I can't believe anyone is still playing this game.

when we were running newbie mixes in the past the people that were playing in them had either lobby or no 6v6 experience. The types of people we would literally have to explain every classes role in the game, how the demoman gets to mid, who the medic should heal, etc. Basically these people were straight off Reddit. Mixing those types of people with people who even have a season of UGC doesn't seem like a good idea to me, and tbh misses the potential of what the newbie mixes could achieve. While UGC players no doubt could use a little coaching, getting brand new players into 6s is definitely the priority over improving the skill of players already somewhat into it.

props to you for still doing these pie. It was cool when I was doing these when they first started up, and even though we could get coaches back then I remember when Shwan and i would organize we would have a hard time getting them. It pretty much came down to having a lot of people on our friendslist and spamming everyone we could trust to coach to come out and do so. We had to try to strike a balance between having good coaches and enough coaches, it was hard. I dont really have any insight into how u can get more coaches except trying to get people with a lot of pull and sway in the community to start helping out and help will follow them. Good luck!

MMM for sure, and Spacewhales an easy second.

I have fx 8120 and have no problems with fps. I also streamed for casts with this and it did great. I certainly dont go below 120 in 6v6.

as long as they keep expectations extremely low they will never have to satisfy customers.

need more koth. less sunshine.

i dont like the new "granary-esque" look to the map, but used to love playing warmfront.

it doesnt seem like esea has an incentive to merge IM/main since the main players have to pay more money anyways. seems like if two separate divisions is preferable to the season it should just be kept as is.

in my experience thus far there is no point in adding matches to the schedule a week in advance since they wont get played until the following week anyways. Having the deadline be friday morning for both matches would allow you to schedule matches for the following week on friday and would open up one additional day to viably play matches.

Edit:

No, not a scheduling issue with the site. Its an issue with the way matches are assigned to teams and the days they are allowed to play these matches. Essentially the way it is set up forces teams to play matches on monday every week since it is the last day that is allowed to play that match on. It seems like we are "behind a week" because we are constantly pushing up against match deadlines imposed by CEVO for matches that would typically have 5+ more days to play.

lets play they are here now

https://cevo.com/forums/topic/6337/thoughts-on-cevo-match-scheduling-policy/

It is sort of irrelevant what each of us thinks is best for the game. All I am trying to point out is that the motivations from people on either side are the same - being the desire for the best possible future for the game we play. Obviously there is a lot of disagreement about that topic, but chalking the entire movement against ESEA up to people throwing a temper tantrum about bitcoins seriously misjudges the situation.

that's the point. It isnt about spiting ESEA. It is about bettering TF2 by getting out of a league that isnt good for us.

It has nothing to do with "sticking it to ESEA" or "getting back at ESEA" for some imagined harm caused by the bitcoin mining. The TF2 community cant "punish" ESEA for their actions because we are insignificant to them and they do not care about our business. What we can do is get out of this shitty relationship now before any more resources and time are wasted on a league that has consistently offered us a poor product for years. We are not trying to make ESEA be a better TF2 league by boycotting them until they fix their issues. We are severing all ties and looking for a future without them.