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This is a little more Southeast Asian though and not confirmed Halal.

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Don't. You gain no support from playing the "oh yeah I expect to be crucified but it's okay you don't have to play if you don't want to <3" to play victim. You gain no sympathy for playing the "oh these mean 6v6 players and their elitist attitude" card to appeal to the others. You gain no pity from being passive-aggressive towards people you are advertising to. But I know you're not advertising to 6v6 - you're advertising to TF2. You want to see what else you can craft with TF2's potential. You want to open people's minds up to more than just one way of TF2. As do many others before, during, and after you.

I also know people have said some volatile, disgusting shit in this thread against you. I get that. I get you don't owe anybody anything. But if you're going to commit to this fully, I want to at least see you have more faith in this than "yeah it might suck but" - but what? Data? From 2 days? From a few scrims and surveys?

Forgive me if somebody already said this but a whole $2,500 seasonal tournament or league than a 2-day cup will yield more results. You can collect more data with a whole season of people having time to develop strategy or sticking to the same boring shit. A 2-day cup? People will not commit to opening their minds beyond 2-days vs. a whole season. They've watched Valve Games, they've watched Prolander. Off-class Lo-Fi Cups, Ready Steady Pan - all showmatches and tourneys. And they will say the same thing: "oh, that was fun to watch! why don't leagues allow X more or let Y happen?".

UGC has run 4v4 for a while. eXtelevision focused on Arena Respawn. We can see exactly what works and what doesn't about both of those formats because they had multiple seasons. Leagues are running a global whitelist for 6s, made by 6v6 players who know the flaws of it, to see if we were actually wrong - or if we'll never see the light of support from Valve until we lie and say we were wrong.

7v7 1-class limit for a few weeks for $2,500? I don't know if you can back those logistics what with HL and 6s also being on the regular, but again - you'd have more to show from that than 2 days. But I also imagine if this is a success, you'll want to do this more, see what other ways you can count the ways of how to play TF2. And of course: your money, your game. Not our game. Good luck, still lft.

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Any chance this map'll be compatible for SFM sometime in the future? I need this for reasons. Also, the TF2Maps download button is taking me to an Imgur link.

What were their reasoning for not including the custom content? I honestly was really hopeful for at least the competitive-related decals movement to start becoming a thing in TF2 to help strengthen competitive presence.

Sideshow doing the SDB

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LAN death has attacked me full force. It is Day 1 of home recovery, pray for my weak ass.

It was awesome to be at the event, everything bad you heard such as scheduling or security are all true though. The games were great, but in terms of walking freely around, Barclay's security and ESL had tons of miscommunication leading to us (let alone the players and VIP) getting yelled at a lot. We had to film everybody standing up which isn't that comfortable - we basically caught RedEye in a hallway and for everybody else, basically stood in front of a press backdrop with our camera already set up for hours. Shoutout to the security guard who was really chill and stuck up for our press asses over this scary woman and his supervisor, shoutout to the press organizers who helped out their whole crew including our scrub asses.

Some dude behind me kept screaming SIT THE FUCK DOWN to the Na'Vi kids in the sidelines even though they were sitting down while cheering over LET'S GO VP so I'm kind of also glad his ass got told. Wish SF or CSGO got its own day to shine, I came back just as the dudes at the analyst desk were thanking and praising the smaller fighting game community and I got pissed off just thinking how Twitch chat was reacting. Empty row I kept leaving and coming back to in the VIP section near the stage was a testament to the event's flaws itself - that or no NA teams. But Guardian's reaction alone and everybody singing HAPPY BIRTHDAY S1MPLE was worth it, games-wise I'm glad I got to watch it live after running back and forth trying to organize interviews.

House of Cards US

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By _deebree from the Scout VA segment

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By hypo-thermick

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Imgur at the venue is currently giving me some sass, but we have a few setup photos so far on the gallery taken by Sideshow, Tagg, Dashner and I (whoever could get their hands on the camera really).

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Our Twitter activity is where it's at for all the action. The Tip of the Hats' Twitter account will post up photos as the event is live, erynn and Getawhale Periscope every now and then, and Whisker also has some fun BTS photos!