What I said primarily with about ads was a two pronged thing.

On the one hand we make everybody who watches aware of important community contributors (mge archive, iT, whatever you want) and on the other we show that we're willing to commercialize ourselves and can provide a baseline for how successful such commercialization could be - but to start it has no real monetary goal.

The main reason I suggested it instead of acting upon it personally is because I am in no way affiliated with tf.tv other than being a user of it. We'd have to have enigma, or some other trusted individual go to people like Lotus et al and talk to them about mutually beneficial relationships (more people interested in a f2p game's comp scene could bring many people back into the pubs or bring new people to pub thus mutual benefit). For pubs it's just as easy as having a little text notice come into the chat every now and again about tf.tv in exchange for us plugging their servers before casts or during half time - it's simple.

We need to change the way we market this game to gain popularity.

Tf.tv and our broader community needs to reach out to:

Server providers (tragic has shown how successful this can be), Pub server communities (lotus has a HL team now), and actual companies to see if they'd be happy running adds with us. All we'd need is some open source techno music, and a 10 second fade in fade out of a logo and link for tragic or iT, or any other community org. It helps tf.tv because it could demonstrate ad-viewing potential (these could be stored on a youtube playlist) as well as help the community generally by advertising various orgs as well as Tf.tv. I'm sure razer and etc would he happy if somebody just said "hey bro, we'd like to run some adds for you on our casts of tf2" this also opens avenues for individual players to get involved in marketing - admit it, if b4nny said "I love this mouse" at least some small portion of the community's opinions on that product would change - which is one way to regain MGO attention.

We also need to restructure the way we do casts. Several streamers other than Truktruk need to be enlisted to constantly rebroadcast content at set times so people can tune in regularly from the EU and NA scenes.

I like skyride's intro screen, but we need to start running content at the start - tragic could make a crappy add for himself, somebody could make an add for various other things and that's what'd run prior to the game starting, and if some technical problems happen, instead of forcing the casters to jabber at each other for 30+ minutes, we should have some sort of back up plan, like a playlist of popular frag/jump movies or adds that help the community.

We should also get casters and teams a bit closer together to facilitate a proper half-time where adds could be run or a few frag videos (you only need 5 mins for this) instead of forcing casters to again talk forever and risk saying something silly or causing viewers to lose interest.

Just some ideas blurted onto forum page.

I think TF2 as a comp scene is fine, although the skill level may decrease slightly in the lower divisions because of the influx of new people we're going to see over the next 2-3 seasons as HL players cross over and new people get drawn in thanks to Tip o' hats, and i46/i49 and of course LAN interest in general.

My phenom II x6 becomes VERY testy if it goes over 60 degrees C - and the stock heat sink is a fucking nightmare dust collector (I have to blow mine out every 3 weeks or notice performance decreases).

Mine's chillin at 26 C right now and Tf2 is running fine lol.

You can also try just fresh installing tf2 - that fixed a previous problem with FPS that I had. I'd wait until steam pipe for that, that way on the 30th just delete all your shit and start fresh.

If your performance has recently gotten worse - judging by those temps you may want to clean out your PC - in general any time my FPS goes to hell and starts jumping around it's because my CPU is getting too hot because its managed to get a bunch of dust in the heat sink.

Although from a spectator's perspective I'd love to see both Plat and Seagull playing pocket in Invite, plat will do just fine.

Heyo

I'm still trying to make the magic happen with Pharaoh, but since time is short I'll throw my name into the hat and see if I get an offer I can't refuse lol.

IM level med I'd like to think.

If my friend's list is full post in the thread lol.

Available most of the time.

Very nice the few times I pugged with her - follows directions well - and will get more and more comfortable with 6v6.

Bonne chance!

I love pharaoh. Will only get better and better.

And that's why you never go to sleep with your shoes on.

Although the x6 near-perfect season had a lot of unlocks that we don't have now, the playstyle wasn't *hugely* different from what you might see now.

I know harb - some time ago - released a bunch of his old POV demos from playing roamer - I can't remember which particular season they were from - you could likely find them on natf2 somewhere.

I remember they were old enough to glitch out my hud and have everybody be constantly on fire lol.

I've always liked the art style and how the game "felt" the team aspect is great too that's mostly what keeps me into it since i was big into sports as a kiddo.

Disappointing showings for a lot of teams, but still a great LAN to watch.

A+ work to truktruk, and the rest of the crew.

mid 2k in down time and ~3k during games with 3.5 for the best match if I recall correctly - pretty on par for the last 3-4 seasons.

We'd prolly do better if the ads weren't so bad this year (in the past there were actually good ads :( ) and if there was something else going on during the 15+ minute breaks besides music.

Seanbud!? wow. Going next level.

seagull putting on a pocket clinic.