fingerinthebum scared to post in the most recent rahthread?

bump! will be announcing very soon (tonight) so after that wont be able to change the schedule. besides that, it would be nice to know in advance that we'll have the coaching power to support 8 teams. remember you can do joint-coaching with someone if you coordinate between yourselves!

bump :) (remember im open to changing the schedule with feedback asap, also u dont have to be super high level to be capable of coaching newbies, just looking for people with mid+ experience ideally)

Hey all,
TFNew is hosting a team drive for the newcomer group of the upcoming DreamHack EU Community Clash. This is to allow new competitive players an alternate way to give the cup a go without having the daunting task of having to build and organise a team, as well as aid in the challenge of learning to play competitive TF2. Players will sign up individually and be drafted into teams, then spend the week leading up to the cup having pre-known scrims with each other and mentoring sessions with their coaches, all organised by us (we have always found a fully structured and pre-known schedule is ideal when working with newbies). It will all work largely similar to a TFNew cup, except only having a single week of preparation before the cup rather than 2, and likely having a cap of 8 teams (and of course the cup itself in this case will be the DH newcomer group).

The current schedule plan is listed below. Due to having to fit it all into one week, it's rather crammed. Because of this, I am open to changing the schedule with enough feedback before it's officially announced. Please reach out to me ASAP if you would be interested in coaching but think the schedule should be changed. As an alternative if you want to coach but cannot make all the sessions, you're welcome to bring in a friend to do joint-coaching with you, as long as between the two of you, all the sessions can be covered (and you communicate with each other properly).

Current schedule plan (all times in CEST):

• Teams drafted weekend of 5th-6th
  
  
• Monday 7th: 18:30: Coaches deliver intro talk to teams (explaining 6s at a basic level in a generalised way, answering all questions of course to make sure the team are all on the same page in understanding)
  
• Tuesday 8th: 2 maptalks by coaches at 18:30, then teams will go into 2 scrims at 20.
  
• Wednesday 9th: 2 maptalks + 2 scrims once again, same times
  
• Thursday 10th: 2 maptalks + 2 scrims once again, same times
  
  
• Friday 11th: optional final meeting before cup to clear up any remaining questions from players, etc
  
  
• Weekend of 12-13th: cup

If you are interested in coaching, please DM me on discord JWB#6651. Thank you.

emerald does (albeit accidently lol) bring up a decent point (that has been brought up before by people like extine) that its a bit of a yikes for big names like froyo players to not only not say anything about nursey but also still essentially associate with her, people like arekk and habib frequently like her tweets (including the google docs defending herself). if they believe her to be innocent, why dont they properly speak up about it?

predators are monsters ofc but i think saying nursey is responsible for "ruining the reputation of trans people" takes responsibility away from the people actually being transphobic. its really not hard to recognise that a trans person being a pedo isnt an excuse to be transphobic and transphobia is objectively wrong no matter who its directed towards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhXImM9WjA8

an asian team was planning on going to i58 in 2016 i think but then OW came out and the koreans on the team got hooked on it and quit tf2 before i58 and killed the team's chances of going lmao

yeah its not that i care deeply about being banned from a channel i have barely watched in years its just i hate being left in the dark and wanna know why lol :(

ive been banned from b4nny's chat for ages and i didnt even watch him for ages before that (ive never said anything against him in this chat im p sure). ive got into some flame wars with him over tf2 issues but all of that came after the ban so idk why im banned. submitted ban appeal in november and have dm'd zeekaptain on discord before but nothing. strange bloke.

https://i.imgur.com/xwP8dUI.png
(this is just banter not throwing shade at faust)

i'd like to make it known that i suggested "tftv reveals that rahmed is an AI created to experiment with the community" and it got BRUTALLY rejected (i didnt suggest it till really late but still)

https://twitter.com/Hafficool/status/1377364163274629120 looks like the haffi/raymon/gink team is doing pretty alright
edit: as lupus pointed out kaidus is the coach of this team too

"job" dude these are volunteers who work their asses off for the scene (tf2 volunteers in general, maybe not so much tf2c staff lol). i dont blame them in the slightest for just hitting the button on links that are either porn or intentionally designed to look like a porn link for le epic prank. play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
(still silly if you cant get unbanned tho)

i agree that people shouldnt feel obligated to continue volunteering if they're burnt out but let's actually work on the problem rather than saying "its just how things are if they dont like it they should quit" and continuing this cycle of volunteers getting burnt out and having their mental health take a dive because of this shit. we only have so many people unwise enough to volunteer in this scene left, after all.