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Could have been worse, for example by releasing it the thursday before i61 ;)

are you bootcamping or in vacation?

only losers quit after the first disappointment

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reach heaven through violence?

I'd watch 16 product games, but I'd probably play 16 times on snakewater.

If we're talking about pub games, koth_king all the way

or, revert the reload like it was before(no passive reloading and slower reload speed), problem solved.

Exactly. In starcraft brood war, balancing the game could only be done through maps, and current maps have nothing in common with early 2000s maps.
Now look at TF2 maps evolution :p

TF2 DOMINATION BOYS
So all i have to do to win is get the mid or the enemy 2nd then put a sentry and a sniper on it? It could work, but not on any existing 5cp map...

Unfortunately epsi/froyo style has obvious and objective drawbacks :
-it does not help you to get the pick(s) you need in the first place. Against teams that don't make mistakes you're still pinned
-According to sigma's momentum guide and considering equal skill between two teams, it's not possible to make team pushes (=commit at least 4 players) consistently off one pick that is not demo or medic without the forward spawns advantage;
-the style is completely random when facing snipers; consider an area like process or badlands mid or snakewater 2nd; it's not possible to go in while avoiding a sniper completely and you have no way of knowing if the sniper's going to hit things or not. You're screwed both ways : either yolo it and commit your medic = risk losing your med "randomly", either don't commit your medic and put all your frag classes at a disadvantage for the push
-if you use a sniper to get the entry pick and then push 6v5 you have no way of knowing if your sniper will hit stuff during the push, and if he does not it's like pushing 5v5
-If something fails during a push you put yourself at a bigger risk than when you suicide a solo player because you are not set up properly to handle counter aggression

I'm not saying this can't be pulled off, but that the amount of knowledge required is much much higher. For each point, do you exploit a pick the same way regardless of what you killed? Do you engage the fight 6v5 or try to make it 6v4? Can you get your medic out if things go south? What if they have a sniper?etc...
It's not trivial to me (but i'm not prem lol)

This is a feature of 5cp game mode and current maps. It's a part of the game at this point. Be careful wishing for game changes, look at what id did to quake duels for example!

You see it from the half empty glass perspective. One could say that because lowpander is so good they managed to hold the best EU team at bay for a full map. Or that seven is so good that even when they beef their push they still manage to keep control.

Outside of that unlocks and offclasses are a way to break stalemates. There are a ton of options, some considered standard (sniper/spy), some more marginal (banners, quickiebomb, etc). In order to break stalemates one team has to properly train stalemate breaking. But in most scrims players either stick to proven and expected tactics (sacks/sniper/spy) or push without any kind of advantage and yolo it to avoid the "boredom" of stalemates. So when a team actually runs into a situation where it HAS to break a stalemate (say in officials running after the score) it is lost.

Also if you really do not want stalemates you should push for more koth maps in the map rotation.

It's done already. Thank you Arie if that's you <3