did you just fucking say meggings

I semi-agree with this actually.. my wish would be for the lower-level players and top-level players to each realize how they benefit one another and mesh together better to each achieve their goals instead of working against one another.

Uhhh..

I mean it's not the ONLY thing, but you can't deny that LAN and money are definitely things that encourage the top players of this game to dedicate their time to scrimming and practicing constantly and trying to win. There needs to be an incentive. If there was no LAN and the prize pot was Valve store coupons, we would not have a competitive scene like we do today.

I'm not sure how fair these arguments are when it comes to defending ESEA.. I mean yes of course ESEA did a ton for TF2 than any other league, but that's mostly by default.. they have been the only successful paid league with any longevity, and have been here 16 seasons. There hasn't been a successful league around to compete with them for most of the past few years. They're the only ones.

And yeah, it has brought in the players and given high level players an even playing field.. but I think that's sort of by default as well. The only big LAN event with big money will obviously draw top players to compete for it. ESEA has had no competition in that category. It's just them.

I think ESEA got lucky that they managed to go this long without some big negative event - 16 seasons is pretty convincing. We are seeing now again how quickly people can jump ship and majority can rule (like back when CEVO was much more popular)

I think the problem we're actually seeing shape up may be a situation where half (or whatever percentage) of the teams stayed in ESEA, and half left for CEVO, and so now both leagues have way too few teams. ESEA too few people to stay profitable/keep TF2, and CEVO.. is still obviously figuring out how this will go. I guess we'll see.

This really looks great and seems to have a lot of promise

Currently looking at new HUDs, hoping to find one that will be updated frequently. Considering this one!

Thanks for the encouragement :)

In general I'm not afraid to solo cast, but for a TF.tv cast of a high profile match, I felt a solo cast didn't cut it.

Maybe next time!

I didn't feel like it would be the best idea to solo cast this.. that doesn't usually make for the best casts. When there are two casters, you can banter, you can talk about different opinions, you can each bring up different topics, and you can play off one another.. but with one caster, there tends to be a lot more silence and it tends to be less interesting for the viewer.

Plus nobody wants to listen to me talk to myself for an hour and a half :P

I was expecting pictures of actual shit so i downfragged

I really couldn't agree with this more

If you're sitting around WAITING to see if people will pay their fees before you decide if you'll pay or not.. that's not a great show of character by any means. Make your own decisions! If you've enjoyed playing in ESEA the past X numbers of seasons, and you're on a roster.. I mean, keep playing. Even with less teams, it's basically still the ESEA you've played in in the past, and it's still the same TF2 we've all played for 6 years.

I'm not on either "side" of this, but I'd hate to think that there are dozens of people waiting around to see if enough people will pay their fees before they decide what they're going to do. It'd be terrible for ESEA to die with 30 kids who could have played but just didn't want to pay until everyone else did.

This is my eighth cast in 5 days so I guess you're right

the last ad i saw was for the morning after pill

This is pretty cool, man. Thanks for the link because I wouldn't have seen it otherwise.

I saw the very top of Vermillion City earlier and I have no idea how.

okay

TF2 Updates always read to me as "Here are some cool exploits you USED to be able to do"