One thing I mention often on my stream is the content that's available to new players now to drag them in to comp.
This mainly applies to the EU scene in some way though.
Before TF2 went F2P we had a good amount of content freely available to people, we had MGE VODS and the site in general, we had cadred for EU, Vanillatf2 was buzzing with articles and their vanilla insights, various podcast shows that would go on. In terms of casts we had a lot of people available, often having two games casted in one night.
Now we have a gigantic influx of new players where has this content gone? Vanillatf2 is dead, we've lost news article sites to some extent, there is a big short of learning resources for new players, yes, streams are a lot more popular but there isn't many places for organised content in one place.
We need to get smarter in how we get competitive TF2 across to people, I'm hoping that the fully charged EU reboot is something that will rekindle some interest for TF2 again.
The main positive thing from this is that the casting resources is really fucking impressive, logs.tf and ss. is really really making a change for us.