We're happy to formally announce that Se7en will be attending i63 with the following roster:

Scout – Thaigrr @ Thaigrr25
Scout – Thalash @ThalashEEE
Roamer – adysky @adyskyTF2
Pocket – AMS
Demoman – kaidus @kaidus_
Medic – Starkie @Starkie62

From the outset our goal has been to attend as many events as possible without the use of fundraisers, and I'm pleased to say that this will be our third LAN in a row that will be funded entirely by the revenue generated through prize winnings and merchandise sales. However, this wouldn't be possible without the continued backing by the community, so once again I would like to say thank you to everyone who has supported us in this endeavour.

As is tradition, we have a new teespring campaign to celebrate the occasion with all new limited edition designs for i63 (courtesy of uberchain) as well as the return of some past favourites.

https://i.imgur.com/TR3PXz5.png

https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/se7en-store

It’s set to be one of the most competitive iseries in recent memory, and we are going to do everything we can to defend our title. We have a few more exciting plans in the works, stay tuned!

Update:
Official team jerseys are now available for order!
goo.gl/5vc1sd

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Djs-tNjXcAESZPO.jpg:large

https://twitter.com/Se7enTF2

This isn't actually true. It happened once during his time with Se7en/S29, the others were in previous seasons/teams and unbeknownst to us. Thaigrr will play playoffs when he's unbanned, the rest is a formality.

Any chance we could get a version of prolands with the old last cap speed? Doesn't have to be an official release, but it would be nice to try it out and see how much impact it makes to pushing last/stalemates. Would be very easy to test it as an unofficial version as well since it barely changes the map.

I honestly believe this change by valve is a primary reason why it became a problematic map after many years of ubiquitous enjoyment. The arguments against the old cap speed (backcaps/ninjas etc) are valid, but I really think the the trade-off is worth it.

Any day 1 STVs? Invite group stage still not available as far as I can tell.

We received January and February money, can confirm. Don't know why anyone was making a fuss about anything other than January anyway, the rules clearly state that you should allow up to 60 days for prize payout which seems pretty standard to me.

I get this whenever I go to lan and play on windows 10. Never happens at home (windows 7), has happened on multiple configs, PCs, etc - the only commonality in its occurrences is windows 10. This is not exactly a solution but maybe this information helps you isolate what causes it (assuming you are using Windows 10).

hypEE

Correct me if I'm wrong but the rules state: "If a player fails to supply their demos multiple times while playing for the same team the team will be given a more severe punishment."

First time it's happened while playing for us, pretty sure no major warning will be issued.

Also we will contest the 2nd major warning for STV demo. I have been informed that if we can provide proof that the demo does not exist in a useable state (which it does not due to a ddos which took the server down), then the warning can be removed.

If you get 100 ping to eu from west coast you are sitting on a pot of gold right there.

Taking submissions up until the end of February.

Will have to playtest the new (old) spawn room to see if the new (new) spawns removed the RNG from rollouts that we used to suffer in the rocket room era. Could take or leave the rocket room itself, but if we are back to me having to suicide in spawn and/or missing a buff on demos due to the corner by resup cabinet then that's really, really bad. Maybe you already checked this and it's perfect, so correct me if I am wrong. Can very easily keep the rocket room but then have a standard spawn room behind it without tight corridors and 90° corners in them in my opinion, if the rocket room is indeed the route you want to go.

Personally I like that you removed the extra door in ramp room, it didn't serve much purpose in transitions but would frequently lead to unintuitive, messy engagements during mids that really worsened the fights compared to rc4 and prior.

Don't really like the new entrance to cat, looks like a nerf to demo and buff to scout on mids. The balance between the classes on gran mids is one of its best features as a map, I don't think there's any need to upset that balance. I'm not sure what the intended purpose of it was, but my two cents is that it also doesn't affect transitions through that door (2nd-mid pushes) so other than the aforementioned impact on midfights it doesn't have any purpose.

Personally rc4 is still my favourite version. I don't feel that the yard changes in rc8 (aside from the wider chokes) benefited the map at all, the extra platform for the defending team to stand on just makes it harder for attacking team to take ramp control to begin spam engagements.

I'm a bit confused by the reversion of the last cap point position. Personally I neither like nor dislike this change, would be curious to test how it plays in pro1 with all the other changes we now have from previous versions. Would be interested to hear your reasoning though before going into test it.

No more ctaps as well please

He is saying it would cause technical issues with the system I think.

People have had class switch binds for quite literally a decade. Come on now lads.

Please stop :<