If you aren't good enough to get picked for pugs, play lobbies. They're shitty in so many ways, but they are useful to suffer through and learn from if you're fairly new. Play a bunch of different classes once you get a decent feel for one of them, and if you run into someone nice who seems to know what they're doing, you can ask them questions. That's how I met my first mentor.

Also, I haven't really tried them, but it could be worth trying this map pack (tr_medic) just for the mechanical stuff:
http://gamebanana.com/maps/186499

We were beefing so hard in the first half, but overall, veerry fun, close first game of the season vs. Egg Salad Dressing.

But uh Brimstone, give your dad a good glare for me for killing our momentum. ;)

Yes, that's a bad ptt key, Drew.

The Lucky Lab, a local brewery, makes something called Zinger Bier seasonally, and that's one of my go-tos. Just a very refreshing ginger beer. I also like a lot of doppelbocks and stouts. No one favorite brand for either.

What would that actually even mean for scheduling if they kept the conferences? Inter-conference matches only until playoffs? And then what, they take top 8 of each? How does this work...

What the heck. I definitely heard the "five paid to not get dropped" thing too.

entreprenerds, u have been blessed by the great bear dude ʕ⊃•ᴥ•ʔ⊃━☆ﾟ. * ･ ｡ﾟ

Hits lots of rockets and doesn't get mad, from what I've seen. Will be your ultiduo buddy forever. Needs some solid team experience to become more than an mgelord.

Weren't u already playing, tho?

8:18 PM - tri: im still not sure if we can promote non playoff open teams though

So, since you were 19th, I think your only path forward would be a roster hijack. Maybe get in touch with ether?

We don't even really want it at this point, not anymore. If we had known that we would be playing IM weeks ago, as opposed to having to tell all of our tryouts, "Yo, we're playing maybe open?" that would have been fine, but now...

I'm gonna talk to my team about it tonight, but I think our only reason to play IM now would be to save the div at our own expense, so I'd rather another team filled the spot.

When will he learn? Good gamers!

Now I'm gonna have Styx stuck in my head all day. Thanks, guys.

I dunno if they'll correct the numbers in the poll itself. They might just look at the votes themselves and announce the winner.

I have been experiencing a similar thing. Some things are lagging and others not, but my ping is normal. Sometimes I'll kill someone and see their model disappear, but the damage number and death sound come way later (like nearly a second later).

It's really shitty for playing med cause I can't see projectiles half the time.