Just simple results. ESEA's site is trash and as a viewer I'd appreciate an update on what teams in Invite are beating who. Don't need to make a big grammatic spectacular out of it, just some box notes and key players would be cool.

If you want to show that you're playing Paladins on steam you can use this script with the non-Steam game feature: http://forums.paladins.com/showthread.php?2769-Boot-From-Steam&p=13743&viewfull=1#post13743

I have a feeling there will be a patch this week with the Grover character.

I credit TF2 for making me feel like a god playing this game.

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New patch came out Friday, lots of stuff changed. There's reloading. Stealth grass. A payload mode. Survival, a 1-life arena mode with death fog. Card system reworked.

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This sounds like that during those peak hours a lot of people are doing bandwidth intensive things in your floor/dorm/school and gaming can have problems if you are being squeezed out by other users. QoS settings aren't a perfect fix, I'm not sure they can provide QoS for the entire campus network, QoS is usually on a switch or router level. (EDIT: maybe the college should start throttling heavy users. not all plebs need 1080p netflix)

This was worse back in the day when torrents were the only way to get things--now with everyone using Youtube/netflix/Hulu, it's not surprising that a campus internet gets saturated at night. Network admins priority is usually for staff and faculty and if the bandwidth is good enough for them during the day, they're not going to pay tons of money to increase the pipe in the evening.

What tools have you used to test things? It's been a while since I've tested network connections with traceroutes but running a tool like this throughout a day could show interesting things: https://www.pingplotter.com/download.html

More simply, if you're noticing severe lag at night, run a ping test to anywhere in command prompt with ping <server> /t which will run the ping continuously. Make a friend in your dorm and try that on their computer while you're seeing lag. If they see it too, it's campus network related, not you. You could also try running pings from campus computers.

People still need keys? PM me and I can send some tonight.

Tip of the Hats was an awesome event, I'm the lucky guy who won the iBuyPower computer raffle for--so that was pretty awesome. I had to go to bed early Sunday but found out about it during my Monday morning commute on the subway playing back the vod with raffle winners. Really surreal, and the computer arrived last week. Neat to play games at 144hz without stuttering.

Being at the Bernie Sanders rally in Boston and seeing his candidancy become very legit in our broken political system has been inspiring to see.

I also went on a trip to Chicago and Minneapolis and got to see Bon Iver play in Wisconsin this summer--that was an eventful summer trip for me.

Also the SC2 Homestory Cup from last weekend was cool--weird to see young starcraft pros retire to do korean military service, but was touching to see the humanity in their coming together to celebrate his win and retirement. LOTV still fun to watch.

It really depends on the graphics card it has. When I researched this for a few other machines it didn't seem like many laptops allowed 120hz+ output, but there's probably some laptop graphics cards that could do it. 6th gen Intel integrated GPUs can't, you can't get greater than 60hz at HD resolution out of mini displayports, for example.

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It'd be cool if you could like, join a server from the homepage of tf.tv instead of watching tf2, or looking at juicy invite gossip.

I actually got the notebookcheck link slightly wrong but it is an integrated card. This a better link for the actual CPU he is using: http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-R7-384-Cores-Kaveri-Desktop.113341.0.html

You don't have the best PC for gaming. It has an integrated graphics card which can lower FPS. Even though it's not a bad or old computer, it still won't perform well in video games and not getting steady fps is probably common.

Here's a benchmark that shows some details. Games only getting passable FPS on low settings. edited heres a more accurate benchmark for that CPU: http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-R7-384-Cores-Kaveri-Desktop.113341.0.html

I'd recommend running the maxframes cfg from http://clugu.com/tf2mate/ and maybe it could help a bit. Make sure your graphics card drivers are up to date.

Wow tournaments actually do this kind of snazzy IT tomfoolery? Neat.

Along with scrim.me there's also http://scrim.tf

IMO, you're wasting your time making a whole other scrim website. I thought a site like scrim.me or scrim.tf would be a great idea when I was a UGC captain and even planned out what it might look like--but if you see how little either of the scrim sites that do exist have taken off you'll see that people haven't been drawn to these new systems. Your idea of auto connecting to servers is good but it's not like that is hard--you're just going to over complicate the process.

It's finding scrims that can be a PITA and tf2 captains still haven't formulated a solid system to do so other than word of mouth.

On the contrary, on long overtime plays (which seems to be a trademark of this game) the third person cam helps make sense of the action. Blizzard's spectator system seems terribly buggy so far but at least with player names you can see who's doing what. There's usually so many deaths that first person can be a lot of switching around and losing what action is actually happening. Fights can be a bit more chaotic than TF2 and at those points watching a single person's cam rarely does that single player or the fight justice.

messiah: http://us.battle.net/overwatch/en/blog/19964704/

Q.When is the next Beta Test Weekend?
A. There is no set date yet. When or if we choose to host another Beta Test Weekend will largely depend on our testing needs. However, the soonest we would host another Beta Test Weekend would be next year.