Which team will be the most entertaining to watch?

Email them I guess

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fastest way is usually to ask in #obsproject on quakenet

You've already mentioned that there are other arenas that engender different styles of play and practise different elements of your game, so I don't see how this is a point of confusion.

Edit: I should probably mention at this point that I main Scout, whereas I believe June and Zigster are Pocket and Roamer respectively.

I'm not going to answer your question about Endif because it's been made clear that my view of MGE deviates from the predefined way you "should" play. But your phrasing is continually giving the impression that you think winning in MGE is important, which seems silly and unproductive to me.

Well, I've already explained that isn't what I took the term "rocket surfing" to mean, and can tell you from experience that the one I did mean is not a very viable strategy for winning 1v1s, but again, winning is not something I feel is all that important in a training mode.
I think this disagreement stems from my misunderstanding of what June termed "rocket surfing" which sounds like a behaviour similar to counter-jumping, in his case. Obviously that's quite annoying since it has no applicability outside MGE and isn't something you would reasonably expect to encounter outside of it.

Maybe so, could you tell me?

blaze, read the tftv rules.

Well exactly, it's not a winning strategy in the context of the arena so I don't see why it would madden your opponent if they do care about MGE points. You are, in a sense, willingly taking damage which seems illogical. But to reference the latter half of your post, the benefit of training rocket surfing, at least to me, is that is that it helps you to form positive outcomes from what on the surface appears to be a negative event.
As you say, it's better to avoid damage entirely, and that is often possible in the context of the 1v1 scenario that MGE places you in. In a full 6v6 game, however, it may not be possible in some circumstance to avoid damage entirely. Being comfortable with rocket surfing gives you the ability to perhaps take some small amount of damage but reposition yourself so that you don't take a potentially much larger amount of damage after dodging that first rocket then staying in the same position.

It seems we have different interpretations of "rocket surfing". The one I envisioned was more akin to that which Medics do, and doesn't offer much in terms of combat advantage as you usually spend your time facing away from your opponent. You shouldn't assume that every time someone does something different that it's an exploitative technique to one-up you in a minigame.

There's a setting to only show recently active users. Right click the names in the mumble overlay preview.

Spending your time flying away from your opponent in fairly obvious directions seems like a strange tactic to gain points, but ok.

From my perspective I try to consider the people I am playing against as bots, bots that sometimes play in annoying ways but whatever they're just bots. Helps you to not get too invested in the process and maintain that goal of improving in the macro context.

Sounds like a really cool idea. However, is this going to be a problem? http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3161984

What's wrong with rocket surfing in ammomod? It's the only fun to be had in that arena.

alias dm "incrementvar hud_saytext_time 0 12 12; con_filter_text your attacker; incrementvar developer 0 1 1; incrementvar con_filter_enable 0 1 1;" 
bind "=" "dm"

I don't get followed around on MGE fortunately, but thought I would share this bind or (different kind of) alias I use to toggle on chat and opponent health display on DM. Not sure what the string is in MGE but just replace "your attacker" with something suitable. WantedGOV DM especially spams a load of coloured text in chat which is pretty distracting. I appreciate that this doesn't prevent the issue of being followed around arenas but it at least sorts the attention seeking part.