Alright. Well, thank you for accepting the input without treating it as an insult like many might do.

Maybe I'm just used to UGC (I play for a new team that is starting in Iron but playing well against Steel teams too), but I feel like a lot of the bans are unnecessary. I'm of the mindset that an item should never be banned unless there is a very good reason that it would harm the tournament.

For example, the Vita-saw gives one side a free uber advantage when they don't deserve it, forcing the other team to use it as well to keep the balance. That makes it bad because it only prevents medics from making their own choice on which melee to use. That's why I would ban it.

However, the Short Circuit (among other weapons which I could list if necessary) does not have such a reason. It is a difficult weapon to use, and when it is used correctly it is at most a sidegrade to the pistol. The select few engineers who are good enough with it use it to support the team and lessen the spam of the enemy, and there's nothing wrong with sacrificing large amounts of metal to do so IMO.

As far as maps go, I would suggest pro_viaduct for 6v6 and koth_ashville for highlander. viaduct plays out very well in 6s and ashville is a little too soldier-friendly to work with 2 on each team, but is fine in highlander. If you still need more maps, I'm sure the HL veterans you talk to will give you plenty of advice.

Thank you for being open to discussion, and I may be interested in this if certain concerns are addressed. The support of extv would be awesome. This looks like it has potential, but just isn't quite ready yet. Good luck!

They have both already occured. Mix^ won upper, Epsilon won lower. The only matches left are LG vs Epsilon and the winner goes to the Grand Finals vs Mix^.

The problem with the ESEA banlist is that it isn't designed for Highlander. It's designed for 6v6.

If you want people to join a tournament that has seemingly no organization or funding, you need to draw them in with good settings and reasonable prizes. I'm not against the tournament itself, but I would wait until you've discussed the banlist with a significant group of people who might be interested, organized a prize pool, and gotten at least some servers.

Look at it this way: With no prizes (I realize you said there will be some, but you should have that figured out by now) or servers coming from you, this might as well be a hub for organizing a bunch of scrims under this ruleset for teams that enter. It would effectively mean the same thing.

Basically, if you have no servers, no sponsers, an apparently unpopular banlist, and no listed prizes, you shouldn't be surprised if your tournament gets very few entries. You look like you have no idea how much work it is to organize a tournament like this.

Watch as the US teams never lose to a single EU team.
LG just has to beat Epsilon, and they've already done it once.

Oh it's this thing. And the gunslinger is still banned for HL. No thanks.

That video was really funny. W8 is way worse than I thought.

You can pretty much just google "sigma tf2 guide" and you'll get a ton of awesome stuff. He has done demo reviews and articles covering both competitive strategy and medic play. Really cool guy.

Well, for viaduct, just read the article posted by sigma a few days ago. It's in the Map Discussion forums here.

Aren't Skial servers the ones with the grenade launcher plugin that gives it 6 ammo but glitches the reload to make it slower? I hate those servers. I wouldn't mind being banned just so I never accidentally enter them.

Not bad, but if I expect it to be perfect every time I'll be disappointed. There are no obviously stupid decisions.

worth watching just for mackey.

He means Mix^ is really lucky to have 6 players who are so good and get along so well though.

Ex. Let's say Mackey were better than Harbleu. Then an "allstar" team would have Mix^'s roster with Mackey on roamer. However, this wouldn't work because Plat hates Mackey, so they can't work together on the same team as well as Harb can with Plat.

Mix^ already looks really strong, but last LAN, Flow didn't do so well, so I wouldn't predict first place, but they'll still be up there. LG has always played its best at LAN. They have a really good chance to take first, but I don't know enough about Euros to say they'll win for sure.

I'm predicting LG will beat Mix^, but the Grand Finals won't be US vs US. That's as specific as I can get.

Platinum because he is awesome as soldier.
TLR because he goes for every airshot.
Dummy because he's easy a top20 demo.

#1 favorite to watch? Mackey because he can play full time engy without a gunslinger in 6v6 (see: that snakewater match).

A lot of questions were asking two things at once, so I don't know how you're supposed to learn anything from them, but I went ahead and answered anyway.

"Are attractive because the are rare"
Well, TF2 items are not rare, so they can't be attractive because of rarity.

But how is that distinguished from someone saying:
No, they aren't attractive because only idiots buy rare items from the store.