I won't be in the UK or have internet access from Monday onwards, but if someone in the UK (i.e. preferably serotone or hys) rings the UK visas and immigration center on 0300 123 2241 or 0800 389 8289 (Mon-Thurs 9-4.45, Fri 9-4.30) they should ask them whether "proof of donations received to attend an event" counts as demonstrable proof that he will be able to fund himself in the UK and explains the team situation. You can also argue that he effectively earned the donations by playing the game well and practicing which might work on a technicality.

Idk if you've given sdb the money from the fundraiser already but if you pay it into his bank account as a transaction it would probably make the proof stronger. I'd also say include info about the fundraiser and the individual transactions into the account of whoever was organizing the fundraiser (HYS?).

I'd email Eric Smith and/or see if anyone who went to valve could get in contact.
I'd also still mention the donations that were given for the i55 fundraiser for TLR. I think the main issue is the british government is that they want proof you can financially support yourself, if sdb explains there's been a fundraiser for him to come they might be more accommodating.

Is there some sort of visa exemption for athletes or people going to international competitions? It would be worth sdb talking to both Russian and UK authorities. Are there no very short term visas for those only planning to stay for a very short amount of time?
The political climate in the UK given recent news right now means that it might be harder for Russian nationals to get visas (Idk if this is actually the case but it's something in the public mind right now).
#60, For other reasons, UK border control is probably extremely vigilant for people being smuggled into the country currently. The easiest way would probably be to have a UK national smuggle him onto a car ferry on one of the more obscure routes such as Rotterdam-Hull. Doubt you'll find anyone willing to do that though.

You're welcome. Having really good snipers at lan always makes it much more interesting.

Fuck man, I'm glad I'm so lucky. Never had to deal with shit like this in my life.

I mean if I'm stuck on an island of tftv regulars probably myself tbh.

My laptop is dying and I spend a few months of every year in a different country. As It's not really feasible for me to take my PC on 6-8 Ryanair flights a year I need some sort of new portable hardware to play TF2. I don't care if it's a laptop or tablet or indeed a mini pc/monitor, I just need something light and portable, I can build from parts if necessary.

I have 4 main ideals although I really doubt all 3 can be met, particularly the 3rd.
-Is light and easily portable (Don't really want anything bigger than a 17" laptop, current is 15" I believe)
-Can run TF2 decently, ideally without dropping below 120 ever (good cpu, ok gpu)
-Doesn't cost $$$ (Don't really want to go over £750/$1100 however still feel free to suggest stuff slightly over this budget).
-Can output 120Hz (I don't care about 1080p, but this is the hard one).

I doubt I'll be able to find a 120hz laptop at this price point (the only I could find were around £2000 with overkill specs) but I don't know if there are any decent tablets (I doubt it) or small PCs/small 120hz monitors (possible?). Failing the 120hz part I can go for anything that outputs 60 or 75 with decent frames but If there are any cheap 120hz display options I'd love to know.

There are enough people willing to play on 6es teams that its profitable to make spambots for it?
Holy shit we've made it boys.

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

http://i.imgur.com/qniGCr5.png

Papua New Guinea

http://i.imgur.com/uphIgGU.png

Niue

http://i.imgur.com/293ZqqX.gif

Would be useful if you added an equivalent section to the part relevant to ATI cards for those on nvidia cards.

when I searched for it on yt I got
https://www.youtube.com/user/wtfzproductions/about

Surprised not to see more promode vids here, the frags are ridiculous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyawfsJPoag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq2Glc7hudY

Shade and Lange actually look really horrifying through this.

http://i.imgur.com/qzMKsHA.jpg

I hope valve consider some of the switching uber stuff a bug, I've emailed them about it.
I think they'd just want medics to be able to pickup medigun skins without worrying about a significant advantage or disadvantage as it would be with picking up a skin of the same weapon. Picking up other weapons in CS is also kind of a different kettle of fish as some are just objectively better/more expensive than others and you'll keep them between rounds which rewards you for killing a player with a better gun than you. With mediguns, it's not really the medic's fault that he's died to a player when he's close to uber as opposed to a csgo player dying with an expensive gun.
People say it kind of adds an extra layer to the game or allows meds to think about their positioning more but I feel like it's something that's kind of random and rewards passive positioning more than it does smart positioning.