He's a very nice guy, and was one of the few people that would deign to tell me of the world of hockey lol.

You don't have to use a heavy.

At season 10 ESEA LAN, I think it was, Mix^ simply used their pocket and medic on snakewater, and then again on gullywash at some point.

You can use a heavy if you want.

You can also use the 2-3 man sack on certain maps just as a method of dropping their med's uber (the drop on Shrew by dummy as a prime example). It's particularly effective when the enemy has turtled up so much that they can't push even if they wanted to.

In general the stalemate timer almost never becomes a factor in the US format because our games can last upwards of an hour (due to the 2 30 minute halves).

I think the last time you commonly heard about people timing out rounds was when we had cp_ashville in the rotation - and I think all of us can agree that was the problem more so than the timer.

Sometimes if a team goes *really* tanky on a last (heavy, pyro, engee) and you fail push hard a few times the timer will get down into the 3 minute range, but then desperation will usually set in lol.

With the presumption of a 3 minute time, and the running of uber, you'll only get 3 shots at pushing last at best, and there's also absolutely NO incentive to push out, because pushing out to second is much harder than defending last 1 more time, not to mention if you harass the attacking team with a sniper (thus delaying the push for every pick you get). You could easily delay each push over one minute and limit them to 2 pushes in 3 minutes. Since you've gone all in defense it wouldn't be hard to keep them out and just reset the round to a new mid fight - which I think would be bad for the game in general :/

The issue with pushing out of last on most maps is:

1. The distance most teams put between themselves and the doorways into last, if you aren't holding close to the doors you simply can't push back to 2/4 as well, because by the time you mop up everybody and get to pushing they're respawning or respawned by the time you get to second because of the amount of distance you've forced yourself to have to cover.

2. Heavy/engineer off classes, that guy you had off classing, in general, not only has to participate in mopping up players, but then has to run back into spawn and then cover the length of the distance from spawn to 2/4, which again, makes you slow (often too slow) to 2/4

Could easily be IM with a little consistent guidance.

Literally the only time I've tried to cast before was eons ago in a vent with some pub buddies, and with pharaoh I drunkenly commentated on a Sunday Funday IM match lol.

So I'm kinda' a big noob at it but you'll probably never hear me yell unless I see something truly amazing live - I've watched that gran match before so I'm not as surprised when mix^ comes back 5-1 to win with mere minutes remaining as I was when I watched live lol. So hopefully you'll see more emotion once we get rolling with s14 :D

lol I haven't quite decided what sort of casting I'd like to get into just gon' experiment and destroy my upload a bit, I tend not to be excitable enough to scream a bunch, but I can manage slight voice changes and a rather villainous laugh.

I do rather like teaching the game though, but that's why I have my guide vidyas'

thanks arx :D

Yeah I tried to load a bunch of information down because I'd like to assume that *some* viewers will have literally no idea what's going on - maybe dumb it down less and provide more color commentary, and just assume the audience is familiar with why you'd throw a pocket out first lol.

I sort of modeled my information off of the early eXtine casts that had him explaining what an uber did and why it was good lol. I didn't take it that far though.

I'll try asking rhetorical questions :D

I'll probably make a few more just so I can get used to doing a bunch of shit at once and trying to say interesting things, and also get all the spectate stuff working properly.

I made the pregame screen in paint, in about like 15 minutes - it wasn't meant to look really nice lol. If I get into doing these more often I'll either try harder or ask around :D I'll hit you up redban lol. TBH I spent the most time trying to get the little class marker things to look relatively the same for each team lol.

So I made this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD72mZpRNT4

It's my first attempt at casting, since it's just a pilot of a 3 season old match I didn't really bother rerendering to cut the 3 rendering faults, or rerecord the mid that I miss because of random PC lag lol.

I also have no idea how viewmodels work in spectate - I assume something in my config is turning them on and off at random, because the time *before* I made said recording I had viewmodels (I started to record and realized my netgraph was still on! lol).

Let me know what you think, I am going to try and do a *bunch* this next season for youtube since I can't stream unless somebody wants to invite me on stream lol. I try to let my personality out a bit while also teaching general ideas about 6v6 since it's still fairly alien to some folks outside the community.

Also my map guides for newer players have expanded to include: Badlands, Process, Viaduct, GPIT, Granary are now done, gwash and snake will be done shortly www.youtube.com/medimarx

Peep show
Black Adder
Black Books
QI
Would I lie to you?

I really liked most of Breaking Bad (a few weak episodes towards the more recent seasons)

Game of Thrones is good.

I intend to make Spartacus better by just putting the show into vegas and editing out all of the sex scenes, and the scenes with cheesier gore. Would have been a great show.

Arrested development is also prolly the best

Firefly good too.

Willfred US and Aussie versions are pretty good.

Can shoot de' bombs at the people, and talk about how you can also shoot de' bombs at the people.

Good luck sal thanks for the memories :D

I struggle to keep my guides coming out on time I can't imagine casting all da' time lol.

I have literally no idea how you'd do this - because I know nothing of graphic design... But how hard would it be for somebody to make a graphic that would be super imposed on the cast so like after the initial "waiting for match to start" screen or adverts or whatever we decide to do we could get some sweet graphics of the TF.TV logo getting exploded/meat shot and exploding or something cool like that - it'd sex things up IMO plastic chair league sc2proleague has some really cool ones that they run prior to matches starting for example.

Planescape: Torment
Baldur's Gate 1-2
Fallout 1-2
FreeSpace 2
Hearts of Iron II-III
Tf2
Final Fight
Mech Warrior 3
Battletoads
Arcanum

I replay Fallout 1-2 every year lol

In real life, basically whenever I give a speech or presentation, I love being in front of people and working a crowd.

In tf2, probably when I made IM and a random UGC player asked for me to sign his needle gun lol.