good run in playoffs Sal

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HRG -> Epsi -> Broder -> IMMUNITY!

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have fuyn and good luck do0ds

I look forward to some more bl4nk mister schrin casts

keep em coming enigma

Just a heads up, not sure how prevalent backups are in EU right now, but it would be very smart to have 1-2 backups considering the automation of the ESEA system.

You don't HAVE TO apologize for anything.

You can CHOOSE TO apologize. An action which will start a stream of actions which then will bring meaning and value (or lack thereof) to you and how people see you as individual.

TLR, relic, tech, and carn will be by

For those that don't know, I literally started the Donation for LAN thing. It was with CommFT Season 9 with Experiment. Our goal was 1,000. I think we raised like 4,000.

The main reason we were looking for donations was because CommFT had its own little community that was removed from GotFrag or whatever natf2 and the entire season we were trying to give them access to our team. A team of TLR, justin, dummy, reptile, carnage, ww, moero, and myself.

Our organization and donation breakdown was as good as it could have been. And we helped around 40+ people. And depending on your donation level we would watch 1 demo with you or mentor you for 1v1 3 times. Not to mention the interactive experience made new friendships and relationships.

Never in our wildest imaginations did we expect to get over 1,000, or 2,000, or 3,000, or....
I still remember how after LAN how I was tracking down people on my team to mentor specific parties. It was literally like a job. And I am sure, law of large numbers, we missed some people a long the way. The ordeal took months to finish up and boom you had "the model" that sadly no teams have changed. If anything its been used and abused.

There is a term, a concept, if you will, if the product is good enough, it will sell itself. It is a team's job, a team's responsibility if they intend to ask the community for money that they offer the community something new and fun that they cannot get elsewhere. You have to take time and think about what you are going to offer and predict if you can even pull it off. Seeing the same hey man donate 10 and you'll be entered into raffle (scheme to get many people to donate 10), if you donate 50 you will get a demo review with one of the team members..... probably the most boring shit ever.

On a personal note I wanted to add something here which I have never really addressed. Season 11 FLOW was one of my favorite seasons. Out of nowhere we just kept winning. We streamed almost EVERY scrim and streamed the majority of our matches. It was a roller coaster ride that we got to ride with the community that essentially never dipped or dived until LAN, was just a constant upswing. We followed the same model as Experiment and got around 2,500. Not to mention met some awesome people in the community. Where the disconnect arises is that what made us great on one end, killed us on another. Everyone in the community has access to all of over scrims, all of our matches, and could hear all of our comms. Whereas other teams had little no content out there. The effort and pressure of running the team, organizing the donation stuff, getting wiped at LAN started to invade my real life and I stepped away. Its part of the reason I don't freely give information away and when I do find someone who truly appreciates what I do, I latch onto them and try to teach them everything I know.

In my opinion it not until you have a job, responsibilities, until you find out how relatively poor each one of us are and then you learn the value of money. So the season after season mundane request of hey man donate money, you get this for that, hehe, its bland and boring, and the more careless it gets, the more disrespectful it is to our community.

I am not a huge fan of HRG, at all to be honest, but I am excited. I am excited to watch Quakcon in a few hours and watch my boys play. I am excited to watch Mixup, Trihards, and HRG battle with quickfix and heavies and pyros at lan. I am also excited to watch HRG go over to Telford and bring back the gold. This is a great month for TF2 and that's what should be on all of our minds.

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https://registration.quakecon.org/?page=stem_schedule&stageid=5153

boom

the players on the teams aren't listed yet but...

TF2 community players (kind of):
REM aka big body ali aka the price aka hot mustid aka immaeatyourface
phelon
viju
relic
carnage
tech
justin
TLR

Id recommend TFTV pay attention to: Watch This

donation link doesn't work for me

For those that dont know Clan Arena starts tomorrow 3v3

Lots of school legends will be playing.

Justin from our community will be doing the clan arena highlight reel tomorrow night to be showed the following morning.

Ive been saving money for Top Guns for LAN expenses. We did not make LAN.

Talked to Luke and he said it is possible.

Top Guns will be streaming our scrims tonight

and

Well be giving away 20 copies of the VHX version of the Documentary.

Obviously we cannot get you the copies now, but we can gift you a copy using your email when they come available.

Well be doing trivia and random draws.

Check out the TFTV streamer list to see which one of us will be streaming.

Our first scrim is at 945 est.

edit: All 21 winners have been pre ordered for the VHX download. You should get an email. Enjoy!

Nope Sal. We appreciate your work. And those who want the High Quality version will definitely snag it.