Blue Snowball sounds OK but is bulky (read: shit to transport) and the cable connector is absolute garbage, absolutely requiring a homemade fix (I used Blu-Tack). It also gets you flagged at airport security for a free manual check.

An XLR setup should be attainable with 100EUR and will sound better than a lot of the USB mics available.

USB AT2020 also sounds quite good.

You're kinda comparing apples to oranges, YouTube views accumulate from when they are published, most of the TF2 player stats you're shown are fluctuating over a short span of time. I don't know of any website that keeps track of something similar for TF2 players, i.e.: how many unique players joined any server server since a point in time, the best you have is, I believe, how many people own the game on Steam, which is not very indicative.
The other thing is that YouTube is a lot more accessible than TF2, viewers may watch but not play at all.

https://youtu.be/ssr1PMSNvwk

I don't suggest self-hosting TF2 servers with the occasional DDOSer showing up every few months.
Also: NA Serveme added a bunch of premium servers when ESEA ended their TF2 league, as well as Gameye providing infrastructure that seems to be on par with what multiplayer AAA games have nowadays.

What does the timeline look like?
Isn't this going to hinder players who wanted to attend Copenhagen Games?

Are you running TF2 with an uncapped framerate?

I set up a mumble server on the NACL hosting for the time being, I believe it's in NYC:
ip: 68.183.50.247
port (default): 64738

q3's pretty much defined modern FPS netcode, source introduced some optimizations with no major changes
- packets are sent over UDP/IP, some redundancy and buffering is involved
- server sends diffs of the world state according to ack'd client state
- clients extrapolate their own state (movement/hitscan) and interpolate the state of the world
- backward reconciliation is used in case of misprediction

TF2 solely uses UDP for the gameplay netcode, TCP is used for RCON
I can't speak for Q2 but I highly doubt it uses TCP, it would otherwise be unplayable with ping and packet loss

There's some to remember:
Netcode can never be perfect online (until everyone gets hooked to fiber and a solution is found for routing I guess)
There'll always have to be downsides somewhere
Not every issue you see is caused by netcode, hitsound in TF2 requires a roundtrip because the client doesn't predict the damage caused

They are literally the same code

For what it's worth, I've seen two posts on their official website that states that the venue will be Lokomotivværkstedet, the same as last year:
https://copenhagengames.com/posts/csgo-tournament-format
https://copenhagengames.com/posts/csgo-ladies-tournament-format

There is non-gimmick use to VR (social, light content consumption, content production (needs some exploration), audiovisual experiences, very specific games that couldn't exist on other platforms (like beatsaber)), it's just not well suited for "generic" gaming (similar to the Wii)

howd you get unbanned fuxx

i've always kept myself out of admining positions
if you're thinking moderation, i haven't been for months

"dont really have much to say about tsc anymore time to derail this thread to be about nursey so i can keep talking shit"

downfrag me you pussies

EDIT: This aged poorly, at the time I was absolutely unaware of Console's situation with dashner (although I was aware of uberchain's and I should have known better than to just accept contributing), and Nursey was such a non-issue, it was clear to us that she was not attending, her being brought up was solely for gaslighting.

lamao js ecosystem

downloading random files and sticking them in your steam folders is also quite yikes