Hello everyone!

I would like to know if it would be a good idea to create a Steam Group for ESEA-open players to pug together.

The objective of the group would be to play pug games together and have fun, when we dont have a full team to scrim with.

(I would see the games being played mostly between 5pm eastern - 9:30 eastern, before the scrims time start for many players, but this is details)

Why creating another group? (I know there is the Power community PUG too and some others)

I know there is #tf2.pug.na running games, but i think the skill level of players using it is very different from each other. (Sometimes we got invites players, sometimes we got random players with no experience) Also, i usually add up while there is only one game running and when it's finish, the same people generally get in. (Good players are getting picked first, which is normal and fine!)

I can personally provide the server and pay for it, with the mumble if there is any interest by the community!

I would like to only accept players from Open, that are on a team, registered and everything. (This point is open for discussion)

It's just an idea im throwing here.

If anyone is interested by helping me handling this, (if we do it) it would be greatly appreciated. There is a lot of work to do, by setting up the group, contacting players from Open Teams, inviting them to the group. Also, we would need to write some ground rules.

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Questions/toughts :

- Do we really need this?
- Are we gonna be missing players to get games running? (i see around 50 teams in open at the moment)
- Can it work?
- Since im pretty new in this community, does this ever existed before?

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People who are interested in helping out (possibly being admins) :

-x3
-redban

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Any comments / suggestions are greatly appreciated. Also, sorry for my bad english, im le french.

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EDIT : Group is going LIVE!

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/openpugs#

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Edit May 12 : Server will be up and running.

What?

When are the results will be official?

Kid is still playing in #tf2mix

http://www.twitch.tv/foster/c/2212184

Awesome rofl.

I have this game too.

Fun casting!

There is awesome crying of you in this video.

<< WHY DOES THIS HAVE TO HAPPEND (crying voice) >>

Yes.

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Very nice work. We can see you put some effort and time on the video and the lan just happend.

One element that i would say is you should try to find a music with a higher quality, such a .FLAC or sumthing.

KUDOS

https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/2594311674/eppufzttjaj6g4f0wysn.jpeg

Thanks thetilemaker, thats my scout :3

Oh my god, i fucking typed S13 insted of S14. I think i wrote this during last weekend...

THE HYPE KILLED IT.

The picture is creepy because we are BLACK BY ASSOCIATION.

Hi!

Some fellow TF2 player made this for our ESEA-open team S14!

http://i.imgur.com/V6TJuOK.jpg

Sharing because i think the picture is very well done and fun.

c.u in Open!

EDIT : New picture, modified :3

-x3

Yeah 10-15$ isint the end of the world. Cheer up! I dont think we need Ikpure for this case.

"I b4nny'd Jessica so hard last night, her name might as well have been Ruwin."

.... LOL

golden

gpit out!