Eww, spoiled milk.

damn...

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view4/1877074/ron-simmons-damn-o.gif

It was either that or throw Slin further under the bus, considering he was the one that got the most kills on Hitler the last time.

I'm available.

Not quite on topic, but here's a video of a guy who had to get medication post-wisdom teeth removal comparing his driving with and without taking the medication:

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

Either way, you don't need an aimbot to get a HS on that thing.

So... What does this mean? Are Invite teams no longer limited to X-number of player transactions?

Quick-Fix is back?

What concerns me is that the rebels got control of the crash site quickly and diverted the majority of the evidence to Russia, it'll make it very difficult if not impossible to get independent verification of what really happened.

I posted just before that info came out, quick google-fu fixes it.

Colossal fuckup, bet what happened is somebody took a potshot at the other side's fighter jets and the missile homed in on the biggest thing in the sky (the passenger jet). This is what you get when you use heat-seeking missiles in open airspace.

EDIT: Weapon system used is suspected to be an SA-11, radar-guided. Makes this a bigger screwup.

I'll give him... Three calls before 4chan shows up.

That's how they score things for most European leagues (Soccer comes to mind), where effectively the "regular season" is just a big group stage for the playoff tournament.

At the moment, NA basically scrims to the EU ruleset except without the Win difference rule. And if I recall correctly, we only play to five round wins and have a half-time because that was how ESEA did things for CS when we debuted there.

Here's what I see the benefits to the EU ruleset:

1. More TF2 in less time - in the span of 90 minutes, you can get what amounts to two full matches in EU compared to just one spread-out match in full-modded NA rules.

2. Easier to setup servers - currently we're fudging a ton of things server-side with custom league mods to get the game to do what we want, on top of that they're vulnerable to breaking whenever Valve releases an update and when that happens the pressure is on the league to provide a fix before matches or teams have to reschedule. Playing to a natural win difference is something that the game can do just fine and doesn't break (as often).

And some cons:

1. No halftime = map advantage - The main reason half-time works is it allows both teams to play both sides of the map, normally this isn't a big deal but in the past there have been maps that have not been fully symmetrical (see Granary). So without a half-time there can be a unfavorable advantage given to one team that plays a specific color (RED or BLU).

2. The Two-Map debate - I want to say that the big issue for NA players seeing the EU two-maps per match thing is that they're used to just practicing one map in the regular season. And that playing two maps a match means they have to compromise on practice time for both and thus, quality of play might suffer.

Feel free to correct me if I made any mistakes.

To me, it makes more sense to have just one gigantic event with DOTA, CSGO and TF2 there so there isn't as much cost to putting on the tournaments.

May be wishful thinking on my part because I sincerely think a Froyotech/Mixup/Epsilon/iM Round of 4 could steal the show at such an event.