boomers when new map doesn't get played: why are we trying to force new maps? remove it.

boomers when badlands doesn't get played: we need to force diversity.

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Just my 2 cents about calling and listening to calls since that seems like where you guys had a lot of conflict:

One is that, in scrims, you should ALWAYS follow your maincaller, no matter how you think the play will turn out. If you follow the call, you can determine pretty cleanly whether the call was good or bad depending on the outcome of the play.

The moment you decide to countercall, it becomes practically impossible to determine if the maincall or the countercall was responsible for the outcome of the play. The maincaller will just blame the countercaller for not following the call, and the countercaller will just say the maincall was bad.

You should really only countercall in matches where you are almost entirely certain the maincall will go badly, and its common courtesy that if things go poorly after the countercall is made that the countercaller takes the blame.

On that note, I'll also add that a good attitude to hold is that a bad maincall or countercall does not make a bad caller. Calls come from information and you can almost always attribute a bad call to a lack of information in the eyes of the caller. It's good form to be able to recognize what information your caller accidentally ignored when they make a bad call and let them know what they did not account for (super common is your maincaller calling a collapse when people are out of position/out of ammo/hurt).

Never let ego or something ridiculous like "I have more experience" influence your opinion about a call; just follow it and evaluate it based on the results. This has been your TFTV certified counseling advice on not being an idiot teammate, hope you all find team environments that work for you :)

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would love to hear from an actually good medic that uses the clock to count ubers, because I honestly can't imagine it. 0%-30%-70%-100% increments are almost always sufficient info to make good calls off of, and if you think you are off by ~10%, you can always just uber check.

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yeah the idea was tracking is more reactive and moving your crosshair onto a target, while leading is more predictive, placing your crosshair where u think they will be and clicking when they get there. obviously theres more nuance but idc.

also unless just about every invite scout main in the history of invite has found this survey, there may have been a little trolling...

aight so I haven't used surveymonkey since highschool so apprantly u have to drop $100 to see results now and thats not happening.

google form tho: https://forms.gle/JhhUuH8zwhMNHEoY6

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mr. slin youtube tutorials

just look for the ones with medic stuff in the title, old but gold. I haven't watched these in forever so I'm not entirely sure they hold up, but I remember a lot of my early tf2 fundamentals were grounded in some of these videos.

im just happy that we gamers can still congregate in online forums and degrade women after all these years

legendary take

ur not a particularly good advanced player either.

this looks really fun, if it turns out well, I'd love to see a draft cup in the future which gives captains a pool of money to buy their picks with like in this this thread. might encourage some more interesting picking strategies

Don't really get the point of the map pick statistics. Got me curious so I checked the (regular and playoff) games: witness picked 4 of the bagel games, g6 picked another 4, and froyo picked it once against estrogen (notorious for picking whatever map against bottom invite teams). So basically wg picked bagel a bunch because they established last season they were the best bagel team and could get free wins on it, and I would assume g6 did the same because they were also trying to become a good bagel team. Which makes sense, because people typically prioritize maps they can win on over maps they find fun. Of course it could be both, but it doesn't change the fact that these stats only reflect the opinions of 2/10 invite teams lmao.

I still think bagel sets a new precedent for what a good koth map looks like in tf2 and I hope it encourages more new maps, but those stats are just wacky.