sure that might be true. then they value them equally because they just like sigafoo. doesnt change the fact they put exactly the same amount of effort into promoting invite finals as they did this

i'd like to point out that the system message this tournament received means that this cup is equal in value to invite finals in Valve's opinion

a bunch of invite teams

and my low open team + rockmonkey. SeemsGood

What Is Real

yes the real strat is to slice it and then put it in the freezer so you kinda forget its there unless you actually need bread

I'm sorry, did you watch different debates than I did? When did Trump ever make a half-reasonable attempt to discuss policy and social issues? All I heard him do was stammer "wrong" over and over again, occasionally mumbling something about crooked Hillary or the liberal media.

Sure, the Dems said plenty of things about how bigoted Trumps campaign has been, because he kept saying stupid things. But if you really only ever heard the democrats talking about Trump, you've got one incredible filter for the shit going on around you.

This thread really puts on display the huge number of retards that browse here.

"I can't vote for Hillary! She's corrupt, and she doesn't care about the American people!" Right, and the ex-reality show host who spews bigoted remarks about nearly everyone who isn't a straight white male and finds it within himself to give praise to a shady authoritarian regime toootally has your interests closer to his heart than she does. The party that regularly voted against its own legislation to just mindlessly fuck over the president absolutely deserves more power. That makes perfect sense. Stuff just didn't get done cuz the libtards wanted tard crap. Let's all spend the next 4 years masturbating to Alex Jones so we can ignore or justify the stupid shit that we've opened up to happen to the people around us.

Well for one thing there should be a section where you use can every single unlockable weapon against AI. Just have it put you in 5-10 second scenarios where you use the weapon to its full advantage, ex., fully load a beggars and walk around a corner to unload into 3 scouts. Give it a GTA-style "repeat mission" until you kill the bastards.

But holy fuck, let's just go down the list of hidden mechanics that new players have almost no way of discovering without going out of their way to learn.
1. Crit heals
2. Uber building
3. Damage falloff
4. Surfing explosives
5. Air strafing
6. Heavy damage ramp up
7. Sentry damage resistance
8. Capping points and changing spawn timers
9. Cap bonus limits (ie, payloads can only move at x3 max)
10. Uber flashing reducing uber times
11. Spy's invisible damage resist
12. Jump denial

its not like its supposed to be unbiased or anything

"I can't vote for Bernie Sanders, he's unelectable!"

For your efforts to compromise with a fucked up system, https://media.giphy.com/media/kbI3OUfiRE0ik/giphy.gif

What if uber only built while healing hurt players, and actually slowly drained while not healing and/or giving overheals? Would be even more effective at encouraging fights if self-damage didn't count towards uber.

no seriously, the issue is that no team wants to risk using an uber while risking being unable to pop the other team's uber, so the solution is to make uber something you have to pop

I've now spent 20 minutes thinking about attribute changes that no one will agree with and I've decided this is ideal:

1. While not healing, ubercharge drains at a rate of 1%/sec. I think that's max, slower might be better.
2. Uber does not charge while giving overheals.
3. After a certain time period of giving overheals, uber will start to drain. I'm thinking at least 10 seconds.
4. Self damage does not count as uber heals. Keeps teams from settling into the exact same stalemates as always except with one player who's just shooting himself in the face constantly

So now teams can still slow down here and there, which I think is important for both players for thinking things through and commentators so they can maybe say some interesting things, but the no-risk eternal turtle hold dies since at least one player needs to get close enough to consistently take damage from enemies and risk getting caught out.

does anyone feel like actually telling me why this is a bad idea

playing some relaxed, easy videogames. Loved high minecraft when it first came out, and before I stopped smoking my favorite high game was Grow Home

I imagine GTA is probably pretty good while stoned, too, so long as you don't mind some weird/bad vibes

idk, they've all been a little cringy. OW's personality is basically a safe-for-kids version of the Avengers, except with more boobs, and considering comics are already aimed at kids... well.

Idk for the first 3 rounds or so before the game broke down I felt like bird noises were playing a super cautious game that EVL had to deal with. After that it was totally on EVL for the game slowing down.

Still though, is this really the future of invite? I mean I get that it's hard to push into the heavy and sentry, but even in EU the situation doesn't get that dire. Sentries are easy to spam, heavies are either far enough back to be avoided or close enough to be easily focused--like, if this was the proper, play-to-win strat, like Slin said, why isn't it getting used more often? The only answer I can think of it is that players don't think it's fun, but I doubt that playing for fun is more important than winning for these teams, except for maybe Circa. Watching Corsa fuck around on spy for a few minutes before giving up; seeing Bird Noises send in 1 man sacs into a sentry nest; I really got the feeling they were dealing with it wrong.

Started off a pretty fun to watch game, a little slow but I figured it was a conscious decision out of Bird Noises trying to secure a playoff spot. No idea why EVL chose to turn it into the shitfest that they did, and not sure why Bird Noises elected to hold on their own second when down a round for that long.

Fuck me, it's like they have a vested interest in discouraging low level players from getting better. Seem to remember Ronin doing a bunch of stupid shit at the end of last season, too.