I'm not saying there's no benefit in general. I'm saying it's probably not exactly suited to a community mad of 3 main regions, with maybe some 5 top teams each that would likely get donatead reasonable money for competing, who are all on a friend basis with most of the community already. Imo I don't think there are a lot of players who take comp tf2 seirously enough to give money to a team who don't frequent tf.tv or ETFL forums and would notice a fundraising thread there. This might change completely with matchmaking and make the whole thing much more viable.

The EC1-a is your mouse.
(2 if you have small hands)

Please provide an example of something that's great in your opinion

I don't really see the benefit of this site. If someone wants to support their favorite team or player, they can just send them the money. Everybody has everybody on steam and anyone who's interested in being given money has a paypal link on their stream/youtube/whatever. If someone wants to fundraise a community tournament, all they need to do is make a thread here and/or on ETF2L and the community decides if it's worthwhile/legit. I don't think the process needs to be streamlined in such a small/tight community as comp tf2.
Also

this begs the question why you're interested in creating a time-consuming service that you say you won't profit from, that's directed towards something you're only marginally involved in.

I'm not saying it's a scam or the idea is bad, I just don't see how it would be all that worth your time for tf2 specifically

On that rig, you might get 30fps on Mr Valve before crashing, if you're lucky

Wow, I find it really cool how you can break the game completely and have portals overlapping themselves without breaking the source engine and making the game crash. That's some good game programming!

what the piss

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Depends if it fucks up when alt-tabbing, for me it usually works after being successfully in fullscreen once. So I just have to let tf2 start windowed by default and then change to fullscreen every time I open (and happen to watch something on the second monitor with a renderer that doesn't like tf2).

wtf both zowie's rubber and old glossy coating is the best there is

Wtf, all you have to do is change a setting in the tf2 menu twice, that's way quicker than installing a software lol

Try this dirty fix: Open tf2, in windowed mode, open your other windows, tab back into tf2 and set it to fullscreen. I do this when I'm watching movies on my second screen while playing and the renderer doesn't work when I open tf2 in fullscreen.

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/disneycreate/images/c/c1/Donald-duck-face-tumblr-i16.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140430235439

Okay, I was gonna look over the whole text, but right now I don't have time for all of it, sorry. But here are the things I noted in the first two paragraphs. These are mostly just grammar and vocabulary things, and not touching on any large-scale or structural issues there might be; since I haven't really read it all yet.
Maybe I'll go over the rest and add impressions here later.

Disclaimer: I'm German, that's about as far from Australia as you can get. So decide for yourself whether you think what I say makes sense.

In general, there are two things that I'm noticing throughout the whole thing. First is, there are a lot of synonyms and "hot air" phrases that I can't see earning you any extra points; see more on that below. Secondly, you're glorifying Musk to a frankly ridiculous extent, and idk if this is your assignment for the essay; if so, fine, but it would be a weird assignment, and if not, you really might wanna consider making this a more balanced and realistic discussion, which would make the whole thing much more worthwhile to read. And I think that would get you points.

Note: That full sentence is still extremely bloated and would benefit from a rewrite. Changed "besetting" to "prevalent" because I think that's more like what you're trying to say. Nothing wrong with "problems" btw, just changed to "issues" to avoid the alliteration (prevalent problems). The "to" was doubled with the one earlier in the sentence.

Besides being factually wrong, this sentence is pure air, comically so. I have never been in such a competition, but I'm pretty sure bloated sentences will be considered a negative. You're supposed to be precise in your use of vocabulary and still produce readable and informative sentences. Don't make your text read like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DE3wZnitJE&index=1&list=PL4zcHoozG8jmZ8DA9IRMgyATL-Ahi92eM

(or if you do, make it even funnier)

"persistent perseverance" is a double, only masked but not removed by "sanguine" in the middle. If you wanna keep that word, I suggest doing it like this. "Skills in the field of innovation" is air so I'd leave it out. Extra "his" for flow.

The sentence is flawed because "bold and inspirational" is supposed to relate to his actions, but grammatically, it relates to the outcomes, which doesn't work as well. Rewrote the luck part because "partial fortune" doesn't sound like it's a thing. But I'd consider rewriting this one.

Also, I hope this doesn't come off as dissing your essay, no intention to do that. I genuinely think if you make it more concise, it'll benefit from it. Also good luck with the competition!

Do a benchmark? I wanna know this too

Sry for unhelpful post but

wat

Also no. As someone who pays for internet as a product, it's not up to him to search for the reason for the problem at all, it's up to the people who receive the money for the product they provide.