As an observer, every cheatfeed solution I have used required me to keep track of two screens at the same time, which is not optimal because observing TF2 requires you to pay close attention of what happening in fights. If you want to observe well, you have to make split-second decisions on who to observe in team fights, otherwise you will miss important parts of the fight (that don't show up on the cheatfeed). With the cheatfeed, you may be able to show more big plays, but the game overall will become harder to follow for the viewer because the observer is distracted.

The best solution to this problem is the approach we had in RCADIA, which is that the technical director just keeps an eye on the cheatfeed and tells the observer if something big is coming up. That way the observer is fully focused on the game but can still capture all the big plays. However, this requires two people to pull off, so obviously it's not feasible for online production for the most part.

honestly considering how they butchered the two swedish characters (one of which can't even pronounce his own name) it's a good thing to not be "represented"

edit: wrong thread

Adysky brings up a great point on gambling websites. I actually think this topic deserves its own thread. I checked the TF2Easy site and I saw numerous red flags:

• Missing contact and legal information. There is no information on who is running or operating the site, or what country the site is based in. The only contact information I could find was an the e-mail admin@tf2easy.com in the TOS. Who is really behind this site? Are they hiding behind anonymity to escape legal action?
  
• Potentially targeting children. Only in the TOS, which is linked in the bottom of the webpage is it stated that users have to be 18 years or older to use the site. The user does not have to confirm that they agree with the TOS when they register, nor to they have to provide any kind of evidence that they are actually 18+.
  
• Aggressive advertising. According to their about page, they take 10% commission normally, but only 8% for users who advertise the site with their Steam name. These are very high commission rates and they use a very unethical method for advertising the website.

Casting orgs and leagues should not give 18+ sites any kind of promotion, especially not sites that are as questionable as TF2easy. There are many minors in the competitive TF2 scene that could be influenced by top teams promoting gambling sites and start to gamble themselves. Since there isn't an age verification system on TF2Easy, this is even bigger of a problem.

Given the cause of Linux bugs it doesn't seem likely that simply upgrading from 32 to 64 bits would break them.

One of the most memorable TF2 events I've been to, and I have been to so many of them. Thanks for the work you put into it. Despite the chaos behind the scenes, it really wasn't visible at the event itself.

https://streamable.com/lfgd9s

good map

Is the showdown happening today?

Thank you all for a good LAN. See you at Copenhagen.

Was hard to observe such an intense game lol

return of the king

cu@

Not pressing m2 is also an option

Make sure cl_predict is set to 1

It's not true that player movements are recreated perfectly. Firstly, STV demos usually have a very low tickrate (16 by default), and any movement between ticks is interpolated. Secondly, the angles you see in STV and spec are always slightly off because the server only shows an approximation to save bandwidth/space. A POV demo on the other hand is much more accurate because it is the right tickrate and angles, which is why a POV demo is so much better when reviewing cheat evidence.

However, this video is someone speccing another player in-game, in which case only the angles are incorrect while the tickrate is 66, making it more reliable as evidence, but the video is still only 30 fps. It would have been better if OP recorded a POV demo speccing this guy cheating, because that would have produced more reliable evidence.