https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eEcctQZ1PA

For me at least I think a pug system can be successful with the following:
- Game not starting within 5 minutes will end the pug and ban the players who didn't join for 24 hours. Don't add up if you're not ready to play. It's not that hard.
- 24 hour ban if subbed after a certain amount of games (3 subbed = 24 hours ban, then reset)
- Clear mumble channels after game ends. It was really annoying joining a mumble channel to play and it's filled with 5+ people from the last game screaming at each other. Just move everyone to a post game channel afterwards.
- Mirror bans from ETF2L.

I like the idea of having captains at peak times and having ELO tied to games that are captained at least.

I think the biggest challenge is the moderation. And I think it actually applies a lot more to the B pugs mainly. As those are the ones that end up just getting ruined by a captain that was desperate to put themselves on scout.

The system where if you got 5-0'd you got a captain ban was a good idea. But I'd like to see a decent report system for players/captains. Not to report for the skill level part but mainly for the behavior.

also forgot another product: https://www.amazon.co.uk/DELTAHUB-Carpio-2-0-Right-Handed-Anti-Fatigue/dp/B098PD9LSC

It's a small wrist rest with ptfe feet on the underside, so an extension of your mouse kinda. I've heard a few good things about these.

Also forgot about another mouse that exists. This one I'm currently reviewing: https://www.keychron.com/collections/mice-collection/products/keychron-m6-wireless-mouse

Good sensor, 4000hz version available. Around 78g.

It's designed similarly to the Logitech MX Master mice that are often mentioned when it comes to more ergonomically friendly mice. But the M6 is actually able to play games with.

The Trust GXT 144 as mentioned above is pretty much the only vertical mouse that has 1000hz polling from what I've seen. There's some others that exist on amazon but they are mainly just OEM garbage that have different names. Anything that has at least 10,000 DPI should hopefully be 1000hz if they don't mention in it their product pages.

I used the GXT 144 quite a bit and it's pretty decent. I found it comfortable to use and didn't take long for me to adjust to it either. There's a few downsides to it though.

1. Because of how you hold it, it can be a bit top heavy. Sometimes the mouse would tilt to one side especially when swiping.
2. The mouse feet were pretty awful. You might be able to rectify this with some after market skates. Dot skates would be best, just make sure they are around 0.7mm thick.

Outside of that the only thing you can do is to actually look at your setup in general.

Everything from desk height to in game sensitivity can cause pain when playing. Sometimes things like tension whilst playing can be a key contributor as well. There's so many factors that can cause pain that it's best to find out what the root cause is as you might end up going down a rabbit hole and still find no proper solution to your issue.

am i chill?

probably one the hardest ones today.

add: warhuryeah

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/719iklqbaYL.jpg

Pretty much. Like I said though the GAAS model for it has put me off the last 3 months as playing ranked is just a metric of how long you can play for instead of a measurement of skill.

This is a point I was going to bring up, a big issue for organisations for a lot of games at the moment is that the players do the bare minimum for organisations.
A lot of press related stuff is done for specific tournaments. Or at the start when the player first signs for the organisation. For some traditional sports you really have to do quite a bit of sponsorship work that is required with your contract. And that can be throughout the season.
Not only that but the players also work out their own brand deals with other companies, you'll hardly see any of that in esports.

Sponsors aren't going to pay teams big money when the only marketing they get back is from good tournament placements.

In regards to CS being boring or w/e. It's successful because the competitive game mode is easy to understand, for the most part it's clear to see what's going on as well. There has also over time been different "eras" of CS where certain teams have come a long and made a mark with their unique play styles.

Valve events are going for Saudi & UAE money. DOTA2 in China is dying out due to poor quality matchmaking which is why a lot of Chinese pros now play on the SEA server (obviously outside of the rules the Chinese government set).

In general I feel a lot of "e-sport" titles suffer heavily from the GAAS model. The pressure of every developer having to add more and more to the game to keep player retention up and revenue growing. It's also a factor as why CS is a bit of an anomaly for most games as their employees can move to different projects depending on the current focus. E.g. more employees working on CS2, then moving to other areas once released, same with dota2 events.

For me I think a good example of this is possibly Apex Legends, where the foundation of the game is actually really good. It has great feeling guns (for the most part) and heaps of potential for movement tech. It's just massively held back by partly the BR format and the GAAS model. The balancing cycle can really harm the game and at the moment it's pushed forward a lot more to a player retention angle, which results in poor quality matchmaking etc.

In my experience and I NEVER thought I'd say this. But the ALGS tournaments were actually really fucking good. The format they have is actually pretty great and creates a lot of high stakes excitement.

There's a lot of variables that I think heavily effects whether a game actually can become a potential e-sport which would take ages to go through.

Some books I've read since last time:
Hyperion series - Book 1 was really great. Listened to the audio book version which was really cool with great performances. Book 3 I didn't really enjoy that much.
I Am Legend - Pretty neat book.
Rendezvous with Rama
Carrion Comfort - Pretty enjoyable but gets a bit wacky.
The Terror - This was a very cool book. Loved the format.
The City and The City - This was a hard read for me at first but I got engrossed in how bizarre it was at points.
Perdido Street Station & The Scar - These were also a tricky read for me personally (I'm dumb). Mainly because I struggle to concentrate whilst reading sometimes and the weird as fuck names and concepts threw me off. But I'm really glad I stuck with it. The world building and concepts are incredible.

Also on book 8 of WOT. Was struggling to keep going on the last couple of books, I was getting tired of having a detailed description of what people were wearing all the time.

i remember the ESL AC guy (anakin?) who had secretly added a screen grabber to take screenshots of players in game pov to find hacks.

what i do remember one of them tarkus was voted the worst player of the season or some shit and he was running hacks

found the thread: https://etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-21038/page-24/?recent=406689#post-406387

It's like the second coming of jesus