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#12 My brain does not feel quite right. in Off Topic

be honest with yourself and tally up how much time you actually spend doing work for your classes.

if your number is low, you lack discipline. however, if you're sitting in a room actually studying with no distractions but you're not learning anything, you lack focus and that could be a medical issue.

if you cannot bring yourself to study, you have to realize that you will never be motivated to study and you can't rely on that if you want to see long term success. it's the same with TF2, you might not want to play all the time but if you scrim daily you'll keep getting better -- that one hour of DM you played when you were motivated is insignificant compared to years of consistent daily practice.

force yourself to do your work, or if you genuinely do not enjoy what you are doing, do something else.

you should also realize that your work now is just a means to an end. you're there for a degree. if you don't want that end-result and aren't willing to do something that makes you uncomfortable for it, re-evaluate your priorities.

posted about 9 years ago
#43 FROYO win i55 in News
blinKFroyo lost their long time pocket soldier prior to this tournament. Imagine how much stronger they'd have been with lansky.

b4nny had an incredible performance this lan and ash played amazingly throughout the tournament, single-handedly winning a few key rounds. i think they were better off with this lineup; b4nny's pocketing is unmatched and really brought the team together.

posted about 9 years ago
#272 Insomnia55 General Discussion in TF2 General Discussion

ma3la definitely stepped it up coming into today on pocket -- without him performing as well as he did, i don't think the games would have been as close.

i'm disappointed in ascent's preparation for this tournament though. the loss in the esea grand finals should have been a wake up call to change their playstyle to revolve less around rando taking everything. the other top pockets were able to very easily out-perform him with a fraction of his heals. it's just a sign of over confidence that they couldn't admit their style isn't working until it was too late, but props to ma3la for doing what he could on such little preparation.

posted about 9 years ago
#10 i55 Day Two Summary in News

froyo didn't get this strong without learning from their mistakes. plenty of teams have put up very strong performances against the team throughout their time, but no other team has been able to adapt and bounce back as strongly as they have. getting rolled by mix in the online zowie tournament back in s16, losing group stage matches at i52, and being knocked into lower bracket in the esea playoffs. every single time it's happened, they own up to their mistakes, decide what needs to be done, and make no excuses.

looking forward to seeing froyo surprise everyone with how quickly they can adapt and learn from their missteps today. and i'm amazed at how well b4nny has been playing on pocket -- he's absolutely on another level and everyone can learn a ton from watching him.

posted about 9 years ago
#28 how do you remain chill during scrims and matches? in Off Topic

i used to struggle a lot with being nervous during matches. as you gain experience and play through it, you'll gradually learn what works for you. this is always going to be a very specific and personal issue that you need to address yourself, but hopefully the responses in this thread can give you some things to implement into your own solution.

i'd encourage you not to follow the advice telling you that it's just a game and that nothing matters because it isn't going to help you become a better player. if your justification for playing poorly due to nerves is that it doesn't mean anything, then you're not a competitor and it's just illogical to spend your time on something you aren't invested in. accept the fact that you are already spending your time playing this game -- not putting your best effort forward would just be a waste of your time if you are playing for the sake of competition. if you're going to do something, do it well.

if your main struggle is being too jittery to aim or talk, do whatever you do to relax beforehand. it will never completely go away, and being nervous means you are focused on the game, which is a good thing. it's just a matter of using that feeling to your advantage, rather than letting it control you. I find it helps to go into your match with a plan that you can stick to. distracting yourself by making it about the game and focusing on what's going on in the match will take pressure off of thinking about your aim, for example.

after your games, spend time thinking about your failures and what the underlying reasons for them are. instead of brushing off a poor performance as you not playing well and being nervous, watch the demo and consider what decisions you made that contributed to your performance. i've never seen a player perform poorly and make good decisions at the same time.

one of the things that helped me the most was making it about the team and trying to always be the kind of person your team can fall back on when things get rough, never shutting down. if your team is down 0-3 in a match and people are starting to shut down, be the person to question what's going wrong and make decisions to address it. if their roamer keeps killing your medic, instead of saying "our medic keeps dying", phrase it as "we need to keep our medic alive, can you stay closer to our medic scout?". being afraid of making decisions is worse than making poor ones. even if you're not the main caller on your team, you need to be capable of analyzing what's going wrong and offer that information to your team.

in a tournament setting where you are playing multiple matches or just long matches in general, people tend to lose focus once in a while. if you're noticing your teammate start to zone out, be the person to try to bring them back into it and coordinate with them, because you need them to do the same for you. i can't tell you the number of times i've started to go into autopilot during a match and have b4nny ask me "where are you taking the uber? what do you want to do?" to get me back in the game. little things like that can go a long way.

posted about 9 years ago
#190 Fantasy TF2: Let’s do this! in Projects
dummyi wish my name was blue :( i cant wait till shade cuts lansky for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0habxsuXW4g

posted about 9 years ago
#187 Fantasy TF2: Let’s do this! in Projects

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posted about 9 years ago
#184 Fantasy TF2: Let’s do this! in Projects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6-V7J5S-0

posted about 9 years ago
#183 Fantasy TF2: Let’s do this! in Projects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfRNRymrv9k

posted about 9 years ago
#109 esea in TF2 General Discussion

people have shown this many times but lpkane mentioned they aren't operating at a loss for TF2

very rough estimates ( feel free to correct any incorrect numbers, 7 player average per roster came from lkpane)

invite: $85 * (9 teams * 7 players each) = $5355

IM: $15 (unsure about this, rough estimate) * (16 teams * 7 players each) = $1680

open: $7.50 (unsure again) * (almost 60 open teams last season * 7 players each) = $3150

very rough premium estimate: (60 open + 16 im) * 7 players * (2 months a season? * 6.95/mo) = $7400

total not including premium fees $6.95 ish a month for every player in open/im: $10,185 (premium adds quite a lot to this), putting it over the prize pool of 16k when you add premium

cant speak for the rest of invite, but all i am truly concerned with is not being at a loss for going to an event. if i can break even, i'd still go just because it's a fun hobby. im sure this sum can help facilitate that to some degree. i'd be willing to not have a significant prize pool if travel could be covered for all teams

posted about 9 years ago
#105 esea in TF2 General Discussion
dashnerNot my personal opinions but likely that of the players:

It's almost completely ping. Blaze and Lansky for example play all season on 100+ ping from the west coast. .

to be fair it's about 80 on average for the both of us, but its not difficult to understand competing at the top level should be on even ground. playing online is a joke for our team because every other team plays with 20 ping soldiers

getting to see friends in person is the real prize

posted about 9 years ago
#37 ESL and ESEA to host $1 million league in CS2 News

it has nothing to do with them being hurt about shit on a forum

i talked to lpkane and he actually likes the tf2 people he gets to meet at lan. the company wants to have tf2 because they enjoy saying they're not exclusively a csgo league and having TF2 in that corner of the venue doesn't impede them at all since they prefer to have one game being played at a time for the CSGO event anyway.

however, he mentioned that if they had the opportunity to expand csgo to the extent mentioned in the article, they would be forced to drop lan support for TF2. im not 100 on the details why its no longer as simple as putting tf2 in a corner, but it is what it is

posted about 9 years ago
#12 ESEA S18 LAN Finals in LAN Discussion

if anybody here has a spare pair of earbuds they can lend me for the event i would greatly appreciate it. mine only give sound through one ear and the shipping date on a new pair isn't until May. i can buy you lunch or give you my froyo t-shirt in exchange, send me a PM

edit: thanks alfa

posted about 9 years ago
#45 ESEA Invite: Froyotech vs. The Mad Men in Events
marmadukeGRYLLSare you on meth? your worst season in invite was 2-8 (excluding the 0-2 season that's on there but that's 2 matches so w/e). you made lan your 4th season of invite. i have 9 wins in 5 seasons. you know nothing of the struggle.

i still mge, dm, pug, scrim, ring, etc. and i still wanna play tf2 and try to make lan even though i'm 9-71 in invite. you dont know shit about incentive to continue playing the game or getting better. i mean shit dude i finally have a decent season in invite where we miss lan by like 2 matches or some shit and then i get cut and fall back down to an 0-16 invite team and yet HERE I AM STILL PLAYING THIS GAME AND GOING TO LOCAL LANS AND SHIT. FUCK.

aayo rants over boys im out

you're right i meant to say basically bottom of invite level team (apoplexy industries), though they didnt go 0-16 exactly.

not sure what you're trying to say though, just because you've been stuck at the bottom for longer than i was means i don't know what it's like to be on the bottom? also you give up and run dh every time you play a top team so i wouldn't call that struggling exactly

posted about 9 years ago
#2 Seagull Jump? in Videos

yea that's one he used often, seagull used lots of jump routes like that on most of the competitive maps that most roamers still haven't implemented into their play yet that are incredibly useful if you can hit them consistently.

if you're forced to throw your life away for a suicide or create room for your team, you might as well implement jumps like these to make yourself a harder target & give you more options

posted about 9 years ago
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