vod: http://www.twitch.tv/seanbud/c/3344250

youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak3ShDndSG0

gg ty for casting.

it's been hard getting casters to cast things. i havent been able to cast much recently myself, and most of the casters are invite players so if they're playing they obviously can't cast

I didn't exactly bring that one up publicly squid. I don't think I made any reference to those particular instances any time in the past week. clockwork and I were just discussing the incompetence of the ESEA tf2 admins. I'm sorry I hurt your feelings again.

OBJECTIVELY: I've seen similar shit and worse happen to other invite teams far too often. (and lower divisions for that matter.) I no longer think killing/Kalkin have the best interests of the community in mind when making their judgement calls. And this leaves us with precisely zero people working at ESEA who give a fuck about our community.

I'm not the only "figurehead" that's unhappy with ESEA. I'm not sure why you decided to to pretend that I based my entire "move to CEVO" argument around my own personal experiences with ESEA. That log wasn't even posted publicly until you did it. so... good job creating your own argument I guess?

ESEA needs to go man. Regardless of any personal reasons I may or may not have, there are far too many objective ones to ignore at this point.

i enjoyed the books and the first movie was decent. 2nd book was the best so movie has potential, they might do it better this time around. p.s. who knows what the fuck they're going to do for the 3rd book that shit was pretty weird

this has been rehashed over and over, and we even did a fully charged about it. Yes I know watch this was probably equally at fault but in their defense they probably didn't expect such a moronic judgement call from the admins(which is what the final decision was based on.) And they shouldn't have. The league admins should have the best interests of the league and game at heart. They basically made the invite division a 2-horse race this season(even more so than in past seasons), and since there is nothing else going on for 6's tf2, there was no other platform for watch this to play and potentially beat mix/iT.

literally the only argument for ESEA at this point is LAN. And I don't think it's a very good argument anymore. We are brushing aside some really really shady shit from ESEA over and over. There is drama season after season involving the admins. The community sinks thousands to ship players to Dallas because there are no sponsors. We are paying a VERY steep price just to stay in ESEA because there is a LAN. But honestly, how many more times do we need to see plat's team vs. b4nny's team in the grand finals in Dallas?
The last

http://blog.logmycalls.com/Portals/155740/images/6-call-tracking.jpg

LAN's have resulted in a 1-2 finish grand final of Plat's team vs. b4nny's team. This season we had a potential competitor in watch this, and the team was killed before the season even started based on the league admin's decision. lpkane will state over and over how much he does not give a fuck about tf2, and the league admins who should care about tf2 are fucking up the invite division over and over with terrible judgement calls. The client causes us to reschedule far too many matches, and doesn't ever catch a hacker, and was apparently doing shit much shadier than any of us imagined until the bitcoin shit was exposed.

If you want a LAN that badly, we can always keep sending our squad(s) to i-series. I like the idea of a LAN final, but we need to fucking move on and maybe one day we can have a LAN that's actually worth going to.

When we made the LAN S13 it was really really cool to finally meet all these dudes I had spent years playing with/against. The LAN environment also makes the competition different. It's not necessarily better, just different. I think part of the reason is because of the shitty environment of the ESEA LAN. It's a tiny room with 80 computers and there's like at most 15 spectators, who are seated/standing right behind you and if you don't have a good soundproof headset you can hear everything they say. It didn't bother me much/at all but if there was a large spectator audience that might actually get the adrenaline going instead of just being a "meh" thing. There's also CS players yelling stupid shit pretty much constantly. The actual computer setups are nice, but you usually tweak stuff to make it as close to your home setup as possible(this is actually pretty important to doing well at LAN I think). I had to play on a pretty low chair with a pretty high folding table that had a tablecloth that slid all over the fuckin place til I duct taped the shit out of it.

That's what I got out of the LAN. Yeah, there are pros and cons, but I think the original argument that made LANs necessary is ALMOST extinct. In 2004 when CS pros had to play with 150 ping all the time yeah LAN was huge for balancing things out. Now everyone is getting better internet. Yeah playing demo is vastly different with 90 ping vs. 5 ping, but I don't think it's worth the travel costs necessarily. If the environment was more enticing or if we didn't have to rely on community donations to get teams there and then split a mediocre prize pot then yeah it might be worth it.

LAN is great but not absolutely vital to having a successful league. Yes I think some players would follow through with their threats to quit if there is no LAN. I think you just have to say goodbye to them and move on so we can put this ESEA shit behind us.

Some people might change their mind about the LAN deal-breaker and play in a substitute league if it became attractive from a monetary standpoint. I know a tf2 league is not a reliable income, but getting a respectable prize pool without having to sink all of it into travelling to the LAN could possibly entice some people to stick around. Hell it might even attract new people.

CEVO's prize this season is $600, and iT registered for it. I think someone could put up $500 initially, then included a humble bundle system for the league fee where users contribute their desired amount to register and play(maybe a minimum of $1-5). Use all the league fees to directly increase the prize pot and you would probably get a LOT of registrations and a pretty respectable prize pot. Who knows. Maybe the pay your desired amount system isn't necessary as ESEA get's a respectable number of players each season, and that also requires paying for premium, so I don't think a $10 league fee is out of the question.

man this was a good belly laugh at 3am.

thx for casting it

ESEA

I think poly should be 5-6 mana too imo. mage is pretty dumb right now too.

I should clarify: b||oodsire-AA-

(which doesn't explain why b||oodsire is on the team.)