fov different than 70.

Excellent smoothing work!

A lot more annoying is people who fuckin ctap every jump on mge (other than gran mid). Like, I've noticed you learned ctap, can you not?

takyahud forever and ever takyahud dot com

Some people on tf2center are major dicks and suffer from the Dunning-Kruger syndrome. I have like 20 lobbies despite having played multiple seasons of Plat HL and etf2l high divs and I still get kicked from lobbies occasionally because they say I'm a noob who doesn't have enough lobbies.

If you want the game to grow you need to be kind and welcome this new wave of players, if you want a serious environment to practice you should'nt be playing lobbies anyway, get a real team or play pickups and you will be better off.

Lobbies are only good either for getting the first taste of competitive and start to understand the depth of the game or to waste some time when it's low hours and you can't find a pickup or a match and want to play some tf2.

I remember back when I started competitive, I did it on lobbies as well, but the original tf2lobby. I got a lot of shit for being a newbie, I dealth with it, but not everyone will have the same nerves or patience. After I got 100 or so lobbies under my belt I was ready for the real world of competitive and I never touched lobbies again. Maybe you can start being nice, and let's not make the tf2 matchmaking experience similar to csgo/dota which makes me wanna kill myself everytime I try to play it.

it is, Im on it.

Some problem with the host, I already opened a ticket, I just hope they didn't just drop the partnership I had with them without a warning.

edit: got a response, it's due to a faulty server migration afaik, should be up soon.

In case you guys haven't noticed the regular pub community of tf2 is becoming more and more aware of the competitive side of our game, I think these are exciting times for competitive tf2.

Virtually every big tf2 youtuber (>100k subs) has started playing or at least acknowledged competitive tf2 in their channels and many of them were actually very positive about matchmaking so I think we're seeing a shift in attitude within the tf2 community where as before if you posted something comp related on tf2 subreddit for example you would be dismissed as a tryharder etc etc, but nowadays people are getting more and more receptive and open to the idea and many are also very excited about the thought of matchmaking.

Now I am not sure whether this has to do about some part of the casual player base leaving or just the regular player base wanting a new challenge or kind of an end game where they can do other things, but the end point is that we're not getting neglected anymore. And that is very reassuring.

Nice work with the video, clear, concise and to the point so even complete newbies can understand it.

Would love if u could list comp.tf (site down atm, but Im on it, should be up soon hopefully). It's a competitive focused tf2 wiki, has a great amount of resources and info for new and old players alive.

That would be a shame now that a portuguese team finally managed to stay together for more than 1 season. ^^

That's a poor choice of words to talk about an org that has been supporting tf2 for more than 3 years now, since season 13 (that's 8 seasons), and always at premiership level.

kalho apparently trialed for them this season but for some reason HYS had another plans in mind. Now with this he might change his mind

So after mixup died grape isn't playing this season?

I went there once when I was a kid, in the summer, it rained the whole week, I would cut myself if I had to stay for any longer than that.

Yo I got my parents house with a big garage and pool on the side and everything, u just need to deal with the shitty 10mb/s internet.