The IOC's main consideration is money. Esports will get in when broadcasters are interested (and that means esports will have to appeal to people of all ages not just the young). That could be a long way off.

I think they just included it because it's an iconic map rather than because it's good.

You can play it but it's very bare bones in terms of features and graphics. It doesn't have major problems in terms of game-breaking, but it's basically a client/engine with little content. The community is very small and you can only really find duels reliably.

As the game is developed I don't think they're going to make major changes so things you learn now should carry on.

Is it always this hard to get Americans to eat their fruit?

No bantz allowed in charity stream. Solemn observation only please.

Because it was set up by Americans to help an American charity.

I don't see why a team would want to play in this and not just go into ETF2L or UGC and save messing about. Also the name is impossible to speak without people thinking you're talking about TF2. That's the killer right there.

It's fun but surely the market for this sort of gamemode would just play it for free on Quake Live or new UT. edit: plus the short firing interval means you can basically spam it.

Correct, you have to wait for Valve to fix the exploits instead of working on passtime, gun mettle, aliens, bumper cars.

The spread was for Saints to win the bet if they won a single map even if they lost the series. Reason won 2-0 so they beat the spread. In a Bo3, a team gets 3 points for winning a map and 9 points if they win 2-0. The spread was 3.5, if Saints had won a map it would be 6-3 to Reason, then the spread would make it 6.5-6 to Saints. As Reason won 2-0 it was 9-3.5 with the spread.

Tbf that option shouldn't even be enabled by default.

According to the commentators, ash accidently committed suicide by changing class outside of spawn. Does mean he has the option 'suicide after choosing a player class' enabled? Because that's literally the first thing I changed in the options when I first played the game. b4nny looked pissed off as hell.

I'm just nipping to the shops to get some snacks for the GF. Please don't bring forward the start of the match by half an hour so I miss the first map.

I'm pretty sure that's what's annoyed him, you could have played it as scheduled then chose to delay it as a tactic. You'd better hope it works and generates higher viewership instead of killing it as people tune out and go out to do whatever else they had planned because they thought it was 2pm, otherwise you're going to piss off a lot of people for nothing.

The death of Froyotech has been greatly exaggerated. Another game tight as a duck's arse and another USA/EU final!