You're right, TFTV does some stuff I forgot about with links.

EDIT: I fixed iT.

Thanks to London Calling, Sakura, BloodSire, and conductor for putting some really fantastic articles on ESEA news, and to Killing for assembling a top notch team. Very, very highly looking forwards to reading more. Give them a read if you haven't yet!

Ordered by season and then division.

Interview with S14 Open Champions The Italian Stallions by London Calling
ESEA-IM S14 Awards by Sakura
Article/Interview about cyzer's departure from HRG (now Team iT) by BloodSire
ESEA-Open S15 Preview by London Calling
ESEA-IM S15 Preview by conductor
ESEA-M S15 Preseason Power Rankings by Sakura
ESEA-I S15 Preview/Power Rankings by BloodSire

Shoutout especially to BloodSire's Invite preview article which really, really impressed me and seriously raised the bar for any other article I've read thus far.

Toaster, have you actually visited America? It's incredibly insulting that people like me (who don't rag on any other countries) are blatantly included in stupid stuff like that when America has ~300 million citizens.

EDIT: All this stuff about bigotry/racism/gun wielding/etc. is limited to a smaller population than is realistic...like some people have been saying, all countries have their idiots. But just don't forget about the good citizens too.

It's on eXtv's. Fixed.

No, it wasn't that match, it was definitely Snakewater, might have been Ducks vs. GOIN' HEAVY because I definitely remember oPlaiD, PYYYOUR just told me it might just be a twitch VOD not YouTube. Gonna look for it some time.

That's not what it is at all.

Yeah, these are some of my favorite analysis casts, it would be amazing to see more like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sane0-QnkNY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs4iM-TyVsY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jTywauacmU

There's also one more on snakewater I couldn't find immediately with I think it was Mihaly's Flow (or just PYYYOUR?) casting Mighty Ducks vs. ???. I remember it being incredibly funny but I can't find it at the moment. :(

But, yeah, please do! I'm sure a bunch of streamers are down to just camera for it and record fun times.

This team is amazing. I love all these guys (minus slin but plus slin's boner), and it's not an exaggeration to say they could win open. They will definitely make playoffs.

Which team is the one that can't be bothered to compete?

Also, just noticed that the ex-AG team has technosex paid up on it. Unlock abuse incoming.

Fair enough, I've definitely had worse than in Europe.

Isn't there a lot of racism in Europe in general, though? When I went there 1.5 years ago it was...interesting to say the least. Never went to Sweden but I've heard plenty about the racism there if you're not Swedish, basically (Asian ethnicity here). The one place where I faced the least weird glances was the Netherlands (out of the 7-8 countries I visited).

EDIT: Places where I think I was receiving racism
- Hamburg, Germany (WHILE I was with my native friend)
- France (subway trains I'd get SO many looks, only one time did a girl give me cute looks for the 5-6 days I was there)

Places where I pretty much wasn't
- England
- Netherlands
- Berlin, Germany (woo)
- Italy (too used to tourists I think)
- Belgium (only stayed there a night but I don't think people cared, one restaurant had a nice chat)

It's up to the moderation staff. Unfortunately, to ask each of us on there about very specific situations is difficult to answer. All we can try to guarantee is what we say in the rules:

1) lol, not really.
2) It's called "open" because it's open to anyone. Regardless of what the skill level at the top is.
3) There have been plenty of people who have made WAY bigger jumps. You even know who they are.

I'm not taking part of this discussion explicitly but this site is not the only place on the Internet that suffers from groupthink (to some extent). Reddit has tried tons of different ways to avoid groupthink but it's practically an impossible problem to solve because at the end of the day, people are making the final judgments on who to agree with.

I also think the colored name problem is better now that it's only limited to donors, staff, and John (staff and John make up like 20 people at most, and we don't post all that often).

I also ALSO want to emphasize...enigma can't do everything at once right now. The correct approach is to do things step by step, and he's doing just that.

You just said one of the BIG reasons not to accept it, yourself. Beyond that, there is an incredibly small chance (AKA none) that TFTV would be able to broker a deal with another TF2 site. The risk for using a non-standard currency is too great.

Bitcoins are much more reasonable, I agree, but enigma can't do everything at once.