somewhat related, do the UGC forums run painfully slow for anyone else?

i want to browse them to answer potential questions and stuff, but it takes forever for anything to load for me.

am i just spoiled by tftv?

Sorry about the delay.

Maps will be played using what is essentially ETF2L's cfgs and whitelists. Upper brackets will be playing bo3's, lower brackets will be playing bo1's. The first maps for each round of the tournament are listed in the bracket. However, if both teams agree to play on something different, they can.

Leaders, you will get an invite from me after me posting this. Please add me. I will be sending out more detailed info.

• Resource pack for your servers
  
• Brackets
  
• My trade URL. I need your teams payments by Friday night. Please include your TFTV post # in the traderequest description.

First game will be at 12:15pm est on Saturday. Teams who start in round two (just about all of them) should make plans to be in mumble ready at 1pm est. Expect games to go as late as 11pm est. Anything after that will be pushed to Sunday, which will also be starting at 12:15pm est. However, if both teams want to play their games late on Saturday rather than Sunday, that will be fine.

The best of the games will be casted. I'm currently getting info on that. I say this because it's important that I know when/ where you're playing. Please communicate with me as much as possible throughout this event.

Edit: just had a team drop out so now everyone will be starting on saturday at 1pm est.

Glad you guys like the resource. I'll be making more of them now that I'm back home with a more optimal setup.

for mothers day i moved back home

surprise mom!!!

We ended the mixes one hour later than we normally do. Keep in mind that the admins and coaches are human beings and as much fun as newbie mix pugs going on forever, they consistently get toxic/frustrating/not fun after 1est. We pushed back the time an entire hour from when we usually cut it tonight, and the last mix I coached was really bad.

I'm sorry if it seems bad, but the admins knew very well that we COULD have another game. That doesn't mean it would've been fun or educational. We plugged the newbie pug group (which is comprised of current and former newbie mix gamers), and those pugs usually go pretty late after newbie mixes are over.

Thanks for coming out and playing, guys. We'll work off of what we did this week (the biggest newbie mix ever) in the future, :D

yeah, there's always that one guy.

on the bright side there have been 100+ people in mumble pretty much the whole night. :D

what i got out of this video

0:00-0:07 dramatic intro
0:08-0:23 laughing at small hours/ lobbies played stats (rocking the alias "muselk killed tf2c" no less)
0:24-3:18 fast forwarded footage of mediocre heavy gameplay ft. spawn camps at every possible point
3:19-3:44 don't do this! even if i did it! let's not be jerks to new players (but pardon me while i make fun of someone they respect with my alias). play in hour restricted lobbies, unlike me. leave those slots for me so i can feel good about my gaming ability.

smh

@flame

We have a draft which we basically just put in a random group of 6 people in with a random coach that's determined by how many mixes each newbie has played. We balance the mixes by having 3 skill "tiers" in each class's add up zone. We just have about the same number of "novice" "beginner" and "experienced" on each team.

I will be working out details this saturday. I just finished finals yesterday and I have newbie mixes to do today.

Sorry for the delays in info. be ready for a little after noon est. I'll have a set time tomorrow most likely.

Yo real talk Dane is literally my favorite person let's not go here THANKS

Hello friend.

I watch his videos. And star's. And Jerma's. And Dane's. And etc. They all highlight TF2 in a completely different way than I play it, and them trying to bring their sub-communities closer to ours will be seriously awesome. It's kinda the thing I take away from the TF2Can event from a while back. Separating tf2 into different tiers of quality/elitism, as you are doing, doesn't get anything accomplished.

SORRY if your lobby experience is less than optimal over the next few weeks. A true tragedy.

we typically let players up to low silver level play in the mixes, and very low open player can offclass. It helps the newbies out as well as teaching the basics of a new class to a semi-experienced person.

Yes, tragicservers provides 4 servers, and that's normally more than enough for us. Anyone interested in donating a server for our usage this Friday (or any fridays), please TFTV PM me the connect string and the rcon along with the times you're okay with us using it.

The admins will be organizing this event as much as we can, but if it's as big as we're hoping we will need the community's support.

For anyone curious, the newbie mixes group has acquired over 300 new members since this video was posted. While this is very exciting... PLEASE COME COACH ON FRIDAY. ALL OF YOU.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o15AaDYvyWE

Love him or hate him, be ready for a fair bit of new players on these forums, ugcforums, and truetf2. Be nice wooo

edit: also, he shouted out newbie mixes so we may or may not have a lot more 100% new gamers there this friday. if you aren't doing anything PLEASE be a cool gamer and coach a game or 2.