Looks like this year's summer event is not going to happen at the end of August like usual, they sent out this email about an hour ago:

Didn't state a reason why.

https://i.imgur.com/kfnX4Sp.png
(https://twitter.com/vF_AIMER7/status/1476145932555198467)

lol

Early Badlands version:
https://imgur.com/a/QyKsRZI

koth_badwater:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmRYTalXoAI2CIy?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

This guy was on the coach list for EU newbie mixes for a while when those were still active. Those players tend to be on the younger side. This was in mid 2021 so I don't quite remember if he actually ever took part in a mix, but if you or someone you know was approached by him in an inappropriate way please reach out me or better yet, directly report it to ETF2L. This makes me feel fucking sick.

b3nny

shoutout to Chiers for reaching out to the community and making this LAN possible in the first place
shoutout to ondkaja, JMaxchill, Beater, Turbo, bum, Wandum, Surny and eepily for doing a great job at observing, hosting & casting
shoutout to Mia and dalegaard for being the pros they are and bringing everything together
shoutout to DCS and Heny for running a smooth tournament (and adding Badlands to the map pool for the B tournament)
shoutout to my Team Nein! boys MARS^, deca, Milchmann, Jack, limitates and honorary teammate Benaty
shoutout to Turbo for being great company
shoutout to Gubbins for having the best hotel room and "fridge" in the building
shoutout to Gubbins, Dr. Happiness, Cupcake, twiikuu and eepily for a good Grand Final watching experience at the bar
shoutout to Aoshi for setting the ETF2L history record straight during the pub quiz; speaking of which, shoutout to Sodium and the others in my pub quiz team
shoutout and thank you to certain people above for reasons I'm not able to remember myself
shoutout to twiikuu for pressing all the buttons in the elevator when I still had to go to the 6th floor
shoutout to Dempsey & DuMmTm for casting the ETF2L game and making me able to say that I produced at a LAN
shoutout to schocky for being one of the patient zeros
shoutout to Thun, Canfo and sup3rfr3ddy for showing up as spectators
shoutout to morale and mirra for the group hug
shoutout to nation and sintyre, wish we could have talked some more
shoutout to all the Germans
shoutout to the restaurant staff for making me wait ages for my food, twice
shoutout to the poor clerk at the gas station
shoutout to the rest of the Monday morning top 10
shoutout to everyone else recovering from LAN death right now

cu@ copenhagen games 2023

https://i.imgur.com/Krd4dkO.png

We'd just like to be careful because what is considered a QOL addition and what isn't can become a slippery slope really fast. Is it just a QOL improvement when it also removes the "element of team discussion/comms" if you never have to ask or look at your Medic for this info again because you have the exact % on your screen, wherever you are, and your Medic doesn't have to speak up about it anymore?
I can understand that this is considered as something minor, especially by higher experienced players, it doesn't affect that much. But the % is still supposed to be shown as part of the spectator element/panel only, or if you look at your Medic/get healed by him. We could do a poll and ask the community what they think about this. However, if you allow this specific method to show the % on your HUD and then suddenly more is found, that opens up the question if that would be okay too since it would use the same or a similar method and is thus part of the game. At what point is something considered to be too "game breaking"?

Whenever we allow a modification or a script people are opening requests and ask for more and more obscure stuff, something I've noticed a lot in the past fews months. TF2 comp is really open to allowing custom modifications and scripts compared to comp CS:GO leagues like ESL. It gets really difficult to monitor and keep track of for staff. The main issue is that Valve rarely does bug patches and TF2 leagues are left to decide what is an exploit that is still 'okay' and what isn't. If TF2 got some of the sv_pure fixes CS:GO got we wouldn't have to have these discussions. We had some major bug fixes in the June and July updates, I just hope it wasn't a one time thing.

cu@

I'll take the bait I guess.
This thing requires you to edit/modify a HUD element that should only be available to spectators and you also need to keep activating it after dying. Without the edit you cannot see it on your HUD. People who don't use this are at a big disadvantage compared to those who do, if you don't use it you might as well be trolling your team if you ask your Medic how much % he has and clutter comms, especially on the flank or when you are behind the enemy. You are bypassing the game to access the information. It is an exploit.
If Valve intended for this to be just available they would have added this to the player HUD together with the team health, but they didn't.

Edit: If the question comes up how AC teams would even police this outside of LANs, well they are able to find out if you are using it, that's all I can say.

It is banned.

shout out to Essentials staff, producers, casters, hosts and analysts for making this event possible
shout out to DCS and Sodium for running a smooth tournament & watching the Belgian GP with me
shout out to Gubbins for philosophising with me about the state of TF2 volunteering and walking me back to my hotel at ungodly hours, maybe we will go to the casino another time
shout out to morale for keeping me up to date with the latest F1 memes
shout out to CeeJaey, Mac, GrumpyKoi, Lucky, TurboTabs, JLEBS, Beater, jun0, twiikuu, yak, squirrel_BVC, JackWalms, AWJ and Lux for being lovely to talk to and hang out with
shout out to Rahmed for asking me to sign his shirt
shout out to supra for offering us (Polish?) sweets
shout out to BeaVerN for being BeaVerN
shout out to the B tournament teams for taking it seriously and playing some fun matches
shout out to everyone else I spoke to but forgot mentioning here
cu@ again soon

not a pic but still wanted to share this somewhere: https://youtu.be/BYEIdBK7KRs

https://youtu.be/VQoOqN32Vw0

https://youtu.be/Y0rk2ROJF-s

You weren't kicked for people complaining about you being a low div player on the AC team, you were kicked because during your trial phase it was decided that from the way you were interacting with the community and the general quality of your reviews and case responses you were being too immature and inexperienced at the time to continue in the position.

Senior Admins don't necessarily have to give input, they are just (beside the Head Admins) the only ones with ban rights on the site, so you need either them or the Head Admin to apply bans. They/I usually prioritize for the team which cases should be worked on with a higher priority and usually give input as well, but if the majority of staff has already agreed to ban a player the Senior can't just put a stop to the investigation or anything like that unless there are serious reasons for a re-investigation of the evidence, which I don't think has really happened before, at least not since I have been in staff. A Senior Admin doesn't have to give their approval on bans, that's not their role. During an investigation their opinion is not valued higher than that of a simple AC admin.

You edited this now after me correcting this error in a DM, but you wrote two months before your edit and you are on record saying it took three months in a public Discord. You have to be careful with details like this you cannot fully remember if you want to post a good critique that isn't misleading on a public forum.

I won't deny that some cases take "too long to solve", but if inactivity becomes a bigger issue this usually gets addressed internally and we'll try to find a solution. It's unpaid volunteer work done during a staff member's free time and if people are inactive for a month because they have important exams coming up we can't force them to do anything.
If one person made a big effort with an investigation that takes some work off the other members, but they are still expected to do their own research and look at the material themselves to make sure the collected evidence is actually worth anything and to add their own thoughts. People don't blindly follow the first poster, there are disagreements and further inputs all the time. Most of your own reviews back then resemble exactly what you complain about here, to be quite honest.
I don't know what you mean with "bigger profile" case. If you think some players are "obviously using cheats" then please report them instead of making vague references here.

If a trial wants to re-look at a case they worked on again we can make it visible for them if they ask us to. We have to be careful with new AC members seeing old case material because there is a real issue of people attempting to join staff to gain info, potentially share it with others, and then leaving staff again. Putting solved cases behind full admin permissions creates an additional barrier. The specific case I think you mean is back to its usual visibility state because the original purpose of it being hidden has been met by now.

I read some of your past public messages complaining about ETF2L AC being really dumb and a joke and our staff members being lazy, so I'm glad that you somewhat changed your opinion on us then.