Once they enter open beta they'll be organizing daily again like they did during closed beta.
These cups have a prize pool of faceit points which you can then spend in the shop.

Atm there's no TF2 things in there yet but they were asking in discord which unusuals and other TF2 items people would want to be in the shop. I'm assuming this will happen once open beta gets an active community or after the official launch. For now you can buy other items like merch and cs:go skins
dream big

Yes. Just make sure to do it right after starting TF2. if you join a pub server, then disconnect, then attempt to preload it won't preload properly.

Yttrium's competitive viewmodels config also uses preloading. It goes a step further and puts a small map in your custom files and makes it automatically load when you start TF2 so you don't waste a couple of minutes loading and exiting a big map. The map also kicks you right after joining so you don't even have to disconnect manually.

If you want something similar:
In your autoexec.cfg put "map_background [map name]" where map name can be anything.
You can use Yttrium's preload_room map. it's a small file and kicks you automatically so it doesn't take up a lot of time to prelaod every time you restart TF2.

I usually do it manually by joining and disconnecting from tr_arena_rc2 with the command "map tr_arena_rc2" but any small map will do.

You can drop map files in tf > custom > maps (This should work. Haven't used this pathway in a while though so I might've missed a folder. probably is correct though)
I usually put them in tf > download > maps because then Lawena's recording tool doesn't complain about the size of my custom folder when i try to record things. There's no real difference between the 2 unless you use Lawena a lot

https://www.dropbox.com/s/srinb13pijcqx56/no_domination_sounds.vpk?dl=0
Credit to Lawena. It's part of Lawena's recording tool

Install instructions: Put it in Custom

It works 90% of the time even without preloading but you can just preload to be safe. I don't play TF2 much anymore these days but it should be able to bypass sv_pure 2.
For some reason it sometimes doesn't work when joining servers (even when it does work during other sessions on the same server). Not sure what causes that but most of the time you'll be able to enjoy TF2 without domination/revenge sounds

For highlander there's not much aside from tf2center/tf2stadium as far as I know. Most highlander pug/mix groups die fast but you could look around and maybe there's still some active ones in NA.

for 6v6 this is definitely worth checking out http://steamcommunity.com/groups/na6v6newbiemix

http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/d/df/158Totodile.png

Always my starter in Silver. Feraligatr is also top tier

http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/d/da/245Suicune.png

First legendary I ever encountered. I didn't have a master ball and it got away.
I made it my goal to one day catch it. Ended up catching Raikou and Entei and getting both to lvl 100.
But Suicune was never seen again.
I eventually got him in Pokemon Red Rescue Team multiple years later. Felt great
Also Totodile was always my partner in Red Rescue Team because he's awesome

https://www.twitch.tv/truktruk/v/98902506

A lot of mice have adjustable DPI these days (or at least 2 or 3 settings to choose from)
And as people have said you can just change your in-game sens and/or windows sens so it's the same as your old mouse

not a question just wanted to let you know I really enjoyed your casting at i58

link to a vpk with install guide. The vpk contains fov_desired 90, m_rawinput 1, chris' better network settings and other helpful stuff

No class until Thursday
Did most of a lab report that's due Monday today. Just have to wait for my lazy lab partner to get off his ass tomorrow and not send it at Monday 4AM again

360 DPI, 5 in-game sens. About 25 cm/360 (10 inches/360)
(switching between 25cm and 35cm every couple of days)

palm

combination of tracking and flicking

For those interested I made this vpk a while back. It centers the crosshair for sniper rifles and the ambassador.
Medic saws and pyro axes also use the crosshair but I doubt anyone will mind if those are a pixel off.
I made it for someone who randomly asked about it in twitch chat. I didn't test it before giving it to them but they never got back to me about issues so I think it's fine.
I'd be more than happy to fix any issues if there are any though (or even include the pyro axes/medic saws if you really want those)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7kb31umotyqoryp/default_crosshair_sniper_centered.vpk?dl=0

(obviously this will either overwrite or be overwritten by VTF crosshairs that also use the weapon txt file method for custom crosshairs)

install guide: put it in Custom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNRCA1hbvQk&list=PLstXdGXEYegd3XI7qfL-9B8S4106toCFo&index=23

bump because today is the last day for people to submit applications for becoming a helper and I'd love to see season 3 happen

I have a theory.

What if they're planning on updating badwater and turbine? They must be aware of the _pro versions
And 2 maps that "recently" got updates are granary and badlands. Perhaps they think those 2 maps are fine now so they were removed from the pool.
Meanwhile maps like foundry, vanguard, swiftwater, etc are kept in because they're still planning updates to make them less terrible

I'm not saying it's a smart idea for them to do it that way, but I wouldn't be surprised if the MM pool is actually just a test pool for maps they want to update