It always warms my heart (and mason's probably, bring out the sloth GIF) when people want to go into Open.

I went 2-14 in my first season. Those 2? Forfeit wins. My team and I literally had 0 wins that season. But I learned a lot. So, if money and record aren't an issue (and it's understandable if it is, judge those things for you and your team's situations!), absolutely do it.

And that's fine! :D But I don't think Twitch needs to know...

I only suggest matches at best, but probably not.

I intentionally stepped out of commenting on this thread, but your comment really indicates that you don't truly understand why we're doing this and how it's beneficial.

Even though TF2 is a small in the competitive community, it's not a stretch to say that a cast can very easily be seen by pub players, HL-exclusive players, new 6s players, veteran ex-players, and, believe it or not, people who watch other eSports. Having nice/funny/etc. names is a foot in the door to not immediately turning them away. And this falls in line with the fact that we're on Twitch more than anything else, and we should've done this from the start (it wasn't really a big deal until a team named themselves "WE WANT FUCK" haha). Believe me when I say the staff is in as many of the jokes as the rest of the TFTV community is, but as a casting group, we are some of the immediate people that are looked at from the outside. When I talk with sponsors, other eSports players/enthusiasts (yes, this is a thing I do for TFTV), it helps SO MUCH to have professional/clever/etc. names. To take Fog's excellent example: WE WANT FUCK vs. Mason's Baby Back Bitches (nice, pot) or Classic Mixup vs. Apocalypse Gaming? What even SOUNDS like the better game from those names?

So, I'm gonna end my half rant half POV post here. It's not like you're unable to use a funny name. You can. Just don't expect to be casted, is all. It might be the butt of all eSports jokes from ourselves, but TF2 can and has ALREADY been looked at professionally (I've been in some of that). Maintaining professionalism will go long strides towards establishing trust and opening up conversations.

I find it funny that you're bringing age into this, since I immediately know of a couple LAN invite regulars who are in the same position as you, age and career wise.

Also, that's incredibly polite of you to malign people's employment just because of their age. I came straight out of college (dropping out, actually, lol) and I have a career. Just realize, pulling out the "none of you have careers" isn't gonna work.

I await the Snark pistol kill streak.

I'm sorry you couldn't find what you were looking for, and good luck. It's unfortunate that perhaps some misunderstanding was exchanged; I hope it doesn't leave a bad touch.

Locking the thread for what should be obvious reasons.

You're absolutely right, and I can't say sorry enough. I'm going to make a last stand because this is on the ex-HRG members. I've bothered them so much on the weapon signings and mentoring for some reason they won't follow through. I think at least 4/6 of them have, but that isn't enough.

I was still working through some i49 stuff, but a crop of real life stuff got in the way, but that isn't an excuse, just what's been slowing me down.

He's already been picked up...

ALL OF YOU ARE THE BEST <3 <3 <3

Help us bait each other (and get Urban dropped from ubers) while we let Rastsy pad his stats cause he's carrying usssssssssss.

Rooting hard for my boys on Reverto! Decerto ain't a pushover either. This is absolutely gonna be a solid match.

Dagger, you know better than to ask for this.

No Slin, add in oov (on pocket). Kalkin was demo, enigma/fanom scouts, visitor roamer, az medic.

The other competitive teams were:
AG Cuties = London Calling (pocket), Sakura (medic), R1CKY (roamer), k.L. (demo), insom/Antwan scouts.
Shocka's team = Shocka (demo), MissMonaLisa (medic), miwo (pocket), mana (roamer), Nevdawg88/MonkeySuit (scouts).

Mad props to everyone on AG Cuties for having good plays.

Get hyped for the weekend!

Also, I'll take that Irish Car Bomb.

Couldn't be more wrong. There is very little elitism in this thread (at least from the non-troll posts) and some real discussion is actually happening. Get over yourself.

I'd respond to your points but I'm at an Evil Geniuses filming on my phone.

EDIT: apologies for the rude post, bad mistake on my part, but I didn't witness much elitism from the posts that contained criticism. I'm a 6s player but HL still has a place in my heart because that's how I started in comp.