Almost all updates valve does include some tournament medals. I believe it’s mostly them not wanting to put work into something that doesnt generate direct profit for them (even though medals can be an incentive for people to keep playing the game). Nowadays, almost every community event has medals, even small 1–2 day cups and non-comp events which has become a bit overwhelming, imo

Also, I dont know if Eric and the tf team are busy working on something else, but the last time we sent an email asking for medals, it took more than a month to get a response. Before, we would usually get one within a few days

Even though our old website is no longer available, most of it can still be accessed through Wayback Machine, so I'd be glad to help.

As for TFC, I’m not entirely sure about it, since I wasn’t around back then. What I do know (and I may be mistaken in some parts) is that our league doesn’t have strong TFC roots. Instead, it had closer ties to qwtf (Quakeworld Team Fortress).

The founders of FBTF were qwtf players who had been playing it since the late 90s/early 2000s, and when tf2 launched, they created a forum focused on tf2 (which was the old FBTF website), with the first tournament taking place in 2008. There was also an older gaming forum where they used to gather and host tournaments during the qwtf days, but I believe that has been lost to time at this point.

So happy to see other regions ending the NA dominance. The whole lan was incredible to watch. Tf2 really needs more events like this.

Last season was probably the best we've had in quite a while. It was a very competitive league overall, with many strong players returning to the scene. It'll be interesting to see how future leagues shape up, especially since a number of players have stepped away from the scene + Elite grand finals cheating incident.

Now, regarding the "no foreigners" rule in RGL... It really doesn’t make much sense. The South American scene is mainly centered around three countries: Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. No other country has managed to win Elite (the highest division), mainly due to ping issues. When you exclude those three countries, the rest typically get similar or even higher ping to Brazil (where all matches are played) compared to North America. For example, Peruvians average around 100 ping to both Brazil and NA, while Colombians actually get lower ping to NA than to Brazil. So it’s unreasonable to classify those players as "foreigners" in RGL when they experience lower latency in NA than in SA. Uruguay and Paraguay also have low ping in brazil but its rare to see players from there.

I remember tri being one of the first to start using it regularly, besides that i remember of i55 where i think it was probably the first big event where almost all pockets started using gunboats

Idk what bullshit valve has done but now everytime I queue for mvm i'm ending up in europe instead of SA/NA where I used to get placed before. Also happening to a lot of my SA friends.

https://hl.br.tf2pickup.org/ - highlander pickup games in south america, for all skill levels
https://br.tf2pickup.org/ - general 6v6 pickup games
https://discord.gg/sbnwVG9cMh - newbie/low divs 6v6 pugs

frz who plays valorant for mibr used to be a top player in the south american scene, he also played paladins professionally before
https://liquipedia.net/valorant/Frz

https://www.twitch.tv/chikorit4/clip/ObedientFilthyLettuceFUNgineer-liiu56KTXL6JEaDp

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I remember seeing once when playing around with it that most events had its times stored in the api, thats why i asked about it. If thats really not the case then all good

dont know if that's a conscious decision on your part or not but i think instead of downloading and extracting the logfile you could just have just made a request to the logstf api to retrieve the needed info

In case anyone is interested elijah played on the last fbtf cup and had to upload some demos, he had 150 ping though. (its on demostf but those are povs i swear)
https://demos.tf/601876
https://demos.tf/601877
https://demos.tf/601878

All this information is public and can be checked on the following match page:
https://fbtf.tf/matches/217

i'm pretty sure this is just a very elaborate shitpost and everyone is falling for it

It would be too much for him