VODs for all the matches will be posted on the youtube channel for teamfortresstv. If you're desperate you can catch the twitch vods before then though.

In the future I think we're going to use a slack in order to more effectively communicate between team leaders and organisers. Allows everyone to see what's going on and have an input on how it's run, when it's held, times and format etc.

Naw naw we didn't graciously accept them playing, I actively approached them and wanted them to play for the hype factor. And we didn't change the dates for froyo, they never said it was bad, but we changed the rules to allow for NY servers to be used. It wasn't like they should be glad for the opportunity to play, it's the same as Ascent - if they didn't wanna play and said beforehand then I don't mind, it's their decision.

NOTHING to do with the organisation that everyone was playing with mixes.

Teams are offered a $500 tournament. 10 teams are approached, all given the dates a month in advance and asked to raise any issues. We change the date of the event to suit teams about 4 times before it is finalised a few weeks later.

If even with that amount of forewarning and liaising with the organiser there are no teams without 2 ringers then it's just a consequence of the teams not planning well enough or people genuinely being too busy to commit time to TF2. It's not on me to make sure you're not using mix teams you fucknuggets! I gave you long enough to plan ahead and choose subs, along with incentive to do it.That is nothing to do with the organisation (which was bad re: delays and pretty much nothing else since david is a boss and covered for me perfectly).

I think the views on the trailer kinda disprove that, a lot of people were interested.

Also this information has been available to top teams for a month now. Kratos has known for ages.

dogs will lose to full tilt

ascent will have a close game vs a bad team

nerdrage will beat an american team and then lose to reason

tlr will be competitive vs everyone but lose

my preds

wait wait WAIT

owl is a different person to mr_owl?!

from the classic "Behind the Scenes: TFTV"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQIpxgOiawM

What's it like playing on that? Fps on average?

Since they brought WAR and Alfa in, they now only have 3 players from their team who don't have LAN experience at a top level. That's only one more than reason, helps them out a lot imo.

Fair enough, and as for alfa I think he's not a really top level roamer from what I've seen (for example on the level of blaze, mike, seagull, zebbo, rising, sdb) and he won't be able to practise until a week before the LAN but he's the next best thing. And he's had a tonne of lan experience and has a lot more versatility than some of those players. I think it'll add what TLR need - more random explosive ability, more stability and more experience. Assuming he doesn't throw to let ascent win.

No, I fucked up the info at the beginning and due to miscommunication from me I assumed it was ScrapTF. Made the image, then moved house and haven't had a chance to change it - changing the wording was much easier. Will fix the image within the next few hours.

EDIT: Done

Dislocated / broke his arm. He's done it before and it always takes him out of the game for a good while.

Well in terms of how it's run, the decisions it makes, the ease of use and lack of cost etc it definitely is. But in terms of prizepool, sustainability and legitimacy for TF2 it is much much worse.

I'd love to see us move to some kind of ESL/ESEA thing (assuming they didn't try to fuck us), but even if it had exactly the same PR and was run the same as etf2l I don't think we'd see europe adopt it.