freestate has got to be one of the most underrated players in history, his steady flank play was so important to how froyo operated and his playmaking ability won froyo rewind 1

to me he's the ultimate example of who's demos to watch if you're a flank player with a heal centric combo, he was so good as a team player despite never getting a ton of heals or attention and im honestly kinda disappointed the article frames his success as if he was carried by froyo instead of an instrumental part of it

probably just biased because he was my favorite player when i was first getting into the game but oh well, keep the articles coming i love reading them

ik this is the NA top 100, but as a spectator winning i-series kinda seems like the peak of tf2, i feel like players like cookiejake and garbuglio should get a little more credit for that imo

semi-relevant story time:
last year, me and some irl friends signed up for a collegiate tf2 6s league, we had played a couple seasons of amateur RGL together so we weren't total noobs but we definitely aren't good. we rolled pretty much every other college, until we got to one team (CMU) where exile, toy, and ether were playing together with 3 other random amateur players.
they were offclassing and probably not really trying, but any fight we took was pretty much an insta-loss, even when we would try to focus fire their invite players I would just miss every rocket on their invite scout lol

here's the log, we predictably got rolled even though i dont think their other 3 players had any 6s experience

this is a fair enough reason and i dont want to be that guy since tf2 players are degens, but the UGC website that looks and feels straight out of 2010 lets every team have a picture and i havent really heard of any issues with it

why do invite teams get a logo

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but my team does not, im paying money to miss playoffs in intermediate the least rgl can do is let me put a funny picture on my team page

i think i just filtered for 6s matches

cool tool

https://i.imgur.com/0622faG.png

either this feature is broken or im really really bad at medic

fluey rang against my team in round 1 of playoffs and went 30-2 on scout, and we didn't even have the option to deny him bc of default ringer rules that for some reason still apply in playoffs lol

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i had a lot of fun with this game a while ago but it seemed like there were a lot of cheaters, has anything been done to address it?

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hi all, i'm currently writing a research paper about the history of baseball sabermetrics, and i was trying to take an e-sports approach to part of it. I was curious about the history of analytics and stats in competitive tf2, since I wasn't around when these things were first being developed, for instance

-how was the initial reception to sites such as logs.tf/sizzling stats, were people excited by the idea/implementation, or was there a worry about people "playing for logs" or other concerns?

-Who were the first people to look deeper than in game points to review performance, and was there a reason these people first did this?

-Were stats that are held commonplace today like dpm or uber drops always around, or did someone have to come along to develop and popularize them?

-From what I can tell, when looking at overall "how good a player is" (i.e., who is a better roamer, blaze or seagull, etc.) career statistics are given less of a value than team performance, seasons/tournaments won, how well they played with their team playstyle, and other factors. How much of this do you think is attributed to the nature of a team based game such as tf2, or do you think there may be other factors at play?

-Projects have been in place to look at player performance such as TF2Metrics (props to the devs of this btw, it's really impressive), fantasyTF2, and a site that keeps track of career performance and records that I can't remember the names of off hand. How much weight, if any, do players place on these to review their and others' performance?

-Have you personally, or have you heard of anyone that has changed their playstyle or mentality around tf2 as a result of statistical reviews of logs or other factors?

-any other thoughts you might have about statistics and metrics in tf2 or any other esports are also appreciated.

thank you in advance friends :)

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shake shack and in n out are about the same taste wise but in n out gives you twice the food for half the price so its really not even close

thank you sir