Stupid pinball game stole my name!

Looking for a roamer spot for next season ESEA and/or CEVO. My previous 2 seasons were in IM

I believe I can compete at a higher level and would like a shot at some tryouts for Mid/High IM or Main teams for next season.

My strongest trait is always being consistent from game to game. I feel that I have strong DM and comms. My gamesense and timing are constantly improving. I have plenty of spare time so I can easily show for any match/scrim schedule. At 35, I am too old for any team drama caused by me so I mainly focus on being dedicated to improving myself and the team I commit to. I don't believe in jumping from team to team so being loyal means something to me.

Add me up for any tryouts: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197993619469/

http://play.esea.net/users/425780

I think a lot of people posting about this comparison have not gone through a full season or more of scheduling. I have 3 ESEA seasons and this full season of CEVO totaling over 60 matches. Almost all of those matches needing some type of agreed upon adjustment to time/date/server. I feel I have a good grasp on the challenges of scheduling. My teams have never forfeit a match in any season and here are my thoughts from this season. My same team of 6 players has played this season in CEVO and ESEA at the same time and hope to do so next season as well.

Scheduling = CEVO First off, I would like to thank the CEVO admins for the decision to allow teams to schedule matches on their own, please don't change this policy in future seasons as it was greatly appreciated. I know for a fact that my team would not have been able to manage playing in ESEA and CEVO at the same time while finding time to actually practice for each map played every week.

ESEA cannot even compare in this category because of the "hard deadline" on scheduling matches. Both teams can agree but it means nothing to ESEA, no flexibility if the match does not fall within the deadline. IMO, ESEA should look to revise this rigid stance as it would greatly benefit the players and teams in the community. Secondly, getting any changes done in ESEA requires me to hunt down an admin to make the changes. With CEVO, I found it much easier to submit simple tickets with the match concerns. Every ticket was resolved in CEVO within 24 hours in almost every case and most were well in advance of the match night. Now I am sure ESEA admins are going to say "hey we have tickets too!". Every time I tried to open a ticket, I have gotten an error or the page simply froze over and over and did not submit. On top of that, the submit form itself is not simple at all. Maybe I am just old and stupid but simple is better to me. Even when I asked for help to find out why I got my errors, nothing got fixed or explained. I will not try and open any more tickets with ESEA, that whole process needs to be changed so you can submit a ticket quickly and to the point. Way too much extra and unnecessary information is required. The one ticket I did submit last season, I believe, was only fixed the same night of the match when I had to hunt down an admin to look into it.

Client = ESEA This area is overwhelmingly in ESEA's favor. Sure, the client has has issues for many seasons but it is extremely reliable in making sure the proper players are playing in the match. To me, that is the most important purpose for a client along with any cheating detection.

CEVO on the other hand is a totally different story. You can connect to the Paladin client for "check-in" but the client does not launch TF2 for you. This means that you can give any outside player the server info and he can connect and play the match even if that player is not "checked-in" through the client or on the team's roster. We had direct experience with this issue during the season and while do not want to get into the details of the situation, it was clear that the CEVO "rules" in this category were not upheld and were overruled based on admin perspective and not the written rules on the webpage. The ESEA client makes these type of problems non-existent and takes the admins out of the loop because the ESEA client connects you directly to your server.

Servers = CEVO This can be tied to scheduling but all in all, if you have a bad server in ESEA, you need to hunt down an admin and "attempt" to get it fixed. This process can be annoying and time consuming or simply not possible at all and you are forced to play on a shit server because the teams have no ability to make changes on their own. In CEVO, if both teams agree, you can cancel a reserved server and request a new server in less than 60 seconds and get a different location. This ties directly into CEVO's community first mentality, players/teams like this.

Stats = CEVO I find stats to be a fun side show of league play. It is nice to just look at them as I would for any professional sports league. ESEA at least has some form of combined stats for the whole season as well as your individual and team stats. As for CEVO, they have far superior individual match stats that include many different areas.

ESEA has been asked for several seasons for these type of stats to be integrated but nothing has changed. It is important for teams to see such stats especially related to medic and healing stats. I do not believe stats generate on CEVO matches unless it was a CEVO server reserved for the match, but overall I find the more in-depth CEVO match stats to be much more valuable tool for teams looking to improve than what ESEA provides.

Competition = ESEA ESEA is the main league and the benchmark for teams to test themselves. A few more CEVO seasons could possibly change this dynamic. I believe CEVO league organizers are proactive individuals who care for the game, listen to the community and actively make changes. If the dedication remains, I believe things can only get better for CEVO. However, at this moment, if you want the top competition in your division, you need to be in ESEA.

In the end, I feel ESEA still has many things to fix and change. The ESEA track record for "talking" about player friendly changes happen every off-season. Actually getting those changes made is another story. CEVO is still a work in progress but I don't think it can be denied that it was a successful comeback season. Major tweaking and work needs to be made with the CEVO client system as I see that as the most pressing and major issue concerning CEVO in the future. It currently does nothing to protect the integrity of the matches being played.

Sorry to be long winded, I had the extra time. :)

I was born and raised as a Flyers fan. I bleed orange and black.

I can't wait to see the broken hearts in this thread when the Flyers knock out the Rangers in 6. Hopefully we get the penguins in round 2.

So this isn't a TF2 dream but a day dream I had several years ago that I vividly remember related to gaming.

At the time I was playing vanilla WoW every free second I had, raiding and all. My only class was Hunter and I basically knew everything about the class in and out to get the most of out of my damage and stuff like that. Anyways, I was walking to the subway after work was over to get my train but during the walk I was thinking about play WoW when I got home. The lady walking in front of me (by about 10 feet) either dropped something in front of herself or seen something on the floor she wanted to pickup. She knelt down to get whatever it was and my brain made my body act on instinct and I thought it was a hunter laying down a trap. I instantly started to strafe away from the lady near where she was placing the "trap".

That moment was a big wakeup for me to be honest. If you do anything close to this in real life while you are awake, you are wrapped up in your game too much. :)

Thanks for the lecture coach. Too bad it doesn't apply to me or my team in any way. I know how to play this game and I am quite sure I can hang with anyone so thanks for the pep talk I guess. Hopefully someone can read it and get motivation out of it though.

You basically totally missed the point of my post, which was saying that having 60 or 70 teams in CEVO Open is not helping make it more competitive for the entire community. Only the teams who begin the season on a winning track will feel the need to keep pushing. Because of such a possibly large division, it will be near impossible for teams who have slower starts to make a run for whatever playoffs are held. However, if you have more than just 2 divisions, that will give a larger percentage of the signed-up community incentive to keep pushing for playoffs even with a slow start.

Ok so I got the day confused and didn't know about the extension. Where are all the haters at for CEVO then for the extension? Every times ESEA extends, this board floods with posts about it.

Quindali, did you read the last section of my post? Is there any talk or possibility of move divisions than 2?

My team basically joined CEVO out of necessity. Was CEVO our first choice? No.

A week ago there were 3 teams in ESEA Open and posts were being made saying there might not be a season at all. That left teams like mine hanging in the wind. We wanted to play ESEA but didn't want to risk not having a season at all so we joined CEVO to at least have a backup league.

In all honesty, I can't take CEVO seriously at all right now. So many people are talking so huge about this league and in 3 hours registration closes and they only have 27 teams paid up.

In any case this season, for right now CEVO will be seen by many as the minor leagues. It might be a little fun to play matches there but unless there are some distinct divisions made separating the teams then I don't see it being serious competition for a majority of the league. Only the upper teams are going to feel the real competition. 2 divisions is not enough.

First off, when that gorilla gets hit with a swipe of those claw's he is going to be in a world of hurt. Secondly, polar bears are not slow and will have probably 600-900 pounds advantage.

This is like comparing a UFC fight between a lightweight and a heavyweight. Can the lightweight win? Sure, if he has an insane advantage of position he can win the fight. ie having the Heavyweights back or something like that.

The chances are supremely small of that happening in the UFC and in this gorilla vs polar bear fight. The gorilla is not going to go for the bears back and the bear is not as slow as you would assume for his weight. The gorilla is insane strong but he is not strong enough to muscle a polar bear around.

A male polar bear in his prime will fuck up a silverback gorilla in his prime.

I am the friend

I am glad tf2mix doesn't require captains for every pug. That way it's not always a retarded popularity contest to pick the most notable "invite player".

One annoying situation with pugna is these same popular invite idiots come late into the picking process and get added by an admin after the picking has started. Meanwhile, players like me who are mostly unknown but can easily hang with them, get passed up or fatkidded because some admin decided to force add them for the picking process.

We tried to make our team from last season work again but it fell short.

Bumping for a team that needs a roamer.

Great guy who plays the game a lot. He is a solid player with good gamesense. More than anything, he is extremely dedicated to helping the team improve and that is worth a ton.

Very impressed with testify. Solid player who is online a lot and has a good bit of experience. He will most likely instantly improve your team if you picked him up.

It doesn't really matter at this point. What does matter is we pushed through all season with a revolving roster of problems. I did my best to keep us going every week and and did not forfeit a single game last season. I think that shows a lot in today's TF2 community. Probably 90% of teams are just around for 1 season and most breakup at the first sign of trouble.

We wanted 6 players committed to the team for this season and we are close to having that.