Starting in just a moment. Reviewing my ESEA POV against Froyo on Granary.

Hey :3,

Just moved into the new place and got my setup all good to go. I'm testing out my new stream settings, so I'll do a demo review while I'm at it.

I'm probably gonna start off by reviewing one of my own demos around 9 PM EST, but perhaps I'll review a demo of someone else if there's time.

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The tournament on Saturday is not considered a CEVO tournament by any means. No client will be necessary or anything like that.

Ground Zeroes is normally completed in about 90 minutes on the average first play-through, which is really disappointing. Apparently it has some good replay value, though.

Oh fuck yeah, this is awesome.

I just beat 4 yesterday, then I'm gonna start on Rising soon. Thankfully I don't have to buy a PS4/Xbox One to play these.

I really can't get behind Kiefer Sutherland's voice, though.

There are actually quite a few TF2 players in PA that post here (I don't know about Bucks county, specifically). I'm not really sure what any of those guys could guess on where he could have gone, though. The thing is that he could be anywhere, even outside of PA. My guess is that he's staying with a friend or someone new that he met, because I dunno what he would do with little money otherwise.

But as previously suggested, I would keep an eye on the bank account to look at transactions. Really sucks to hear about your situation, and hopefully he comes back.

Fuck, you beat me to it. Pharaoh introduced this to me and it's so good. Their older stuff is also very good.

Buy-in changed from $20 per player (or $120 per team) to $10 (or $60 per team).

This change should be good to go on the CEVO website, but if you run into any issues with it, post here or PM me.

I would also like to say that I won't really be online whatsoever for the next few days. I'm in the middle of moving, then I have to go to a GXL test LAN to make sure the servers will be good to for the LAN. If you have any problems or questions, PM me on here and I'll get to them when I'm back online. Trying to message me on Steam mobile will not be reliable.

NOTE: As of 8:20 PM EST on 8/6, the buy-in has officially changed from $20 per player (or $120 per team) to $10 (or $60 per team).

This change should be good to go on the CEVO website, but if you run into any issues with it, post here or PM me.

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I'm going to propose a suggestion and I'd like as much feedback as possible to make a decision by the end of today (or maybe by the end of the week, if necessary).

Currently, the buy-in is $20 (or $120 per team). I'm thinking about reducing the buy-in to $10 (or $60 per team).

Why the suggestion?

Regardless if you're expecting to lose or not, it's half as expensive to participate and not feel like you're putting out as much. The $2000 pot is already pretty good by itself, so changing the buy-in to $10 will still make the final prize pool very good. Don't forget that if you participate in the tournament, you'll still get a prize, regardless of the place that you finish.

What about the people who have already paid on the CEVO website?

Currently, only one person has actually paid. This individual (and whoever else pays before the potential change is made) would get a refund.

Are the CEVO-P teams eligible to participate?

Yes, this is a community tournament, so literally anyone can play. However, it doesn't mean that they will use their actual CEVO-P roster. Again, the CEVO-P teams are not obligated to play with their roster on Saturday. I know some players from those teams have expressed interest in playing with different players for the community tournament on Saturday, but ultimately, they can do whatever they want. I'm not going to disallow them from playing on Saturday, because these same teams were already interested in going prior to the CEVO announcement. You have to expect the biggest NA TF2 LAN to have teams of all kinds of skill levels, regardless if it's a full roster or a pug team.

Why not make the tournament without a buy-in, since the $2000 pot is already there?

The $2000 alone is good enough for players to compete for, but I'm afraid that we'll get an asinine amount of teams if we have free entry, which poses some problems. If we had a tournament full of 40-50 teams, there is pretty much no way that we will get done in a single day. There would be issues with many different kinds of resources, and it would be a giant struggle to get everything done in an orderly fashion. The buy-in assures that the players are actually interested in playing in the tournament. Additionally, this is a Pro-series tournament. All Pro-series tournaments require some kind of buy-in, otherwise it would just be considered a regular tournament and wouldn't follow a competitive format (pretty much all regular tournaments are single elimination with a very laid-back ruleset).

Is the tournament really limited to 20 teams?

Currently, yes. This number can change if necessary, but we needed to put a cap on teams just for the sake of making a floor-plan for tables and power, just to start somewhere. If it becomes apparent that we need to raise the cap on teams, that can be done. There are quite a few people coming to spectate, so don't take the attendee list at face value.

Are you adamant about this buy-in change?

I like the idea, but I'm not absolutely adamant about it. With some of the posts in this thread over the past few days, I've thought a few things over and felt like this might be a good change. If there wasn't a $2000 pot already, then I would still absolutely suggest a $20 buy-in. Instead of making the change without any kind of input, I came here for input from everyone.

So, yeah, give input. :3

(While driving by a cemetery)

"Hey, try to guess how many people are dead in that cemetery?"

I got like 300 street passes at EVO, but holy shit, it's so annoying to only get 10 street passes at a time.

You said you were done with this thread two pages ago, yet an incredible majority of the posts are arguing against your negative attitude.

And don't tell people what to do with their money. You wouldn't be complaining about the $20 buy-in if the $2000 wasn't there already. So what, I'm supposed to just make everyone exempt from the buy-in because of the $2000 that came out of eXtv's/my pocket? Because let me tell you, not too many people would give a shit if this tournament had no buy-in and no prize pool. Yeah, it would still draw a crowd, but I promise you that a lot more people wouldn't give a shit if they got the same thing regardless if they finish second or dead last: nothing at all (first place has always been like a mouse or keyboard, etc). Sure, this isn't all about the prizes or money, but if you give me an unusual for finishing 7th place, I start to care a little more, and if I get a few keys and other cool things for finishing dead last, then I don't feel like my money is completely wasted.

And speaking of last place, I have something cool for people who finish in last place. But hey, my whole plan behind this is just making people donate $20 to the "haha look at the CEVO-P repeat on Saturday" tournament, right?

The pug draft tournament happens pretty much every LAN during Friday, so that can certainly still happen if everyone is interested.

Because I've said this is a team format since day 1. I've literally never implied that this would be a draft at any point since my original post in February. Before, we had silly draft tournament on Friday nights that meant absolutely nothing.

If I told all CEVO-P teams that they cannot play on their own team, they will unquestionably make a team comprised of Invite players with an extremely comparable skill level, only to achieve top 4 all over again. There is no way I can possibly say "No! Your pug consisting of Cyzer, Xalox, Platinum, and enigma is too good!" because that's subjective in likely comparison to other Invite pugs.

I don't know what you expect me to do here, dude. I'm not gonna make the teams.