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yup, it shouldn't take you very long though. remember that you can type hud_reloadscheme in console to refresh your hud after you've made a change.

if you want to change the size of the crosshair:
- navigate to your scripts folder, which is found inside of team fortress 2\tf\

- open up hudlayout.res with notepad (or any text editor)

- under the section for CrossHairNormal, you can see the font used for this element of the hud is "CrossHairNormal". if you want to change the size of the crosshair, all you have to do is modify that font. to do this, open up ClientScheme.res (found inside of your resource folder). search for "CrossHairNormal". you should see this:

"CrossHairNormal"
		{
			"1"
			{
				"name"		"Symbol"
				"tall"		"32"
				"weight"	"0"
				"additive"	"0"
				"outline" "1"
			}
		}

change the value for "tall" to your liking. you will need to restart tf2 for the changes to take effect. after you have it to the right size, you can move it to the center by changing the "xpos" and "ypos" values under CrossHairNormal in hudlayout.res.

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you can have two different hud crosshairs, just make one visible for cl_hud_minmode "0" and "1"

I've seen him around in streams and stuff and he seems to understand the flow of the game pretty well. From the sound of this post, it looks like he's interested in improving as well. Give him a chance!

LANMAN IS CONFIRMED GOING, BY HIMSELF!!!

IT'S ALSO MY BIRTHDAY DURING THE LAN <33

I did not get a chance to check the twitch frontpage at the start of the cast, but at the end it was definitely not featured. Really surprised me how many people were just there and actively contributing.

Before TFTV even updated its stream list saying that eXtv was live, there were already 300 people watching.

i'm not sure we've ever had this many viewers for a non-lan match, thanks everybody.

anybody know what specifically is attracting all the viewers? is it the weekly match schedule? hype? what can we do better next time to continue this?

WTF MY NAME IS TERRIBLE

i've found that having positive teammates to play with makes a huge difference. people who don't like losing/can't learn from their mistakes will act negatively in mumble and make it harder for your team to focus. if you have players with the same mindset as yourself to learn/improve, you'll spend the downtime after a loss talking about ways to beat them next time rather than talking about how terrible your team is.

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Just wanted to say that having all these streams live is amazing for the community, good job and thank you to everyone streaming consistently!

This is important, obviously, but that's more of a general guideline of how most top players like to play... Playing with people that you actually ENJOY playing with makes a big difference. Regardless of skill, I wouldn't choose to play on a team with players with negative attitudes/lack of effort. However, I would never tell my team that I'm picking up X player just because he's my friend or something. Players with the drive/skillset to improve is something that I like to have on my team. The whole team agreed upon the decision to pick him up and I don't regret it in the slightest.

EDIT: On a second note, do you have any examples of players that got to invite based on "connections" that don't actually DESERVE to be there? I know you mentioned Craig but I honestly believe that he deserves to keep playing in invite after how much he improved this season.

Really have to disagree with you on this one. I don't think there's anything wrong with picking up a player with potential. I don't think anyone can deny how drastically craig has improved over his first season of invite. I'd rather play with players that I actually LIKE playing with and will take the game seriously. As much as I'd like to think the people that have been playing "forever" should deserve an invite opportunity more, plenty of players meet a skill plateau and just cannot climb over it.

EDIT: You can't say a player like craig falls in line with the "has-been" players who don't take the game seriously. He watched nearly every lan demo before the season started and asked questions/looked for criticisms... He showed up every day for scrims and tried his best in matches.