http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HX9nBL6dZo

All editing and production was done by bit, thanks again!

Got reds with O rings and they are super quiet. I went for the max noise buffer, but the keyboard still feels great and is pretty quiet.

He is really boomer in (very very slight) disguise.

Don't know if drs is really dying. Tbh I don't think anyone minds playing with mustard that much.

rent a homies top 4

Very strong scout and pocket. Imo he could play main.

http://i.imgur.com/jjI8cid.png?1

He was a great player and a genuinely kind person. I remember playing a million mge matches against him one day and we ended up chatting a bit.

Tobi, you will be missed. Rest up.

Looks pretty fun.

Alec this might be a bad time but i love u. Hold me.

Our love knows no bounds.

Im high as fuck.

EditL: Just + fragged every post on the last 2 pages of this thread.

My point is that, while it would be nice, we don't.

I would hope that after the 20+ LAN donation drives that have benefited invite at the expense of everyone else, maybe invite players could and would reciprocate. I know you stream and give back to the community that way, but think about invite as a whole. Is this not a reasonable request?

Plat, for the vast majority of us, it has never been about the viwers, or the LAN , or the competition. For me -- and I think for many many players (all the way to low mid invite) -- it has always and will always be about a love of the game.

I don't care about LAN or prize pools, all I want is to play team fortress 2 without installing malware on my computer.

ESEA has been great in its prize pools and LANs, but you have to recognize that 90% of players in comp tf2 play for one reason and one reason only: fun competition. If the 10% of people who only play to be sure that they are the very best (read: LAN) cannot find another reason to play, then unfortunately they will be lost.

There are some really promising prospects in terms of leagues and I know that me and my team (as well as many others) are finished with esea forever. NATF2L, a new UGC paid league , and CEVO all seem willing to commit the time and energy to expanding their league.

The true question now is will invite teams boldly go and lead us to a new league or will the 99% of tf2 players (if you will) will find a new league and kill esea tf2 once and for all. I have faith that even in this second case the competition will live on, if only because we love it so.

Your point is that money brings all of these things, my point is that, despite these things being derivatives of money, they are not uniquely derived from money.

AND the volume of money is insignificant to the generation my my ends. Beyond a certain level, you do not gain competition or seriousness by increasing the buy in. If leagues like UGC step up with a separate paid league (as they seem to be willing to do) we can create all the benefits of esea sans many if the negatives.

e: grammar

I chose esea in the past because:
- I don't want to be the best in the league and equivalent to mid-high open teams.
- I don't want to have 1/3 of my games be ffws.
- I want to play with my friends.

The money is shit either way; I'm not gonna make a living off this shit. All of these problems with other leagues will be ameliorated via the changes that UGC seems to be willing to make combined with the predominant transfer of the community to another league.

I agree with breloom and conductor.

I have donated somewhere around $300 to lan funds.

Its not the donations that I have a problem with (obviously), its the fact that there is a conflict of interest between the top half of invite and everyone else in esea.

A poorly run/evil/overpriced league with LAN is better (in some players minds) than a well run league with no lan and less prizes. This opinion divide here seems to be PREDOMINANTLY (not exactly, not even close) the same divide between invite and the other divs.