Fundraiser to help the replacement team go to DreamHack and make sure that this event isn't a flop:

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Please consider donating if you're gonna be watching and enjoying EU TF2! It's a big deal for us to have a place at DreamHack Winter, hope to have it run annually and this event is key.

this is happening, stay tuned

Using an alt account seems to work most of the time, it's the best I've found. Very annoying bug.

for people with a load of cables and pc equipment etc it might be more of a bother of they are checking everything I guess, yeah

dango pls

it's so ridiculously unlikely that I hadn't even considered it, and am not slightly bothered now that I have.

if I get bombed tell hawku I love him

Looks really cool and very polished actually from a quick glance. I'll arrange some pugs on it later this week.

Have ESEA playoffs always been set maps, or does this change later on etc? Set maps is ridiculous for the finals of a season.

I should note that this wasn't an admin decision to choose sunshine, it was a player vote. I don't know whether that makes it better for you but I'm not trying to remove your map!

Valid, but here's something additional that ties into that complaint to think about: a "new viewer" in this case can be (and will often be) somebody who has played tf2 before and understands the map. The reason this allows them to engage in understanding AD more than 5cp is because there is less difference between how one would play in a pub and how one would play in a comp game.

They can look at 5cp and understand how to win a round but they don't understand why teams can't push chokes, why teams have to give up ground with uber disadvantage, why a med/demo pick is better than a roamer pick, what a roamer even is, what offclassing is and why it's situational, why you sac people in onto last, why people use cookie-cutter lineup, I could go on and on.

If you look at AD you see a team set up with attacking classes, and a team set up with some defensive classes. They push the points and the team defends the points. They might not understand the finer strategies but they understand and can follow the flow of the game, and can empathise with the situation a lot better.

I agree with you in the sense that a straight A->B (->C if needed) map would be awesome but I don't think changing gravelpit is the answer, I think it needs a different map.

eu pugs all the maps, there's no rtv and people aren't little bitches about it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

change can happen just believe

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The whole point is to remove extraordinarily long defensive times on this map. Once you're passed a certain time, everyone knows the game is over but the attackers still have to throw themselves again and again at the points in an attempt to win. The changes are to speed up attacking - defenders by definition will have a harder time, times to attack will be quicker and the map will be faster paced.

The repushing mechanic is almost completely removed, yes. But as an attacking team the purpose is not to defend the area you've just secured. The reduced times also open up defensive options like the iron-man defense, which you now only have to hold for 3 minutes rather than 6.

Which strategic options has it taken away? All your objections are really vague without any reasoning, if you provide some reasoning I'll make changes to improve it.

How about ETF2L comes out of the stone age and stops using a points system :O

Scrap the golden cap, award full points to the team who wins it and rank based on W/L. It would make more sense to viewers, players and betters.