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charis is awesome

Props to Corsa for the thoughtful feedback

Let's do it Jay!

Thanks for the kind words friends. Just wanted to bump the thread early and say that a couple teams have reached out to me. That said, I really want to explore all of my options and I haven't heard from any Open teams yet. I'm interested in any team as long as I'm having fun and improving, but I really want to play next season and need to explore my options. Add me on steam or pm me on TFTV. Thx!

hey guys, I don't really have expectations for this season but I wanted to come back and play.

I'm looking for a team that:

• is competitive
  
• doesn't scrim before 7pm Pacific (can be flexible on some nights but I have work)
  
• has cool people

hit me up

[Edit] Thanks for the kind words friends. Just wanted to bump the thread early and say that a couple teams have reached out to me. That said, I really want to explore all of my options and I haven't heard from any Open teams yet. I'm interested in any team as long as I'm having fun and improving, but I really want to play next season and need to explore my options. Add me on steam or pm me on TFTV. Thx!

Nice guy, loves playing TF2, gets a little heated at times but generally has good intentions. I've never met anyone who cares so deeply about each and every comp game that he plays. He always tries his hardest to win whether it's comp Matchmaking, a random FaceIT game, or esea grand finals. Never gives up even when he's down 0-2 in a bo5, pushes his teammates to meet the same expectations that he has for himself.

I think his biggest strengths are dedication, discipline, and passion.

Pretty cool that he streams for a living.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W02L-2lk1I

Lost interest? So it's not a money thing?

Here ya go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gXhvAGGJZo

Sure thing :D Sorry for not posting the video here, I tried to use a new format but I don't think it worked as well. Will return to the old one for future demo reviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qaKGf4YaHI&t=8s

Where's Smaka

Gotcha. I agree that it's not optimal but I also think it's the best middleground step between a captain-only system that runs games every 13 minutes or so (starting around 3 games in 35 minutes), and a much more scalable solution like LoL dynamic queue. It's a shame we don't have that kind of player population :\

That's a really unique idea but it doesn't solve the problem that Invite / top level players have with abandoning PugChamp: while you often see some Invite players playing pugs with IM and even Open players, some other top Invite players hate playing with people who are not competent. Thus, if 11 Invite players are added to a system, they'd oftentimes rather wait an extra 10 minutes to get a 12th Invite player than fill the pug with an Open player. A captain-only system with no automatic picking allows you the freedom to stall out the start of a pug while you get that 12th person without forcing you to play with someone you don't like.

If we could solve this problem then I think it'd be easy to design a new system going that has no captaining.

The problem is, in order for captaining systems to really work, you really should be drawing from the entire pool of available players at any given point in time. The nice part of PugChamp right now is that if 40 people add up, the captains choose between the entire 40 people.

If you run two drafts at the same time for the same pool of 40 people, you'll run into conflicts. You could separate PugChamp into divisions, where you can add up to the division that best suits you (invite division, open division, ugc division) but I think automated picking does that same thing much better.

I think you misunderstood the concept. It's one one game per 35 minutes, it's that each player plays one game per 35 minutes, which actually starts to sound pretty reasonable. Once the first round starts, all games begin at the same time so you could potentially have hundreds of games starting all at once. The most any one individual will have to wait for a round to start is 34 minutes and some change, but after they synchronize with the other games the queue times would become significantly shorter.