Sadly I don't know enough about MLG to get involved on an organisational level, I am sure (hope) though with the right people getting in contact they can make this work.

Question is will this become another forgotten Ladder like ESL or will it go somewhere?

Disregard my other statements, I have an idea that might help the fundraiser - can someone add me to friends?

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Shouldn't care what randoms think of you, not many people in this community are worth respecting, so a few minus frags shouldn't throw you off speaking your mind. Form your own opinions, don't follow the crowd...etc #yolo I love anime, #MLP, Epsilon > iT, cbear is a bad caster, mustardoverlord is a humble person.

That's my girl, daddies proud. <3

I'm sorry but with our past, everything you say and the way you say it can only come across as an attempt to patronize or destroy character, I still remember the times you attacked me personally, my league when the discussion was completely unrelated to it, so focusing on character seems to get my point across better. You have (had) a way of this in the past, I didn't mean any offence but you can't and won't be forgiven by me for your past behaviour lightly. I would help out in this project by means of mentoring/organisation if it didn't involve certain UGC admins especially yourself, not saying they would want to work with me but I certainly don't want to work with them.

I wouldn't mentor people (for free, in my spare time) at the moment because I want to put my time into other things more important, some of my actual friends ask me and I say no as a result. Mentoring people cuts into your free time, makes you lose focus of studying. Also I am not "publicly" stating my intentions, merely talking to you about it since I can't contact you any other way, I don't really care about "public" opinion about me, only what my TF2 friends think of me. I never actually asked her to ask you, I merely remember stating I might consider it, upon consideration I don't want to do, I wish good luck in the success, I hope people are realistic about their committments to mentoring and promising perks. I might throw in a small donation for a perk, perhaps some mentoring on Pyro.

Firefly and Pudding Cup are amongst the most upstanding people in the HL community, I agree but this won't affect how people respond if they don't intend to do it. Remember the donation drive for i49 was organised by upstanding people and that didn't stop the players involved being unresponsive. The only way to stop it is to bug them like hell, I don't doubt people will need prompting a lot to fulfill their obligations. The character of one individual won't change the character of several others.

Minimal rewards result in minimal efforts, that is my point - Now ultimately, if you're given a small sum for winning a league and then you get messaged you need to make time to mentor Donator A, Sign weapons for Donator B and you are the sort of person who puts minimal effort into committments, it isn't a motivator - You're looking for reliable people to do this and my experience of top tier TF2 is people sure as hell ain't reliable.

Interesting how every comment you make is a lead on to attempt to destroy the character of the person who opposes your point of view, because trying to address the issues without coming across as a tool is beyond your mental capabilities. I did mention to one of my friends I might be interested, seeing how talking to UGC admins in the past has proven to be akin to talking to a brick wall with patronising graffiti sprayed on it, I haven't bothered to contact anyone. I am guessing my friend you refer to is Elena, she told me she talked to RedRum, but never specified what about and I didn't care enough to ask since I have much more on my plate right now. And no I don't intend to help, if it means working with you I'd rather not.

I will donate on the condition that extra costs go towards a limosuine to take you to and from the LAN event and also for a personal Butler for the duration of the trip.

Good luck with this.

I can forsee half of the so-called "mentors" putting minimal effort into fulfilling their side of the arrangement: being incredibly hard to contact originally, being incredibly unresponsive to the mentee, being disrespectful of them, being late to the agreed time, only doing one session in total and not making time for others (you really want to help someone improve, you do more than one and you spread it out over time). You saw what happened after i49, some of the donators got fed up of the people who promised to do a few tiny things in return for a free trip to Europe - These guys are playing for like a couple of hundred bucks (maximum each) if they win for a 4 month season (if you include the time practising pre-season) in which you will spend 5+ hours a week practising, you add that up it's a small menial amount for the amount of effort you put in.

Not saying I am against the idea or that getting money for doing something you enjoy is a bad thing, hell no. And at least half of them will do everything they promise and possibly more. But people are naturally lazy, they will promise one thing and fail to deliver, especially if they do not even get something for it. I hope UGC enforce some sort of rule, do all of the perks before distributing money so they can control it if someone fails to deliver.

Also mentoring as a perk insn't the greatest one, I done it loads of time and it is equally frustrating if you can't find the right mentees as if you can't find the right mentors. I'd do it (for free) but I choose not to put my free time towards it at the moment, other things take priority.

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This community is a joke, I'm done.

I stopped these cos I really didn't have much free time to do them without cutting corners in quality, it became a choice between doing these and work for a course I am "studying" so I picked the work and it doesn't stop until like next Spring.

I am happy with how these two came out, I'd love to keep doing them but it'd mean dropping things I value more, thanks for the support though.

Good news chaps

I won $30 Million on the lottery last night, exactly one year from now I will host my very own LAN event, of which I will invite the very best teams of every continent alongside some qualifiers, the prize pool will be $1.5m For this event. Between now and then, I will donate a 100k Prize pool to every major league in TF2 for every season they run, I will also fund multiple teams over to i52 and of course donate to the prize pool.

You have 12 months to prepare and get good at this game, old legends can come out of retirement whilst great fps players can change their game to this cartoon shooter in hope to win some cash money prizes. Just to keep garnering interest I will also put up a prize pool for lower leagues as well. This event ought to put me at a massive loss but TF2 will be considered an eSport and a lot more interest, competition and awareness will be garnered.

Oh fuck, I lost my Lottery ticket....oh well.

If I donate will you come to i52?