I'm sure you're spot on with the historical knowledge but it wasn't really a wacky health belief. TB is spread through microdroplets of saliva when sneezing or coughing and kissing. It does normally require repeat exposure but don't underestimate it if you know someone with TB, it's a dreadful disease. Spitting on the ground is less likely to spread TB but spitting in someone's face is a good way of spreading it efficiently.

I'm not saying the money is the motivating factor though, it's the desire to win. Imagine you're deciding how to run bets on an upcoming MGE cup and you decide to cover the final - Mike vs Stark. Now stark is gonna get fucked, everyone knows that, so in order to sort the betting out a bit you make it so that stark wins if he gets 10 points. Mike (being a dodgy bastard and so far above the competition) can afford to throw a bit to win fat refined as well as the tournament prize. This situation only happens when the winner can afford to throw a bit and will still win - but that's exactly the situation in which you want to split bets.

I think for regular games the appeal of winning and the risk of being caught outweighs getting a moderate amount of refined. But in this case they win anyway, and get money for winning, and get a tonne of refined for fixing the result toward a huge underdog.

A quick point about yesterday's bets involving froyotech: if you split the bets to encourage more people to bet on the underdogs, and make it so that they win the bet if the underdogs win a map, or the first bo3, you're actually making it soooo much easier for froyotech (or any team in their position) to abuse the system. They can just throw a map and still win the game, thereby winning doubly.

I suppose you can counter that by saying that any match fixing is bad and possible for any game but the biggest deterrent to match fixing in TF2 is that people want to win more than they want to get a few refined metal. If you give them an opportunity to do both, I think you'll have trouble.

my first properly recorded fragclip please be gentle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8JzaDvm6aw

I don't think a 600 euro prizepot is anything to sniff at

Was a weird pug and not very high skill but no matter, found a few bugs that need fixing and gave our thoughts on the major changes:

http://youtu.be/khhvAN0cX_s

was going to stream our pugs on it but my upload is dead. I'll record locally and upload a video later on.

or just raise the level of the crate on mid instead of adding a new one on top of it

simple fixes are much better than adding props everywhere normally

that's a really cool video, I remember when people used to play like that in ~2010

where did the good times go

great work cherry! that's a much better system

I'm actually annoyed that you seem to have improved this map quite a bit because I think it's gonna be a bitch getting it universally accepted. If only you had fucked it up then it wouldn't be a problem!

I'm gonna try and pug on it tonight with the eu people. Looks cool nice work dagger.

I reckon those four teams are stronger than the other four, I mean the quarter finals are gonna be insane - just means I don't know which match to cover!

great writeup, should be a sick series of games

it's a pity that timus and syncing met up with mike and mirelin so early on, and raptor and kaptain met zebbo and ams
will be fun to watch though

Too many big words for me to understand, I don't even know whether that sentence means anything any more. How is the medic more versatile and what is dynamic play?

If you think koth_ultiduo_r_b7 made medics play passive you were playing the map completely wrong. You have to get involved much more actively than in baloo, with your ubersaw, taking shotguns, distracting. Yes, crossbows are less important on koth_ultiduo but there is definitely more aggressive medicing on koth_ultiduo if you're playing the map correctly in any way.