Jeff is such a br0.

This. Typically, it's the day after Halloween when they start playing Christmas commercials and music.

Christmas music is also the same eight songs, all remixed and redone by a hundred other people. Gets pretty meh.

Thaaaat is a great idea.

Oh, hm. That would probably be a little hard to coordinate. I dunno, it's up to everyone else.

Nothing outside of a few small pub servers for each game. Some of the pub servers run competitive plugins/mods, but it's still not that big. I play Quake 2 with Justin from time to time and the servers we go on are fine.

Paid. If I don't move my seat later on, looks like ctrlfmuffin and I will be playing Street Fighter and Stepmania for 99% of the event.

I guess I also need a team. :O Scout would be cool.

Maybe reserve N if you can? I know for a fact we'll fill up at least one more table but that probably will not happen for another month.

You can change seats whenever you want, right? I think I might be sitting with IRL friends but maybe I should get a spot in the TF2 section for now.

I'll be leaving right from my job in New Castle, DE around 5 PM or so. I can pick up one person as long as it's not too far out of the way.

^Actually that might be a problem, because I won't be driving towards Delaware to go home, because I live in south Jersey. I guess if someone only needs a ride there and not a ride back, I can do that? I dunno, I might be able to work something if someone really needs a ride.

rick, stop being responsible.

I'll go if ender wants to money-match again in street fighter :3

I get what you're saying, but that exact scenario he was in had a .0001% chance of working (I calculated it and all! :D). The position of the enemy soldiers was a simple RJ to the point (which if you watch it again, they did exactly that). It was more of the enemy team's fault for having about five people try to kill the medic, but again, they were fairly close to the point to get to it in time anyway.

Doing the killbind isn't even just the safe thing to do, it's the logical thing to do. You can't bid on the enemy team being dumb in a situation like that when you're a medic. Uber advantage and overheals (and obviously just heals in general) dictate an incredibly large portion of the game.

I completely disagree. Absolutely not. You miss an entire spawn wave (so the medic won't be spawning with the soldiers that just died) and you give the other team an extra ~30% uber (which amounts to being about ~60-70% after the medic spawns). When the soldiers spawn, the pocket must then decide if he wants to wait an extra 15 seconds for medic, or if he should try to hold whatever point needs to be held. The former decision means it'll be easier for the enemy team to retake, while the latter means the medic won't be building during the entire time going to the point (which pretty much guarantees a 100% to 0% uber disadvantage).

It only almost worked because the enemy team allowed it to be that way. They didn't need ~5 people trying to kill the lone medic while ignoring the point. In this scenario, you actually want the medic to screw around behind and intentionally delay his death. Thus, you basically choose when to kill the medic, you have massive uber advantage, the other team will have no heals, and you are practically guaranteed a point (and probably more). We've done this in Invite for a long time and I'm well-aware of it. Medics have a "kill" bind for much more than just getting a better spawn.

The part at 2:45 had some nice jukes, but you delayed your inevitable death by 12 seconds (and likely much longer if the enemy team allowed it).

Other than that, I liked some of the surfs and crossbows. :3

It's exactly that, an incredibly ballsy move. In his situation, it obviously involved zero risk because the other team had six dead. In most situations where there are enemies lingering around and you have less than 20 HP, then yeah, it's incredibly hard to deal with that situation. If you're in an area with no real safety (like if you're attacking an enemy's second point on Badlands and you just took a bunch of damage on their gray bridge), it's so easy to be dealt ~20 damage from just about anywhere or anything. On top of the fact that if an enemy knows they just dealt 100+ damage to you, their new team objective for the next moment will likely be to shoot a few shots of anything at all and finish you. No matter how mindful you are of your surroundings, these shots can come from just about any angle and distance, and there's little you can do about it (other than use uber and/or get to safety to regen / get health packs).

I would say this is why medics in Open (or below) drop their ubers a pretty good amount of the time.

Is the "things are gonna go my way and that's that" routine really becoming the popular thing to do as an admin for this game? I mean, really, this entire competitive scene has one end goal: to make the community grow which will then brew more competition. Making the grand finals a joke by forcing a grand finals match on a Friday with two ringers (and possibly a 5v6) is simply a waste of time. Regardless of the result, no one wants to see the match filled with ringers. People want to see a grand finals match with all 12 starters. This way, there are no excuses or what-ifs in the scenario of ringers, and people will get to (ideally) see a good show.

If you don't care what people want to see, then perhaps you're fucking retarded and you shouldn't be an admin. I'm not specifically talking about ETF2L, I'm talking about just about anywhere. I'm not saying spectators and players should perpetually get their way with a majority vote, but it's situations like these that some admins just refuse to deal with for no good reason at all other than personal bullshit. This is a grand finals match. What the fuck.

Yes, I'm completely aware that both teams have conflicting schedules during this time, but I find it ridiculous that it can't be delayed. In fact, it CAN be delayed, the admins just choose not to. Sure, I understand that you don't want matches delayed by months, but this is not only the grand finals, but it's also Christmas time. People's real lives come into play during the month of December, and TF2 is not our full-time job. Likewise, being an admin is not your full-time job, either. Now you're threatening a team to forfeit their earnings? I'm sorry, is this your personal money that you're handing out that you are so incredibly offended that they have real-life obligations and other things to tend to? You are truly doing an awesome job at making the community grow in a drama-free manner, because who the fuck cares about leniency and giving a shit about the game?

And then you also threaten to ban them?

aw yiss, tf2 being forever plagued by shit admins 8))))))