My actual builds prove me right. I'm very specific in the build I'm recommending, a height constrained case where you can use a radiator to get fresh air from the front instead of having a tiny crappy CPU fan like the C7 inside a hot shoe box. It's a straight win in noise, temperatures and overclocking capabilities.

Your hatred of AIOs is ill placed for high-TDP/overclocked SFF builds, where the only good argument against them is imo price. Pump noise is irrelevant on modern units, certainly much lower than fan noise when properly controlled (H75 on DC fan control, H80i on silent mode for example, NZXTs pump speed control, all not hearable in a quiet room at night) and still allows for overclocking. I specifically added a Noctua A12x25 to replace the stock radiator fan, which has way better noise characteristics than the stock fans.

The 8700k with that motherboard (bad VRM), cooler (can't handle the real wattage of an even slightly overclocked 8700k) and case (lack of airflow) is a waste, if you really want that CPU in a powerful, compact travel build:
Case: Silverstone SG13
Cooler: 120mm AIO (e.g. Corsair H75, or H80i if you want even better cooling/overclocking)
Motherboard: Asrock Z370 Fatality ITX
GPU: Any GPU < 270mm will fit, you can squeeze in a 279mm MSI GPU with some modding.

Now you can easily overclock it (e.g. MCE or all core 5Ghz with an AVX offset), the build is slightly smaller and will be way quieter at load. I'm very confident that this will work as a travel build, since it's basically my portable LAN PC.

Here's my proposed part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/K7F2zY

The shitty puma6 cable modem my ISP gave me in bridge mode combined with an Edgerouter ER4 to do Smart QoS, so I can stream, download, torrent and game without lag.

Yes, those demos couldn't be uploaded during the downtime, so there's no way they could have been restored. But all the older uploads are all there, I tried a 3 week old demo and a year old demo and they were both available.

Praise be!

Are you on WiFi? Run a trace with WinMTR to the gameserver IP for 10 minutes and show the results.

Winning RGL will now feel like winning the special olympics while you're not disabled. It probably already felt like that before, but now more so.

I'm not defending his typical TF2C forum behavior, but Masternoob gave me an 8 hour ride to i52, i55 and i58. He didn't exactly shy away from talking to anyone at those LANs.

You were gaming on wireless? 2.4Ghz wireless?

Pugchamp matches aren't serveme.tf reservations, so I can't do that.

Regardless of your serveme.tf premium status you can download demos for games you played in, in the last 31 days.

Icewind, the creator of demos.tf, hasn't been online on Steam in 5 days, so I've opened a Github issue where he's been online recently:
https://github.com/demostf/demos.tf/issues/11

Oh sweet summer child, rewatch the VODs for i46, i49 and i52 for some perspective.

Having been a full-time part of the production team at i49, i52, i55 and i58, I've seen first hand how hard it is to take a group of amateur volunteers and turn it into a successful esports production. Understaffed, under-equipped and overworked, with rising expectations each iSeries, especially since esports production in general has gotten so much better (and much more expensive!) over the years.

The "unsustainable" bit that uberchain touched upon is getting more apparent this year. Back at i55 and i58 we already knew we were setting the bar quite high. All thanks to the specific people available to work for the production, Multiplay tournament admins, equipment available/rented/borrowed, equipment generously provided by Multiplay and the amount of time put in by certain people way ahead of the event.

Unless we magically get all that back, I think it's time to aim for a way smaller production done really well, instead of a big production not meeting expectations.

On a positive note: I've quite enjoyed the i63 show, didn't watch all of it, but I've seen hours of great TF2 (WARHURYEAH casting was mvp again).

Thanks EU ruleset

Ryzen is great value at the moment, especially the 2600. Not just the CPU but the motherboards too.

It takes a lot of effort to keep a publicly available software project running and Jon hosted a bunch of those for free, and he worked on them for free. He deserves a lot of credit for that.

This kind of software starts to rot once you stop working on it, pieces stop working and security problems are no longer fixed. It's better to pull the plug if you don't want to work on it any more, instead of waking up to a huge cloud hosting bill due to someone turning your TF2 stats website into a file sharing hub.

Maybe he'll release the source code some day (try asking him), that's the reason we still have MGE and SOAP-DM, despite Lange being long gone.