It's true that a demo will be weaker in a 1v1 while using the loose cannon and that it is mainly used for mid-range and you're pretty defenseless at short range. But I think you would also agree that most demos that find themselves in a 1v1 or allow themselves to be over extended to that point will generally lose that 1v1 and are already pretty defenseless. Most demos tend to play mid/long range spam and avoid unnecessary fights/damage taken, furthering the advantage of using loose cannon. The pipes also have a smaller splash radius and are easier to dodge while coming through a choke, whereas the donks themselves are just as easy but the splash radius from them is much greater. So although it might only do 60~ damage, it's more common to get hit by them and lose 40-60 hp on 2-3 players coming into a fight instead of being able to dodge the pipes and the only way to get hit by them is to take a direct 100 damage pipe or walk into rollers which is far less common.

Also disregarding all the damage/defense issues that are being spoken of, my main point is that it doesn't even fully follow its own weapon description. It will randomly launch people forward after getting donked. The weapon is undeniably broken in that sense and needs a fix.

https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Loose_cannon

Are people for it or against it? I'm personally against it. Randomly spamming chokes or corners and being rewarded with a 1 hit kill on a medic with uber can be devastating. The weapon description says cannonballs push players back on impact, this is partly untrue and I'm sure most of you guys have experienced this while playing. There will be random times when you get hit by the weapon and launched forward out of choke into the enemy instead of being pushed away to safety. Overall, I feel the weapon is considered broken if it can't even follow its own weapon description. It should be removed from competitive play until that mechanic has been fixed and then reassessed afterwards.

Thoughts for/against it in ESEA S20?

Apologies, I can't fit all of this on to 1 post.

Again, really dude? You know NOTHING on any of these situations, yet somehow you feel the need to post and we're the bad guys? Clockwork reached out to kaidus to set up a showmatch with them and he messaged clockwork back telling him he forgot to talk to his team. Thats where we're at dude. What do you want from us? Clearly OTHER people, everyone included here, makes mistakes. Yes, I can't wait for my free holiday where the Canadian dollar is $0.49 there and I'm going to be fucking broke. Great holiday. Thanks again for all your kind words.

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Clockwork signed us up for the tournament 3-4 weeks back and told everyone.. no one agreed or disagreed with it. Honestly nothing was really said at that time. 2 weeks ago he brought it back up and we talked a bit. I had said that I wanted to play and shade, duwatna, ash, and grant also said they would like to play, but there might be complications. Shade had said that if it went past 1-2pm he couldnt play because he had to go to work. Duwatna had said that he needed to check his schedule to see if he was working. Another week goes by and nothing is said, so I bring it up this time in mumble before scrims and ask everyone whats happening. Steve had said that he can't play because he has work and won't be able to make it and shade is still in the same boat as before. We said we would talk after scrims, but no one says anything again. So I message b4nny the next day over steam and I say so are we playing or whats happening? I have work but I can call out or switch my shift around but I need to know whats happening. I don't want to call out of work if we're not going to play. Thats where I left the conversation and finally at 11 pm Friday night I was told we're not going to play. Thank you for all the insults directed towards us and the praising of b4nny, makes me feel great to contribute and be a part of this community.

Why do you always chime in so confidently while knowing so little on these topics? ... everything youre saying is speculation, it has no meaning without someone giving an official response. What is the point of you posting if its in a hostile manner and not at all constructive? You're just venting immaturely on a topic you know nothing about.

Again, you know nothing about what happened or if it was at all his fault. What is the point of posting? Why do retards like you continue to post? What is the purpose of posting in a hostile manner while knowing NOTHING on the topic???

I want to believe this isnt real. The guy insults clockwork in a demeaning way by calling him kid and being a straight dick... then he responds BACK sarcastically with kid, and you're mad at clockwork? ok.

sigh... nothing to say. smh.

lobby superstar looking to make the jump. nice and friendly, solid pick up

still want to know the meaning behind her name... and analflute, wherever that guy is.

This. When I coached the mixes I honestly could not tell if I was being trolled on an alt or not. Some of the questions people asked me and then proceeded to argue, players not knowing the general rollouts to mid, how to rocket jump, the basic role of the class that they're playing, and people purposely overextending to try and kill/melee the other coach, "because they wanted to kill "name" and take a screenshot" (direct quote) were probably the greatest frustrations. If you can weed these people out from the mixes or if youve already implemented a system in order to do that (it's been a while since i've done one), I'll come back and coach. You don't need to enter me into the raffle, I already have the best hat. Ellis' cap :)

A+++

This is probably the worst season of esea I have had the displeasure of playing in. I'm completely mind blown with the somehow lack of communication, preparation, and overall fairness that has gone on throughout this season. I honestly feel bad for five dollar club, we were scheduled to play last week but the client was still not updated after 3~ days (somehow??). So we had to reschedule to next week and then we were forced to play one map today instead of a bo3 so that there would be enough time for whoever moved on from LBF to play grand finals out and now we cant even play the second bo3 of grand finals because the servers werent set up LOL???

gonna be played on tuesday 10 30 est

Dante was lagging out during snakewater as well, standing still and not building uber and dropping people during uber. On badlands we were up 4-1 while dante still had these issues until his internet finally went out and we got serv0 in. Needless to say, everyone was pretty frustrated and I don't think anyone wanted to be up too late so we just decided to play it out. I noticed Bdonski with 100 ping as well from time to time, so there were clearly issues on their side as well.

Unfortunate things happen online. LAN will be a lot of fun, the games will be close, glhf to everyone

+1

what was wrong with my mod application?

this is the internet

I'm also still out $750~ from that lan as well :'(

My ticket was ridiculously expensive that season. It was over $1000 to fly to dallas so I wasn't planning on going, but he said he'd help pay so i could at least break even....

yeah, probably not the best way to go about it