Your thread was well-made for this forum, and is totally appropriate to post here. However, there aren't THAT many HL players who populate these forums, so you're much more likely to get a response from UGC.

These forums are definitely not "6's only", but because of the makeup of our population, they can seem that way.

this happens to a bunch of props on every server/map. Restarting the server (sometimes you have to restart twice) fixes it.

also he doesn't swear and he really enjoys his mother's puddin (not a euphemism)

playing well in one game doesn't make up for averaging 5-22 in the 15 games before that.

legitimately, it seems pretty silly to me. I'm sure I'll come off as whining or whatever, and that's fine, but it's frustrating to build a team over the course of a couple seasons, and finally have a chance to be in the top tier of open, and teams like the budteam, mesr's team, etc. come in and are immediately going to be right there. And in terms of their straight level of play, they likely belong at the top of open, but it really takes away a lot of the incentive to build a team from the group up.

I get that the rules are that teams have to have a season in open before moving up, but with the new move to main, why not move every open playoff team + these 3-4 'offclass' teams to IM to play with the current low/mid IM teams that were left behind from last season? Having scrimmed a pretty good number of the current open playoff teams, plus some of the current low-IM teams and some of the new offclass teams, they're all pretty close in terms of skill level*. That'd help flesh out the new IM and still allow Main to be populated with 8-12 teams who are close to equal. This upcoming season is a pretty unique opportunity to start all four divisions on the right path for continued success rather than the lopsided messes that we currently have in open especially.

*yes I know that scrims are not the most accurate representation of skill level, given that teams scrim to try out strats and not to win, but you can still get a pretty good sense of DM and coordination from them.

http://play.esea.net/teams/72846

to finish last in open

http://i.imgur.com/4mMnuCQ.jpg

I hate my life

should be in IM at the worst

welp i'm settled in the hospital

i have internet but the percocet + tramadol they've given me isn't doing anything at all so i'll likely be on a morphine drip (or whatever drug they're using to knock ppl out) until they can stabilize everything

the pain is pretty intense yo

Welp, so just as school gets back in session and esea LAN happens, I find out that what I thought was an ear infection is actually a soft tissue infection in the ear canal that has spread dangerously close to my brain, so I'll be in the hospital all weekend unable to watch LAN coherently.

Luckily my health insurance is very good and this isn't gonna cost me overly much, but it still sucks, especially to be missing what should be a great LAN :(

Go HRG!

good read as always.

holding in pee really long until you feel like your bladder is gonna explode then getting to a bathroom just in time

that's a great feeling

dang dude u owned the team fortress 2 community good job

Education

Started in math but gave up when it got too hard and decided i'd teach instead

I saw you in a surf server just the other day and thought the exact same thing about you not deleting me lmao