I'm more into axes because I find them more useful out in the woods on my private resort. I have a very large collection of Neemantools, Hoffman, Jesse Reed, and Tuatahi axes. Knives just don't appeal to me because they're much much slower at getting the work I'm doing done.

Don't know how to attach images. This is just what I have laying around the house, have probably 3 times this out in the woods.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/22emlejokhvdbn3/IMG_20160417_154452.jpg?dl=0

I still think if cevo had gone with my much more ambitious plan we could have killed esea. Nevertheless interesting interview.

Got life by the balls.

The point I was making is people are more worried about feelings than facts. Sometimes the truth hurts but it needs to be said. I believe in free speech and the right to make outrageous statements. If you can't do that you are slowly but sure censoring the people and in the longterm it's a very bad thing.

I love Trump, I'm hopping he moves to Canada and runs for pm after he's done fixing the states. Tells it like it is, facts are more important than feelings and has really shaken things up in a good way. Political correctness is getting out of control to the point where you can't actually say what you're thinking without having some sort of outrage. It's refreshing to see someone who not only challenges but also defeats the mainstream media and popular opinion.

Demo looking for team, probably as a sub.

I used to be demo for Subspace emissionaries in IM before they merged divisions. I had to give up my spot because I worked so much I could no longer play regularly. Things have changed I don't work as much as I used to and would like to play again.

Fast rollouts, fairly consistent dm, though I am guilty of doing the same thing over and over again. Can smack talk if required. :)

Hit me up

http://steamcommunity.com/id/thesealclubber

No more heavies in the top 10. :)

Frenglish.

Pine beetles have been deforesting western Canada for a long time. Unstoppable swarm of death.

This is the way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX91Nj0uItI

Sure they can. Anyone who can play an entire Highlander match, or even just play a scrim of it in a day has enough time to commit to a real league. It might take some time & peer pressure to convince them but it doesn't mean it can't be done. Any free league whether it is called UGC or not will always be considered a band of shitlord players, and they deserve every bit of contempt they get for thinking that is real competitive TF2. They need to get into ESEA, get their asses handed to them... Get better then shit on other new players the when the next season comes around... Just make sure to let the players you just took a dump on know that they'll get better the more they play in ESEA.

JP that's exactly what I'm saying, you'll notice how I don't mention ugc much because it is a problem... The day new players stop going to UGC & just directly go to ESEA is the day TF2 get's really fucking big. It may take time to get there... but that's how it will happen if it does happen. The half-assed, half-committed players need to just step up and play in ESEA.

No no no no... new leagues and especially free leagues are just going to fail and crash and burn. It's never worked, never will. So many leagues have tried to fill that gap and you might as well just send them to the incinerator for termination. It's seriously like smashing your face into a wall.

Re-focus yourselves tell yourself this over and over again until you finally get it stuck in your head:

" ESEA is the only way this game will see any kind of sustainable growth. We need new players to be interested in playing for ESEA "

Free anything is just going to be another abject utter failure. The unwillingness to pay to play is exactly why this game has been perpetually supported by donations and why it is stagnant and on the verge of falling into nothing. If the community actually made efforts to introduce players to ESEA and promote ESEA the game will grow... You're kidding yourself with fantasyland ideas that a new free league or a new league of any type is going to pick up tf2 and get serious attention. No more fantasyland ideas, get people into ESEA.

The very simple answer to getting a lot of attention to something, no matter what you are trying to promote... is very large prize pots. To secure a prize pot of the magnitude you would need for people to take it seriously would be very difficult and funding it through the typical tf2 donation way just doesn't cut it. Community backed projects will never be as successful as one funded by organization, because the community is generally non-profit which means it will just dwindle and die.

People seem to think valve should do something about it... But really the best way to do it... especially now (cevo had an opportunity to go big... but it's too late now) is through the promotion of ESEA to the regular public player. Maybe try get ESEA to do a season of highlander. Whatever happens, the more players putting money into ESEA the more likely the scene will stick around and grow.