as it stands now things are too word-of-mouth which is very inefficient for learning. to get any real answers you have to know where to go, and generally if u do u dont need them. outside of dm the bridge from invite to lower divs is artificial, there isn't much for advanced players to look at that wouldn't involve loading a demo in-game which is aids. ideally a high invite player would make a series over more complicated ideas like pressuring, drying, exchanging, etc... if enough time passes and i'm better i probably will

but the priority right now is rgl pugs. these are the worst pugs ive played in my life and i can't believe this is what's come out. embarrassing is an understatement that the average joe can make a discord server survive longer and with better pugs while faceit died 3 times when u literally got paid money for playing. at this rate rgl pugs will be doa when it needs to be a big step forward.

this deflection is cope. as for fixing eu, its within the interests of both continents to have a centralized pug system outside of newcomer regulations, eu currently has neither. na only has the latter but for a couple years now there's at least been an effort to have a real pug system, whereas in eu even the czechs got their own group - if its not an ideal it'll never happen.

another facet of europeon inferiority is the gameplay, if i only saw stalemates i would've never touched the competitive side, especially while its full of people who insist thats how the game should be played. i appreciate players like silentes who swap beggar's to try to break stalemates but i've only seen it be used as a single sac, and there's a big difference from this and this. silentes' bomb definitely has a place, but it definitely doesn't as a pure single sac.

does this mean that creating bots that properly strafe is now possible?

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thread reads like an excuse for bear to brag about "Going Outside" after having spent over 5 years being a condescending retard to anyone he perceived as worse than him in a videogame.

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if u put trash on a pedestal does that change what it is? but that's no longer where i stand. regardless, u are either a bad faith actor or you're only trying to stir the pot. ordinarily if i talk to u i'll either double down or take back what i said. i'll do neither and just say that you don't deserve responses from anyone beyond this one.

bad bait.

pretty much. unfortunately for stalemates if u lose 1 person for nothing when ur pressuring that's already bad enough not much good is gonna come out of it, at least with chaddie on 1 of the sunshine matches he was trading his life for things that dont matter. 1 person fucking up messes with everything, and thats a guy whos more concerned getting back to bases than adapting to unfamiliar tf2.

the gameplay was artificial. if invite and prem could be merged im sure the very top of prem might be able to stick around at first but its just unfamiliar strats, if theyre solved eu would have nothing left. its a bit concerning, if na keeps moving forward while eu sticks to holding last its inevitable there will be 1 less continent that can give some competition.

disagree. theres a lot more factors going into this than just "this team wants to win." and its like i told mustard, the metas undeveloped. i feel like for every idea we think we understand, theres about 2 unknowns, even on core aspects of the game like what weapons to use. till recently people werent incentivized to be pioneers, even when going back to more tradition.

we're only in the middle of the story, these problems will be fixed

EU moment

its not crazy, nevermind "delusional." now u didnt give me anything to work with and i feel this is ur own way of getting ur upfrags or whatever, but ill give you my reasoning and if ur an honest person i'll hear out why you disagree.

so after making this, its a bit long and not rly organized so ill just put the button here for anyone that wants to see my reasoning but it reads almost like my notetaking yknow.

it doesnt matter they lost, its that an intercontinental lan had some of the worst gameplay it couldve had. it doesnt kill the game but it does prevent it from growing which isnt much better. its frustrating too because the ideas easy to understand, its just the game doesnt revolve around only mids, and even when european teams lose them they just immediately go for another round reset and are hellbent on it.

its not a good way to play the game and i think theyre just lucky they live in europe - its hard to strat against teams youve never played before and probably wont again, and eu plays the game completely different from na in more ways i can count. despite that, i still think real froyo or g6 wouldve 5-0d everything if they showed

yet another lan where the entirety of europe proves again they are completely incapable of playing the game. color me surprised.

also disagree. the problem lies with the community not solving these issues, it's only recently people are starting to get serious about their sacs and finally 3-4 manning. if either froyo's real roster or g6 showed up every team wouldve gotten 5-0d, especially when theres pubbers pushing out of last on pyro and heavy.

the meta is very unoptimized.

i get the idea and for a good while i agreed with it too, but if all it takes for someone to cut ties with me are my genuine opinions or the reddit vote besides it, those bridges arent worth sustaining or valuing. if that means no team ever picks me up thats fine, i'll be playing tf2 regardless.