Hey!
As an EU observer/producer I'd like to ask for feedback on the current state of watching 6v6 matches in EU/NA/OCE/etc., for both online and offline productions.

What makes a match fun to watch in your opinion? Is there anything you think could be improved, or are there any specific things you like or dislike about the camera work? Perhaps some things were done better in the past that you miss in current broadcasts?

To the play-by-play casters who work with the observer feed whenever it's available: What can the observer do to make casting easier for you? Do you have any gripes when it comes to the camera work?

I'd like to work on something related to this topic, so any feedback would be very appreciated.

I'd say it affects us too as in the past few months there have been multiple instances of individuals using bots to mass invite spam players/streamers to freeze their game, forcing official matches to be rescheduled and casts to be recorded offline.

According to the Twitter account in the OP, the game was originally inspired by Half-Life and Portal aesthetically, probably back when the project was still called Citadel. It was changed to Dota/fantasy because of "bad feedback".

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girls are icky

a VAC system that is being updated

carnage for the more aggressive Scout playstyle

I recommend reading through the site's TOS. I don't know enough about gambling laws, but parts of it read shady and it is riddled with grammatical errors. https://www.tf2easy.com/tos

Some highlights:

I can also faintly remember that tf2easy used uberchain's art at some point without crediting her or asking her for permission. I cannot use archive.org atm to check for an old version of the site, but I was able to find these after some digging:
https://old.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/t7srdp/found_this_in_tf2easycom/
https://youtu.be/AsVCchB2KUw (top right at the beginning of the video)
Original artwork by uberchain: https://www.deviantart.com/uberchain/art/Hot-Dog-637183949

Where have you got this from? At least during the time I helped out at RGL, AC admins have had zero access to player behaviour reports nor discussions of the RC team. So even if they wanted to, AC cannot provide any input on those types of bans unless RC requests their help to identify an alt or smth. The staff members who can ban people iirc are limited to head admins, but they only ban after an investigation was made by either the RC or AC team. It very much happens like stated in RGL's FAQ: https://docs.rgl.gg/league/faqs/misconduct/

I realise you want to keep it 'casual' and all, which probably means no class limits or weapon restrictions, but:

Please consider replacing all payload maps. It's just not fun to play in 6v6 and I would suggest putting maps that are both played in leagues and were put into the game officially (https://docs.rgl.gg/league/map_history/6v6/).

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https://twitter.com/LuckyLukeTF2/status/1689657032729616385

Haven't tried this myself but might be a fix.

Ignoring whether Entropy is "ready" to be played in a season or not, something that seems more concerning and part of a way bigger issue is that League Admins originally tried to bring in 3 new maps while removing Product and Granary. Afaik the idea to replace this many maps for Prem/Div 1 was based on a map poll voted on by players of all divisions which seems very weird to me, as the map pools for Prem/Div 1 and lower divs are different.

Communication between League Admins and Prem teams appears to be lacklustre at best and nonexistent at worst. There is a Prem feedback channel on the ETF2L Discord but it's not being used in any useful way, while there are a lot of shitposts in there, there are a lot of sensible comments being made too. There appears to be a general disconnect between admins and players in what should be a league run by the community for the community and it's not the first time I have noticed this happening. It's just a shame to see.
If I understood the feedback given by people correctly a lot of them would be way happier if there was better admin communication in general and if new maps were introduced gradually over time so teams can actually learn them properly. The way this season's map pool was originally decided just feels like admins were trying to force in too many new maps at once just for the sake of having new maps.

https://i.imgur.com/k1y0FBI.png

One issue with P-REC is that if you crash/timeout and rejoin the server in an ongoing match the plugin won't automatically start recording again, you need to do a manual recording. Not sure if that's also the case with the built-in demo tool.