https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMoAulrK5Is

Made a video trying to explain competitive to someone familiar with TF2, but not competitive. Doubt it's all that relevant to anyone here, but feedback is appreciated.

next step: improve resolution up from "literal ass"

I guess I don't "get it." Seems like random jarring noise, but I still wouldn't have a problem with if it wasn't mind numbing to listen to. To each his own, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taXlN-eIhnQ

sheeeit, link fixed

let me fix that card for you: you is smart, you is kind, you is important

I got my mom bitter recrimination and the sappiest card i could find

Dude is crazy good, especially for how short a time he's been playing. Improving fast, not a maincaller but can call everything else you need him to, and otherwise a chill guy. You won't regret trying him out, and you'll be thankful you picked him up.

oh yea and i forgot how many air pipes he hits

thinking didnt help :(

but according to other ppl i know it was confirmed on b4nny and cw's streams last night, so I guess I'm on the hype train now

wait wait wait

Since when is Froyo Black confirmed not a troll?

rebump

So many people lft, I needed a bump

srsly try me out tonight

Dedicated, reliable, good at the game. He definitely needs tryouts

Good attitude, good calls, good play. Couldn't play with him long but got good vibes all around

Gonna be mid-low open. I've spent all my time playing pocket, can also tryout on roamer or med. Free whenever, would like to scrim a lot.

No ESEA experience, have spent the last month scrimming mid open teams with good results. Led a team for UGC Steel S20, played Iron in S19.

Add me!

Active developers and better admins?

Only problem I've got with that is that it's self fulfilling. More people play TF2C because more people play TF2C?

It's probably true, but if you make the switch it becomes less true. At the very least just join TF2C lobbies while you're waiting for a Stadium lobby to ready :P

This might be the wrong place for this, but I can find no place better. Part of the reason Stadium is so dead is that it lacks some basic functionality a lot of people have come to expect because of TF2C. Right now, it looks more modern, and that's its only immediate advantage. Some people don't even like that.

For one--there's no visible status for who is already in the game and mumble servers. It's nice to be able to see exactly who you're waiting on at a glance (plus, if you're in a lobby that's not mumble required, some people feel encouraged to join anyway when they see the rest of the team in mumble). For another thing, Stadium doesn't automatically open up logs after the game ends; it wasn't until my 4th lobby I noticed that it was linked in the chat. While that is sufficient, it's not nearly as convenient as TF2C.

As for hosting lobbies, Stadium has done a few things that TF2C doesn't, like saving your server's address, or the ability to add slot requirements after opening the lobby. Even there you lose some functionality as well. For example, you can't reserve specific slots for your friends--or if you can, I can't figure out how; there's a "slot password" field but nowhere to specify which slots. While these are minor issues, when there is already an alternative with a much larger playerbase that does include these small features, it's tough to get people to switch for more than a day or two.

I don't think there's a whole lot more Stadium can do to improve the experience of the average user. The layout is clean; joining a lobby, and subsequently the mumble and game, is easy, and navigating the site is done more cleanly, with far fewer tabs than TF2C (though even there I've heard people complaining that the extra tabs are actually a good feature). From my perspective, the best way for Stadium to improve right now is in shortening the lobby creation experience, along the lines of an already existing feature: saving a server's address. Quicksaved lobbies--the ability to save to a single click of a button the lobby's game mode, league config, and slot requirements, and to save to another single click both the server address and rcon password. Beyond that and bugfixes, it's a pretty site with ready systems that are less prone to error, both on the site and in game. Here's hoping!

Bumpin. YOU could be trying out this very evening