Best advice that you can get tbh. Socializing is just as important here as it is IRL. Be talkative, most people you'll meet are friendly. Form a circle of friends that you can draw on when you want to play doublemixes or when you're looking for a team (or building one, as a matter of fact).

The best way to play tf2 is while being in mumble with a bunch of retards that you like hanging out with

ITT: 4 germans discussing computer issues in english

Nothing wrong with it of course, it's just a peculiar sight

You talk shit about tf2c and yet you use it on a daily basis. I mean, you're all shitting on tf2center and not offering and viable alternatives.

Mixchamp is dead. Brand new players won't get picked on pugchamp. Faceit has no class limits, no mumble and it has stacks. Stadium is dead. Newbie mixes don't exist.

Like it or not, tf2center is the place to go if you want to play a quick game of 6s, especially if you're new. Sure, it's far from perfect, it has some toxic retards but not everyone is an absolute twat. And guess what, games don't take hours to start because it actually has a playerbase

Kaja going savage tbh

Honestly, you'll want to start in a lower skilled environment than pugchamp. You should try tf2center. It has a bad rep because of some idiotic things the admins do from time to time but it's still a fully functional 6s lobby site with an active and fairly large community.

You'll want to play mumble required lobbies (because 6s is aids without comms)

Also, if you're new, lobby hosts will sometimes kick you and not give you a chance. That's why the best way to go about it is to host a mumble required lobby yourself. You can do this by renting a free server on www.serveme.tf

If you need any help getting started on tf2 center, or getting a server/hosting a lobby feel free to add me on steam

Well I'm pretty sure I cant tank headshots IRL so deffo under 150

Quick PSA - remember how mat_phong 0 used to break australiums, turning them into an ugly yellow block? For some reason it stopped doing that. I tried running mat_phong 0 and mat_bumpmap 1 and they look normal.

Sorry if this is old news but I just decided to test it today

E: nvm turns out the server had sv_pure 0 and i had installed a skin that fixes australiums on mat_phong 0 years ago that i completely forgot about since i always play on sv_pure 2 servers.

He's only getting shit because of his smug attitude over the years. None of the other people that lose at lan get nearly as much shit because they don't have the patented b4nny ego

Isn't it better to join a random class than a specific one like pyro (in case the server has a class limit on offclasses and one of your teammates is already on pyro)

I pretty much watched the entire stream minus the grand finals since I had to sleep and I noticed that the view numbers throughout the whole thing were about 2.5-2.9k, rarely actually breaking 3k. This is quite a dip from other international lans, i55 peaked at almost 9k, i58 still had about 5-6k.

I think it would be good to analyze why Rewind had half the viewers compared to i58.

Was it because of the time zones?
Was it because it was streamed on ESA's and not TFTV's twitch?
Lack of advertisement for the LAN? Insomina is a well known tf2 lan so the more casual audience still knows that it happens every summer. Maybe word about Rewind wasn't spread that much outside of the more dedicated 6s community.
Or was it simply a case of people losing interest in watching 6s or tf2 in general?

As I said, I think it's good to identify the problem because some amazing people invest their blood sweat and tears into events like this one and it's a shame when only a couple thousand people actually tune in.

7 holding choke, evl holding mid. Corsa on C&D spy sitting on grey and looking at 7s positioning and garbuglio bombing raymon and failing to get a force/drop a dozen times

That situation was going on for seven damn minutes. 25% of the map time. I literally fell asleep while watching. Casters shouted and woke me up when that stalemate was broken. Half the players had 100 dpm that map

Ditto. I don't think I've ever seen ma3laa casting before but holy shit, he's easily one of my favorite casters/analysts now

That was off cam sadly, we'll have to wait for the STV

https://clips.twitch.tv/esportsarena/EasyMinkNoNoSpot

pog

fucking

champ

You mean to tell me that you DONT want to constantly see everyone's 2 millimeter faces and the front side of their desks? You must be a madman.

STREAM IS LIVE BOIS

ninjad by 20 seconds :^(

Also those 600 second timeouts are BS