If people just can't play saturdays, that's one thing, but being burned out by scrimming seems like it should easily be avoidable. These cups are announced weeks in advance. Just don't schedule scrims for a few days leading up to the cup? And not playing "cuz 7 wins" also doesn't make sense. If that's the case, why is anyone playing ETF2L at all? Just play, do your best, and keep the damn cup alive for future teams that will actually make the cup a good contest. And, again, the prem teams have their own bracket now, so weak teams shouldn't be up in arms about 7 anymore either.

Might be interesting to try to put out some kind of promotion on YouTube. I think a big part of the problem is that people don't read, and aren't informed on how the tournament has changed since January. So long as there's an attempt to make it entertaining I think it'd work out; even those weird ass STN commercials have a unique tone to them.

you should probably try to get these signup threads stickied. the event is better than just a drifting forum post, but most of those events are just etf2l/esea matches anyway, so it's still easy to lose sight of more important stuff that's happening.

it's hard though. when the standard ugc forum poster responds with stuff like this, it's tough to say what will bring them back.

this game is great, ur boned pal

cancel a day or 2 of scrims, ez

actually ridiculous to not sign up for this now. theres a prize pool, the top teams have their own bracket, and the time commitment is far less intense than before. get ur dang teams in and pester ur buds to do the same, this is a Big Deal!

what the fuck?
mastercoms is great. this is the dumbest, most petty controversy ive ever seen. i cant believe anyone actually thinks that way. god damn.

this dead game shirt cannot be real...

skipping out on ur team cuz u have a job doesnt mean u werent skipping out on ur team. u shouldnt have been committing to play if u didnt have time to do it

https://i.imgur.com/nAlTyGd.jpg

ya if the server's full. it often isn't. at least those guys are somewhat interesting to try to shoot at

what is with this victim complex?? we know very very little about how faceit thinks about tf2. we can assume that we're probably not super high on their priority list since we're not an enormous game, but we haven't been dealing with them long enough to know whether theyre just gonna leave us out to dry or not. its not like esea where it's been proven over the course of years that they don't give a fuck. even pugchamp, with a small team of devs that undoubtedly care about the game outside of its ability to make money, has taken years to implement something as simple as elo. tf2pl by comparison has only been out 3 months. seems p reasonable to wait at least several more months for a total system revamp.

so hey there's an na tourny listed on the essentials site claiming to happen before the eu one, but you guys haven't made an official announcement yet i guess? whats up with that?

tbh the threshold shouldn't matter, we should be working to get as many actual eu teams signed up as possible anyway.

same, pretty boss https://imgur.com/HDIBJmr