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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H0s19g8fTg

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sup buds. I'm going to be doing weekly map reviews throughout the season covering the ESEA map of the week. I'll try to go over each class and their roles on the map during holds, pushes, mids, and other things.

I'll be doing it Friday at 5pm cst on my stream @ http://www.twitch.tv/seanbud

If you have any suggestions on topics to cover for cp_gullywash or the map reviews in general please let me know.

Here is a general outline I will try to follow:
Scout:
Mids
Pushes/holds
Offclass options

Soldier:
Mids
Rollouts
-Pocket: Ubers
-Roamer: Positioning

Demo:
Mids
Sticky traps
Pushes

Medic:
Heal rollout
Ubers
Holding positions

Like I said if you have any specific questions you can post them here or just stop by in stream chat and ask during appropriate sections I will try to answer them.

The VOD will be uploaded to my youtube Immediately afterwards.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSeanbud

Past reviews:
Week 1: cp_process - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh6huINtf3g
Week 2: koth_viaduct - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq0sAL8uaMY
Week 3: cp_gullywash - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H0s19g8fTg

the premise looks sick

any word on if the stvs are supposed to be fixed?

http://i.imgur.com/7dXfg.jpg

http://dw-stuff.com/buds/Mumble-2013-01-10-00-33-44-216.52.148.10-Mixdown.mp3

http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/8784/78883204.jpg

we were clueless as well. sorry to the (non)viewers.

povs will be streamed with commentary soon.

thanks for the updates

CS:GO world champs

I streamed basically everything for the past year or so. At this point I'm perfectly comfortable streaming and it doesn't hurt my in-game performance so I have no problem with it most of the time. That does not mean that my teammates are equally comfortable talking about things in front of a live audience so if people aren't ok with it I generally respect their opinions. With the new team, we were trying to figure shit out and I didn't want people holding back advice and criticisms because I was streaming. I like getting things out there asap so they can be fixed. Team is coming together well now so expect more in the future.

I've also learned that reading chat during scrims is impossible. If I don't turn it off there are a LOT of stupid things said that just take your head out of the game for a bit and literally none of it is ever useful to me. I don't like reading negative shit about me and my team so I just avoid the issue by closing chat when I scrim.

And I agree that learning another team's strats is usually useless. However, this is invite and people practice and play a lot and teams are usually really competitive with one another, and certain things like knowing which routes players take to middles and learning tendencies of certain players and teams IS an advantage that good players can exploit, even if it is a very small one. Giving up even a slight advantage before the DM fights ever start is something some teams don't want to do. Think of the dota community and how many of the top teams ever stream their practice. They only ever stream pubs, the reason it is still popular is because the pub format IS the competitive format. This is not the case in competitive tf2, but that's a whole other issue that could be debated.

tl;dr: It doesn't hurt MUCH, but it probably doesn't help either so some people prefer not to stream scrims.

P.S. I don't appreciate all the hate I read about me not streaming, regardless of what anyone's personal (incorrect) assumptions are about why I haven't been streaming lately. Especially after streaming almost everything for the past year which lead to a few pretty rough seasons. Thanks for watching.

esports

i'm curious as to what you think happened there. a few members decided they didnt want to move to invite after we won IM. i was in favor of going to invite and played invite the next season with flame idiot. i changed the team name to that and cut everyone before i left so they couldnt use the roster to sandbag IM.