http://www.teamfortress.tv/38687/predictions-for-rewind-lan ???

A few more specific predictions..

b4nny will outshine every other scout at lan
Drackk will be just as impactful as blaze, they will be tied for best roamer performance
Raymon will be the hardest medic to kill by a long way
Habib will be godly on viaduct, for this reason I don't think froyo will lose a viaduct game
The games between EVL and JT will be insane - especially the paulsen v bdonski and yomps v yui matchups

I'll probably be wrong about most of these but hey

While on the topic, I encourage all players to record pov demos for the round robin and tournament brackets, now with in game demo assist its literally just a case of typing ds_enable 1 into console. Having more pov demos would help out a lot of people in the community!

Don't talk about Mr slin like that

The real question.. why am i trading walls of text with mason after being awake for about 24 hours :thinking:

Thing is, I'm not frustrated at not being able to deal with higher level players because I can and have dealt with them from playing them in scrims and matches, not just pugs. My frustration is with their own mindsets towards their own play (that being said I am not meaning it towards all high level players because that would be delusional).

I'm not a lower level player, I was a high level player that happened to not play prem, but i played high playoffs 3 seasons in a row and performed at a consistently high level in each instance. I'm guessing you're not familiar with the EU scene so it's perfectly understandable that you think I'm clueless because I didn't really make an effort to make a name for myself, but I guarantee you i do know what I'm talking about and I do have a high level understanding of the game and it's dynamics.

Keep a look out and you will see me pretty active within the community over the next months, not as a player, but as an analyst and coach, and it will quickly become evident that I'm well versed in TF2.

I echo the sadness in typing this out but I felt I had to retort.

I was referring to players he's brought into his teams.. I don't consider him a very friendly pug player by any means..

Hey I'm perfectly open to thoughtful discourse on the matter so you can add me on steam if you feel the need to prove me wrong but if you're just posting for the sake of making it look like i don't know what I'm talking about, then I'm not gonna argue about this with you on the forums.

I wish high level players would realise that this is a team game and that they are wasting their potential by doing so much close-minded shit, whether its not communicating with their teams or being toxic or baiting its just like - you aren't helping yourself or your team or your opponents to improve and if you think your ego is above all of it then what is the point of putting thousands of hours into this game and hoping for it to become something big when you are doing barely anything constructive to help the cause like FUCK its actually unreal how much wasted talent there is in this game..

and what makes it worse is that people cant recognise talent in unproven players so only a fraction of the players with the potential to be great actually get the chance to, props to kaidus and banny for actually developing less experienced promising players, i wish more top players would do that..

I'd like to do some analysis for casts but idk how often I could do it :<

1. Froyo
2. Se7en (though it wouldn't be an upset for them to win, I think it'll be a really close final)
3. JT
4. EVL
5. 20B
6. Meat

I think there's a lot of upset potential, I'd be surprised if there were no underdog victories across the entire tournament bracket. I give it to froyo mainly because of their roster upgrades, blaze is a MONSTER on LAN and I expect only good things from Habib and Nursey. Se7en, however, have the most coordinated flank duo in the game in Drackk and Starkie, and with the potential LAN performance coming from AMS, alle and thalash, if they're having a good day I don't think froyo will be able to keep up. JT could upset either of these guys in the bracket as well IMO, I haven't been watching them much but I think with the time they've had to practice with their roster and no sudden medic roster changes (lookin at u brutalix) before this LAN, they might have the most chemistry as the most established roster. I doubt EVL 20b and Meat will be able to contest the upper 3 teams, but who knows, everything changes on lan - and does anyone remember duwatna for 20b at their first ESEA LAN? He POUNDS when he gets more heals (which he didn't get on froyo). Also bdonski and yomps are gods so maybe EVL will show up..

You don't wanna be hungry but you don't wanna be digesting a lot of food. For me the sweet spot is eating about 1.5 hours before scrims/matches. If you think it's crazy, look at the attention to detail fatal1ty maintained for stuff like this, its nuts.
https://youtu.be/0pO0LJCziDU?t=1h34m57s

I think I'll come to this.. LFT

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUl7CZtqTed1bX4d7yogt2Q
Older frags and newer analysis content, maybe some new frags too?

Zesty is good but watch him aim on any class and you will not be able to understand why..