croudWhat I'm about to say will come across as inadvertently stupid. But here goes anyway, zesty (I think) said that 6s isn't the best gamemode because TF2 is built for 12v12. I believe he said that there should be a 12v12 format. My thinking was why not just give them that? Worst case scenario it dies and we show prove why we have a reason for class bans/weapon bans etc or it thrives and gives casual players a very easy route into learning competitive TF2 norm while still basically playing casual. Maybe they just stick with 12v12 but atleast more players are playing on etf2l (or rgl). Idk it seems to me like if that's what they want then give it a try maybe some casual players will stick around, maybe it just straight up dies (not surprising) but we prove why we have such formats. Idk probably a stupid idea.
if the competitive tf2 community had unlimited resources perhaps this sort of experiment could be valuable, but I don't think the additional strain on an already niche community would be worth it, especially since the body of empirical evidence about competitive formatting already points to 6v6 as the ideal.