I've been consistently running pugs for multiple years at this point, servers only die when you don't have passionate enough runners. Pughub is three years old now, and while it died before I took over control of it, it was revived literally overnight with no problems. I think you reach a certain critical mass around 300 people on the server where you can consistently get pugs going pretty much no matter what, so long as you have someone that knows how to run

(also check out the pughub community tournament)

Pughub is now three years old, and it hasn't held a tournament yet. That has to change!

On the 9th of December, Pughub will be running a community tournament with a cash prize.

This will be a casted event (casters / organizers needed, contact @.Rhythm. on discord) Not every match will be casted, particularly in the lower section of the bracket.

To participate, you must have at least 6 players (player approval required), and there is an entry fee of 5$ or 2 keys per team, which will be added to the existing cash prize pool.

This will be opened to all divisions, though we expect some fierce competition in the higher div range.

There will be a maximum team limit of 16, and the bracket will be double elimination.

To sign up, visit the ⁠tourney-sign-up channel on Pughub, and post your team name as well as your roster. (Ping each player on your roster for them to gain access to the Q/A and tournament discussion channel)

Team sign-ups will close december 6th.

Share this perma-invite link with anyone that might be interested or whoever isn't already there: https://discord.gg/eUmsRaXzw7

I won't have a chance to win the division anymore (or more likely end up with a 2nd place im badge followed directly after by a 2nd place main badge- the DDD team was definitely getting first in main), which is disappointing, but I am otherwise glad there are more teams to play and better ones at that, for better practice.

bump. 2nd place im, tragic 2-1 loss

Haven't rocked the ThunderDuck alias since... 2018? I go by Rhythm now.

I'm going to be playing intermediate 6s with my friends for s9, but I had originally intended to play main 6s before I met the homies. I quit tf2 in 2019 after losing to some cheaters in UGC, and came back September in 2021, and have done nothing but play tf2 pugs, scrims, and pugscrims since then. Looking to start the search for a team early and settle in.

Rhythm#6533 on discord.
https://steamcommunity.com/id/rhythmmmm

Fluey, jib, smile, killo got 2nd place in am, im, and then main (consecutive seasons.) Big mike is an am winner, and frag is a 5th place main and 2nd place amateur player. Fluey is friends with the admin of the division and there is argument to be made that there is a conflict of interest due to this. Players have also played with the admins of the division as well. They are undefeated in AM. Complaints have been made since the start of the season. The restrictions on their classes are much much much less intense than other teams, and it is incredibly inconsistent- Coincidence that it's an admin team? Time away from the game does not degrade skill or mechanics historically, so I don't think that's a good argument against restricting them either.

Just putting all this info out there... In any case, seems like they're clearly not fit to play in AM.

As much as you may have beefed with our server and our players one thing has been constant- a reminder that we hope you make a change. Everyone deserves a second chance and I greatly respect the self awareness. I don't hold a grudge against people who have made a change, and I really couldn't care less about tf2 beef to begin with, so keep at it when you say you want to make a difference. Looking forward to the young man redemption arc.

I quit tf2 in 2019 for a full two years. I've been playing for only a few months after that hiatus, and I'm already drastically better than I was before I quit. The only conceivable way I could see the "time away from tf2" argument apply is if someone has gone through irreparable damage to their mental state. Unless you quit games in general it's not like you get worst over time at videogames generally. The time between their seasons should not matter.

All this to say, the fluey team has 4 players that made 4th place in main 6s. That is literally a team that could've gone even in advanced. Would you all be okay if b4nny dropped down into main 6s to play medic? I don't care what you restrict him from, restricted to med only, the main players are literally just gonna get comms diffed. Now, take "mid advanced" players, quote, and put them in amateur division, and restrict them off 2/3rds of classes, they're still going to roll everyone. Like, I think I have a combined 100 logs on soldier and scout, the rest on demo, but of the few times I've played those other combat classes it has been with my friends in pugscrims in lower divisions such as AM or IM and it isn't hard to just DM and comms diff them even on those classes.

The fact that the fluey team is currently undefeated in AM is proof of this. It's absurd that they are allowed to be in this division.

pretty self explanatory. Somebody in silver to platinum- I play as demo in silver, I have excellent dm, but can't abuse my abilities in game since my gamesense is ass and I rely upon my team telling me what to do all the time.

Those are from months ago. I got permabanned from tf2center and I don't honestly know why.

I play Demo on a silver team, and say in a game of MGE I play against a silver soldier, I can absolutely destroy them or even scouts, but when it comes to a real game, I deal like 200 dpm.
I think the underlying problem is my positionning and gamesense- How can I improve my pos and gamesense?