So an unfortunate series of personal life stuff, health issues, financial woes, and behind the scenes happenings is forcing me to make the absolutely shit decision to back out of i55. After planning on going for over 6 months, this all came up at the worst time possible: just after the fundraiser announcement.

This is good in that the first goal of the fundraiser is met: getting airon (resident god of audio) there. It's also good because this means all the money that would be going to me is now going toward improving the live production of the event.

If you donated for the perks have no fear, you will still get every perk offered over this fundraiser. If you donated for me specifically, message me on TFTV and I'll do my best to give you your money back out of pocket. The main post will be edited to update this info ASAP.

Sorry gamers. I'll do my best to see you all irl @ gxl.

you're 5 years late, friend

GOD BLESS

Hey, dilusive. I have a fair bit of experience runnning tf2 tournaments and I'd be glad to help out with all this stuff. I sent a steam friend request.

you're most certainly in the minority

casually using language that is traditionally associated with belittlement of other people is not okay, and as much as people will say that "a word is a word", that won't change how other people feel about it.

i'm not saying that what's going on currently (in terms of refunds and shitfests) is a good thing, but i think the scene would benefit greatly from not constantly throwing around racial epithets (and its absolutely pathetic that i have to type that out)

The stars used to be who-posted-the-most. The more you posted, the more stars you had.

Now, stars are a culmination of several things, including how decently your posts/ threads are received along with your post count.

Also they mean nothing.

I'm going to be doing a stream thing tonight to try and bring some attention to the fundraiser. Feel free to stop by and ask a few questions about the doc.

Specifics will have to wait for Fully Charged, but I'm happy to talk about stuff.

If you have a prerendered video with comms (along with the permission of the person whose pov it is), I'd be happy to upload it to the channel. The main issue now is my terrible PC which would take ages to render everything out.

I would love that if you could get comms in there.

Thanks! It's sort of out of desperation at this point. The lack of content is pretty unfortunate. Considering how many people stream/ local record already, it wouldn't be too difficult to submit stuff to me. So I put the incentive up in case.

HYPEHYPEHYPE

Friendly reminder that I am still paying keys for povs to upload to the channel. Hmu if interested.

waking up at 9am to schedule a trip to play video games

where did i go wrong

yeah, fuck kevinispwn

We had an admin that you were literally yelling at talking to you when I entered your channel. We have rules, and I'm sorry if you feel screwed over by them. You've been rostered on a gold team, and you're currently rostered on a silver team (though that team is dead by the looks of it).

We deal with over 100 newbies a night every Friday, and we've been doing it for years. We have these rules to keep people out of newbie mixes that don't belong in them, and they work 99.9% of the time (this is literally the first time someone has complained about them).

If you have played over 800 games of competitive, newbie mixes are not for you.

http://i.imgur.com/4mFy9Pf.jpg

WELCOME TO GULLYWASH.

yes

Yeah, I was wholly unimpressed with tf2center with this event. The second the teams were decided and we got into the mumbles, we were like "yo these teams are stupid". All the tf2c admins on our team (and it was a lot rofl) said it would be fine and we'd just play it. "The number of stars are even" means literally nothing when the enemy team has literally the best demoman, a top level heavy, a plat scout, and a plat spy.

I've rung medic for a steel eu highlander team and it was less painful than playing that game. Explaining what suicides are and where to hold are things that I should be doing in highlander newbie mixes, not a showmatch broadcasted to 500 people.

Makes me feel very uncertain about advanced lobbies and the skillgaps that will exist in them.