The forum has gotten worse,

That and Esports arena rewind lan is coming up, and overwatch is pretty much killing tf2's player base

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I would pay money just to see that happen.

Here's My Tips:

• STOP Playing Video Games Right Before, Yes I know it's hard, but is it worth failing and not getting a good grade over some video games?
  
• Study your stuff and ASK stuff. I know everyone studies, but half the people literally just skim through notes and stuff and don't bother to see their professors or teachers during office hours or whenever possible. Say you can't get access to a teacher because so many people go to your school. Guess what.... it's 2017. The internet is your friend. Youtube, google, internet forums are the places to go. You could literally learn all your math off of youtube, that's how much resources there are any more from just Youtube. Yahoo answers has so many active users, take advantage of it. The possibilities are endless. What if your studying some weird subject or you simply don't know what the terms/names for what you're learning to ask the internet? Ask a friend, a classmate, someone who took the class last year.
  
• Discipline yourself. Forcing yourself to make something happen is key here. Do you want to go to college and be successful and have money so you can have a life and afford cool things like games and cool monitors? Or do you want to work some minimum wage or some tough construction job that will make your life miserable? "But Stevie Im already in college" in that case, the same things apply in a sense, but you have to realize that you still need to discipline yourself. Stop procrastinating. Take some time to sit down, and familiarize yourself with the stuff you need to know. Your school is more important than partying, seeing friends, etc.
  
• You need to take care of yourself. Please, please, please for the love of God take care of your body. Get some good sleep. Don't eat all junk food during exams. Plan your studying accordingly. The last possible thing you want to do is be up till midnight the night before cramming. Literally 90% of people who do this don't do well because they're A.) Tired and B.) Don't know the information well so they have to cram.
  
• Form good study habits. Take advantage of resources, makes flash cards, make use of friends to study with, quiz yourself, take online quizzes if you can find any. Be so comfortable with your materials that you could literally teach the lessons yourself to someone who doesn't know what you're learning. If you can do this, not only do you know all your materials, but you will feel confident, and all the pieces should align for you to walk in to your exam and sit down and ace it.
  
• One thing I learned, because I love mathematics, engineering, and physics, is that it's very useful to make chants or saying to remember things. Memorizing a bunch of formulas won't help you, as there's literally too many to memorize. Memorize what each one does, so that when you see a number or something, you can go "oh yea, I just need to use this formula". Literally practice also solving problems and equations. I know you don't want to, nobody wants to. I will tell you right now that if you're seriously disciplined enough, you should not have an issue practicing. The only way you can memorize that much stuff is by practicing solving equations and etc to remember when you used them, what you make mistakes on, and so you can further practice what you're doing wrong. You also need to practice because you are going
  to want to be able to solve efficiently and quickly. Exams are timed. You absolutely need extra time at the end to check all your work and see if something doesn't makes sense. A regret of mine is taking too long to solve math problems and such, so that I didn't have enough time to check. I only got like a B+ on the exam. Me being a perfectionist, I changed my study habits second time around and got an A, because I was able to check and find out that I made a lot of mistakes.

I really hope that helped. All the things I listed helped me. I'm sure there are more, and I really wish you the best of luck. It's a stressful time for everyone, so you're not alone. Take it easy, and remember that you have to fail in order to succeed.

On one hand I feel that tf2 stickers will be great, however I also feel that it will unoptimize the game further and get turned off via a console command or something by many.

I like strawberry mixed with cheesecake chunks.

ninja

That would be amazing, especially since a bot can rocket jump and have perfect strafes, consistently, so it would be ideal. To make something like that, it would take great thought, as I would imagine it would take a lot to write a script so that the bots know to jump and strafe in a certain manner, while mixing up the patterns it strafes in so that you actually have to aim. Maybe it could steal the concept of controlling bot movement, like the bots in tr_rocketshooting2, but that's only an idea. Either way, I like your idea TwiiKuu.

http://www.teamfortress.tv/24792/valve-and-competitive-tf2

Lock this thread pls.

It's honestly still gonna be a pretty good LAN in my opinion, but if I had to guess:

1st-Froyotech
2nd-Se7en
3rd-Jasmine Tea
4th-EVL
5th-Meat Market
6th-20b

http://i.imgur.com/f67yYaK.png

it's the fucking bomb dude

Well, now that we have matchmaking, only time will tell how the game shapes competitively, and if our game is shaped by it, it won't matter anyways. Now the counterargument is that if mm dies, we will carry on, but new players won't know where to truly start from a competitive standpoint, if they play mm and feel the next step is to tryout UGC or something. Either way, it's hard telling right now whether newbie mixes can die without fuss or are vital to shaping our game, as we are essentially playing a split in the road, where we must see where we go forward next. Whichever path this game takes will answer your question Tino. If I were you, I would personally hand it off to someone, or just stick it out. If the issue is players/coaches, the motivation may simply no longer be there, and it may truly be time to throw in the towel, and carry on.

Either way, I want to see this game take off, and have a lasting future, even if it looks hopeless. Our community has put so much work, it's absolutely incredible. This community has brought the game so far, and just now the developer is somewhat supporting us more closely. To you personally Tino, just know that this has definitely contributed to the success of competitive tf2. Whether it lasts or not, it achieved something great. Newbie mixes improved my game greatly, and I would be sad to see it go, but at the same time Tino, do what makes sense.

If you wanna just make a LAN mge server with friends or for whatever reason you want your own server, all you need is a regular tf2 server, the MGE map, AND plugin. As far as I know, that's all you need.
https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=154755
https://github.com/Lange/MGEMod