I don't think it'd solely be sponsored by Valve, just like all CS tournaments valve would work together with someone else, perhaps ESL or ESEA. Of course this would require ESL to pick up tf2 or for ESEA not to drop it.

valve should make an update replacing the stock maps with those maps instead. It'd make pubs a lot more enjoyable

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You see, not all games will be competitive. This is the way Counter Strike works.
Just because of competitive matchmaking, these things will not vanish in a cloud of smoke

People with a brain will not give a shit about their rankings. Just like in CS, they have no relevance to how good you are and are sometimes luck based.

Why would you play as a fat scout, shotgun only pyro, melee only, or smg sniper in a competitive setting anyways
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I think that even if tf2 is dropped from ESEA, it'll get picked up by another league due to all of the attention that competitive matchmaking there's a really good chance that someone else will pick it up. And it'll be bigger than before

pretty sure he's fine with people making mistakes

According to EoN's post, you can choose between 6's, Highlander, 4's, Arena Respawn, etc

this is why ipkane doesn't like tf2 players

that was literally two years ago

If you want to play ESEA just shut up

Well Valve in the past has said that they don't think 6's is the future of matchmaking, but that might have changed (to match the 6v6 that overwatch has). The rest is speculation, simply and purely. I'm excited for competitive matchmaking, as we all are. Probably shouldn't have made that post though, sorry guys.

I mean 7 instances is a pretty flawless record considering that 2.2 MILLION people have gotten banned by the VAC software

Just remember to not get too ahead of yourselves. Sorry to tell you guys but Valve has already said that they don't wanna work with 6's due to the inflexibility of the metagame. So if it's anything, it'll be highlander. Remember that in CS, everyone hates the autosniper, yet it still gets used in competitive because valve sponsors the tournaments. If history repeats itself, we might have baby face's blaster scouts and tide turner demomen. It won't be as good as pugs, and probably not as good as lobbies. What it provides is some exposure, which we desperately need. People like Muselk will make videos of competetive matchmaking, more people will put playcomp.tf in their names, etc.

Basically don't get TOO happy, but get psyched.

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Why would they choose 6's over hl (or vice versa)

counter strike

I used to be godlike at world of tanks as well

ok, thanks

Anyone got any info on the LAN? Are they gonna hold a tf2 tournament? What are the dates? Probably gonna end up going, but knowing some info would be great