The problem is that the shorter it is set the more linear it makes the game. If it's short enough to have an impact then it essentially reduces the game to win mid > push last with almost no prospect of variation from this formula. There is no real point playing 5cp in this case apart from the lack of maps for other modes, you've effectively reduced it to a weird version of koth.

The OP's problems of a small audience and a lack of participation aren't going to be solved by making it slightly easier to push

Playoff games have been like this for as long as I can remember. Teams play much more conservatively when there is something on the line. Alternative game modes have inevitability built in but they don't have the 6s focused map pool.

Casters have a lot of options available to them when a game is slow paced, but making their boredom the topic of the cast shouldn't be one of them.

Teams incessantly defending in order to make the game as boring and uneventful as possible hasn't stopped soccer becoming the world's most popular sport. Competitive TF2 has other problems.

It's dead, maintenance of ancient wordpress plugins with massive security holes became too much. RIP

Thanks for the heads up, was a data entry mistake. Should now be fixed. Team scores should have been unaffected.

The ETF2L Season 27 regular season is now over, pixel trophies have been distributed:

1st - Brown Boat by Dubbs
2nd - SClub27 by Mearlite
3rd - 2D by Dingo

Good show chaps, now let's see who can bring home the bacon at the business end of the season

Yeah we're treating it a bit like a lan, although etf2l might stretch it out over the length of the regular season again so maybe it's the wrong call. We'll see

We're running a second competition for ETF2L playoffs this season, so if your team of complete scrubs has totally failed you during the regular season now is your chance for redemption.

Sign up here: http://fantasytf2.com/PlayerTeam/Create?seasonid=16&name=&weekid=0

EDIT: oops, still a couple of games in the regular season to go, so pixel trophies still up for grabs

That is a very moving victim impact statement. I hope you are reading this Sideshow

Is it as bad as having Sideshow be your wingman?

Bren + Bren + Bren + Bren + Bren

It might be that there is a difference between the stats plugins and how things are broken down, tftrue might operate differently to the sourcemod plugin. These kinds of differences might account for some of the variability in the study.

I'm honestly not sure, I thought it was commonly accepted that they don't but maybe it's just not possible to tell how much comes from crossbow and how much from medigun. I'd have to go through a file looking for the healing events to tell which I haven't.

If they are logged as normal healing events than those would appear in ESEA, and it changes the interpretation of the analysis a little but not to an enormous degree. In that case I might have taken some of the more advanced regressions a bit more seriously but they produce really complicated formulae anyway.

You are a wonderful human being Mr Thewin

Do you want my paypal?