this lan is gonna be fuckin epic now gib me a team :)
no1 reads etf2l rec forums but im lft boyz lets game

Maybe it's simpler from your end to make a league where you play only 8 matches a season or whatever and play each team once, but from a players perspective it's definitely not at all harder to schedule two matches a week versus one. Invite teams will already be scrimming those nights anyways. The map variety point I don't see the merit of either: how is making people play two maps per match any different? Assuming it's still pick ban that doesn't make any difference than pick banning twice for two maps spread out throughout the season.

ESEA had match schedules different for invite/other divs , and RGL is proposing something similar. If it's 30 open teams vs 8 invite teams there's no way it should need to be the same that just doesn't make sense. Point is there's no reason to look for some meaningless 'unity' in how the matches are scheduled out just for the sake of it looking nice or whatever.

It's just such an awful prospect to play invite and literally have one night of matches determine your entire season, well boys looks like we played bad, time to get our shit together and step it up for next time we play them. Oh wait we don't play them ever again and in fact we miss playoffs now regardless of what happens...

alright turns out the place im staying in amsterdam has ethernet
lft (130 ping needle warrior, ultidickl genius, valuable asset)

asura is a certified Chill Gamer

Who the fuck cares about other divisions make invite not bad end of story

There seems to be a bug where the servers can't load in to new maps that were recently added, instead it simply puts it on turbine (seems to be the default map). Tried it with CP_CHAD and ultidickl_a6_b_fix.bsp and neither seemed to be on the server, despite the webpage saying so (both are also on http://fakkelbrigade.eu/maps/)

Seems others have been having this issue too: https://www.teamfortress.tv/51240/cp-chad-5cp/?page=3#bottom

2 matches is definitely better. I don't see any reason to change the format of invite to anything different than what ESEA had, playing each team only once during the season is really lame even if each match is two maps. What makes the invite season interesting is that you get to play each team twice and face them at the beginning and the end of the season, losing against a team on two maps and never getting to rematch them (unless you happen to make playoffs) is really lame and puts too much pressure on one day. Don't see any reason to do it like this, haven't even heard of anyone suggesting it either.

New roster transaction rules seem okay but might want to add a rule like in ESEA preventing players from jumping ships to 3+ different rosters during the season. Also, only allowing four people to join the roster during the season might be too few. Obviously you wouldn't want an invite team to have 5 different starters from the beginning of the season, but you also have to make sure teams can roster backups/subs as well (it's important to be able to add another player to your roster as an official backup and assure you can play with them, cause otherwise the other team can simply deny whatever ringer/merc you try to get)

This rule doesn't make much sense to me either, I get preventing someone from joining another team within 7 days of doing so (ESEA rule), but why this? If my team dies, why should I wait a week before being able to play for another team? Or if I'm playing IM roamer for a friend team and am asked to play medic for an invite team, what's the point of making me wait a week before being able to play? Seems arbitrary and pointless to me at least.

honestly i wouldnt be surprised if it was actually intentional by sigafoo so that this exact situation would come up, they were the first by far to announce so in order to cement their lead they chose to start as soon as possible to pressure people into signing up (total scumbag move imo they should move it back at least a few weeks but they probably won't)

Not gonna lie, the fact that RGL starts so early is absolutely abysmal planning on their part. No idea how invite teams are going to actually get their rosters figured out as it's right after grand finals and there won't even be time to try people out. But given the fact that they actually did choose to start it when they did it's a pretty shitty situation. Having no confirmed prize pool also makes me skeptical. As much as I am inclined to think that tsc/erynn/twiiku are much more qualified to run a project like this I think it might just be too little to late.

Memes aside here's what actually happened (not sure why no one asked me, didn't realize there was even gonna be an article)
I'm going to Amsterdam for 2 months to study abroad again, not tryna play med on a laptop with povety WiFi and 150 ping (not to mention time zones which would make me play matches starting at 5am) so I told the boys I'd step down before playoffs. Had a great season together and just came off an Epic LAN Win, so there's obviously no hard feelings or beef in any way. Meyy is a super dedicated player who I always thought had mad potential and will make an excellent addition to the team, especially given his aggressive playstyle and chemistry with sandblast from playing with him on faint. I'm super excited to see what they can pull off in playoffs, the boys are gonna turn some heads for sure.

Personally I'm really bummed I won't be able to play but I decided in the spring that I would go back to Amsterdam because it was such an awesome experience last summer, and my best friend from school is going with me. Was a hard decision but I wanted to take the opportunity to do so because it would probably be my last chance as next year is my last of college.

Unfortunately because RGL seems to be scheduled to start almost right after ESEA grand finals this season in July, and I'll be in Europe till the end of August, I won't be able to play next season either. Would have loved to play with the Ford boys again but looks like I'm gonna have to take a bit of a break from TF2, which is probably a good thing in the long run so I can focus on school and real life. That said, I am hoping to go to he next RGB in the fall which is supposed to be big, so look out for a potential Ford revamp to hit the road in search for a second LAN championship....

i want him to eat a bug :( #bugz4sandblast
cat food and an egg is a good start tho

DELPGOD TAKE MY ENERGY

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not gonna lie i got pretty triggered by the fact that on every other page it moves the 'agree' option from the left to the right and back like why not just keep it consistent so people don't accidentally do the wrong one lmao

holy laz brain :O

thank god sandblast didnt do bans for either of our matches this week so we get to play propaganda vs the only team that knows how to play that map :)