At the end of the day, you have Invite Blue, and if you played an honest game to get onto an honest team, you shouldn't care at all what anyone except your teammates think.

Congratulations, mason. :)

Thanks for being a good sport, Phi. I'd love for there to be more map makers in the community in general (especially competitive). New maps are always welcome additions, IMO.

Our team fell apart a little bit before I wanted to, unfortunately, which means that I really want someone to take place of our roster sooner rather than later.

This is the team page: http://play.esea.net/teams/75181

As you can see, we already have two matches scheduled, which will have to be FFWs, most likely (sorry dudes, I wanted to play too). Since there's a 3 players per every 7 days transfer rule in ESEA (during the season), we really want a team to replace us ASAP.

What are the advantages?
- You'll be able to play a majority of a season if you wanted to but got cut off by the signup date.
- If you're a newer team and are afraid of playing in Open, don't be. Every team needs to start somewhere, and, if you a good opportunity of moving up, Open is a great place to start.
- If you need advice, I'll give what I can, and definitely pass on how to get your ropes on playing in ESEA and managing the team.

Disadvantages?
- Paying fees is unfortunately unavoidable.

It will be tough, especially for a newer team, but I felt that I learned a lot from the previous season of open I was in.

Please let me know, in this thread or through Steam.

RIP OOV, forever a LAN dodger in legacy.

HA that's what they keep saying about Fox. Liars.

I can't really understand this difference of personality on forums vs. IRL. Why? What's the point?

Bumping this; we're still running this until accless calls it quits. Since the standard goal is funded, the surplus will go to the Aussies.

Feel free to keep it going!

The PayPal email is circuitr33@gmail.com (it goes into the same i49 fund). Please email that same email with your TFTV name so I can confirm that you've paid for your avatar.

gg Ploxo wins thread for Invite streams.

Yeah, Mile High Militia also streams every so often.

EDIT: Also, think/thrill (I almost said thrink wtf) are probably trying to focus more on playing their soldier roles, which is understandable.

That'd be a decently lengthy list, I don't know if someone will actually put the effort in making it, but USUALLY whoever has a high/highest amount of viewers (at this time right now, it's numlocked) is an invite/prem player.

Some invite/prem players that commonly stream: numlocked, harbleu, Platinum, Brego, Crack Clan (team stream), broder (team stream), b4nny, Byte, seanbud, duwatna, truktruk, rick, sezco, defy, bl4nk, rr, powah, foster, milo, carnage

Obviously this isn't all of them, and are people who are recently streaming. Hope that helps.

Announcement news post (on TF.TV): http://teamfortress.tv/articles/view/124-igl-opens-highlander-ladder

Everything is the same except the language used...obviously it would've helped to have a translation but it's not that it "doesn't tell me shit".

YES! ANOTHER LEAGUE OPENS UP!

Watched this team scrim. miwo is incredible, from most other open level medics I've ringed for/spectated/etc. His advantage counts were almost entirely spot on, and dodges like a cornered rat. And, get this, he actually hits his arrows. Fun team, too.

I don't necessarily agree with this; the only reason a medic dies in 6s is because something didn't get spotted, someone made a bad call, or you just get outplayed.

I can't agree with upping the Heavy's potential damage. I don't find them all that annoying to fight against (but obviously they NEED to get focused) but powering them up any more (IMO) would seriously slow down the game way too much in favor of a team that just runs a Heavy.

Scout: mo0se
Scout: enigma
Roamer: harbleu
Pocket: Platinum
Demoman: A Seagull
Medic: mesr

Medic Sub/Brazilian Extraordinaire: powah
Backup LAN Dodger: OOV