Quindaliesea- pay to play, can't even get a real season opening date or release an official map list
ugc- free to play, consistent league and match scheduling every season/week, releases map list at the beginning of each offseason
seems legit
Obviously, there are advantages to esea (LAN, prizepool, generally better players, etc), but it seems very unorganized. This may be a pretty unpopular opinion, but I'm starting to get tired of ESEA, and I've only just registered/ started looking for a team.
ESEA's decision to keep the QF in the whitelist through the last season turned (what's already pretty stalematey) LAN into a no-fun fest, at least from a spectator POV. Did you guys watch the fully charged with Killing and Kalkin? Kalkin seems almost disconnected from the wants of the community entirely (gru, minis, etc). And do bitcoins even need to be mentioned? Have we as a community just decided that it's no biggie? I don't care where the money from the mining went, it's absolutely silly that it could happen in the first place.
How can you announce the starting date to your paying customers this late? It's not hard to set dates in advance. In fact, it's a lot easier.
I get it, ESEA is the best thing TF2 has for a league right now, but it leaves much to be desired. I don't know, no one minds complaining about esea, but whenever an alternative is brought up, it gets -frags and no decent responses explaining why.
Sorry for formatting and stuff, I'm on my phone.