moose taunt 4-1 mix^ by big door

the QF build rate should be the same as kritz.

it builds so fast that if you fail running ordinary uber against it, you will lose the round.

that'll be next week

maybe on the unusual, i'm not sure. i guess i'll take your word for it.

and certainly those mge or bball tournaments have small key awards, but they're popularized in part because HRG players (and other invite or well-known players) are participating. that participation helps the community, and its something that HRG players seem to do more than most other invite teams. that's all i was saying.

i don't really give a shit about all of this and which blue-named person gets the + frags and which get the - frags, but HRG players are seemingly always involved in the MGE tourneys and were easily the most active team during the charity event. Shit, B4nny even donated his unusual during that event (rather than sell it for LAN funds). It's disingenuous to suggest that they don't support the community just because they don't stream frequently.

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so sounds like valve did exactly what they were trying to do.

don't vote for the disciplinary action to be banned next season.

the weapon already is viable for competitive play. your proposed changes buffs a weapon that is already a superior option in most situations than the soldier melee alternatives.

on granary
wipe at mid
med equip quick fix
actually have a chance

why are minis designed to be deployed in the middle of a fight? i disagree with that entirely.

engis shouldn't ever be caught in the middle of a fight. their role is for support. they shouldn't be able to essentially DR out of a fight because they can drop two minis and either run away or use their shotgun to down someone.

to be fair to the casters, ruwin did say at one point tonight (i think 4-1 HRG with tri hards pushing hrg's second) that the tri hards should not be pushing on a post-uber fight. and then they were wiped.

i, too, appreciate more of the tactical analysis rather than the play-by-play casts, but granary is a very linear map and there's frankly not much to discuss in the way of flank plays. keep your med up and wipe the other team at mid? get frags on the last push and win the round. both medics up? whomever has a demo can take yard/the second point. there was what, a single off-classing stalemate tonight? not all that much time for the casters to discuss what teams are or should be doing imo.

unless you're looking for, "tri hard scouts are missing shots tonight"-type comments. which, i would imagine, in a 3-0 (5-2) quasi-roll, it'd be equally as boring to hear.

5-2 tri hards even though predicting against HRG can make you look stupid

korean pilots are pretty notoriously shit at manuel landing. don't fly air asia.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/airasia-x-adapts-training-after-a330-descent-incidents-368080/

Is it even still worthwhile to have maps exclusively played during a single week during the season? Randomizing both the matchups and the maps makes the game far more interesting, as it (likely) requires proficiency on multiple maps simultaneously. Additionally, viewers and players alike aren't forced into watching/playing a week's worth of a map and growing stale with its flaws (e.g. snakewater last, gravelpit everyone, granary mids).

I think playing different maps each game would increase the competitiveness of the leagues (as the teams who can practice their positioning the most or employ their tactics the best can't focus exclusively on the one map) and reward teams for their continuity (as a team that has stuck together and practiced on each map is obviously benefited). You could see teams sell out and practice exclusively for perhaps the stronger opponent, perhaps allowing for a higher chance of an upset in the match with the lesser team.

I don't actually play competitive TF2, and I'm guessing this idea would be poorly received by those who do because of the ease in finding scrims and warm-ups before a match when everyone shares the same map for the week. But in the scrims I view from streamers, teams usually get in multiple best-of-5's so taking turns on the maps could still happen. And maybe teams wouldn't so often play so exclusively with their scrim "partners" (Top Guns/Mix^ and HRG/tri hards), which I think is a good thing.

what does this even mean?