Yeah Owl, it adds the "bracket luck" factor into the equation because you may end up, after random seeding, with some really really strong opening groups that are forced to kill off 1-2 really good teams that would've otherwise made it to LAN - but it also has the slight upside of presenting new and interesting match ups because lower skilled teams are forced to play higher level teams more regularly and in much more high pressure situations.

The LAN situation, owl, would just be the final group from the highest tier - so essentially how invite would work - is you'd want a multiple of four teams (12 would pry work)..

4 teams - Group A
4 Teams - Group B
4 teams - Group C

The teams would play each other through the group as such:

Team A vs. Team B
Team C vs. Team D

Winner of A vs B, Vs. winner of C Vs. D, winner of this match advanced to the next stage
Loser of A vs. B Vs. Loser of C vs. D, the loser of this match is out of the season.

Winner of Loser's match Vs. Loser of Winner's match, winner is advanced to next group, the loser is eliminated.

Thus netting 2 new groups of 4. After these groups were dispensed with you'd have your typical 4 team LAN.

People tend not to go to the doctor in the US unless they're old, rich, or in serious pain because of its expense - people generally ask their friends and other associates before going to the doctor given the expense of care (particularly young people). While I'd view any advice provided herein with suspicion, it makes sense.

Well funny story.

In undergrad, because I had a kid, I needed unique living accommodations, but being a college student, made all the poorer by being responsible for an additional human's life, I needed cheap accommodations.

I ended up moving into a very large house that'd been converted into several smallish apartments. Most of the folks who lived there were Middle Eastern or South Asian med students. I became pretty enamored with one of the aforementioned med students, and our university offered a medical practicum wherein you would pay a small fee, and be sent to Nicaragua to float up and down the rivers of that country in canoes and provide free medical care. So, figuring that'd be the best possible way to really impress a girl I liked (who was going on the trip of course), despite being a history major who spoke hardly any Spanish, I signed up and was accepted. I did dentistry (they advised me that that was the easiest thing to do), but occasionally I got to help out with other stuff - and of course while we were floating around people would always talk about what they'd done. I learned a lot, and I ended up dating a pretty interesting girl for a time, and when I came home after a month abroad my son was bilingual lol.

If it were my dream situation:

We'd play 2 30 minute halves with best of threes being played consecutively (win limit 5, 3 for half). If you wanted to play like a wuss and spend 3+ hours of your life on Tf2, then, by all means, enjoy. Instead of 8 maps we'd have a pool of 6 with each team eliminating 3 (the team that doesn't get a second map pick would get to pick which map is played first, loser picks second, loser picks third).

Then if people could actually handle that, we'd just dispense with "seasons" as they exist now and go to bracket play - which would allow teams to die and reform constantly like they want to as your season could be over the first 1-3 weeks (if you get dumpstered in your first group). Seasons would also happen a lot more rapidly.

But that's just a dream :(

#20, no I won't be. I haven't played highlander in.... a long time. It's just not my cup of tea.

#21 lol it's a slow growing process.

I probably will capn' but there will be different numbers :D I'd pry struggle to get 8 outta' demo lol.

His poo will probably be checked by somebody.

Stool samples are such a pain to get people to do. 3/4ths of the people we wanted stool from never... uhh... came up with it.

With a fast moving cart, hoodoo could be interesting - Goldrush might be a bit much... being as the third map is sooo hard to get traction on.

But the truth is, I will miss gpit.

Ok a few questions.

Do you have pain in your chest?

Do you have burning in your throat?

Do you vomit?

Have you tried eating crackers?

Do all carbonated beverages settle your stomach?

Are you under an unusual amount of stress?

Have you had any recent changes in diet?

Have you recently travelled to any northern climate (alaska, Russia, etc)

Have you recently eaten any fish or pork products from outside the US recently?

Do you notice any strange material in your stool?

Does your stomach feel hard to to the touch?

Does it hurt to apply pressure to your stomach?

Do you have a fever?

Are the lymphnodes in your neck swollen?

If you drink alcohol do you find that you have *extreme* stomach upset?

There answer those and I'll test it out

- I did a medical practicum in Nicaragua.

The most likely candidates are:

Stress induced stomach upset
Parasites
Stomach infection (if you're also having loose stools)

Depending on when the game is set (time period wise) Sparta was pretty weak by the time the Romans started really getting down and dirty on everybody - although they still didn't actually attack sparta in an all out war (they fought a few battles here and there) and then just signed a treaty whereby sparta became a vassal state of Rome - in essence retaining its independence until its cultural identity became fully integrated into Rome's.

I just liken it to sports and list it as a hobby - as long as you take yourself seriously it conveys seriousness and sounds the same as "yeah I play softball"

But then, I'm old, and men my age play softball :/

I dunno about other nerds, but I'd gladly play a best of three every match with each match potentially taking an hour.

My body is ready.

everybody has to play with mustard at least once - if nothing else than for the bagels talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50
I still have mine. I never got sent to the abyss.

Added a new guide for Roamer... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QtGqLfTv_g&feature=youtu.be

Working on 2 longer videos that will come out during the week and also a rough guide to metalworks since it's staying in the rotation.

One of them will be a sort of case-by-case walk over of one of my favorite matches, and the other will be a video with a few interviews about team building - sort of like what extv (I think it was extv) did with Schwan when Vector made invite.