People on the lower end of Invite usually can without restriction. But top Invite teams can't otherwise a consistently #4 Invite team would make more sandbagging in Advanced for the #1 prize pool and just ruin the division for the rest.

Rain is a cool guy, good aim, plays well with his teammates, knows how to make a needed pick on Sniper during disad or stalemates.

Make PropHunt official.

It's not fun dying (and especially dropping) to a OHKO weapon from a skilled soldier who does a speedshot jump towards you where the reaction time needed to kill the Soldier before he touches you is so fast, it's unrealistic, but I also don't want the MG banned because those insane moments are far and few between. The more likely scenario is a Soldier just going up in the air and coming down, and those are fairly easy to either dodge or snipe him out of the air.

I think the MG provides the Soldier some alternative ability to make some of the big plays needed, otherwise he would only have four rockets to work with and playing him would be even more textbook and predictable than it is now. Soldier already has a tedious enough time being the one who breaks stalemates, and often having to kill himself for two minutes straight just to try and make something happen, I don't want to gimp him further without offering a replacement in his utility. The only thing I detest are bunny hop crits, which feel like you did everything right in dodging the Soldier but still died. But those are baked into Valve's engine, so there's no real way around that.

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• Some players might not be friends with people in the pug, so they feel like they're playing with strangers.
  
• Some teammates are so chatty with calls and comms, that sometimes you find yourself saying very little because so much is already being said.
  
• Some people are just really bad at multi-tasking with attacking and talking at the same time.
  
• Some people just want to listen to music while they zone out, DM, and maybe listen to teammate calls.
  
• Sometimes you get a team who is so annoying to listen to, you want to locally mute half of them and just play by feel instead of talking to them.

Pugs are chaos 80% of the time and thrive more on DM than textbook coordination or playing-your-role. I get why some people just wanna zone out and play 6's like it's a pub.

This may be one of the best contributions to the community alongside things like tf2logs and masterconfig.

Join me on my "scrim only no RGL joining" team. So far I got a maybe from Insom.

Because sometimes people don't join pug servers depending on who is admin, what players are active, what the rules are, how big the skill gap is between members, or whether or not they themselves are banned from most pug groups and have to make one themselves just to play.

It's not as easy as inviting the entire TF2 comp community into one big pug group and then separating them by divisions, at least not using a Discord or Mumble layout.

Since pug servers are basically pop-up stores, I figured I would make it easier for people and create general templates. These templates are best for NA SIXES PUGS, but can work for any type of pug or any region.

If you are non-NA or non-6's, the only changes you would have to make are:

• Changing div names
  
• Changing "Post your RGL" to "Post your <League Name>"
  
• Changing user limit of Picking-Teams to 18, and Red+Blu to 9 each.
  
• Adding other TF2 classes under Roles (But this is only if you plan on using Reaction Roles).

If you want a simple server with few roles and only want to keep the necessary ones that have permissions, you can delete these without breaking the server:

If anyone ever plans on using Reaction Roles for divs, here are some images you can upload to your server.

Here is a large image showing each template so you don't have to make a server just to see what it looks like.

We should have jump map speedrun races during the off-season, like when people speedrun Mario 64 against other speedrunners in a race.

i get kritz
every mid
cause i'm the shit
yes i did

my aim is trash
i play splash
i'm the worst in main
ain't the one to blame

my comms are ass
my ego's glass
push to talk
jump the med? no thanks, i'll walk.

What is your thought process behind it? Do you go for a theme, look for anything that's cool, look for the cheapest non-ugly effect, go for something incredibly goofy looking.

I try to collect any golden pompadour with hearts for my "Johnny Bravo" theme and any class that doesn't have a pompadour hat yet, I looked for a semi-cheap unusual that went well with my pink tomb readers and bear.

https://i.imgur.com/pwp7isl.png

Just think of it as a hoodie for Ultiduo Champs or MGE Lords.

I got covid during the last two weeks of RGL S5 and missed out on some scrims. I felt bad because our team already never had a set 6th player so they constantly had to find two ringers for a few day so I decided to just play for the remaining week and a half with a 102° fever. Our losers bracket finals ended up being a little over two hours and even going into golden cap and it felt like the longest game I'd ever played because all I wanted to do was sleep.

Another time, during a 3AM pug, my internet dropped out in my area so I turned on the mobile data on my phone with hotspot and used my computer's wifi to connect to my phone and rejoin the game. It worked fine, there was absolutely zero drops or lag but about ten minutes in, I got autokicked because I couldn't connect to the VAC servers for authenticity and every attempt to rejoin gave me the pop-up error of, "Cannot connect to VAC servers". Relaunching the game didn't help, restarting my computer didn't help, I had to re-verify all my TF2 game files just to join servers again. For a split second, I got extremely worried and thought maybe I did end up triggering something to get a VAC ban and that it would be permanent.