This post was just brought to my attention today, actually. I don't know how I missed it, but yeah.

This is a true problem that we have every single week, including this one. There's only so much abuse my friends list can take. Please coach. There are currently 23 newbies with no competitive experience waiting to play 6s for basically their first time. More than 50 newbies with less than silver experience waiting to get in and learn the game. Pleasepleaseplease come coach. If you are scared because you don't know what to do with coaching, I made a guide:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6kXmIIsLDM

The developers have briefly emerged from their dim lair to describe how they do what they do on our dev blog. If you have any specific questions about our systems, we're happy to answer what we can both here and in future blog posts.

http://blog.tf2stadium.com/how-it-works-basics/

hey canada ( ° ͜ʖ͡°)╭∩╮

But really though, welcome to competitive! Do you know what format you're wanting to play in/ what the formats are? I'd reccomend you check out http://playcomp.tf for info if not.

cheap breakfast food > cheap any other kind of food

Just a quick update: We got a bit of feedback on both this post and the steam discussion that some people would prefer a dark theme, while others liked the white theme. Well, while our backend devs are chugging along with making everything work, our resident graphic designer Capu has created a dark theme so you can game with your fragile eyes upon release.

http://i.imgur.com/nJ9yC1A.jpg

We plan to always be listening to your feedback! There will also be a blog post on our developer blog within the next few days explaining all the technologies that are going into the site, so stay on the lookout for that.

Also, like schalla said, if you have anything you'd like to read about on our blog, please tell us so we can write stuff that is actually relevant. See schalla's comment above for info.

not saying i disagree with you, but this doesn't mean you're allowed to leave ;-;

We could really use some coaches tonight since a lot of people that usually help out are involved with/ at i55. Thanks!

that last team looked VERY confused

you didn't miss much

it's really hard because everything 1-hits you. i had a solid 3:1 the first few hours but after that it's just really hard to care.

if anyone needs help learning the 16v16 all-demoknight metagame, hmu because i am now an expert

really though, i'm selling a 180 dollar cpu water cooler for 90 dollars w/ free shipping. tftv message me.

I'd also like to point out that the event (despite being a terrible, unfun clusterfuck) was very well run. eGO may not have the best rep for their pub/forum communities, but their events are pretty darn good.

i didn't want to do it but i had to do it. 8 hours later...

http://i.imgur.com/9Xqm3YL.jpg

anyone need a cpu cooler?

Just finished moving the last of my stuff into the dorm after taking a (really long) break to watch Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt 1 & 2 with awesome friends. Winding down with some tf2 on internet that is literally 10x better than what I had at home, and classes start monday!

I missed this place and I'm glad to be back :)

I would encourage you (or anyone else who finds what appears to be rare-ish/ old/ forgotten tf2 footage to message me or post it here. I'm PMing those who have offered help now.

Thought it was stupid the first few minutes of playing, but it was actually surprisingly fun by the end. I'd love to play a more serious game on it once a few things get tweaked. My list of recommendations would be:

• Make spawn times longer. An early frag on the demo meant nothing one of the mids because he was back in the fight before I had died. Other times it felt like I hadn't even died because the fight had transitioned very close to forwards by the time I came back up.
  
• Please raise the skyboxes. It's currently similar to dustbowl. If you rocket jump straight up, you don't hit it. Anything more and you'll bop your head, though.
  
• The light under catwalk needs to be able to be jumped through.
  
• The sightline from the crates/barrels at second into mid NEEDS to be covered.
  
• The catwalk itself could use some work. Not sure what, but it was very broken on roamer to just hop into second for free, do 300 spam damage, and hop out. Perhaps making it thinner would make it more easily spammable for the defending team.
  
• Dropdown at second was very fun. It's not like a traditional long-passageway that leads to a dropdown, and I like that a lot. I would, however recommend making it possible to see the player a second before they drop down, because currently they can pop out and deal 600 damage to the point for free.
  
• Lobby between second and last is bizarre. It's the only map I've played on (that I can remember) that has two completely separate lobbies. I'd do my best to try and link them somehow.
  
• The mid is SUPER soldier oriented, almost to the point where the other classes weren't as fun. Giving scout/ medic a direct path to the highground platforms could help fix this. Also, giving scouts a prop to hop around on would be very good. Because the map is so small, it feels like you're playing inside all the time on scout, which is not fun. Some props could alleviate this feeling.

Don't let this list get you down, though. I seriously enjoyed playing on this map. It was something super different from the standard 5CP maps that have been played forever, and I respect that a lot. It may have just been the fact that it was a pug with players of pretty varying skill levels, but it played much better than any of the other "new map pugs" maps I've played on. Good luck, man!