Thanks Dashner, and happy birthday My Dude.

inb4 Slin EleGiggles at his old team getting pub stomped

I haven't played with the beggar's bazooka in a while, but if it how it was when I used to use it for pubs, oh boy...The spread isn't that bad, especially once someone gets used to it. The way it fires rockets allows for a good BB jumper to literally fly across the fucking map and be the most mobile person in the game. The single load mechanic allows you to spam rockets out in fights versus a scout faster than the stock, and you don't have to worry about reload. If the roamer has to bomb, he can literally sync rockets from the start of the jump and load three rockets in the air and obliterate a combo when he gets in close, though he'd have to be strafing well to avoid rockets and the aim of scouts/shotty pocket. The main three cons to the BB are the explosion radius (kind of cancelled out when you can fire three at once that spread out anyways), the spread (once a player gets used to it, they're probably only going to be useless at long range), and the ammo management (honestly the biggest problem of the beggar's. You run through ammo faster than a fat guy runs through fries and diet coke)

Beggar's Bazooka...makes me wish I was playing soldier instead of medic this season. RIP me every time a beggar soldier gets the idea to bomb. *jump, load three rockets, point blank the medic*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YKW9m5msDs

Most important part is that the atomizer and base jumper have been banned. IMO the other weapons now are just, at most, annoying but fair.

Hey look at it this way, if you guys use enough gimmicks, you might tilt FROYO to the point of winning s23

Time to go stalk Mansky

https://discord.gg/he2MW

[*] they were so young..goodnight sweet prince..

You know this is all the more reason we need to #20believe right?

Slamberg and showstopper. Totally the GOAT's on soldier

yeah, "fat" triple air-shot onto an ubered WAR

The only thing that was good about gravel-pit, was that it was entertaining to watch for the viewers of invite matches, and it'd draw in more viewers who play the classes that are generally only used for last points in 6s. From a spectators point of view, I'd enjoy seeing gpit back in the rotation, since it was fun to view, and the casters enjoyed it IIRC (feel free to correct me on that last part). As a player though, I don't know if I'd ever want to play it, but I'd be willing to give it a try.

I personally think it'd be mostly harmless to see gpit back in the rotation. Sure people will bitch about it and the extreme will possibly not play (though I doubt it), but it won't ruin anything. Part of trying to become an e-sport is to also put on a show for the viewers, so if gpit is fun to watch, then it's something we might have to bite the bullet on. I know invite players would hate this, but it would be nice to see them play the map. Like if ESEA allowed the invite division to have a different map in rotation than the lower divs, but that could be seen as an unfair advantage against the up-coming IM teams. I honestly don't care about the map pool, as long as reckoner doesn't get in, that map is aids.

If you're driving from west to east, it'll be about 30 hours, but it'd be cheaper to fly in, since you can get a plane ticket as low as like 80 bucks if your timing is right, as long as it's from point A, USA to point B, USA. The longest flight for any NA person should be about six hours at the most, unless they're coming from like Alaska or Hawaii, but I don't know of any comp players that live there.

I agree, it seems that there is a serious bias against those who didn't go to i58. It's expected that people outside of NA wouldn't be too familiar with those who haven't appeared at a LAN, but I also think it's unfair to count them out. We don't have the luxury of cheap continental travel, or a LAN in our back yards like the Euros do.

Didn't you watch Rando play at insomnia?

also, my top five. (those who can play multiples just as well as solo-classes get priority to me)

b4nny
stark
Mike
Alle
Habib/bdonski

I mean I'm not even close to being above average in competitive TF2, and I know if there was an NA lan I would try my hardest to be there. If it's east coast I'd almost guarantee I'd go.