Whenever I play cs go competitive matchmaking, I try to help people by calling strats and such. The majority of players are at least willing to follow comms and be instructed on what to do.

Also, a cs:go kind of ranking would be pretty sweet and would help alleviate some problems mentioned here. You get ranked up or down based on how you perform (in total rounds won/lost) against players of similar skill to you. As I understand it there is a specific numerical ELO created by averaging the random team members individual ELOs, and winning or losing by a certain margin of rounds effects this ELO accordingly.

People who already are good at 6s or HL would very rapidly move to the top of the rankings, while fresh-out-of-pubs players would start lower and take a bit of time to rank up. Meanwhile, people would not be playing far out of their skill level.

I know that this makes valve no money, but look at cs:go. Matchmaking there also makes them no money, yet it helps drum up support for the game in general.

> Fixed Stickybomb Launcher using the wrong Red team arms skin while on the Blue team

Invisible players? Fuckit #yolo

I only skimmed the thread, but a few things popped out to me:

This guy trolled pugs just to troll. He obviously finds that gratifying for whatever reason. The fact that this thread exists beyond just posting their steam profiles/sourceban links is probably just feeding the troll.

You can have a reasoned discussion without devolving into who can take the biggest verbal shit on someone. At this point this thread is just an embarrassment.

Also, stop calling everyone a faggot. Its a fucking ugly word that exists to demean gay people. It has become really common in our culture, and especially online. I myself have even slipped up and used it, but there honestly is no legitimate excuse. Call anyone you like a shithead or nerd or trashcan or whatever, but don't bring in slurs; they just make you look like a bigot.

Scotch straight is kind of disgusting IMO, but then I have only ever seriously (not drunk to begin with) tried JW red label rofl.

You could do invite only and toss in an "IM Spotlight" clip at the end.

AW looking pretty strong if they keep bringing that lineup to the table.

Xlax - Sniper
YZ50 - Scout
Dummy - Demo

Boomer is also on the roster but did not play.

-ts- looking really strong on badwater. We beat QC and then -ts- beat us, both by fairly significant margins.

Played with you guys once. Very fun ^^

Joining.

The way I learned it was:

League Matches > Scrims > Pugs > MGE/DM > Jump maps/surfing/etc

Can you review pocket soldier demos possibly?

About 6 months.

I trade a lot and I could probably get like a bunch of vanilla stranges to be signed if that would help.

bump

Ok. That makes sense, thanks!

PS: Very cool having you around to be really supportive of the tf2 community (and answering questions).

EDIT: Also, IDK if this is just my ISP or paypal, but when I selected pay by paypal it took at least 60 seconds to load the paypal window.

Question to John:

Why is the subscriber function limited to "Top Partners" (as explained here: http://www.twitch.tv/p/partners) instead of being available for everyone. Is there some downside that twitch has to incur for providing it?

I would 100% subscribe to teamfortresstv and a few other channels that I watch a lot, and I am sure that many others would as well. Even though the tf2 community is not the greatest in size, I think we might be in terms of dedication! :)

EDIT: Going turbo right now! :D