8.) DREAM_HACK. I say that the teamfortress.tv guys try to find a team to get together with both the extv and the vanillatv guys, and maybe even more people (tfworld.ru, greavertv, whoever), and draft ONE solid UNIFIED manifesto for the dreamhack guys, and the valve guys, to work out arrangements. include the best examples of our game's growth (stream counts, esp at esea and i46, some really popular fragvids, the highlander scene, etc.), and make our case. I say we could also wait for the i46 documentary to drop, and include that as an example for our scene.

I've been thinking about ways to further tf2, and I've come to a conclusion.

The majority of the good content being created that revolves around the top level of tf2 comes in the form of written word. We have a lot of great articles written about invite, discussing the teams and their lan race. However, that stuff is boring, and will just appeal to people who already have a vested interest in high-level comp tf2. In light of that, I have some ideas about more interesting media content that could interest people in specifically the top echelons of tf2. I also think a lot of this should be done under the banner of teamfortress.tv, for the sake of unity.

1.) bring back an NA podcast! rechristen the "MGE podcast" the "teamfortress.tv podcast", and have such hosts as djc, Lange, cbear, Sigma, bloodsire, seanbud, basically any colorful personality, and bring back the guest teams, invite gossip, all that jazz. you could stream it live on lange or seanbud's stream, then put the vods up on here.

2.) if you've ever looked at esea's cs content, one thing you'll notice is how connected it is to http://www.youtube.com/user/goesea , the eseanews youtube channel. they have lan footage, top 10 plays/fails of the week, interviews, humorous content, all that jazz. I propose that something similar happens, but either as a teamfortress.tv youtube channel or a partnership with the commft/extv/whatever channel. I think a good starting point would be top 10 esea-i plays of the week. I'd love to work on those myself, but I also understand if, in the best interests of the community, someone like Sal should commentate.

3.) bring back the tutorials, demo review videos, etc., to the same extent that mygamingedge did. I can't stress enough how helpful it is that these things are in video form. videos will attract more people, plain and simple.

4.) work with the top public/highlander streamers more. get stabby stabby or someone to plug tf.tv, or make a 6s and a highlander stream section with equal promotion of the latter.

5.) I used to see a lot of tf2 frag videos on larger sites (big frag movie youtube channels and stuff like pldx), and they would get many more views that way. try to work on those partnerships.

POST-SCRIPT: these are unrelated to my ideas up there, but here's some more stuff:

1.) I suggest we focus on furthering our relationship with UGC, both in terms of convincing their highlander teams to also try 6v6 and in further solidifying the link between ugc 6s and esea 6s.

2.) I think more can be done to promote teamfortress.tv itself. People should literally go to pubs with [teamfortress.tv] in their name, or have a bind asking people to check it out.

3.) teamfortress.tv servers perhaps? maybe we could get a 16-man, nospread, nocrit, comp map rotation pub (like pro like chro!!!), or perhaps partner with jump iT and sponsor the jump/MGE servers, to increase the number of users, which will eventually help LG (and perhaps Mix^ can get in on that cash cow too)

4.) In that vein, why not have teamfortress.tv sponsor mix^? you can put team bios, mentoring content, a donation for lan, etc. on here

5.) revive the mentoring program, and better it. get more people to volunteer, make an application form, maybe even mentor evaluation forms too, and possibly try to get mentors or mentees to stream their mentoring sessions.

6.) Mr. pingu, tear down that natf2.com

7.) similar to what tyrone was saying about a "tf2 holiday"- make a big teamfortress.tv steam group, and make a big list of like 20 or 30 public servers eligible, from a variety of communities. announce every time a big pub event is going down, and get people to disperse to all those pubs and play with some sort of teamfortress.tv tag, advertising it and stuff.

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the newbie mix is literally designed for you, lol

there are a lot of great books to recommend in this thread (Catch-22 for instance), but Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clark is possibly the least well known, and it's utterly fantastic, really embodies the true spirit of science fiction

I think it's fair too say that the tf2 community can be extremely selfish and short-sighted, if everyone took a second and just tried to do their part to grow tf2 I think it would be extremely possible

anyways, some great authors not mentioned in here:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jorge Luis Borges
Nikolai Gogol
Franz Kafka
Saul Bellow
Flannery O'Connor
John Updike
Phillip Roth
Jonathan Franzen
Arthur C. Clark
James Baldwin
Ralph Ellison
Tim O'Brien
Junot Diaz
Erich Maria Remarque
Jean-Paul Sartre
etc.

Non-fiction:
Malcolm Gladwell
Manning Marable (read his biography of Malcolm X, it was great)
W.E.B. Dubois

don't read hitchhikers guide to the galaxy without at least also reading the restaurant at the end of the universe and life the universe and everything, and possibly the last two as well

am I the only one that thinks we're like at least 75% if not more towards the perfect esea map pool?

other than the 8th spot (currently occupied by cp_assvile_butts6), and arguably gpit for some people (but I love it), the rotation is completely fine as is

STATUS_QUO

you seem to be missing the point

people will start reading this thread and see you posting normally and say "hey this dude isn't so bad", and then see your terrible posts attacking anyone who airs any grievance with you and say "well, maybe he still is"

you're trying to have your cake and eat it too, to prove you've turned over a new leaf and simultaneously "put da haterz in dey place"

if you've really changed than you won't find the need to respond to every single negative post with a rant about the cocks the person has in their mouth

http://play.esea.net/index.php?s=support&d=faq&id=100

at college:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2174466737.png

at home:

http://i.imgur.com/JyAtH.png

barely a difference, eh guys?

good video, but I remember a lot more sick frags in this match then this :<>

prolly cuz his demo movement is so good

better than enigma

it's just annoying to "waste" footage from a league match on mog, I always want to ideally save my best match footage for the commft top 10