I don't think we need to change 6s (or HL) to build bridges or close the gap with the casual community. The problem is simply that casual and competitive are different and they'll always be different. Even if you could play any class you wanted in 6s the strategy and mental would be completely different from casual.

Every successful competitive game allows you to play the exact same game mode as the pros, even if you're just playing casually. If a promod could allow people to play "casual 6s" in an unranked queue it would go a long way towards teaching how the gamemlde works. Then you could have a ranked queue for people who want to try a little more and get good. As players reach high ranks joining an organized league like RGL/ETF2L becomes the obvious next step. I know that was the hope for Valve competitive and that utterly failed, but I think the community could do better this time around.

One thing that might ease the transition for many players would be the ability to be compatible with normal TF2 servers. I'm not a modder so I don't know if it's possible to do this or if Valve would want you to do this, but it would make installing a separate game more attractive to a lot of users, even those who don't play competitive.

Pretty convenient how all of a sudden RGL has an excuse to close the forums

They should at least show weapons that didn't do damage like banners/gunboats/melees

https://i.imgur.com/hX7VHhQ.png

The old team is still working on their version, it just won't be under RGL if it comes out.

Even if we accept that the gap between 6s and casual is large, the solution can't be to just throw up our hands and give up on attracting TF2 players, because the gap between 6s and another game is even larger. Sure, players from other competitive games might have a better mindset and have better aim, but TF2 has tough mechanical and knowledge curves just like any other game. The success rate of recruiting them will be low because unless they really like the experience from the outset and want to make it their primary game, the potential hundreds of hours they could put into getting halfway decent at TF2 by competitive standards could be put into getting even better at whatever game they came from. Teaching casual TF2 players 6s is not teaching them how to play a whole new game, but teaching them a new way to think about their favorite game that they already know the mechanics of and enjoy playing.

The stuff at the end of the map confirmation articles are the only things from the surveys that get posted judging by the last few seasons. I wish there would be a separate article like HL does that shows the results for the questions division by division, but they didn't get one last season either. Maybe they could just make the spreadsheet available somewhere without the personal info and free responses if the articles are too much work to write.

It still has a smaller splash damage radius and less fuse time for the rollers, it's not just the difference in pipe physics.

Valve adds the medals in that they add each season number to the item schema, but the actual distribution of medals to players once they're added is up to RGL. S7 medals were added to the game on June 21 and it took RGL about two weeks to send them.

Do you and your friend run mastercomfig/another extensive config? My friend and I don't have 4gb ram, but we both had mastercomfig and we noticed after every death that lagged, our configs were reexecuting, sometimes twice in a row. Since my friend with a weaker computer was lagging far more than me, maybe its something that reloads the config and the lag is from resetting all the graphics settings?

https://streamable.com/al12ej

Also we literally have already had someone who was banned for predatory behavior attempting to come back into the community by trying to minimize their actions and claim their ban was unfair, this being a ban which was covered in a detailed article on RGL and about which the accusations were very publicly made. Obviously in this case the information was private and should be kept private, but a short notice stating the nature of the ban on their profile need not include anything about what happened, who was involved, or any other information that would be private or spread gossip. Lack of context about a ban invites misinformation about its justification or fairness that could potentially influence someone who wasn't around when it was made.

https://youtu.be/QzZoo1yAQag

Not sure how much of this was said in this thread already but this is a more accessible explanation

I mean yeah, if someone is still bragging about their LLWS win when they're in college or above they're a bit of a tool, and I think the same goes for RGL. Since AM winners don't get any money or special medals, anyone who sandbags in AM is doing it so they can brag for clout or just to be a dick and stomp lower level players. If someone came on here flaunting an AM win from like 5 seasons ago to prove they're good they'd probably be laughed off.