Got a silver from the elite case.

Then I opened about five normal cases. Lead, Bronze, Bronze, Gold, Cobalt. lol?

Basically this. There's no need for us to have a more "fair" advantage by making anyone from EU play on a Chicago server. NY gives a reasonable ping to everyone, given the circumstances.

Correct. Bdonski and Decimate get roughly 90-100 ping to east coast servers.

I dunno, there probably isn't a better solution. It would be reasonable if all of our players lived in the northeast of NA (like most of nerdrage pinged the same to most/all locations). The ping discrepancies suck, but it's just a showmatch after all. As long as it brings attention to the i55 fundraisers and the i55 LAN itself, everyone is content.

There were quite a few people that came up to me at the end of last GXL and told me that they would absolutely love to help out for the next one. I already wrote down some of those names, but once I get to a point where I create a list of roles needed, I'll make a public post to gather volunteers.

In a really awesome situation where I have tons of help, I'll be able to play with my team at the event. However, it's not in the cards at the moment.

As Fire said, this is important. Typically, you acquire good gamesense as a whole, but don't try to specifically work on gamesense for just one class.

I think most people who have bad gamesense are people who have a really awful understanding of their surroundings and environment. They don't check around them all that much, tunnel vision hard, are oblivious to a lot of simple things, and have a difficult time anticipating certain plays that the opponent(s) can possibly do. A lot of this can be obtained by playing pugs/scrims/matches and reviewing your own demos. You won't get good gamesense in a day, but it's very achievable for most people.

No, I'm not MIA. No, I'm not scared of impending nerd rage.

When I said we were supposed to announce details a month ago, that was 100% on track and ready to go. Unfortunately, things got pushed back and we could no longer announce for Friday. Things within our staff group became a little dormant when this happened, and the rest of us were basically "what the fuck, let's actually get this going, please."

The chain of command has now been rearranged as of a day ago, and things should be getting off the ground soon. I can't give an ETA, and I know I've said that things would be starting soon before. All I can tell you is that the new chain of command will be pushing things harder than before. We are looking to announce the details as early as possible, and that's all I can say.

Trust me, I've been as eager (and honestly annoyed) as anyone else during this entire time that details have been put off for so long. Things will be looking much better soon, hopefully.

I sincerely apologize to anyone and everyone who have been affected by this delay.

Again, a huge shoutout to everyone who helped put this together, and another huge shoutout to everyone who donated! It was a great showmatch and we had a lot of fun.

Pubbing in DoD 1.3 is pretty much a joke. There are only a few servers worth joining, most of them being filled with mods and/or bots. Trying to find 12 mans is pretty much impossible. I think nineteeneleven used to do pugs years ago with former dod invite players, but that website seems pretty inactive now.

Pubbing in DoDS is fine for the most part. You'll still run into a decent amount of servers that run realism mods and other crap, but there's quite a few mod-free servers. It should be easier to find 12 mans in DoDS, but not by much.

All things considered, both games are incredibly fun.

My favorite 1.3 frag video

If someone pisses me off, I might handcuff them to Marmaduke.

So, basically you're saying you want me to buy you guys pizza at GXL, right?

Well, alright.

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE FOREPLAY, BOYS.

The states part uses radio buttons instead of check boxes, so it only lets you pick one answer. :(

Saloon wouldn't need to be shut down. You could have it so games from certain leagues would no longer be added. CSGL does that when it starts to get out of hand, or if the league asks them not to put up their games.

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

Cursive - The Ugly Organ

iamamiwhoami - Bounty

Bazooie - The Path of Least Resistance

Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season

Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place

The Flashbulb - Red Extensions of Me

Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness

I think you're getting your numbers mixed up. There are nine teams in Invite and the season is eight weeks.

edit: whoops, there are nine weeks (and still nine teams), but I don't know why that's necessary. Pretty sure the seasons were eight weeks a while ago. Everything would make sense with eight weeks, as all teams would play each map twice and play each other twice. Oh well, pretty off-topic but whatever, haha.