Haven't booked my hotel yet, but it looks like the premier inn is the cheapest/closest so maybe I'll stay there. Are people from Na bringing computers? Renting? I was thinking of just going as a spectator but maybe ill bring a laptop and some peripherals, after all medic class is easy mode even with 60hz. Maybe there's some other clowns going who want to make a pug team or something. Might as well play store tf2 if I'm traveling across the Atlantic.

when ur cheater team is literally named malicious activity and the other team gets banned

also get fucked air I knew it was you all along

I started playing medic for the same reason as you because in pugs and lobbies (back when tf2mix and tf2lobby.com were things) there were never people who wanted to play medic. I started off pubbing and found I most enjoyed soldier but once I played more medic I found it fun to try to survive and escape by surfing/dodging and as others have said it is very satisfying to get crossbow kills on people chasing you or save the round by getting an ubersaw. In regards to people blaming the medic for everything I agree that the majority of the time a pocket can tell when his medic is inexperienced and isn't doing exactly what he wants, but that's not to say that it's not much easier to blame your med than taking responsibility yourself. At the end of the day there are always going to be people who enjoy playing medic regardless of whatever bullshit people say about them, but this certainly can have a negative influence and dissuade newer players from playing the class.
My takeaway from the most recent medic change is that b4nny and slin wanted valve to make it obvious to newer medics that it's a good idea to heal scouts. Of course matchmaking medics are going to want to heal scouts now that they get to run faster while doing it. I don't think anything in particular should be done to make medic (or any class for that matter) less boring, changes should be based on balance and not whether or not certain players have the patience to learn how to play the class well.
The only real issue I see is a lack in diversity in weapon selection. Ever since the crossbow got passive reload nearly every medic has used it, and kritz is situational to the point that most lower level teams don't know how to play around it correctly. Lucrative is the only medic who I remember purposely using a melee other than the ubersaw, but the problem is that even if for example weapons like the vita saw got rebalanced they may still be overpowered to the point that they get banned (or at least they change the meta to that point). I could see merit in buffing kritz or nerfing quick fix to the point where it's unbannable and doesn't completely break the meta like s14 lan. If teams ran kritz more often there would be far less uber stalemates and it would promote dry pushing and generally more aggressive playstyles. Even things like spawning on kritz and building when both medics die on mid makes the game far more interesting and necessitates pushing. Some teams/medics only feel comfortable playing cookie cutter with uber but I feel that at least trying out other strategies is important, which is why I personally try to try kritz whenever I see a situation that warrants it, at the very least to make the game more enjoyable for myself.

TL;DR medic main syndrome (MMS) is a very real thing and people need to stop blaming inexperienced medics for the teams problems if they want people to actually learn how to play the class at lower levels

you guys should e-fuck irl

http://www.teamfortress.tv/31953/is-suicide-a-joke/

definitely agree, wes anderson is amazing
last night i saw moonrise kingdom which was also great

i love aiera

join an open team its easily the best and quickest way to learn
even if you're bad and your team loses almost every match you can always find people around your skill level and scrim them to improve if you're just getting rolled by the top teams

also i think it goes without saying that doing DM, mge, pugs & jump maps will help some but in order to actually improve your understanding of the game you need to either play or watch 6s (pov, stv, casts, etc)
demo reviews of yourself can be helpful if you are good at finding your own mistakes and noticing what worked/didn't work but it may be helpful at first to have someone else give you some advice so that you don't interpret you getting out DM's as making a wrong decision, or hitting every shot and winning a fight that you shouldn't have taken in the first place as a right one

edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlCRfTmBSGs

same :(
could it be that after we won IM with the illustrious con "nub_danish" bud both of us plateaued due to lack of his fresh memes?

I think we need a yimi-cornpop exclusive tf.tv collab cast

Sonk The Echidna

HEY TSC CAN YOU MAKE THE PRE-READY 3 MINUTES LIKE TF2 CENTER PLEASE? (OR MAYBE EVEN LONGER?????????)

this thread has been made a million times

throwback to tf2mix
his voice is not nearly as scratchy and voice-cracky as before (yikes)
shoots floor is not robot
has a brain (sometimes)
it all checks out
open

wrech back where he belongs

https://static.esea.net/global/images/teams/132981.1468379849.png

does this sentence not make sense to anyone else
i know what he was trying to say but i feel like this kind of stuff should be fixed with proof reading lol

article was solid though, he made a good point about australiums and giving people a reason to play competitive