I'm not getting payed for this to be clear. We're going to have big cash prizes. Not medals not hats.

Nahanni is going to get mad at me but I'm going to say this anyways because I'm very confident if we do this correctly we can match or even exceed the services that esea currently provides. For me my goal is not out of the love of the game or any kind of good will of any sort it's purely a little project I can work on every now and then to see if I can generate revenue (not that I'll take any but if I do expect tf2 to get really big...) I have a lot of long term goals with this that I think are certainly possible because right now this community wastes a lot of money. We pay the league fee we pay premium we put donations in to get teams to lan ect ect... There's definitely a lot of ways we be more efficient on how as a whole community. The main thing is people have to pay for it and a need a reason to pay. If we have anything at all that is free to play we simply will not be able to compete with esea it is of the utmost importance the community supports us with their wallets. There is a sweetspot for price where having more teams pay less will give us diminishing returns that is currently being determined.

I feel like pay to play highlander is a giant cash cow just begging to be milked. This is an area we can unify the competitive scenes. The lan you love from 6s could be in a big way funded by the highlander community.

If we get the communities support and have a good season of cevo and I achieve my selfish greedy monetary goals I don't see any reason why we couldn't host a lan.

Well there's a lot of legal crap in this world that's put into place to protect people from theft. If the verbiage is too confusing for a business to handle maybe they shouldn't be doing business.

Then they're being blatant hypocrit because the document they signed explicitly says they don't admit any of the allegations were true. As lpkane mentioned a thousand times.

Spending money to stay out of court has guilty red flags all over it. I don't ever say someone or someone is guilty until proven innocent.... but running away doesn't help at all. If they would have gone to court and fought it I would have completely different perspective and would have supported them.

It's also very easy to blame all your problems on one person, but that is seldom truthful.

John it's more than a bitcoin scam... They're paying a massive amount of money to avoid going to court over this. You could get a team of the most expensive lawyers in the world and it would still be less than what they're paying. It makes no sense you can't sugar coat it.

I don't understand what you mean Xan. They're a legitimized league on their own.

Nahanni and I were discussing pay to play and how to structure it. We decided that a free division is a bad idea because it's unfair. Why do you get the same service for free just because you're in a lower division? There are free leagues available for you to play in if that is your intention. In the past amature and main divisions had trouble with teams staying in main or being "forced" to pay for main. We've decided that everyone will pay the same price regardless of what division they're in. Nahanni is going to start crunching numbers and an estimated price point should be available by Tuesday night.

We're talking about doing 3 divisions, with prizes in each division. 4 is too much from a funding perspective.

I don't mind the idea of using just cevo servers. It helps to justify a payed service. We payed for these servers aren't they working?

I know it must seem retarded but being a college drop out was probably the best thing I ever did... Especially in terms of income.

I find it's more about getting them out of school as quickly as possible. If there's even the slightest chance of failure they moved down into a course that really accomplishes nothing after they're done school. You don't really learn anything useful for the real world...

Having a lan is an option that is being taken very seriously. Piggy backing into another event is nice especially if tf2 has let's say... a really big prizepot compared to the other games. It is also really important to work with other gaming communities to develop a relationship where a they would welcome a tf2 tourny... you only need 12 computers.

~100$ per team is a good start.

You guys are so cheap 15$!