I guess we are agreeing with each other, but I don't find having an unqualified part time job on sundays and saturdays in Russia enough to pay for a $500 computer.

Mike doesn't really practise this season, and nobody is saying that it is actually impossible to study, work and compete all at the same time - you just have to prioritise and compromise, either on your mental health or your performance.

Don't see how any of these examples are outside the realms of what's reasonable. Yeah, it might shift the limits a little bit but why complain now if we hadn't had some proper dumb fundraisers yet.

Having a job
Studying
Competing at the highest levels of TF2

Pick two. It's absolutely impossible to find time to do all of these at once without burning you out. Especially in Russia, where $500 is worth a lot more because of low salaries. It's not like he is asking for us to pay for his vacation *cough* bash *cough*. He is asking us to cover the expenses of a new PC because you are physically unable to compete in the first place without one.

The point of fundraisers is to help cover expenses and not to earn money. Most people in this community have spent far more money playing tf2 and helping out the scene in some ways or other. Some people want to keep doing this but their personal economic situation makes it impossible. This scene would have been duller without SDB so it's not entirely unfair to ask for some money back. If you disagree, you have the option to not donate.

Who hasn't?

SO RETARD

https://twitter.com/ondkaja/status/659834952184430592

wow that comeback by VP

Nice

if it's true that kensi is done that is very sad :(

2 year contract? That's pretty insane, especially for a game that hasn't been released yet.

Then why did you use this argument if you don't think he was ratehacking. It would not be applicable if he didn't ratehack.

And I would stop biting the hands that feed you if I were you.

Eh, you accused him in the original post of rate hacking, you didn't word it as "symptoms similar to rate hacking", you literally said that he was ratehacking. You only backed out of this claim AFTER you understood you couldn't prove that he actually was ratehacking, which I'm glad you did but at least admit your mistake.

And maybe there won't be a replacement for tsc, a lot of people wouldn't elect to run a tournament if they knew they had to deal with this unnecessary drama if something went wrong (which it most likely will do). Because honestly that is an overreaction if I've ever seen one, you are boycotting all future tournaments where this particular person is an admin because 1) he didn't let you reschedule, 2) he didn't force froyotech to use a sub. A lot of other tournament admins would have made the same decisions, so this sounds personal and irrational rather than an educated decision.

Then I guess the problem is that the tournament admin didn't want to reward teams for being unorganized, and not being able to show up on appointed times. A decision like that sets a bad precedent, what if other teams wanted to do the same thing? You would either have to allow everyone to reschedule or not allow anyone to reschedule, just to be fair to the teams. Again, it's your responsibility to show up with a roster on the day, if you can't tough luck. But it's you and your team's fault, not the tournament admin's fault, and you haven't even admitted that yet.

But this isn't even the main issue, the issue is that you are being extremely antagonistic towards someone publicly, who has spent an incredible effort organising this tournament completely voluntarily. Hiccups and questionable decisions happen in the biggest of tournaments with the most experienced tournament admins, but you don't see any big teams publicly shitting on everyone involved in the tournament (unless it's gamer paradise tier) and accusing other players of cheating without a shred of evidence. That's the definition of self destructive behaviour and only drives potential ambitions AWAY from the scene.