This is a topic that I've gone over a lot in my mind.

Firstly, the easiest way to get people interested in sixes is NOT to make them play it, it's to show them something relating to sixes - to show them what TF2 can be when it's played in the 6v6 style.

I don't know how much things have changed, but back in the day when all I did, in relation to tf2, was pub, I was at least loosely aware of who TLR was, and B4nny - I imagine the profiles of certain Invite players' names has increased due to highlander and the wide swath of the community that knows people who have or are playing HL.

The best thing we can do is to advertise - a bit like Kissme said, but there are other ways than going in public servers with a # name, especially since I doubt many people actually go to websites they see in hashtags, and I imagine some server populations would be pretty turned off by somebody having an advert bind or at least be suspicious of it.

Like I've said in the past - the best thing to do is for somebody officially associated with tf.tv to reach out to pub communities and get them to advertise tf.tv or if they're really active, the MOTW directly to their communities. Obviously trying to get Valve to give us a hand would be nice too - but I doubt that'll happen.

Then we just have to have a good stream set up and we're gold.

Frag videos are helpful too, folks really need to start dropping adverts in their frag videos, because oodles of people watch frag videos.

People who have no innate interest in 6s aren't going to go out of their way to struggle with all the crappiness that comes with starting out, we have to hook them on the comp scene by making them aware of the products tf.tv provides, and in turn turning out quality products. Then an extremely small portion of those individuals will actually try out sixes and intend to stick with it for a long period of time.

HA! I fixed it with voodoo power

I changed my steam cloud location, restarted steam for the Nth time, and now it lets me join :/

What a wonky program

It's rare for something to edit those files, but I checked anyways just now to make sure.

Not there

Still insecure :/

That's an interesting question, since Indiana has it's own time zone setting in windows despite our now being forced into DST in the Eastern time zone - I know ESEA's website gives me all sorts of hell about it lol.

But yes it is correct.

Usually just restarting steam fixes this - things I've tried:

Am I vac banned? No
Is -insecure in my launch options? No
Restart steam
restart tf2
delete clientregistry.blob
remove everything from my custom folder
delete custom folder
validate integrity
defrag game cache
Restart PC

None of these things have worked

Any suggestions?

I really feel like snakewater second would be better if you took a virtual ruler and compressed the whole area by approximately 3 inches, the science is all there.

It could be a freak genetic mutation too, obviously white people got that way due to mutations eventually, so it's not like it hasn't happened before.

Likely recessive genes, people have mixed together a lot more than most people know/think, especially if their only best reference is their grand parents.

The obvious answer thufir is reptile.

Although I rather like Pyyyour's style, Harb's med in s10 made me decide to main med and never look back, so I'mma have to vote for Harb.

Boom goes the dynamite - after watching, I still think they did a better job of portraying Ned's death...

The events here happened so quickly and felt like they were just shoved in at the end of the episode because they were running short of time so it didn't properly draw the thing out. At least that's how it felt to me.

Good episode though, will be sad when the last one comes.

It's always perferable to be connected directly because there's so much craizness that can go on with wireless connections - at this point the technology just isn't there to have wireless be as reliable as wired connections.

If at all possible it's not *that* hard to get extremely long Ethernet cables (I paid like 20$ for mine) and route them in creative + interesting ways (I've routed them through dry wall, through floors, tacked them to base boards, you name it). If you're renting just use some tape, if you live at home and your parents are affraid of cables being all over, explain that the wireless is being crap, and either move your PC closer or get creative with some drills and or tape.

Then once you are on LAN do the following tests.

in CMD: ping www.google.com -n 50

Report if there is any packet loss or high ping variation.

Ping www.whitehouse.gov -n 50 (this will show your connections east in most cases, I believe the servers are located in Chicago for the website currently).

Again report the same.

If pings are high to either of these two websites do a tracert in CMD:

tracert www.google.com and/or tracert www.whitehouse.gov

That will show you if your connection is screwing up somewhere along the line - also if you get massive ping somewhere during the hops look up the IP address and see where it is located - sometimes bad connection and dropping will occur because somewhere down the chain you're being routed to some really stupid place because something is broken somewhere and only your ISP can tell you if it'll get any better.

If you are experiencing packet loss then you need to call your ISP because something is broken somewhere between you and the computers you're calling.

But in general I'm willing to wager it's wireless being wireless.

Just try to find a team, and use pugging to meet people, getting on a good team is just as much about networking as your own personal skill - if nobody knows who you are you won't get picked up except by desperate folks. If you don't know 5 other nerds, you're forced to have to join an existent team - just do your best to get your name out there, since you have no history, just shoot for div 6, worst case that will at least establish you, and perhaps give you the opportunity to back up for a better team and get even more connections (as long as you stay dedicated as a back up, you'll get your shot eventually).

OMG SERVER

:'( I"M READY TO BE DONE WITH PROCESS AGHHHHH

my ticket was not - they tried to resched us but our second match server isn't converting either :(