I wanted to go but the tickets were sold out by the time I tried to get 3days, and that was like 15 minutes after it launched.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lg51dzWHJE

Jericho

This is the last year I think I'll be involved (and might be its last year total) with my college's LAN party, but previously I had spoken with the other guy who runs it about doing a more competitive, private event. We were talking about doing our own TF2 league with actually prizes and finals on LAN, but it came down to costs; not costs for us (we have plenty of connections here in Michigan), but for people to travel out here. If it were easier for people to get across the country for a LAN, we would have been hosting bigger cash events for the past two years.

Just for reference, on Windows 7/8, you can right click Steam and pin recent games to that menu. It's an extra click to get to, but I found that when I had TF2 on my taskbar I would click it accidentally a bit often, and it would take a while before I could close it.

fucking disengage

so fucking good

I liked it.

Wow turn adblock off you turd.

http://i.imgur.com/isOqeAD.png

The new logo with some black blur behind it (so it stands out on Twitch's white background).

http://i.imgur.com/TFc88e9.png

I traced the letters (by hand) to put an outline in case you like that too.

Please keep in mind that these are awful and enigma should make real ones.

wonderland confirmed daichiki

so many excuses

Interesting how many people talk about how everyone needs to do proper research before forming their own opinions, then proceed to go up in arms about a kid copy and pasting from a satire website. It was pretty obvious.

Other than that, it's hard for me to give my input. I'll be honest, I typically only tend to brush myself up on what's going on shortly before the big voting seasons, and it's honestly a bit embarrassing. Regardless, there are some pretty strong and poorly informed opinions being tossed around here.

Is the United States of America the greatest country in the world? How do you even quantify something like that? The response will vary from person to person even if everybody were equally educated on the facts, simply because different people have different lives. Most of the problems this country has, though, are shared by any other given country.

bison is #1

It gets said every time this sort of thread pops about, but it's worth noting again: competitive TF2 is a pretty small fraction of the TF2 player base.

If every starting player of every ESEA team this season played the game today, that's still less than 1% of the daily concurrent TF2 players - which itself is less than 13% of the DotA2 players.

The reason these numbers are important are because, even at the most generous numbers for highlander players, retired players, etc., the number of competitive TF2 players is most likely still under 5% of the total TF2 player base, and competitive TF2 is not the same as regular pub TF2. The distinction here is that DotA, LoL, SC2, etc. all have the same game being played between pub games and comp. games.

So that being said, the typical person watching a stream of a game is probably(and this part is totally my own assumption) a player of that game, or at least somebody interested in playing it. This means that less than 5% of the total TF2 player base (which, again, is tiny compared to most other popular streaming games) is probably even interested in these streams to begin with. As you said, LANs and such change this a little bit, but the unfortunate fact of the matter is simply that the viewers just don't exist. Sad, but true.

pls be friendly to the young leaky