as a veteran of TF2, I remember competing in cevo before ESEA picked up TF2. Back then cevo was our league, and ESEA was the "other" league. Since ESEA wow'd everyone with all the bells and whistles cevo withered and died. It tried to come back a couple times but nothing could compete with ESEA.
Since all of the bitcoin and related drama, ESEA has become vulnerable and Lange, Nahanni, and many others have really stepped up to revive cevo to the point where ESEA is in real trouble. While I'm no ESEA cheerleader, cevo has a history of ALMOST making it, only to fall short.
Our game is special, most games that have a competitive scene don't last long. TF2 has defied all the odds and had an incredible run. Our comp scene only continues to grow, and our community is incredible. All the LAN donation drives, fundraisers, and charity work... This is something special. We have all this because of the stability of our scene, and to go all in on cevo right now is a very risky move. If cevo fails, which I really hope doesn't happen, and ESEA has dropped TF2 we are left with nothing. Do you really think ESEA would just turn around and pick us back up after we told them to fuck off? They'll just pickup titanfall and move on, and our incredible community will die.
Killings new post offering all the free premium for new open teams shows how desperate they are, but I think we should take advantage of that and keep TF2 alive in ESEA for now until cevo has proved themselves as a stable league that is here to stay. I know cevo is working on a LAN, and they have an incredible staff. I fully support the switch to cevo, but lets not burn our bridges with ESEA until we are sure that we know the grass really is greener on the other side.