Pretty true nge. I'm guessing you were on Classic Mix^ in s3. Put a team with 3 invites and 6 from an esea-im team (all of avoided) and its a pretty sick combination. The gamesense of mix^ that season was good to watch.
You guys came in from competitive into a league of a lot of pub players or people that played 8's. It's steadily formed a better metagame and pulled a lot more competitive people into the scene.

I guess I'm not really here to argue for or against the wrangler. Our team generally didn't use it that often. We had bman running mini sentries running around with his shotgun. Take away wrangler and maps would for sure go a lot faster. I'd much rather valve just nerf it like they have a majority of the actual good weapons....but for some reason they dont seem to care about this one. And I know a lot of people have emailed them about it and it hasnt changed a thing. Every time we've held a poll it seems to go 70/30 to allow/ban. Those that dont think its overpowered either dont vote, or vote against the ban. But the ones that hate are fewer. There's always the gentlemen's agreement to just not use it if the other team also hates it.

Lots of great points. We did scrim bonus, and they held us at 2....and it didnt involve the wrangler at all. It was just superior positioning.

I am talking as a player, not as an admin. Not once in that time we were attacking did any of our members even mention the wrangler as being the problem. It was our teamwork in killing the rest.

I'm not going to argue with you anymore because you only see what you want. Never once was the challenge I put out about banning the wrangler. You're a moron for trying to bring that up. The challenge wasnt even geared towards you, it was ANYONE. You accepted, then found out what team you'd face and gave some excuses and left.

I dont know what else to tell you. If you hadnt had wrangler you would have been rolled. I guess you dont realize that. So in essence, you're fighting to get your team destroyed? I dunno man. Its whatever is between you and God that keeps you in such a tizzy.

Your "team" had a great hold. When you split your defense on the top left with hw/med/scout/demo and let the rest roam near the gun to distract, it worked incredibly well. Also watch the clip where the pyro airblasts us back on all of those ubers because of his placement. Pyros ruin 90% of ubers in this game, wranglers not so much. We had a bigger issue focusing down the Pyro for some reason in order to even get to the gun.

I think you are blindly giving credit to a sentry gun when it was really a very well planned out defense. Seeing as that was the second time we'd been on that map as a team, and your team clearly practiced numerous times, I think we did fairly well....I mean we did 2-0 you and then capped on you fairly quickly r2. Maybe I'm wrong but I think we adapted our offense to that position for r2 and if I remember correctly you didnt hold that position.

Again, I think you guys setup a great defense on the point with a few players doing great work.

Its a pretty clever setup from Vhalin. At first I think it was for fun and to see how well he could do. Combined with funboats he saw how well he did and just stuck with it. HL medics have a pretty hectic time with the constant switching of heals. Vhalin doing this setup allows very minimal heals and can still achieve the same (or close to) what other bombers can do. I was healing him the other night and he explicitly told me to not even worry about it.

Pretty cool setup. Its for sure fun in HL. Not sure if it'd be viable anywhere else other than HL. So many people to hit to gain back health.

Good morning, what?

What? LOL I told you I'd face you on any map with any setup you have and you backed down when you found out what team I was on and also that I wanted to get it casted by extv. Get your shit straight friend.

Summer was much more relaxed than Fall/Spring. Teams were allowed to sign up for what they wanted. Some chose Platinum and realized they didnt fit. In a few days we'll go over who does and doesnt belong in Platinum.

I fully agree that a majority of the teams in Platinum now really dont fit. One of the biggest problems at this time is that the people interested in Highlander in former seasons (or tf2 in general) are slowly bowing out to other games. CS:GO and GW2 came at pretty rough times for my team (looking handsome). We lost over half of our roster to other games and most likely wont be coming back for this season. Now that there is steep competition that would actually be fun to play against (mts/gorgeous gamers) full on stacking some talent, it just doesnt like it will go down.

So some great points Scholar. The first one is for sure being worked on (and I agree), the second one is a pretty tough one. We've openly said on the UGC page to try and get high tier matches moved to Sun/Tues and it never seemed to pan out except maybe once. Maybe this season will be different.

I've been waiting to see you/pure/ruwin on but no luck as of yet.

vanillatv has a countdown of 3hrs 10mins. I am hoping they stream a majority of the games. GL Mix^ and LG!

There are certain events that surprise me for being in the Olympics. BMX, equestrian show and then hurdle jumping, rhythmic gymnastics....if we follow this path of Olympic events I can see Cheerleading, skateboarding (surprised its not in since they allow snowboarding in winter olympics), flatland cycle, and roller blading.

Then they take out Women's Softball and Men's baseball??? Its a sport the world plays, but not allowed. 2016 is going to introduce golf and rugby sevens as well. Seems odd.

I think we've trained ourselves to assume no one else is listening. I've yet to play with a team that doesnt do it.

The main reason is a lot of things are called out that really arent necessary, so while you call out something important, someone else is saying "i just spawned" or "on my way". So it feels like people didnt generally hear it.

You're not alone.

Same. Does your health look skinnier? Mine went from fat numbers to skinny. I wonder if they changed fonts for tf2 or something with this update.

I've preregistered for it. They are currently only doing it in Kansas city, Mo and Kansas City, Ks proper. The problem is both of these counties are pretty shitty (as in ghetto and blue collar for the most part). But they are doing it there first for the business units and letting those people get it first. All the more rich counties around it all have to put in bids for it. The more bids, the faster it'll come down. I live maybe 10 minutes away from KCK proper and our neighborhood has already flooded prereg so we're hoping to get it soon.

The best part about this is that Google is always expanding and experimenting. So I'm hoping we'll be the testing ground for newer/faster speeds as well.

I dont know how much it'll effect ping, but I look forward to it none the less for the same price as Time Warner and still cheaper than AT&T.

Great in depth analysis. Well done

You might find some nice steins or mugs while you are over there.