i disagree that its completely the work of narcissists but without a doubt many people's only contributions to this forum are waiting for someone to say something dumb or set them up with a joke to farm upvotes, when those kinds of posts are really only worthwhile in an ecosystem where there's normal discussion
i think the discord-ification of the community is the main reason tftv isnt very alive since most gossip and discussion happens elsewhere but if people want to have a healthy public tf2 forum then they gotta stop complaining about it being bad and just swallow their pride and contribute

if people want tftv to be alive they just gotta post on it it's just a forum

if all this can be pulled off it would be nothing short of the biggest league tf2 has ever seen
i'm of course worried about sustainability if its gonna run at such an enormous loss but im interested to see where this goes

probably this

goat

macron and i are gonna cover beantown creamers vs moose hate club on my channel tonight

thinking about a family feud kinda thing (no promises) but here's the survey if you wanna help

why is it gullyWASH if it's covered in dirt

it isn't even that sunny

haven't really followed but i saw people kept calling some self driving car service just to light them on fire which was funny

dont really post my stuff here anymore but this one is about frag videos as a medium and what they can mean to people which i thought tftv might like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL2vbiZIXGw

i think group stages being old config makes sense in the interest of time and playoffs on prog ruleset makes sense in the interest of game quality and removing garbage time/soft garbage time
im pretty sure rgl pugs use a 20 minute clock +overtime for that exact reason. obviously games where teams can't push will still run long but it still makes those pugs much shorter on average so i don't see 30 mins as gospel and it honestly seems more like an "ancestral trait" so to speak, rather than a number with a considered purpose

it's remarkable that an org as young as fireside was able to pull something like this off and its thanks to the fireside & production crew and all the work they put in leading up to and during the event
everyone i talked to and everyone who came up to me were really pleasant to speak with
shoutouts to the aussies and euros for making the journey and playing so well
i already knew I'd enjoy meeting people I've known or talked with before but i didn't know benpl at all and he was great to meet and also make production a lot better with his knowledge of the european scene

yeah i guess i shouldve specified that on day 3 they were. going into the tourney they looked like the favorites and most of the people i talked to at the time seemed to agree, but the scrim logs weren't fully replicated in the first couple days
everything else you say is totally true

the reasons that wg eu were underdogs were that they were playing against a team that had already beat them on two separate days without dropping a map in that same tournament
and also that eu hadnt ever won on na soil
and that they were playing on a config they aren't familiar with among unlocks they have banned
and that the team who consistently beat eu got basically replaced as #1 in rgl by the team they were playing

and in my opinion the fact that they were underdogs also makes their victory even more impressive and deserved