that website gave me a 500 internal server error all night (haven't tried prior to today, I just went there because I heard about the spread).

I think it's more dealing with if a team had a match where the other team would "win" if they got one round (or maybe two rounds). I feel like it would be pretty ridiculous with people calling them out on that lost round. But then again, it would be pretty fucking easy to just intentionally get wiped at mid, don't kill the enemy medic, and lose to their last push. You couldn't possibly prove that.

I know people say shit all the time in cs like "omg c9 are throwing" or whatever, but that's a far difference from losing an entire match and losing a round or two.

Seriously, Invite is not as stagnant as you might think outside of Froyo. You don't need to handicap bets to make the odds more even. If anything, the people who believed that Five Dollar Club could completely beat 20b are losing money here. It's also not nearly exciting to bet on a low underdog and come out with a win.

This really doesn't affect me in any way because I don't bet on TF2 matches and have yet to bet on one, but I feel like the spread is just a really bad idea.

I think the spread idea is very subjective and can lead to a lot of bad things. Just let the bets determine the odds like CSGL.

A really good example is this 20b vs Five Dollar Club game. Teams vary a lot in skill depending on the map and who they are going against. To say that there should objectively be a spread for a game like this (or any game at all) is kind of silly.

I also don't really believe that bets being more towards 50/50 would attract more people. I think for just about everyone you attract that would bet on that would equally make other people skip the bet.

This might be alright for some Froyo games, but really nothing else. There's a lot of good matches in Invite this season.

HBO and Shotime are gonna go extra hard on shutting down any online streams. Good luck finding one. :/

I didn't forget. We planned on signing the contract on Friday. We haven't signed the contract yet, but it should be very soon.

lol that quad SLI

DX12 looks pretty incredible.

melee: Roy
brawl: G&W
sm4sh: Haven't played this much, but probably Duck Hunt, Lucina, and G&W

Basically this.

This is a BYOC LAN, and we just happened to have some computers for use just because CEVO had them there, holding CEVO finals.

I would not expect ESEA to put responsibility in someone's hands other than their own to make some other LAN hold their LAN finals, and as flame said, I wouldn't expect them to help with computers or other expenses (once again, in someone's hands that isn't their own).

It's a cool idea, but not in the cards at all. Not even a little bit.

Something is better than nothing, but I know a handful of Invite players might not play due to the lack of LAN. Still, Invite should be solid.

My team will be playing this season.

No, chill. :|

I fought hard to make everything for awesome for you guys.

Announcement coming Friday.

Nope.

Details on GXL soon. <3

But for saving TF2? There's only one GXL per year. :(

I forget who asked lpkane at LAN, but apparently ESEA will continue to have TF2 LAN finals until they get a stadium venue. Which, yeah, looks like a stadium venue now.

So yeah, this might be bad. However, more details will be announced tomorrow, so hopefully they shed light on that.

I am very happy for CS, though.

edit: What lpkane just posted on the ESEA article (first comment):

This is spelling very bad things for TF2 LAN finals, and maybe TF2 in ESEA in general.

I felt pretty confident they would do it. My bet didn't go through, though. :[

Saw this way too late to even think about it. Unfortunately, I didn't take anything. :( I think kbk made us a team snapchat and posted a bunch of stuff on there. Tagg took some pictures, too. Not sure about anyone else.

But anyway, I had an amazing weekend and everyone was awesome. See you next LAN!