big shoutout to SteinerW for saving the day letting us use one of his extra PC's, ur a lifesaver
also big ups to spades for coming in clutch with the carpool driving all the way from boston and enduring my dumb ass for 9hrs both ways lmao (same goes for tery, saam and gritoma but spades is the real mvp for driving us all)
shoutouts to my teammates obviously for being the homies and playing super well on lan, everyone definitely pulled their own weight and had their own crazy moments
despite all the technical difficulties, arguing/tilt, and shitty comms, we put it behind us and were able to focus up and clean up our play, really amazing to play on a team with an ability to do that and work together so well
more specifically tho huge shoutout to habib for bein the fuckin man and playing with us and pounding, and for being a great teammate, bringing that lan champ expertise to the table and helping bring out the best in all of us
shoutout to sandblast for actually showing up this year (lmao) and having a fuckin crazy first ever lan performance, i knew u had it in u but i think it's safe to say you surprsied everyone with how well you played, good shit my man
i may have given u shit and memed about eating bugs but it was great to finally meet u, u a chill mofo
shoutout to trip for playing really well and coordinating with sigh/yosh super well, u guys had some sick plays (also saying fuck u to the haters and proving ur not a choker, #1 roamer in our hearts)
shoutout to sigh for fuckin pounding & for bringing the Spirit of Fiji to bless our team
shoutout to yosh for farming with my 240hz rental, and showing that the ball meme is viable on lan too, u are the Chosen Worm.
huge shoutouts to the cafe boys for being so chill and agreeing to play a bo5 starting at like 11pm for grand finals, those were some super fuckin close games (aside from map1 where u rolled us lmao), some of the most intense tf2 ive ever played for sure, awesome to have such strong competition and having to fight tooth and nail for every round
shoutouts to the 20b guys for being fucking hilarious and bringin that 20banger together lmao, also ckj for comin down to lan just to hang with the boys
shoutout to tambo for being an actual giant and for being the funniest dude ever
shoutout to nurbey for showing up to an rgb lan finally and for chillin with us, ford gaming powered by nurbey
shoutout to tery and everyone in the airbnb friday for dealing with my shit, i was so gone lmfao
shoutout to alfa for bein the homie (and comin thru with my stella and shit from the duty free) it was good to finally meet u and hear the Third-World accent in person
shoutout to console for putting in mad work to get the stream production done and everything behind the scenes, hope u get some sleep and recover well cause u were basically dead rofl
shoutout to the fragile for putting in all the work to actaully get the lan together, u the goat
shoutout to everyone who showed up and made lan such an awesome time for everyone, i'll probably edit and add more people later but u all were awesome to hang with and it makes me super glad to be a part of this community

Tried to get into lan but apparently they're not letting ppl in until 12pm
Edit: ok nvm the side door to hall b they're letting tf2 ppl in

Yo where's everyone staying anyone else at the Hampton?

Big shtinky noob rikachu pwned epically yet again

blue boyz represent

Apparently the rentals don't come with Ethernet cables, can anyone let me borrow one for lan? The one I have at home isn't long enough and doesn't even have the little lock things to secure it so it'd probably get knocked out at lan lmao
edit: thx console

Though this is totally true, I also think there's something to be said about analyzing your and the other team's play and readjusting in the second half and adapt on that specific map. If a team is able to come back from being rolled 3-0 on the first half it definitely shows that they were able to properly adapt their playstyle and showed themselves to be the better team. Losing one map and winning the next is one thing but bringing it back on an even playing field simply due to halftime adjustments is so much harder and I think the esea two halves system rightfully rewards teams like froyo who are able to do this.
On another note I feel like in a competitive game it's kind of lame to have the possibility of ties with one team winning map one and another winning map. I guess maybe it would be nice to be able to say "yeah we took one map off them" versus the sad "we were up on them on halftime and then choked and lost", but at the end of the day I definitely think it's worth it to have a definitive winner.

https://www.twitch.tv/yight/clip/ModernHotTardigradeCharlietheUnicorn?filter=clips&range=30d&sort=time

lmao if i didn't know better i would think you live on a fuckin remote island in the middle of nowhere cause that's the only way to explain this horrible service and it taking so long for people to come out

pretty much all ISP's in america suck but this is excruciatingly terrible, my condolences

sounds like someone's fishing for a cheap win...

I once popped uber by accident in an invite match (new mouse in my defense fuck logitech that shits way too sensitive) in a tied game vs froyo black and then we lost the round and went into half time and me and my whole team were so demoralized that we ended up getting shit stomped in the second half :/

Another good one is I went afk for a minute to talk to my mom and came back to find that the map had changed and I lost all my progress in the 5 hour run I had been doing of jump_baqu (hadn't done any tier 6's yet and I was on the last jump, #62 I believe, which is a quint to prefire triple ceiling sync but I was mad close, it was so sad)

Yea exactly that's why I said what I did l lol, having a pause able to be effectively as long as you want let's you go to the bathroom or do whatever and can be an easy way to kill momentum if a team is winning and everyone's in the zone and then can't play for 5+ mins and get less focused/hyped up

This would be way too confusing both for spectators and for players as you're just swapping colors to shoot at each round I'm sure someone could space out and forget for a minute and then shoot the wrong people. The other thing is most maps are sufficiently well made that neither side has any real advantages so it doesn't matter much. Gullywash has the lamp that you can hide on that favors one team but other than that there's not much. Default badlands has the antlers in house to hide on and the vent in the sky for red side so that's just a strictly better side but it seems the new league will be using prolands instead (the antlers are a cool hiding spot that is actually hard to get up in consistently and doesn't offer much value but can reward you for knowing the map and knowing how to do the specific low jump right, don't see why it got removed in prolands but that's beside the point, the vent is mad dumb tho lmao)

Another thing that we should figure out as a community is the ruling on using wallbugs on invisible clipping in the skybox as a hiding spot. I think it's really lame and unreasonable for everyone in the league to go around the map learning every single one, not to mention that they give soldiers such a crazy advantage. There's a reason the map makers didn't add random ledges in the sky above snake choke or process rollout, cause that shit makes no sense and gives the player too big an advantage. It's not hard to do consistently as people like laz and kaptain have shown (just look at boshy he does it in speedruns and consistently hits wallbugs every single time) and doesn't add anything interesting to the game so I think they should be banned as if they're an exploit. Using a wallbug to avoid fall damage is negligible and I've only ever seen it done once but I see it like doing an edgebug to avoid fall damage, so irrelevant but props to you if you happen to do it (you can also jumpbug and avoid fall damage too but I've only ever seen it done in mge)

In the survey it asks which playoff ban order you prefer but these all seem a bit silly, I think it should just be one ban each, pick pick, then alternate bans down to the last map so both teams get a say in it. I think that's the most fair way of doing it and only doing 5 total bans and then one team picking at the end seems like it just gives that team too much control over the deciding map.

Maybe the second seed should have more control over the third in playoffs though to reward them a little, as is the seeds really don't matter at all because you just play the other one with equal footing as far as I know (you do get to choose if you want to be team A or B if you're the higher seed I think but they don't make much difference)

I think if they had like 90 second tac pauses you could do in between rounds that would be a really good feature, or just allowing a pause of whatever duration, and allowing them to do that for a tac pause (technically I think you're not supposed to tac pause in esea but ppl still do. Having a shorter one for both teams to discuss shit and figure out what they wanna fix would be good versus the 'oh lemme go to the bathroom' or get a drink or whatever that u will do with normal pauses lol