You're in luck homie. I forget when Canadian Thanksgiving is but you could be dumping Yao hot sauce on your turkey sandos late November. I'll hit you up. (Trip to Victoria in the works already).

Pretty eXcited about hot sauces these days.

You guys should play uno or something instead.

C U @?

yao I've been slacking on organizing the meeting I'm about to mention, but that gives more time for gathering people interested.

What about a big MGE tournament at DreamHack Anaheim 2020??? Feb 21-23 I think.

Niccce. Looking forward to seeing Lucrative's LuXurious lifestyle.

I feel like MM 6s is gtg with a Vaccinator ban. It pains me to say it but that seems to be the most troublesome thing in the format atm that Valve needs to address. Personally I am down to see the game devolve into whatever craziness is most powerful even if that is Vaccinator, but I realize some people have serious issues with the weapon and it does seem oppressively powerful due to its current balance and mechanics.

I really enjoy the MM 6s format overall and appreciate playing Payload on it. I think it's the evolution of Highlander -> Prolander -> ? and could unite the two halves of the competitive community.

B4nny I think shares some of these thoughts, I was ribbing him because I want to see more MM 6s stuff. If he really believes in it then he could help kick start it instead of kicking insomnia. I need to be better myself about trying to organize MM 6s stuff.

Gravel Pit anyone?

b4nny has a bit of a point, but for him to say that he's not going to support anything that promotes everything he umbrella together as "stagnation" is a joke, homie just won RGL.gg upper bracket finals for TRADITIONAL 6s. He's not going to support anything that promotes "stagnation" but he is gonna cash that check.

I agree with his point that people do use big tournaments to try to justify keeping things the same. I've talked to a bunch of top players who are down to slowly shift competitive TF2 more towards Valve's format, but are concerned with it drastically shifting.

If b4nny really wanted to show that things are so stagnant, he should have showed up at i65 and showed us the new meta.He had 4 months to be the change he wants to see.

b4nny seems really disconnected from what the i65 eXperience was like for the attendees. Getting to LAN is a lot of fun and a big accomplishment, b4nny sounds pretty jaded about it.

I decided to step away from traditional 6s a ways back in favor of developing Arena:Respawn, at the time I didn't like how 6s was being developed so I tried to help push competitive TF2 in other ways. If b4nny is going to not support anything leading towards "stagnation" then is he going to do anything to help change happen? Or just be stagnant himself and stream casual TF2 while winning whatever tournament offers $$$?

I begin my eXpositions series on /r/truetf2 because I think there is plenty of room in TF2 for these sort of editorial and opinion pieces. Previous to the piece mentioned in this article I wrote about supporting the LAN scene and the end of ESEA. I look forward to reading whatever the teamfortress.tv staff and other guest writers cook up.

make sure to holler at yao boy if you see me running around (or hit me up on discord).

I'm gonna have some conversations with people tomorrow and we'll try to put something together for Atlanta even if it's just making sure there are MGE servers available at BYOC and a small tourney.

I'm going to be at DH Atlanta Nov 15-17 as the esports volunteer team lead. Dolphin will be there as well as a volunteer. Anyone else going to be at the event? Hmu.

I also recently found out that I'll be in the same position for DH Anaheim which is February 21-23rd.

While I've heard that the European organizers of DreamHack are resistant to some of the community organizing attempts for TF2 over there, I've heard nothing but encouragement from the North American staff. I'd like to see what we can accomplish but I can't do it myself.

Considering the timing and location, I think that an open tournament at DH Anaheim would be a great follow up to BTSTF2 . There are plenty of players in the LA area or nearby, DH is a huge deal and with their BYOC area we have as many seats as we can buy.

Holler at yao boy lets get this rolling.

Yyyaaaaoooooo should be a super hype match up.

Just remove the graphic restrictions and boom people would play it.

Don't be grumpy about the eXtine bum cast.

Yyyyaaaaooooo!!!