There will be duel, but we have no idea if it's going to involve the champion selection thing that's in the beta or if it's going to be a different system. The team tournament for this year(it's been a different game mode almost every year) is going to be 4v4 Sacrifice, which is the new CDTF(capture & defend the flag) mode where you get to pick which "base" you want to be yours at the first "flag" capture.

I hope the players enjoy lobbing wet toilet paper at each other, because that's what shooting rockets feels like in Quake Champions at the moment. That game is still very far from being in a competitively playable state with such high stakes. And what's worse is that they've now given themselves a deadline to release it this month so the players can get some practice in(Quakecon is end of August this year). That gives them about three weeks to fix some relatively major technical problems. Yikes²

Fixed that for you. I wish I was kidding.

In case none of the above help: When I had this problem(exactly as you're describing it) my mouse cord was broken and it disconnected and reconnected my mouse rapidly if I bent the cord too much by flicking too far or too rapidly. After a few weeks of this I started to BSOD with a message that my USB drivers had crashed. I put a new cord on my mouse and I haven't had the problem since.

Bonus: Usually when blood levels of CO2 are diminished, breathing will slow to compensate. However, when levels fall too fast, this causes the blood to become alkaline, which in turn causes the haemoglobin in your blood to hold on to the oxygen it carries instead of releasing it to the tissues that need it. This then causes your brain to prioritise higher tissue oxygen levels over acceptable blood CO2 levels, which causes the person to breathe even more quickly and deeply, thus exhaling even more CO2 and starting a vicious cycle. This is hyperventilation; not caused by a lack of O2, but a lack of CO2.

Didn't expect to see it within 11 posts, but that would be my answer too; I applaud your taste buds, sir. If price isn't an object, Yoichi goes top of the list for me.

It boggles the mind how a volunteer can create something this sophisticated while Valve can't even stop their demo recording tool from recording pre-game.

https://clips.twitch.tv/puoxycontin/SpotlessPoultryOhMyDog

Could it be an option to just add one or two of these maps(like Bagel/Cardinal/Logjam) at a time to regular pugchamp and mixchamp for a few weeks? You could even add map1, leave it in for three weeks and then remove map1 and add map2. Then add back map1 and remove map2 when map1 receives its next update and keep doing that until the maps are ready for league play. Then you can use mapchamp as a feeder for that system or even to test an update to a map before adding it back into mix- and pugchamp rotation.

Go to a country where the language is spoken natively for a few months. You will be constantly immersed in the language and you will not have the option to be lazy, because you must speak to get things done. If this doesn't appeal to you then you don't really care as much as you think.Accept that some things in life take longer than a year to learn and prove to yourself that you can stick with it and that long term goals can be rewarding. It might take longer, but it will be just as, if not even more, rewarding.

As for English, you can actually immerse yourself in it without going to England unlike any other Western language, because so much source material is in English. You just need to make sure that you regularly listen to native speakers and practice your speaking; don't just read and write.
Change the system language on all your devices to English, watch English-language films with English subtitles and watch the BBC(they have a lot of very interesting programs), use English information sources(don't go to your native language Wikipedia for example; always use the English one), voice chat with native speakers and make sure to listen to them while you practice speaking to them.

By the way, don't try to learn two languages at once unless you can decently read a newspaper without using a dictionary and watch a TV show without subtitles in at least one of the two languages. You will give up on one, or even more likely, both of them within half a year.

Half my memory of watching Starkie consists of amazing TF2, the other half is this gem. The only time I laughed harder watching TF2 is when Skeej shouted KANKERZOOI.

For some reason this is making me sadder than when other all-time great players quit. Thank you Starkie for the years of entertainment and being a connoisseur troll boy from time to time.

On the bright side, Kaptain is an all-time great too.

The problem is that in order to have any semblance of strategy, you first need to have an objective. Valve doesn't have such a direction for the competitive game, or it at least doesn't befit the game engine on which the game was built(e.g. stun weapons in a game in which the importance of movement is baked in at an engine level). Valve's TF2(no class limits, no weapon bans) is a mess of conflicting design philosophies which make any attempt at strategy a futile exercise. This also makes it really hard for new players to be attracted to the game, because they might for example notice that the game has fluid and creative movement, but then another element like the Natascha or stun-locking Pyro reflects do a full 180. There is no use in periodically introducing "a new meta" to a game which has no basic design objective; you will need a game before you can create a metagame(which is what the competitive community has done where Valve has failed). And if their idea of a design objective is a lottery of item and class selection, they have no clue what the word "competitive" means and are utterly incompetent.

The United Kingdom is a sovereign country(it doesn't answer to any political entity), just like Spain. England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and for example Cataluña are all countries as well, but they aren't sovereign because they answer to the constitution of their respective monarchies. Cataluña could be called a country just like Scotland could be called an autonomous community, but because humans like to make things simple they use many different terms to describe the same thing.

Maybe it's that you just don't like the timbres used in these genres(do you like this for example? It's metal but played using different instrumentation). Maybe you don't have the listening skills needed to isolate the parts of it which other people love(and they naturally have these skills in their brain); either because you've always heard very different music as a child or you aren't interested in listening in that specific way because of your personality. Maybe people have pushed it on you too enthusiastically and now it has a negative connotation for you. Maybe you've always heard specific bands which just don't sit well with you and you've never heard a band which does suit your mood and tastes. Maybe it's too high energy or is too insistent on draining your energy from you. I could think of a million reasons, but in the end it just comes down to the fact that your brain is not my brain. I get an aneurysm listening to contemporary rap music and 99% of current pop music "singers", for example.

The reason I think most people who like these genres like them is because they are what they are, and that is that; the phrase unashamedly metal describes this perfectly. It encourages you to be yourself and be confident in doing so.

Can anyone explain why rockets fire from above your crosshair when you're crouched? Ive been looking for the answer to this one for a while, but I can't work it out or find an answer on the Internet. Thank you in advance.

EDIT: I guess a video might help explain what I mean

https://youtu.be/9oX_t7273A4