Some ideas for improving the mid:

Idea 1: https://imgur.com/a/J5E8DW9
Idea 2: https://imgur.com/a/BN7B1x9

If those ideas aren't any good, last resort in my opinion would be to straight up remove these catwalk/tower thingies. Seems like the standard demo position in midfights is to stand behind the point at the bottom of the hill it's on so I feel like it's too easy for an enemy soldier to jump that catwalk and spam your demo directly from above, which leads either to your demo dying or just not really being able to do anything on mids if they walk away since there's a lack of sight from the left side of the rock. Only counter play I can think of would be to force your pocket soldier to always counterjump the catwalk which would make the mid pretty one dimensional for them.

Drawing to demonstrate what I'm talking about:

https://imgur.com/a/aSi26U1

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Our team (chumtoad.net) has pretty much always been the "SourceRuns & friends" team.

Speedrunnners (that I know of) that have played with us over the years:

blasdfa - Legendary CS1.6+GO KZ jumper - https://www.youtube.com/user/MrIhatehax/
HiipFire - Various games (including Halo & Quake) - https://www.speedrun.com/hiipfire + http://quake.speeddemosarchive.com/quake/ for cool co-op demos
Jukspa - Various games, probably most known for his Source stuff; creator of youcannottaspcgames.com - https://www.speedrun.com/jukspa + https://www.youtube.com/user/Jukspa/
Nicole - Probably most known for Gunman Chronicles (a lesser known GoldSource game) - https://www.speedrun.com/nd3644
PJC (hi) - GoldSrc stuff (mostly HL:OF/BS live runs + jump maps), I also admin for SourceRuns helping organise community stuff - https://www.speedrun.com/PJC + https://www.youtube.com/pjchl1
sadf - GoldSrc stuff (mostly HL:OF/BS live runs + jump maps) - https://www.speedrun.com/sadf + https://www.youtube.com/user/saadf2
treetoon - GoldSrc stuff - https://www.youtube.com/user/xTReeTooNx/
Wheatley - HL:BS live runs - https://www.speedrun.com/user/Wheatley + https://www.youtube.com/user/Gannondof2/videos

E: Also slightly unrelated, but blasdfa used to be a pro CSGO player; here's him playing for nR vs fnatic in StarLadder back in 2015: Map 1 + Map 2

Also wanna use this post as an opportunity to remind everyone that there's a Half-Life Jump Map Cup happening next weekend so if you're interested go check that out. More info here: https://www.teamfortress.tv/52319/sourceruns-half-life-jump-map-cup-3#1

https://sourceruns.org/sourceruns-half-life-jump-map-cup-3/

The cup will take place on May 26th, starting at 15:00 UTC.

As usual, it will be a live event that we will stream on our Twitch channel at http://twitch.tv/SourceRuns so make sure you’re following it.

Map pool
This time we’ll be introducing some new maps, though a couple of classic ones have remained as well.

bkz_goldbhop
bhop_crossfire
kz_anubis
destructo_hops
kz_cg_venice
agtricks
kz-endo_topspeed

Current prize pool: 500€
1st place winner will receive 60%
2nd place winner will receive 30%
Remaining 10% will be put towards organizational costs.

In the event of more than 32 players signing up, we will introduce a round of qualifiers for the main cup.

Dude, you told a trans person who is being harassed for being trans to stop being so sensitive. I don't know why it's so hard for you to understand why that's a really stupid thing to say.

Trans people are constantly under fire in their everyday lives, so yeah I don't think it's reasonable to tell them to "just stop being so sensitive".

"Hey person of a minority group that is constantly under fire in their everyday lives, stop being so sensitive!"

Team name: Los Pollos Hermanos
PJC - https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197972327359/
kittykat9000 - https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198213550589/

Played this mod as well as HLDM/XDM for 5 years on and off in my teens; was really great fun but I imagine these days it's also pretty frustrating to get into because most of the active players are ridiculously good.

execut4ble is an admin friend of mine from the SourceRuns community; cool to see him get recognised here.

Had no idea Vis played AG; small world, man.

[4:58 PM] Wolf Machina: we're not allowed to be pinned on tftv
[4:58 PM] Wolf Machina: at least I've asked for it and not had it
[4:58 PM] PJC: what's the reason for not being allowed?

Is this true and if so can somebody explain why this is the case? I visit this site pretty often but I still miss these announcement threads being on the sidebar because other, more interactive threads take over very quickly and as a team leader it'd be helpful if one of the sites I visit the most was the place that I find out about these cups because I've very nearly missed out on them a couple of times now if it weren't for teammates reminding me.

[4:59 PM] DrHappiness: A news post on ETF2L have been discussed but is not happening due to conflicts of interest.
[4:59 PM] PJC: what conflicts of interest?
[5:02 PM] DrHappiness: They believe that the support we give them is not sufficient enough to warrant free promotion on their site. Alongside that we are in a way competitors of the League.

If this is true I don't really see how ETF2L think they're in a position to be filtering out which competitions get promotion on their site if they actually care about supporting a small scene like this as a whole. Whilst ETF2L are primarily a league, they also happen to be probably the biggest news site for European TF2. I'd be more understanding if we were a bigger game like CS where there are so many events out there that it's probably impossible to hear & write about them all, but I can count the amount of regular TF2 competitions on my hand. Not to mention ETF2L don't seem particularly discriminatory when it comes to this stuff usually anyway as I've probably read news posts from them about 90% of other relevant events happening. They even made a post about the monthly back in May so their consistency isn't exactly solid either.

The competitor argument is a pretty weak one as well considering these cups happen on Saturday, a non-match day for ETF2L and Sunday, the first day of the ETF2L week where the vast majority of teams won't be playing their matches because they only just got their fixtures and need to be prepare for them.

Obviously super hyped about i63 becoming an intercontinental LAN, but regarding the fundraiser:

It hasn't been made clear anywhere except for in this short clip that buying merch doesn't count towards claiming perks. In fact, it even comes under the "Contribute:" section in the spreadsheet along with the cash & keys links so it's pretty misleading. Myself and others (as seen in the perk redemption channel on the discord) have made purchases thinking that this would count and if it wasn't for being subscribed to b4nny's YouTube channel I wouldn't have been led to believe otherwise.

Given that the dealbreaker for Sunshine seems to be that it's "the weakest" in the pool, what is ETF2L's argument for that specifically? All the other justifications mentioned could quite as easily be applied to most of the other maps and from what I can tell its replacement is much weaker anyway.

Rotating maps in and out of the pool to reduce staleness is a sound idea, but I think most players would rather play another season with the same pool than bring in a map that isn't ready for this kind of competition.

cu@ hopefully

Please enable the saving of past broadcasts. I went to sleep assuming I'd be able to watch the rest later and woke up to a disappointing '0 videos' :(

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