I fairly sure there is still something active in the Brazilian scene, at least last time I talked to some of my friends there the league was still going strong. And its always better to play against even opponents or in a higher competitive environment, even if it's not that regular/active.

As for the movie, you really shouldn't have aimed for such a long movie if you have no editing experience. My tip, if you really wanna get some edited frags out and don't have anyone who would edit them for you (Im fairly sure everyone would love to have a personal editor but chances are unless you are a top prem/invite player no one's gonna do it for free for you because editing is fuckin time consuming and tiring) then start by editing one off clips, just edit one frag you think is really special and different or one spree which you think it's really cool, don't start with a huge 20+ frags fragmovie, because the end result will be bad (in 99% of the cases unless you're some editing prodigy) and the feedback will be mostly negative.

Also when working on a fragmovie be really picky about the frags and the momentum the frags bring, I noticed that plays a big part in the overall feedback of any fragmovie even if most the frags are great, if you have a few mediocre frags or shitty momentum the movie will suffe hard, I learned this the hard way when I finished my first full fragmovie, which I was only able to understand most of its flaws after I finishes it. And I noticed quite some unnecessary cuts/moments where nothing really happens in your movie

As in everything, experience and practice makes it better. Despite the cliche, it's true that everyone starts bad, and you only get good by keeping at it with consistence.

Ok, so I'm gonna try and give a bit more constructive feedback.

So, first of all you opened a thread yesterday asking for someone to make you a fragmovie, the responses weren't very positive as I can understand from someone who doesn't really have any reputation in the community but yet you open a thread today, just one day after, with a complete 8 min fragmovie/fragclip or whatever you wanna call it.

I have been editing tf2 videos for a fair amount of time and I wouldn't have been able to record, edit and render a 8 min fragmovie with 20+ frags in 1 day even if I tried really hard. So you probably already had it halfway and just wanted someone to edit it for you since you weren't satisfied with the result which I understand.

Other thing, a quick look at your profile reveals you have played in Brazil highest competitive division (Elite), yet 90% (or I would risk saying all) of your frags are notoriously from american tf2center lobbies, it doesn't really complement the frags at all, in fact, it detracts quite heavily from them, I could go on tf2 center american lobby right now with 120 ping and in 2 or 3 lobbies I would have enough fragmovie material for a 5 min video, but you aren't playing players of a similar skill level not even near that, and more important than that, you are most probably playing games with no communication whatsoever. It really makes the frags not impressive at all, not mentioning you seem to run sniper to mid and in stupid situations 90% of the times while the enemy team is clearly not punishing you as they should, which it would happen in an even skilled match. Not mentioning probably the dozens of lobbies you ruined with excessive and pointless offclassing.

As for the video itself, it seems a collage of frags, no synchs, clips aren't cut properly (ie: showing completely irrelevant moments where nothing special happens), generic music, hence a fraclip not a fragmovie, so it doesn't really merit its own thread in my opinion, should just post it in the frag clip thread.

And you're contributing to that count! Congratz!

This.

For people already part and ingrained in the community this is a pleasant change since many come here for the forums, but for a lot of newcomers or people who just follow the competitive coverage the old homepage is much more straighforward, professional looking, and you get to know all the events/coverage going on from the get go

You're probably not looking at the right things then. First of all, from what I talked with Jon, ranking is variable with time, meaning people who haven't played some class for a set time will see their rank decreasing as time goes on, this is to prevent "rank farming" or some inactive player that stopped playing all together to still be ranked. Works pretty much like csgo where if you dont play MM for 1 month you lose your rank, but in this case your rank decreases, you don't lose it completely.

As for the stats, they can be irrelevant depending on where you looking at, ie: you could have a better score with a KD of 1 if you win by 1 round than with a KD of 6 and winning 5-0, the difference here being that you are playing higher ranked players which will be much more relevant to the ranking score than any other metric.

It probably will need tweaking as time goes on, but don't just dismiss it as "this system is stupid as heck" just because you have a bad rank. From what I have seen, what Jon has managed to create here is a very well researched project and it looks very impressive even if with serious flaws atm. I wouldn't be impressed if valve were to implement matchmaking officially into the game and they asked for his collaboration

For one thing, your art is good from what I have seen and it definitely has a place in the market, if you were making money with it before then I'm sure it's possible to keep doing it. We live in the digital age, it's not like you're stranded to some office to make money, hell, in your case you can pretty much work from anywhere as long as you have a computer and internet connection which you obviously seem to have.

Also, I think u need to be straightforward with your aspirations to your family, if they don't support (and even worse if they condemn you) then I wouldn't want to live with such people either. Unless u really do have a severe problem apart from what you're telling in that case it would be understandable they wouldn't trust you with the intent of protecting you.

Everyone has less good moments in your life u can't let that get to you, I don't wanna sound like I'm spitting some pseudoscience bullshit but you need to find some inner peace and settle all your ideas and thoughts down a bit. Also try and surround yourself with good people and you will be and feel good, if you have these "emotional vampires" in your life all the time that suck all the good thoughts and feelings out of it then you're always going to be in a downward spiral. I've been there, in some way or another, I had to make a choice and move out/change my surroundings to prevent getting into a real bad depression.

Honestly, you dont have to identify yourself in that culture. You don't have to be the obnoxious guy everyone stereotypes as the stoner.

Also you don't have to be that straight edge obnoxious guy running around and telling everyone weed is for losers and pussies and whatever like I see a lot of people doing in these forums (even if you are trolling it's still annoying).

My point is, do whatever the fuck u want and dont let other people discourage you. Same works for the others, don't be a fuckin whiny bitch and try to shove your convictions down people's throats all the time.

are u mr owl from the Owl gaming foruns?

u're the best Jon <3

Try using tf2pickup bball pickups. YOu might need to bring some friends over to fill the bball pickup but its very practical and worth it imo

Try to get in contact with valve, dont conform with it. They seem to at least being semi receptive to feedback lately

yay, great to see our map used in such a cool video! Good work! Really great frags and loved the upbeat music

Idk, maybe, uhhh, from taxes?

iron players and reddit users

Cheers,

Byte