lock this thread preemptively please

The casters wanted to kill themselves after 10 min of map 1 i think. cool they did it but i think a part of their souls will always be held in that cast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_PrZ-J7D3k

I'm good at tf2 and right because I played a lobby with harbleu one time in ow

I want to use the m0rehud flashing colors ammo customization, but on m0rehud black 2.0. It is not working when I drag it into the master as I would on other customizations, despite still letting me replace the files in destination and all that. Would love help on this, as it is the only thing I'd like to adjust for this hud. thanks :)

pugs are a 12-4am activity smh

That is not what he meant

sideshow singlehandedly made watching OW fun. seems like he's always putting 100% into whatever he's doing and always trying to improve the scene he's working in either by innovating new ideas/ways to do things or by developing already existing structures. He deserves all the success he has now and more.

No idea how good he is but he's always been super nice to talk to outside of 6s so prob goated

That's a very fair point. I think it could potentially be a good time to a least investigate the return of div 1/div 2 because as it stands, main is really congested (at one point of pre szn, I think there were more main teams than adv and im combined, though this could be wrong). The return of div 2 could potentially mean high main teams/players that want to do advanced, but don't want a zero win season (the main fear) could just play against what would ideally be mostly high main teams and some low advanced teams. Of course this could end up flopping if everyone decides they just want to win main/div 2 becomes overstaurated with div 1 teams and whatever but I think it could be worth exploring.

The problem with tighter restrictions in main would be that people can't get experience against advanced players in scrims/matches as easily if it's harder to interact/see them. If the advanced players are off classing, it's easier to get used to their strats/tempo and stuff without getting mechanic diffed as hard, which makes it easier to catch up.

There is already a pretty big "gap" going from main to advanced in general, which can be easily observed by how few adv teams there have been recently in comparison to the number of main teams. Making this gap even larger, by making main "easier" for teams/players that aren't sandbagging will further incentivize playing main again even after a successful season.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding this but pretty much everything here isn't super helpful. Saying that literally no matter what he does, you will not care and will always treat him for how he was regardless of his improvement helps absolutely no one, least of all young man himself. It's hard to motivate yourself to change if someone tells you that even if you become the best version of yourself you can be, people will still remember/treat you as the worst you there ever was. That statement is untrue to like 99% of people, and honestly just hurts young mans development for no reason

2nd paragraph is either obvious/who asked. The problem with young man both in pugs and as a player isn't his skill. Obviously he's not insane, but he's fine for the div he is playing and that's not at all why he's disliked. It's purely based on his attitude, comms, drama and general annoyances created by him in pugs. Telling him that demo reviews, mge and scrims are better for improving his gameplay are things no one asked about or are relevant to this thread.

It sucks you had a bad experience with him, and it's a shame that you will never be able to look past it, but you're (intentionally or not, idk) implying that he should stop pugging and essentially step away from the comp community beyond scrims/mge and demo reviews, and that he should wait for a new game to come out and "try again". This is awful advice, and not at all something that represents the wider communities thoughts of young man as most people do want to see him grow and succeed to meet his goals in tf2.

On a thread about advice and growing as a player, you made it very easy for him to understand what you said as "you will never really be accepted" and that he will never have a good footing/rep in the tf2 community. Once again idk if this was ur intention, but either way this message is much more harmful than helpful.

I think the cup/tournament format was sick, but my main complaints would have to be that I feel like 99% of people didn't know grand finals were also happening this weekend (this is only judging from the significantly lower view count than normal grand finals, which usually get 5k or so, but this got like 1k). Also, the super anti-climatic grand finals. I'm not sure if it's always like this, but the fact finals were done in like an hour just felt weird. Idk what could be fixed for it though.

Also, this was running at the exact time uni/college students have their final exams. This is very likely to have impacted the viewer count, as it was really hard to justify watching like 14 hours of tf2 instead of studying for exams. I know this has always been an issue with playoffs/finals historically, but since everything was done in like 2 days, it felt even harder to manage.

Either top IM or high main idk

I for one feel owned