this is fucking fantastic news.

I also want to add that even if I think that the NA ruleset is better, I'd still use the EU ruleset for GXL. The EU ruleset is much better for LAN tournaments, because it's typically much quicker in every way possible (unless teams trade rounds rapidly without any kind of stalemates, which is unlikely).

Still, I believe that the EU ruleset is superior in just about every way. I don't really buy into switching sides at halftime anymore, because I feel like most maps have been fixed/modified to be symmetrical (or symmetrical enough).

I wouldn't be opposed to 20 minute halves, but I think it would be much healthier for competitive TF2 to have a universal ruleset. Regardless of the decision, GXL will still use the EU ruleset.

This. This entirely.

This shit is getting really dumb.

I'll put your team down once all six of you are paid. :]

Going to start updating the second post with a team list and a "looking for team" list. Please post your team roster or if you're looking for a team.

If you're looking for a team, please put the class(es) you play and perhaps your skill as well (ESEA-IM, UGC-Gold, etc.) If you haven't played in any leagues, then describe your skill loosely, lol.

Right now, there is roughly a 20 team limit, but I have leverage on this limit at any time. It's only set to 20 at this very moment due to spacing and power of the venue, but if we need to throw in a few more teams, I should be able to make it happen. However, I probably don't want to make this tournament any bigger than 24 teams, due to the schedule of trying to get this done all in one day.

You will not be put down on any kind of list unless you are paid. If your attendance to the event is contingent on you being on a team, then you'll have to find a team through your own research if you don't feel like paying beforehand.

Back in beta, some guys on my Unreal Tournament 2004 / Day of Defeat: Source team started to play TF2. They started about a week before me, so when I showed up, they were like "ayo, you should medic."

And yeah.

Gotta agree that the EU ruleset is better than the NA ruleset.

GXL will be using the EU ruleset. :]

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hahahah I COULDN'T SAY NO

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lol, thank you for taking a picture of my medic form :3

This is how I've played for many years. Middle finger almost an inch above mouse2 to prevent accidental ubers while swiping the mouse quickly. I never really had a problem doing so, but I never wanted it to be a potential issue at any point.

HYPEHYPEHYPE

EVO is this weekend, and I figured I'd make the yearly thread a couple days early just to post some of our brackets. I would imagine that they would update the brackets live, but I think I've seen some brackets that never got updated (in previous years).

I'll be posting twitter updates with stuff that happens as the event goes on. We will record our matches and post them here after the event is over.

All times are PST.

TheFragile
USF4 Friday @ 4 PM
UMvC3 Saturday @ 8 AM
I'll sign up for Super Street Fighter II Turbo if none of my pools interfere.

Shrugger
USF4 Friday @ 4 PM

Basik
USF4 Friday @ 2 PM
Melee Friday @ 4 PM

Ctrl+f Muffin! did sign up and is in some USF4 pool, but he's not going. :[

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If anyone else in the TF2 community is going, post your bracket. :]

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If I go 2-2 USF4, I'll be content, considering I haven't practiced as much as I wanted to. I went 2-2 at EVO 2011 with a somewhat hard pool, though my pool has pretty decent players in it this year as well. If I win just one match in UMvC3, I'll be happy, lol. I'm not incredibly experienced in UMvC3, but I think I'll do okay.

It's really hard to say who will win USF4 because the game is so new, but I think Daigo will get top 4 at the very least. Maybe Infiltration will take it. Hopefully this is the first year that an American wins an EVO Street Fighter title, but I kinda doubt it.

I really think this is ChrisG's year to win UMvC3, which sucks because everyone hates his team (myself included) because it's so lame. ChrisG has been too dominant this year, but Apologyman's team is equally as lame and dumb. Hoping someone like Justin Wong, Marvelo, or RayRay takes it.

Let me comment on this.

Do I think we are 4th best in NA? No. I firmly believe we are 3rd. We've scrimmed 20b quite a bit throughout the season, and while they would almost always keep it close, we would usually win in the end (regardless if we are talking scrims or matches). All 4 LAN teams would usually keep things close throughout the season, no matter who played who. The important thing to note is that this LAN was incredibly competitive, because if any team had any kind of misstep or let the smallest thing slip by, that could be the difference between winning and losing.

We fucked up at LAN. Period. We had a lot of mistakes and 20b took advantage of that. None of us are "online" or any dumb bullshit like that. 20b was on their shit, and we just got clumsy at the worst times. They stepped it up when it mattered the most, and I give them a lot of praise for that.

Would it have been a mistake if we beat mix^ today and we went to i52? Absolutely not. We are extremely capable of beating mix^, but they were the better team.

All I give a shit about is sending the best two teams in NA to i52. If that happened to be us, then awesome. If not, then awesome. If we went, we would have done every single possible thing within our power to take it home for NA. I just want another NA grand finals. That's all I want from this.

I thought Warsow was gonna be on steam? I know it's free and all, but I thought it was greenlit a long time ago.

I really suggest learning to rocket jump without a script. It will feel effortless after a while.

For anyone unaware of Buick, he has played medic for an extremely long time (with a few breaks here and there). His medic style is extremely solid, and he has always been one of the best analyzers of medic play. I'll be looking forward to this.

Basically, get this man on an invite team.

Ehh, there's a few parts where it could get kinda bad for kids. I think after you beat the first or second boss, a ton of squirrels (or something similar) die in a somewhat brutal fashion, lol.

Only suggestion I can think of that hasn't been mentioned yet is the BIT.TRIP RUNNER games. Pretty straight-forward and a lot of fun.

I'd post mine but they are on rando's flash drive and I don't know if I want to post demos of us fail-pushing last 500 times :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDdddddddddd