vod's already up -- just processing at the moment

sorry the old links should be fixed

i shall make a page on that subdomain in your honor

what do you want

there were probably less than a dozen active people playing at any given time while there was a planned developer-sponsored $100,000 tournament at IPL5

fixed

judging by his latest edit and his last string of posts, I don't think it's over yet

there's still hope

the entire basis of your posts seem to be just personal attacks on character. i'm going to ask you once nicely to stop.

then you shouldn't be posting in this thread and instead complaining about ESEA in one of the 50 other threads out there

if you knew them at all, you'd know that they're two of the most forthright people in this community with their opinions. why are you attempting to make character judgement about people you've never interacted with before?

etf2l is free; you're comparing apples and oranges here

no one is immune to DDoS attacks and any claim to the contrary is just an empty promise

that's completely untrue -- as far as I know, there are no restrictions of the sort

we choose to have the finals on the ESEA orange stream because ESEA takes care of the front-paging and also compensates the streamers/casters very well

the only hypocrisy here is that any one one of us has put far more time and money into this community than you have

i've long made peace with the fact that any season could be my last. i've accomplished what i've set out to many times over and there really isn't much in tf2 anymore that draws me in like it used to. esea gone? from a player point of view i'm perfectly okay with.

what i've been fighting for is the state of the competitive TF2 scene that i've spent thousands of hours promoting that'll almost certainly sink into mediocrity if ESEA-TF2 dies (so sorry if my posts have been a bit vitriolic)

whatever the "new" invite would be (main?)

you'd still be complaining

i've managed casts for seasons and can tell you that there's always a surplus of games and a shortage of people (fog, extine, etc can back me up on this)

plat and harb have casted games in the past at the expense of scrim time. demanding more to satisfy your wants is a bit hypocritical given that you just accused them of being selfish.

bottom line whatever contempt you seem to hold for the tf2 "bourgeois" is sorely misguided. the top of the scene will always exist, whether it be the players there now or the players that replace them (or one day maybe even you).

casting is a limited resource and given that invite matches garner by far the most viewers, it absolutely makes sense to give priority to the games that the most people want to watch

you really can't argue numbers

no he knows better than anyone else what's best for the game stop wasting your efforts

probably because he posted it 10 times in 10 different threads? most bans aren't permanent and serve as a reminder to keep it civil.

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