not much has pissed me off as much as almost all of esea news plus the tf2 stats section getting just completely deleted

on a similar note, heres some of my collection of HLTV photos with tf2 player cameos, which have always amused me for some reason

this is a mix of s7 and s8

this is s7 Blight (mesr, smaka, plat, oplaid, harb, blackymonster):

this is s8 Check6 (harb, vhalin, TLR, dave__ac, kalkin, oov):

(yes thats the TLR trophy)

most of the rest of the pics if not all are from s8

imo the division feels too big this season. maybe they could split it into 2 divisions?

average loch n load pov

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this seems like the complete opposite of what ive observed. no one moving up a div is worried about the higher div's sandbaggers from 2 divs up—theyre losing to top teams regardless. the people playing the same div over and over without ever having to be challenged, on the other hand, LOVE the anti-sandbagging rules

regardless, neither of the dead teams (and i would argue at least 1 of the other moveups) were also just not sandbagging. my whole team was either offclassing or derusting, and we only played 3 nights a week, 4 at most. we simply signed up in the division we belonged in. scrim results prove this—theres still i think 3 teams who are still in main who were beating us consistently

we said no ty to a request to move up and then got moved up anyway without any further communication for 4 days. for all this we are rewarded with another $15 of fees per person. people figured we'd rather just scrim (dm @50billiondollars on discord to schedule)

theres maybe another timeline where we all suck it up and mainclass and dm for 20 hours a week and send winstons girlfriend on a 3 month vacation backpacking across western europe so we can play adv and get burned out and lose all future interest in the game, but that timeline is definitely not the one where we're given less than 0 incentive to do so

^ stolen valor alert

https://i.imgur.com/6y13SHx.png

i have a 27" 1440p and a 24" 1080p. ive also used a 30" 1440p and a 32" 1440p for work

imo 24" is ideal for gaming, but 27" has been completely fine as well. 1440p is preferable in every single game ive played, and if u want to minmax ur csgo screen space then ur probably ready to change your game resolution

this might have changed in the past few years, but at least for my monitors the 27" can only support 144hz over DisplayPort, which is why i use it as my main monitor for games anyway

outside of gaming, 27" is an immense upgrade, even if youre not doing higher density tasks. the 30" was also really nice, but i cant recommend going bigger than that on 1440p unless you want to do coding on a single monitor or something

from what ive seen of 4k/5k monitors i would recommend at least a 30" screen

fyg

so theres just fewer maps and you play 2 of them twice and also you dont get to know what 1/3 of the pool is until halfway thru the season? just seems a little overly complicated, and i cant rly figure out what problem its supposed to solve for non pick/ban divs

we in 2023 have a really strong pool of like 10-11 good maps to build an 8-map rotation from. why cut nearly half of them out just so we can play sunshine and snakewater twice a season?

what is a rotating map pool

comunicado oficial

cos u can just scrim at any time. default regional could be 930 still but if i wanted to play while working a night shift i could just scrim vs asiafortress teams

chell, good dm