TITANFALL!

there have ALWAYS been super teams throughout the entirety of competitive TF2, even when CEVO-P was still big. Competition for these teams come and go, it always has, superteams don't have anything to do with stunting TF2 growth.

prolly a mistake with the automated system, will be corrected soon

Don't just tell him it's a disaster because it's a disaster, offer up some actual critisism and tell him what about it isn't going to work, someone is trying to put work into a map everyone loathes (not sure why) and trying to make it better. Help him help you!!

Most of the time, I find young players really aren't open to criticism, and often times that will ether a) Stunt their improvement in the game or b) give them an insanely bad rep they can't come back from. My best advice to you as a young player coming into the competitive scene, Be humble and get into the mindset that there are lots of people out there who know better and you can learn a lot from. Once you feel comfortable with your own game knowledge and skill, then you can go on to find your own identity as a player and hopefully move up however far you want to go! (with the right attitude of course)

TL;DR Attitude is everything

esea has elected to put us through to the playoffs, no tie breaker game

Just squish the titans with warpfall transmitter, ez pz

yo! looking to play with anybody who wants to, add me on steam or add my origin (lucrativeee) i play all the time and would love some more people to play with!

you realize everyone knows you're the most un-genuine person ever, right?

Peterborough, ON, ain't nobody from pete

Think this has probably been said 100 times on this forum in threads like these...

Not to sound like an ass, but this really isn't the place you want to be going to get advice on an issue as serious as this. If you really do fear for his life, best thing to do is tell his loved ones, (maybe even yours if you guys are close) and get them to help you, or actually have him admitted for psychiatric help (although, he will be resistant). Most people on these forums are not professionals in this area and cannot offer you advice that's seriously going to help you or him besides the occasional "offer him your support" (Which is great and all, but In some cases, it really isn't enough) I've lost loved ones and had some close calls with others and the best thing to do is be swift and aggressive about getting them help, being passive is dangerous when some people are essentially on a timer.

(This may not be totally related to this thread but I'm gonna post here anyways)

Teams (atleast in the IM bracket) really need to go back to looking for scrims on IRC...the idea of scheduling all your games is nice but overall people play less games and when 1 team flakes out or is late, it throws off the schedule of a lot of teams involved resulting even less play time or possibly no games at all because every other team is "booked." Personally, I've scheduled scrims for the whole week, a week in advance, and teams STILL flake out and leave my team (or possibly others) without a game unless we want to play a low open team. If everyone went back to just posting in IRC when they need games, teams would get more games overall and prolly more consistent games cause of the "let's play right now" factor, making it extremely less likely for people to flake out on scrims. This is possibly just my experience with the system now but I feel like practicing was a lot better/easier when you could just get games on IRC right then and there whenever you needed

showers...

you take baths to relax, recover etc, not clean yourself in your own filth

just typical TF2 brainwashed bandwagon action, wouldn't worry about it.

In general, I think the only caster who is hypey enough is gecks (besides cbear) and I really feel like most casters undervalue this quality. if you get hyped up for big frags, multi kills or whatever, it will get the viewers hooked into the game instantly. I've even found myself reacting in my chair with a big "WHOAAA" if the caster is making it exciting, If they are talking like they're narrating its really hard to get into it or stay focused on the game.

That being said, I think casts really need a little bit of a play by play hype caster and just 1 analyst to chime in during a bit of the downtime, the play by play caster should be doing 70% of the casting IMO.