As far as SEO goes, we actually hold some of the cards already. If you search "comp tf2" on google images you get a lot of stinkers but also a couple of decent looking photos (i like this one but its small) and they're all hosted on tf2 sites already focusing on competitive. Main thing is to make sure images we use for things like comp.tf or the wiki are high quality and appropriately tagged as competitive oriented. SEO will really start to work if we get a foot in the door with like PCgamer or something and they make a comp MM news post using a high quality poster or two. Then we'd at least see a couple of more MM styled SFMs near the top of the TF2 search bar

Working as tf.tv (the organization) and opening up direct communication with these places is gonna happen anyway if tf2 takes off. Doing it now helps us a ton, and helps them a bit since they have a line to the comp community and access to tf.tv resources. If that's what happened, the images would be an opening gesture for longer collaboration

Negative punishment would've probably been the most effective since you'd be taking away his income by not watching his nerd rage. Instead everyone here continued to talk about him which at best doesn't actually affect him and at worst generates more stream viewer for him. Calling him a dick on tf.tv doesn't actually do anything, and attacking him as a person doesn't do anything either besides let u feel better about yrself

tho yr more pathetic than he is if u need to insult people to feel good about yrself LMAO

nah i meant more like send an email to the web team for places like multiplay or online mags saying something like

"Hey we represent the competitive tf2 community and have a huge collection of high quality tf2 images. If you're gonna make any articles about tf2, feel free to contact us or use our archive for high quality thumbnails."

like work in an explanation about how every website uses one of like 2 tf2 images and how it helps us and them and maybe it'll get the TF2 articles a higher viewercount. It's just one of those things that might get 5% more people to click on an article and discover tf2, since its a new image rather than the same old beta one they've seen 20,000 times.

Why not just email the companies? I mean I doubt they want to make articles where the thumbnail is an image everyone has seen before, so pre-providing them with some images for comp coverage wouldn't be a terrible idea. But idk if that's something they'd do.

there's already a fair amount of competitive looking images available, but increasing the amount still causes them to be more common and therefore more likely to be used. If only one or two guys are making them for TF.TV images once or twice a month, you're gonna see a lot less in circulation than if we had 50 redditors making them for fun constantly

This is a companion piece to this reddit post I made.

Someone earlier mentioned the lack of competitive TF2 artwork and the resulting same 3 pictures being used on every TF2 post or advertisement so i made a nerd post on reddit to try to reach out to the SFM community. Assuming there was an influx in good, high quality promotional images, how would the community go about making sure it gets used to actually advertise the game? I know a couple of old players currently work at gaming news outlets and the like so I guess that'd be a foot in the door there, but that's not super reliable and doesn't solve the problem that smaller websites or sites that aren't associated with ETF2L or TFTV aren't likely to have very easy access to good images. I don't really know how to describe this problem well or any solutions but as a community it seems like something that isn't hard to fix but could be a problem if it isn't. If tf2 continues to grow as an esport, more coverage will be a given, but projecting the competitive nature of 6s will be hard if we're still using the 9 class spread wallpaper from the 2006 beta

im a very big hypocrite idc

his professional life is playing video games in front of a camera. In a thread about how unprofessional he is, you can call him a dick on stream all you want

His personal life is everything else. It can be hard to separate, but everyone is better off if we try

your closing sentence is literally "I think this dude is a dick, so i'm going to be an even bigger dick to him just to make sure he understood I think he's a dick" which is retarded

^hitler

cool, call him an asshole then, but don't attack people's personal lives just because you ran out of things to be angry at

shitting on people for relationship issues is kinda mean

there's plenty of other reasons to be mean to b4nny than him being a normal person who got fucked in a mixed professional/personal relationship

U really didn't understand his insult. The point was you're only nice IRL because you're a dick in video games. Honestly if you can't be a good sportsman you shouldn't stream or be the public face of the community imo, good players who are shitty people with shitty attitudes are a lot less fun than alright players who are chill. If the #1 streamer was on an IM joke team and spent 2/3rds of the time having fun and not being a dick the game'd be better off :)

u see this shit its getting worse

you're looking at the koreans from an american perspective. Being good at tf2 anywhere but the US basically means nothing in terms of career potential, and really only b4nny manages to be a pure tf2 guy and get stream dollars. If you wanna be esports, playing a game thats 95% as fun as tf2 but 20x the chance of being something to make money on is a pretty good trade.

europe seems so much nicer for travel than the US :( It's $300 for me to get somewhere where I can actually leave the country rofl