Yeah, I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing.
The initial suggestion was to have the entire playoffs on a single weekend. I assume that's what everyone else was talking about.
You mentioned weekend-long qualifier tournaments, so I assumed you were talking about that, not scheduling a single playoff match on a Saturday or Sunday, and, if time allows and the teams are cool with it, possibly scheduling another match on the next day. Maybe even two if everyone is on board.

At least this wall of text let you get all that off your chest instead of simply asking to clarify before going on a rant.

EDIT: And yes, suggesting that, if scheduling TF2 matches doesn't take precedent over absolutely everything else no matter what, you don't like the game the game enough is insulting to those who kept playing this game for years.

I don't think a lower round timer would lead to more teams actually capping last. Last doesn't become easier to cap just because there's less time.

Best case it reduces the amount of dead time by causing round timer draws earlier, worst case it cuts off even more pushes that would've been successful and leads to even more dead time because some teams now wait for a free risk-free push where they don't have to worry about keeping their medic (or anyone) alive if it fails.

There's also a major difference between making a living off of playing competitive video games and not.
Weekdays are different than the weekend. Just because they are willing to dedicate some of their social life to TF2 doesn't mean they are willing to dedicate all of it. "Do they even like the game if they won't dedicate all their free time for a whole week to one match" is frankly insulting. Sure, you're going to do that if that's your job, but it's pointless to compare the two. "If other people do this while being paid then you should do at least this fraction of it for free" is never a good argument.
And no, the comparison with weekend tournaments doesn't work either. For those you invest just that weekend, for a whole league season you spend weeks of mostly weekdays. Then tacking on a weekend as well that some people can't play on is something completely different.

It worked with LAN because LAN was the social event, it didn't take away time from anything.

Yes, it is the ruleset everyone uses for everything, not just EU, including NA for everything except officials. NA officials are to sole bastion of the "NA ruleset", which isn't used half the time in NA, while the "EU ruleset" is used everywhere that isn't NA, not just EU, and in NA as long as it's not an official.

Have you considered that you've simply played most tf2 matches under the NA ruleset, period?
Because the greatest comebacks I've seen and the best matches I've played were under the "rest of the world" ruleset. Which is not all that surprising, considering literally everyone uses it with only one exception.

Please no "real sports do it this way" arguments.

There was literally a tactical pause in the game that caused this thread.

The entire world (except NA) plays Bo2 (or more for playoffs). But yes, let's hope a team makes a comeback after we give them 5 minutes and a different colour. That seems much more likely to help than giving them a chance on a different map.
You have a regular season match on literally the one single map they're better than you? Don't curse luck of the draw, don't consider how much better this match would've gone for you if there were two maps, just use the halftime break to reset and change your pace and mentality, I'm sure that'll fix everything.

EDIT: Calling timelimit 30, windifference 5 "purely time limit based" right after a match played with the NA system where the only 5cp map went to time limit draws in both halves is pretty interesting.

It's amazing how almost the entire world uses a system that works, yet NA goes "wow this sucks, but apparently this problem is unsolvable".

Using halves for symmetric maps because CS has to for asymmetric maps is some major stockholm syndrome from playing in a CS league.

Guys, ESEA can't hurt you anymore. If you think 1 hour per map sucks then do something about it.

I'll do you one better: The bots are being run using unused Overwatch server capacity. The less people play Overwatch, the more TF2 bots are being run to push people into playing Overwatch. The bots will only disappear when all Overwatch servers are at full capacity.

Now I want sigafoo and Thomas Bach to swap jobs for a year and watch the chaos unfold.

That's what the rules already are.

Somehow someone decided to ban included_middle anyway.

Trying to expand the matchfixing/betting rules to cover "throwing" to justify banning a player from a dropped team is the wrong hill to die on.

That's why the ban has already been reversed.

Sodium >>>>>> Sigafoo

Well yes, but I was talking about rule 1.6, not 3.2. If 1.7 can be used to ban people for throwing, even though it's not mentioned at all, then 1.6 should at least be enough for a minor warning in this case.

1.6 is very exploitable by the way.

https://imgur.com/rCu9Nyt
Since included_middle was apparently banned based on rule 1.7, I conclude that his team also should've received a major warning.

The team "Papa's special" should get a Minor Warning under Rule 1.6 for not submitting the Golden Cap screenshot.

For reference: https://etf2l.org/matches/80741/

For anyone actually interested: Throwing for shits and giggles is not actually against ETF2L's rules.

Throwing for any kind of incentive is forbidden under rules 1.7 and 1.9.

The traditional stance is that banning throwing is unnecessary, since if you do it only to screw over your team they will simply lynch you at the next LAN, and if you manage to actually affect other teams (e.g. playoff seeds) then you will be banned for match fixing anyway.

In this case Sodium simple hasn't mastered being an ETF2L admin yet. This is clearly a case of rule 7.3: Admin discretion.
aka Rules of the Internet #9: There are no real rules about moderation either — enjoy your ban.

Germans no longer run this league.

I think I've made my stance on leagues run by engie mains clear.

Yeah, for example you can't have your combo sit on choke and keep an eye on the flank at the same time. Your flank needs to actually communicate!

It's true though, I do like badlands.
Maybe the joke went over your head.
I guess I'll explain it: Maps being a steamroll one way or the other where half the time just ends up padding the score without being very enjoyable to watch is bad. Close maps where you don't know how it'll end until the last second, maybe even going to golden cap, is good, that's fun to watch. Maps that both teams are good at are good.

I'm not here to be useful. The original question was:

I can't see any reason why it shouldn't be played. At least compared to some other maps in the pools.