The shakier your schedule (as a backup), the more backups I have to put onto the team, which will likely split the already limited playtime.

The signup page states twice that the cost you have to pay is $30, and your 5 teammates would have to pay the same thing. ~$180 total for a whole team.

I'm planning on ending the drive on the 31st and if that changes I'll let people know.

If you have a general things that you want in your teammates (similar age range, similar experience, ect) then put that in the "comments" section of the form. If you have particular friends you want to play with, if you both put you want to play together I'll put you on the same team.

The Newbie Mix Team Drive is back for Season 27 of ESEA

The NA 6v6 Newbie Mix squad is putting on a team drive for this upcoming season, and we want it to be as large as possible. The removal of IM was a wakeup call to everyone on how ESEA TF2 has progressed throughout the past year or so, and we’re looking to help by at least giving the community the numbers it needs to bring it back. We’re hoping to not only make the barrier of entry much lower for people on the fence about joining ESEA, but facilitate more balanced matches for the entire league.

I have complete confidence that we can pull together a really strong team drive this season, but the Newbie Admins can't do this alone. We need the help of as many people as possible. Here are some volunteer positions that we need:

Mentors
Will be put in charge of a single team. Team mentors will help their team get their roster sorted properly, guide the newbies through the ropes of paying/playing in ESEA properly, and do demo/map reviews with their team. Every team that signs up will be getting a mentor, and we would absolutely love to have a large pool of people to choose the best-of-the-best from, so please sign up. It shouldn't take more than 1-2 hours a week, and a team will love you for it.

Data Entry Staff
This one is simple, and anyone with a bit of rep in the community can help (regardless of their in-game skill). All the signup forms need to be entered into a google doc that we have set up during the first week of January, and it's a very easy job if we have a handful of people on top of it.

Newbie Sponsors
This is the less fun part. Some of the people that will play in the drive teams will be kids/young teenagers with no way to pay for ESEA. The amount of money we’d need to assist every player that signs up for the drive will likely exceed hundreds of dollars. Some of that will come from ESEA referral money, and some of it can be generously donated, but any newbies that can’t get paid for in some way will unfortunately be unable to participate. When our drive ends around December 31st, we’ll have about week to find people to help pay for some of these newbies fees, otherwise it will be difficult to comfortably place them on teams. Newbie Sponsors will be people we reach out to after that date about donating money to go towards fees.

If you don't want to pay for an entire newbie, but still want to help and donate, you can donate here, and check our progress here.

To volunteer in any of these positions message Jarrett on tftv or steam with a link to your ESEA page, your email (for google docs), and the things you'd like to help out with. If you have any questions/stipulations about the positions, or need more clarification, feel to message me about that too. Newbies can ask questions here. Even if you don't want to help out in any official capacity, spread the word as much as you can. Let's do something amazing for this game we all enjoy so much.

Thank you.

1 second freezes every 5 seconds, just gotta wait I guess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snd8nIJIlSk

add me on steam if u need 1 still http://steamcommunity.com/id/Jarrett000/

yes

what the fuck

if your match is tonight and you can't get enough money in time add me and I'll give you a premium code to buy you some time

The way the sub system is going to be changed as far as I know is based on how often you play with particular players. Something along the lines of the top three players that you play the most with in pugs (that applied for the sub) will be shown to you and you can pick one of the three. That way if someone applies for the sub that probably isn't suited to play that particular pug, there's a lesser chance of them being the person that gets it.

I didn't send out invitations so I can't comment on that (or whatever happened in EU) but what I do know for sure was that in March of 2016 there were attempts in NA to start up the beta testing of the pro league, and there was a server connected to the site because I played one of the games that erynn tried to gather people for (she asked multiple times so I'm sure there were at least a handful of games, even if they weren't 100% invite players, but that's ok 'cause its just in beta and you want to make sure shit works).

I'm pretty sure the pro league never got past the beta phase mostly because the feedback that was received from the people who did participate were mostly neutral and negative towards the idea, and partly due to it never being used naturally outside of erynn trying to gather people, despite advertising on pug.champ.gg, posting in the original PugChamp thread, and whatever other invitations erynn/tsc gave out via Steam and Discord. I tried idling in it added throughout the day for a week or two to try to get it going but the most I ever saw personally added to the site was around 4 people.

Unless you mean "ready to be used" as in fully released with invite pugs ready to happen daily, which yeah it wasn't, mostly because of what happened when it was ready to be used at all for beta testing.

I wasn't the one doing the gathering so that'd be on erynn/tsc to clarify that. The good news at least is if people want it I'm sure it could try to come back purely based on how much tsc wanted it to happen back then.

I can assure you you're either remembering incorrectly or only speaking for yourself.

As someone who's been in the PugChamp slack since nearly day one, I've already seen multiple plans to make the service better, but the number 1 reason issues still exist is the development process is slow. There's only 2 developers and they can only really work on things in their free time due to school/jobs outside of TF2. You can have the best ideas in the world, but it won't matter if it can't really be implemented quickly, so developmental help would be the first thing that would have to happen if anyone wants to help make PugChamp better.

The next thing is money related. PugChamp does not operate at a profit or break even, and therefore most of our servers are donated. In NA we were at 4 servers on PugChamp and 2 servers on MixChamp for a long while, with all 4 PugChamp servers being used only a handful of times a month. We had to downscale to 3 and 1 purely from someone who was donating servers to us deciding they didn't want to anymore, and had to scramble for some replacements. Once we're able to support a larger amount of players at once on the site from the additional dev support, then we'd need the money, or even temporarily donated scrim servers if we're able to get to that point (loaning out your personal scrim server for a specific window of time for the site to use), to play on.

There's a couple things on your google doc that I don't really agree with, but there's no point in even getting deep/specific into that at the moment because nothing can really change at a faster rate until assistance is given via the two points above.