So where are these cups and other events that are currently missing from the calender?

Sideshow nothing about your posts so far has helped me understand what your or the problem with etf2l is. I don't understand and all I can see is you're complaining about a load of open teams.

Speaking of open teams, most of the teams in etf2l s24 are brand new teams, so I don't see how they are to blame for any of this (whatever this problem is).

I did a count of all the open teams and how many previous seasons they've played in.
0 seasons - 72 teams
1 seasons - 17 teams
2 seasons - 4 teams
3 seasons - 9 teams
4 seasons - 3 teams
5+seasons - 6 teams
Which is more older teams than I was expecting, but most of those have a cup or two under their belt.

After this discussion I thought I'd make a calender (based off this motorsport calender that gets handed around reddit) of all the stuff you can do with your TF2 buddies. I also made a map of what's available to play in each area. I'm not very up to speed with the wider compTF2 community so I'm going to need people here to tell me what's wrong or missing.

https://sucs.org/~edmund/tf2/calender/tf2_calender_v02.png

https://sucs.org/~edmund/tf2/calender/compTF2map.png

If that's what the money is for, why does the competition not offer expenses paid, or give the cash at the competition, rather than unconditional cash?

Well, then what/where are these cups?

If there's more than just ETF2L and UGC out there, and this stuff's regular, why doesn't someone make a big season chart or calender of all the stuff you can sign up to? (or do these already exist and I've just missed them?)

I mean look at this:
http://www.spotterguides.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wallplanner_2016_v1.pdf
This tells you everything you'd want to know about watching motorsport. What's on, when it's on, where it's happening. If the TF2 community wants more participation in cups and stuff that isn't ETF2L-ESEA-UGC, someone needs to gather together what's on, who can play, what you need to commit, and when it's happening, all in one place, and then the community needs to hand that around,

Good point (though the better team isn't always nice about it), but how does playing a cup help more than just asking for a scrim against a better team every now and then? (Again, when you're pressed for time. When your team is all on summer holiday, sure, why not?)

Time isn't free. If you get a chance but you don't have the time, then you have to decline. My team wanted to do UGC and ETF2L this summer, but we only had time for 1, let alone any cups.

We'd rather spend what time we do have scrimming to get better, is that so hard to understand?

Edit: Also what's more open teams playing in cups rather than a league supposed to fix?

Given a choice between a round robin league, or swiss league, or a ladder, and a single or double elimination cup where all participants were open-level, I'd choose the league over the cup. The cup would have to have a prize and I would have to feel I had a chance at that prize to choose the cup. Elimination makes for better spectator competition (fewer matches that need covering, no pointless matches) and lets people who are only in it to win it go home when they lose their chance, but other than that, I can't imagine how elimination is better for the player than a league or ladder.

I don't see the problem here?

I can't imagine what the point is for my team of playing a cup. If we had all the time in the world and no entry fee then sure why not, but with the goal of getting out of open in a year and limited time per week to play, they don't serve a purpose.

Scrims help us get better by practicing against teams near our skill level.

Playing an ETF2L season tells us how good that skill level is relative to the rest of the community and lets us test our best against the best of our competitions.

An elimination cup could also tell us how good we were from how far we got through the competition, but we might get unlucky seeding and play a team we would never beat early on. After a certain skill gap, you can't really tell how much better a team is than you, so that experience would leave us feeling shit that we lost so early, wouldn't tell us how good we were (only that we were worse than the top-tier team that beat us) and we'd feel like we may as well have spent the evening scrimming to get better (which we'll have to make do with for the rest of the cup now). ETF2L matches tell us we weren't good enough for the teams that beat us, but we'd still have the rest of the season to play.

I don't see what's wrong with an attitude like this.

Also there are plenty of sports that are full season and no cups (look at any motorsport), so again I don't understand what's being complained about.

People thought adding the extra space on the truck-side of last was a good decision, giving the attackers more room to fight. Why not just try something similar on the shutter-side and give the attackers more room and more cover?

http://i.imgur.com/ggT6POu.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/WWQA0bM.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Ib5nHvg.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/0H3DVFw.jpg

https://steamcommunity.com/id/smither5er/screenshots/?appid=0&sort=newestfirst&browsefilter=myfiles&view=grid

Some comments+screenshots after a double mix.

From the double mix itself, people commented on clutter/boxes/bamboo on last, frames vents and pillars jutting out, and the rocks on mid (though idk what's wrong with the rocks myself).

-wrong thread-

Full results?

Grab yourself a usb stick because it's memcheck time. (google it, comes with most linux live disks)

Also, if you can, check your hard drive's SMART (don't ask me how to do that on windows).

There's probably also a tool or two out there to check for dying GPUs.

Your CPU is fine. Either it's working fine or the whole computer won't work at all.

I've heard motherboard issues can be a pain to diagnose though.

Last?

Cafe/Greece?

Arch?

Mid?