There are quite a few people simply reuploading videos from asian to western platforms and vice versa to increase the accessibility for different countries and since most big western labels and corporations aren't that active to block content on asian websites it's pretty possible to find some lost gems archived on platforms like that.
The infamous Marines fragvid for instance was recovered like that as well.

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If Valve wanted to make tf2 an actual esport the fov would be locked to 70 to prevent people getting unfair advantages

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It looks like the domain expired. Does anyone know who owned or maintained the site and if this is permanent or temporary?
I think it was a pretty good resource for newer players and it would be a shame if it was lost

Edit: Well, looks like we have this from 4 years ago: https://www.teamfortress.tv/33148/playcomp-tf-down
Has it really been that long? And if yes comp.tf seems to be down as well, what happened to that site?

I would've linked playcomp.tf since it used to be a good resource for people new to this scene but it looks like the domain expired. Does anyone know who owned the site and if this being down is permanent?

Also since your profile sais that you're a spy main you might want to look out for the Highlander format, where teams consist of 9 players on each class. The more popular format 6v6 is usually played with 2 scouts, 2 soldiers, 1 demo and 1 medic on each team, you can obviously try that out as well but if you want to play spy, highlander might be better for you.

80 ping isn't really that great but I've seen plenty of other people play with a somewhat higher ping so it might be a little annoying but shouldn't be that big of a problem as long as you're used to it.

I guess you can check out tf2center.com and play some lobbies to try the different formats out, just be aware that the players joining those games are somewhat random so the quality of the games might be varying.

So you're getting mad at them because you don't want those people getting mad at you?

I agree it's annoying but so are you to them. It seems like you kinda want to stay on the servers but for what reason? Killing a bunch of friendlies isn't fun to anyone anyways (except you only do it because you actually want to make them mad or annoyed of course) so nothing of actual value is lost when you switch games.

Yeah right I really hate it when people decide to play the video game in a different way than me, that's truly unacceptable

Haha we hate the homogay am i right gamers? :DDD

I guess when you're posting in the discord channels you could say that you're new to comp so it's more likely for other new open teams to contact you instead of teams which are more experienced.

Also if you found teams which are good to play against keep their leaders in your friend list so you can arrange some matches via direct messages instead of asking some "randoms" on discord

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I don't think that Half-Life Alyx is a big factor tbh. Valve is probably one of the videogame companies with the highest profit per employee ratios considering how much money they make while only having a few hundred people in their ranks. If Valve actually wanted to do something with TF2 there would always be possibilities to just hire 2 or 3 people more, it's not like Valve is a small indie-studio with limited resources.

Realistically it's probably just playing some other video game or watching stupid memes and youtube videos since using time spent in entertainment in a more productive way is merely an illusion ignoring the reasons we ended up spending said time the ways we did. Also would that "more productive" path really be more enjoyable to yourself?

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What baffles me the most is that this is always what happens. RGL does a thing without any communication or transparency, there is a public outcry with people ridiculing the league with an occasional admin playing innocent until they kinda bow down quietly just to repeat the process.
Didn't they learn from this stuff by now?