The format was perfect for just 6 teams but I wonder if it would have been more interesting to combine the top 2 teams from the Open Tournament with the Invite Round Robin teams and create an 8 team bracket for the final Invite Tournament. (if those Open Teams were willing of course)

I wouldn't think either of the Open teams would have had a problem being invited to compete in the real tournament.

Sorry Avast, I am totally not serious and was just trying (poorly) to be funny. I can't and will likely never share political or social opinions on this message board again in a serious light. Only things TF2 related.
Don't mind me in this thread. :)

Like this poor guy who is probably really down on himself because no special skills at all and no security deposit. wtf

I am aware. Our posts were being typed and submitted at the same time

Suggestion:

At past LAN's, from time to time, the casters would enter the team comms in Mumble for the viewers to hear the players talk at the beginning of a new round during the mid-fight. I felt this added excitement to the cast for the viewers.

I always found those mids to be the most entertaining. It was great to actually hear the coordination of the calls and even the urgency in a players voice live. I would personally like to see casters begin to do this in the future.

I honestly have no problem with the way 7 plays the game. At the end of the day, it is a tournament and the goal is to win so whatever strategy gets that job done is fine by me. They lost this one but it could have gone differently.

From a purely spectator point of view, it can seem really boring and at times lacking excitement to watch a stalemate or slow progression from CP to CP so I can understand and feel the frustration.

Just speaking for myself, when I am watching these types of matches, I feel engrossed as a player and that makes me appreciate these situations so much more. I want to see the tiny mistake a player makes that initiates the other team to capitalize and press such a small advantage. I feel it helps me learn and make my own game better as well as my team. Basically, I appreciate the small things and don't always need the super fast paced, in your face triple airshot style we all love.

I think you mean chasing Freestate

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Can I come off the list? Pretty please? I have been a good boy lately and totally avoided expressing my opinions for things outside TF2 for months now!

This may be the first time I agreed with anything ScrewB says on this site.
Do what he says and save the kitty cats lives.

I believe you, I also believe you weigh under 100 pounds. I am very gullible.

This is just straight up being a meanie :( but I hate to see uncompleted lists, so here is my post.

I don't like him. My wife picked him when I showed her all the pictures and asked her to pick the cutest one.

Are you talking current EU medics, cause I hope so. When you say "always" that means you are calling Mirelin and KnOxXx awful and that is plain fucking retard mode. I am not going to argue about who "impresses" you because that is personal opinion.

Both of them were better than any other NA medics (includes you) with the exception of shade and possibly Harb

paddie's Shotgun from the first map of group stages to the Grand Final is my MVP