Every TF2 player I talk to swears they'll never play this game and yet the number of boomers on my friends list playing it is steadily doubling every 3 months. The game is good and fun.

The movement system is maybe a little polarizing but I do think that a lot of people who are complaining about it haven't spent any real time with it. If you are consistently instant dashing, wall jumping and corner boosting you can fly around the map in a really fluid and satisfying way that reminds me a lot of getting decent at rocket jumping for the first time.

This is definitely a common experience. I have had to quite explicitly draw boundaries with newbies I've coached in the past and in once case outright stop mentoring a minor who would not stop making raunchy and flirtatious jokes. I'm generally a friendly jokey guy with people I've mentored but have learned to tone that down a bit as its sometimes taken as an invitation for a more personal relationship than I'd be comfortable with. The crass/ flirtatious jokes seem to be a big part of these younger clique's sense of humor and nobody before me had really explained to them why it wasn't a good idea to behave that way with strangers online.

I've had to have a conversation around these lines with every team or player I've coached and I think its been valuable to the newbies every time. I also had to learn for myself how to draw these boundaries early and set a good example for younger players. A formal resource would have definitely set me up for success. Standardizing something like this in an organization like TF2CC sounds like a really good idea. If the goal is to get people into the scene teaching them how to safely be a part of an online community should be a part of that.

Other than the other team not playing sniper.

gosh that sure sounds like a fun pugging experience. I for one would love to play in the pug group who's gimmick is that they let in all the guys nobody wants to play with

cry about it bandwagoners

I'm glad to see zoomer youtubers taking (SERIOUS) in a post title seriously. As they should.

Glad TFTV is figuring out the correct burial ritual, its about time someone got on that.

Fuck You Guys
Fire Your Gun
Fingers Your Girl
Farts Yellow Gas
Flicks Your Gonads
Feed Your Gibus
Follow Your God
Forget Your Goals
Find Yucky Gays
Forfeit Your Gold
Find Your Gains
Fund Your Government

my introduction to 6s was getting point blank quickscoped in a gullywash center by this guy like 12 times in a row. welcome back goat

what did you do lil bro

is this an option? have I been a sheep this whole time? Should I break the chains and forego the preheating step that has oppressed me?

Deleted, I'll hold that L.

Yeah this is sort of what I thought was going on. The insistence that "Sidular is a company" is misleading in this case. That site lists two contributors, you and one other fellow. You can call it what you want on paper but this is not some separate entity like you seemed to imply, this is your project that is legally separate from you but for all intents and purposes is a 2 man operation with you at the helm. For tax purposes it may be distinct, but this is just your money.

My concerns about somebody's private capital being what sustains the NA scene are valid I think. RGL has problems, but I actually think it makes a lot of sense for the main league to be fully self sustaining financially. I'm not sure if RGL turns a profit at the moment, but it is currently being run with the goal that prize pools, lans and all of these other services are covered by league fees. That means lower prize pools, but it also means that we aren't reliant on the whims of some rich kid.

RGL's unilateral control over TF2 in NA kinda sucks but at least there isn't one guy at the top who can just threaten to pull out if things aren't run exactly how they want. That might be a bit of an unfair characterization, but its one I feel like I have to make when I hear the way you characterize RGL.

At the end of the day running a league is really hard work and people are going to be unhappy with you. You seem to have a bone to pick with RGL and that's reasonable, but if you're going to try to fix the issue I think you need to make an effort to actually identify what the issues you have are. You shit on RGL pretty hard in that news post but don't seem willing to get into details. Like this whole thing is framed in a way that implies that its a lack of features and services? I don't buy that.

Why exactly do you feel that we need another CEVO? There are plenty of valid reasons, but if you don't outline them I am going to assume you wish you could say slurs in matches.

Pick up Games
RGL has this.

Automated Scrim Scheduling
This doesn't exist but for good reason. I could be off base as I haven't played in a while, but I have lead and scheduled for dozens of teams and would have no interest in this. Maybe its good, but I think this is one of those things that doesn't need to exist.

Global Server Network
na.serveme.tf. RGL also can provide match servers now.

Cups, Tournaments, Seasons
RGL does this.

Prize Pools
The financial transparency statement will inform my opinion on this for sure. If you're operating at a loss and that money is from a separate corporate entity I am confused about that company's financial incentive. Is there a mysterious company that is willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars with the hope that TF2 as an esport could become profitable? League of Legends as an esport isn't profitable. Companies do not exist to lose money.

Match Making Service
faceit

Host Your Own Stuff
challonge, start.gg, etc

Advanced Analytics
more.tf, trends.tf

All of this exists already either in RGL or with third party tools. The problems people seem to have with RGL often stem from how central they are to the NA scene and disagreements with how RGL leadership make decisions that end up being unilaterally enforced across NA tf2 as a whole. I don't think making a different RGL that does the same stuff but aims to be even more centralized is a very well thought out idea.

Hope its cool and dumping what is clearly somebody's independent wealth into TF2 is pretty hype. That said the amount of "will be" I see in this post makes it sound like you have a design doc with a list of existing tools you plan to repurpose except with you in charge. If that isn't the case and you plan to rebuild all this stuff from the ground up (not just reskinning more.tf and the dozen docker image on vps solutions that are out there for automated match servers) I am very skeptical that a release date of this year will actually happen.

I'd usually say competition is good for stuff like leagues but I think realistically you either split an already very small scene for no good reason or we end up upfragging "TFCL bad" posts instead of "RGL bad" posts in 2 years when the new league that planned to be an even more centralized authority than RGL turns out to be... an even more centralized authority than RGL.