Way before I played comp, I used to be an extremely toxic pub lord. N word binds, pretending to be a sniper cheater to get myself kicked you name it. Ironically I hated comp players for being 'sweaty' despite being even worse (lol). I was bored and decided to watch a stream from Yomps. He was insanely good, especially from my POV but he respected his opponents, he wasn't toxic and was having fun. When his teammates would tilt, he would lift them up with his attitude.

I just saw how good of an impact he had on people and it made my edgy teen lookin' ass reflect on how much of an asshole I was.

I watched Taggerung later in the same week and they both quickly became two of my favourite players to watch when I could tune in.

Yomps didn't just inspire better players, he made better people. Reading the rip yomps thread is evident of that.

CastingEssentials -> resource -> delete ui

Tbf as a viewer it didn't seem to make games go any faster than normal rulesets. Maybe I might change my mind if the stakes were much higher than a 3k prize pool. Though I didn't really notice a difference. I'm indifferent.

Edit: Pool is 6k, didn't know that! Wow! That's awesome. Though from watching previous tournaments (I series) or RGL officials I didn't really notice much more speed if at all. The only difference I did notice is more DM fests and dog fights because of the 3 minute panic. It also seems to favour defenders as well because you only have 3 minutes to deal with a heavy and engi.

https://clips.twitch.tv/PowerfulAmazingBeaverKappaPride-f9iBTHCGxsNjVJLZ

https://clips.twitch.tv/TriumphantTacitEagleBabyRage-FZwdW0crJdeQC44j

Who is the best looking competitor in the tournament

I don't mean to revive an old dead thread but I was watching an old Tagg clip and found a clip of the Shrugger Mantra. I am truly not insane.

https://youtu.be/dHxolxZZZ78?t=24

You have what’s called artist’s syndrome. “Oh I’m not good enough yet to draw that I should only be doing learning exercises.”

You should stop worrying and just play because you will never be ready. There are shitters who play IM and Main, what do you have to worry about?

As Grape juice said, the best way to learn is to join a team; especially with a good mentor and full of people who also want to learn. Scrims and pugs will help you the most and imo, they are the most fun. Remember that routines like MGE, DM servers, aim trainers and the like are only supplementary. You shouldn’t fixate on them, that’s an easy way to get burnt out.

Yeah I was thinking of the play movie method. Never heard of SDR, though sounds interesting!

Shadow play, OBS, Windows Game Recorder (Yes, it's actually pretty decent), Radeon has their own form of recording though I am unfamiliar with it. These are all good choices though OBS gives you the most amount of control when it comes to settings.

If you want the absolute best quality you can render game footage (instead of the final screen output) by using Lawena or Source Film Maker. The downside is that these two options take the longest respectively.

I also want to mention that upscaling your 1080p video to 1440p in your editing software will take longer but trick youtube into thinking you have a 4k video and utilize a much better bit rate. If you've ever wondered why the quality dip in your frag movie is so high from others, this is probably the reason.

https://clips.twitch.tv/AthleticGoodAnteaterRickroll-SjHaaXrZ1VUIoaNK

TF2 Coaching Central is excited to be hosting our second Newbie Cup. This time in with a snowy winter edition this saturday and sunday!
Five teams of players with no or minimal experience for the past month have been training with in-house coaches in TF2CC.

The time has come for their skills to be put to the test. Come watch at https://www.twitch.tv/tf2_coaching_classic to find out which team will claim the title of Newbie Champion! Or maybe just to laugh at the poor saps learning the 6's fundamentals, all the same!

Saturday January 8th - 6 PM - 11 PM EST: 4 rounds of officials. One team out of the five will be eliminated for finals.
Sunday January 9th - 6 PM - 11 PM EST: Semi-finals and Finals with single elimination. Third place will be decided by points.

Channel link: https://www.twitch.tv/tf2_coaching_classic
Country: US
Display: TF2 Coaching Classic

League profile? https://rgl.gg/Public/PlayerProfile.aspx?p=76561198095584192

TF2 Coaching Central has been running a Newbie Cup and our usual camera man and production guy has been rendered unavailable.

The officials will be on Saturday Sunday (this week) from 6 pm EST to 11 pm EST.

Don't have experience? WE DON'T CARE. There's plenty of people who can teach you including our lovely Stararch.
If you are interested and have been wanting an opportunity to do production add me on steam or dm me on discord: Fabreeze Extra Fresnel Angle #2821

cp_propaganda is such an awesome map. I've heard it was received pretty well. I would love to see it get played again. It even has an animated tank on last! How cool is that.