It's really hard to effectively communicate comp to purely casual players for a bunch of reasons. There are people who either have a ton of misconceptions about comp (there are a ton of people who think the weapon ban list is >50% of unlocks and stuff of that nature) or people with large followings making hour-long videos ranting about how the existence of comp players is a burden to the game and comp players should all go to hell or overwatch.

Most of the time people don't know comp exists, and while the traditional response has been to look at valve, I'm happy that there seems to be more motivation recently within the community to actually improve things.

depending on how seriously people take it, even dpm could be a bad metric, since that will incentivize people to only join a full server, instead of trying to actually start a dm server.

I think having a tournament decieded by "who played the most in the last month" is bad, but I think for the health of dm, just having whoever has the most total kills at the end, ideally split up by classes (demo soldier scout) and evenly distributing any prize like that could be best.

Not only does this have the most integrity to how dm "should" be played (ie not changing how people play the game and potentially ruining the servers cuz someone wants $20), it also serves to potentially fix one of dms biggest problems, which is the fact you can't play the game outside of a certain time period each day. If there's an incentive to play more dm, it stands to reason people will play the game outside of normal hours which will let more people enjoy dm.

Not a davidb shill.

goes for every airshot and hits them

wouldn't something like dpm be a better stat here? kd is not what most people are playing for in dm, and I think most people do not like the idea of a tournament that is impossible to opt-out of incentivizing people to just bait and stuff. I do still like the idea of dm tournaments/having stats for dm though, I hope stuff like this continues to develop

Really good

tf2c was really cool because it was something where someone could just go into comp for the first time ever and no matter what their performance was like, no one would really care and people would usually help them if they asked for it. Hopefully whatever alternative shows up can mirror that feeling where someone can just say "fuck it I'll try comp today".

That being said, it was pretty easy to realize that a lot of the games were pretty garbage tier. between off-classing, obvious throwing, terrible weapon use etc. To me that made tf2c an important stepping stone into comp, but not someone most people could really stick to unless they were ok with really poor quality games and inconsistent application of the rules.

bump for next szn idk what's happening to my team

I think that's the point of the thread, actually

Had to deny ringer so this could happen, hope everyone can now understand the situation better

Interesting but nice and good guy. Good pickup for high main or low adv

I don't think so. It might be too early to tell, but my server is already up and working. Last update killed metamod for a bit which is why there were no servers. This update seems to be fine though

Why not just pit all the bubble teams against eachother in the week after reg szn but before playoffs? Maybe I'm ignorant to the topic but I always thought if there like 4 teams that went 9-7, having them play against eachother makes sense.

There is a greater conspiracy within the RGL team to prevent young man from ever making main playoffs.

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