After just under four months of development, we’ve finished enough to where we need to push into a closed alpha phase. If you’re curious as to the features we’ve accumulated over the course of the past four months, we’ve been chugging away at developing the site, organizing administrative stuff, and running various community projects (some which will be announced soon). Right now, our feature set includes themes, map/class/format filters, settings saved across computers, and a unique lobby creation wizard, on top of the obvious features like joining a lobby.

Also to celebrate, we thought it’d be a good idea to post an image of some of our progress along the way:

http://i.imgur.com/5yokZwI.jpg

These initial alpha tests aren’t intended to be particularly fun, and the group of testers is very small. When we reach closed beta, we’ll have info available on how to sign up and play in actual lobbies. Thanks again to the entire community for all the support you’ve given us over the past few months, and we look forward to giving you guys an awesome final product.

We need coaches tonight. Lots of people added up, no coaches coming into mumble. chi4.tragicservers.com 64737

edite: we're done drafting for tonight. thanks!

So in a fit of Thursday early evening boredom, we got 12 people to try it out. It doesn't work right now (duh) because of the whole not-yet-finished thing.

But it did weird stuff at several points. There were problems with beta passes (which ~half of us randomly had, the other half didn't) and then the queue would just spit anything out once we actually did get in. Tragedy.

watch my dreams burn

We have weekly raffles for IM+ coaches, but we will take anyone who has broken even in open (and occasionally slightly under that when no one else helps out).

It will be on the website when the event is nearing on your class pages.

showing up to the class in mumble

This is currently planned as a one-off event. That may change depending on how well the event goes. We'll have the infrastructure in place already, so the only challenge will be organization (which a small group of people have been doing essentially as a full time job for this project for the past 2-3 weeks).

That said, TF2Stadium will continue doing similar projects we deem will benefit both the competitive community and the tf2 community as a whole.

Anyone have a screenshot?

Sorry for the delayed responses.

1. Yes.
2. You can only be in classes that start two hours after each other. This is to prevent potential overlap from delays or times going over.

This is by design, so above.

same.

We will have postproduced content going up on our tf2stadium youtube page, which will be linked soon.

I asked around, but like Dr.shdwpuppet said, the classes and teachers we made were based on a lot of things, not just how much we liked the certain skill. We wanted to get a jump class going, but we simply weren't able to in a reasonable amount of time.

Fixed. was done at 4 am last night, sorry!!

Signups are for the mumble classes. These are actually masterclasses, so there will be interaction between the students who sign up through the website and the teachers.

The stream and all the post produced content will be available to everyone.

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Mark your calendars for November 14th, 2015, because you’ll want to see this.

http://i.imgur.com/nXzItTn.png

TF2Stadium is proud to present: The "Masters of Classes" day of TF2 masterclasses. One morning a few weeks ago, BUICK, samiface, ScottJAw, and I were hanging out in a mumble casually discussing ways we could benefit the community and bring different aspects of TF2 together. After about an hour of conversation, the ideas for the "Masters of Classes" event—a name I'm a little bit too proud of—began developing into an actual plan. Here was a way to reach new players who were struggling to get more out of the game. A few weeks and many man (and woman) hours later, here we are! Just a couple weeks from now, we will be hosting the largest learning event in TF2 history.

Here's a list of the classes we will be offering:

• 6v6 Basics* w/ b4nny
  
• 6v6 Pro Panel* Details soon!
  
• 6v6 Advanced Maincalling* w/ Pyyyour
  
• EU Gimmicks * w/ Sideshow
  
• Competitive TF2 History* w/ TheFragile
  
• Systemic Organization for New Teams w/ Marxist
  
• Highlander Basics w/ giraffe
  
• HUD/Config/Setup w/ omnibombulator + comanglia
  
• Ultiduo Basics w/ ninjanick + grape
  
• BBall Basics w/ wonderland + exile
  
• Surfing Panel w/ TBD
  
• MvM w/ CeeJaey
  
• Class Mechanics - Scout w/ Sezco
  
• Class Mechanics - Soldier w/ Etney
  
• Class Mechanics - Pyro w/ Spyro
  
• Class Mechanics - Demoman w/ giraffe
  
• Class Mechanics - Heavy w/ Kresnik
  
• Class Mechanics - Engineer w/ Spamfest
  
• Class Mechanics - Medic w/ emkay
  
• Class Mechanics - Sniper w/ BLoodSire -AA-
  
• Class Mechanics - Spy w/ stabby
  
• Intro to the Beggar's Bazooka w/ blindpyro
  
• TF2 Mapmaking w/ UEAKCrash
  
• Server Admin/Management w/ Dr.shdwpuppet

*These classes will be streamed on http://twitch.tv/teamfortresstv

Sign up for classes NOW: http://classes.tf2stadium.com!

Follow TF2Stadium on twitter for updates on both this event and our up-and-coming, open source lobby website! http://twitter.com/TF2Stadium

They sorted out a lot of stuff with the arena respawn stuff. By the finals, it was run very smoothly, and I have faith the admins will be fine. Also, the last eGO event I did (the demonight marathon thing) was run perfectly smoothly.

This is a big pub org that's dipping its toes into competitive and doing a great job. So yeah, if you don't want to play, that's fine. But let's not shittalk them, they're doing great.

edit: Also, I'm 2 for 2 in winning these eGO things, any soldiers looking for a medic? i wanna game (spoiler: not actually going to win this time)

I actually am incapable of not smiling while watching this stream, oh my goodness.

TFTV message me to talk about getting that prizepot a little higher. :)