It's rare that a demo recording ends up being corrupted in a way you cannot fix it anymore, the only time you really have to worry about it is if you think your hard-drive might fail in the next few months and at that point you should have a backup ready anyway or just get a new drive. Also just as a PSA, rejoining the match after a timeout will not restart the recording automatically with P-REC, so make sure to always start a manual demo recording once you rejoin the server.

This thread is just so weird, there were some events about RGL league staff being inconsistent in the past where I agreed with the complaints, but now you guys complain about RGL NOT being inconsistent? So you want some players to get preferential treatment over others because they support the league in some way etc.? That's a slippery slope and you know it. "Hey, that guy always casts some of our matches, let's overlook this demo infraction; hey, this guy is a 6s admin, let's just forget about them harassing others multiple times; hey, this guy donated $100 last week, let's overlook the time he used the Spy decloak script in the official." etc. you get what I mean.
This just seems like someone who has more backing in the community/is more "popular" got banned and you don't agree with it, I doubt this thread would exist otherwise and you couldn't care less about the actual rule itself. Admins shouldn't be biased in their decisions, don't be biased yourself.

Random checks help to make sure that everyone follows the rules and records without exceptions. When you do a lot of random requests, it will be harder to tell who is getting investigated while at the same time make more people aware that this rule exists. If you don't do that, you make it clear that you only target suspects. Public outcries like "please ban player X, they obviously cheat, you are taking too long" in threads like these poison a case and that will only ever help cheaters as well. But you'd also be surprised what you can find in a single, random demo. ;)
And perhaps sometimes an AC case isn't as easily solvable as it seems at a first glance; there could be explanations for moments where someone who doesn't know what to look for can reach premature conclusions. A player that got banned a bit later is still better than someone innocent getting banned for something that ended up being nothing.
You don't want scenarios like alfa's UGC ban to be a common occurence, right?

Failing to provide another demo less than 3 months after your 2nd infraction is kinda on you tbh. Like at that point you should make sure that your P-REC is correctly installed + set to notify you that it is recording, or you switch to the in-game demo system if you cannot get P-REC to work.
It's a given that players who are known to not upload demos multiple times before will get another request in the future.

Infractions last for 4 years, the same as it is on ETF2L. The fact that only a select amount of players ever collected 3, 4+ demo infractions makes me think that 4 years isn't too long of a time period either. It used to be a permanent infraction in the past, but the game is old now and it would punish older community members more. I don't think your PC or hard-drive will fail 4+ times in 4 years.

What I can say is that demo requests should be made relatively close to the match, even following the rule above admins should still try to request from for example a week 1 match while the season is still on-going, requesting that same week 3 months (or even more) later should only be done in very extreme cases.

So you or someone else that is being investigated by the AC team will know exactly when that is the case?
I cannot state enough how important it is for AC that players are forced to record and keep their POVs, and having a lot of random requests and clear punishments help to make sure players know and actually care about the rule. STVs are rarely valid replacements for POVs.

Previous Snakewater version here if needed:
https://mega.nz/file/A3pUwDAa#ufZ4CmSs5wWIHHyJLcDseJ1kjNex0_JvIeun9m9k0Wk

https://www.racefans.net/2021/09/08/michael-schumachers-family-discuss-his-life-after-skiing-crash-in-new-film/

:(

From their trello board:
https://imgur.com/a/v6YNTL0

They also seem to be thinking of rebranding in the future:

RIP

Thanks! The current link is twitch.tv/amaterasu_tf, though I did still show up in the sidebar when I streamed with the new link iirc. I can change the URL in a month, I'll bump this with the new link once I have it if needed.

Hello, please change my name to Samus, and while you are at it change my name on the stream sidebar to Samus as well.
Thank you in advance.

Making it a big deal with a "women-only team" cup is the thing that will attract trolls and idiots alike, good luck and have fun moderating that Twitch chat.

Still looking for coaches and maybe another admin or two to help out with drafting/organising on the EU side.
If you meet any people who are trying to get into 6v6 we'd also really appreciate it if you suggest newbie.tf to them, these mixes are pretty known in NA but not that many players are aware that we also do this for EU now, so newbie attendance has been very mixed so far.

uhhhhh
https://imgur.com/a/CjAZj22

Does this happen to anyone else or is it on my end? Game restart and different demo didn't help.

Edit: Removed custom folder to make sure it wasn't an issue with a vpk or plugin, made it look even worse as I could now see map entities for some reason without any console commands.

2nd Edit:
Downloads for the old Snakewater and Process versions if anyone needs them: https://mega.nz/file/ky51CCpb#m9qhlMHdU-cWI1Pg5WKPWz7O_IavlwWoAxfp6q7kfKs
https://mega.nz/file/supjjCqb#tP7RN6k9L-vK-FE-elhdnDX27tVN9gyOWbqpjEzZH54

3rd Edit:
Comparing the two versions the size of the map increased by a lot, triple the original size it seems: https://i.imgur.com/Il9qgz6.png

https://i.imgur.com/g4UWfuC.png

Seb chance for podium, but not like this ;_;

it's not wednesday yet

Being probably the first EU Anti-Cheat admin who will get banned for cheating and receiving a VAC ban just now...
https://i.imgur.com/Mfuxl4s.jpg
As the gig is up, I will be honest and admit that I was cheating in this match https://etf2l.org/matches/79232/. I was using ESP to see invisible Spies and I got too cocky, I mean who will ever report an AC member? You can actually see it in the demos if you look for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjFSDt-BSSQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTwcpeQHtZI

I'm sorry to all my previous teammates and friends at ETF2L staff.

Edit: because this post still manages to fool people two months after April 1st
~April Fools!~

That is/was a Steam issue: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/announcements/detail/3021325661690892614