For the whole season, it comes out to ~$180. 30 per player per season.

I may be wrong about this but I believe there will be one more team. I'll look into it when I actually wake up in a bit though.

No. An extension is a distinct possibility, but definitely not safe to count on this season because of the really long off season. If the extension happens, good. But it's not something that we want to balance the future of our game on, imo.

<reserved just in case ;)>

We got an extension. MAKE TEAMS WITH THE SPREADSHEET. We still aren't in the clear. Don't make me up the alert back to red, gamers...

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CWMf8BR1DT0/maxresdefault.jpg

OKAY guys, listen up. This is serious, and I want you to treat it as such. It's time for us as a competitive community to step it up and support the league that has supported our game for the past forever.

Tsc wrote a lovely site that shows how fees are being paid, and let me tell you... it's looking pretty fucking desolate out there. http://esearegtracker.fwdcp.net/

This may be the first time IM has grown in forever, showing that many dedicated players will be continuing to play in the league. There are also enough teams for one of the healthiest seasons of invite ever. BUT numbers for open are down in a rather dramatic fashion.

We see these desperation open team drives every season now, and they're always successful. I want to ask for ONE MORE season of it. One more is all we need. After this season, it is safe to assume there will be significant growth in TF2 with the arrival of matchmaking, more competitive content on tftv and popular youtube channels, and new community sites like TF2Stadium (or it won't and the game dies BUT THAT'S UNLIKELY). But guys... we gotta get past this season.

There are currently 6 teams in ESEA TF2 paid up entirely. To put that in perspective, there are currently 9 teams paid up in CS:GO Intermediate...'s west conference. Hundreds of CS teams are playing this coming season, and with ESEA's shifts in management, let's do our best to show them we really do intend on growing as an esport. Or at the VERY least let's get to where we were last season.

I helped make 8 open teams and 1/6th of an IM team this season. You? You're not that insane. But I ask that you pitch in and make 1/6th of an open team. It's not hard. In fact, it's pretty fucking great. It's anywhere from 3-5 nights a week of fun times playing an awesome game among (people who are hopefully) good friends. So, here's what you're going to do. If you want to play some awesome TF2, and you want to see some of the best high level competition the game has ever seen, you're going to post the following as a comment in this thread:

Alias: 
Steam URL: 
ESEA URL: 
TFTV Looking thread (if applicable):
Classes (in order): 
Current level:
Scrim schedule:
Can I pay fees?:
Comments:

Example:

Alias: KevinIsPwn
Steam URL: http://steamcommunity.com/id/KevinIsPwn
ESEA URL: https://play.esea.net/users/596636
TFTV Looking thread (if applicable): http://www.teamfortress.tv/17732/kevinispwn-lft
Classes (in order): Roamer, Pocket, Medic
Current level: low IM
Scrim schedule: S-R 9:30+ (U being Saturday, R being Thursday, time being est)
Can I pay fees?: Yes
Comments: Really want to play in open. Interested in looking through demos and whatnot. I have past experience in both open and IM. Currently 20 years old.

Just edit your post with a "found a team" or something at the bottom. Please don't delete the main part of your post.
Me and "Translucent Feces" (yeah, I know) will be making a huge spreadsheet of these players which you can find here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16-KrinEkUGj6Cu2yZsovHoSFphJzXXAah6ITRu5ftqw/edit?usp=sharing

If you want to super-help, make a team with some of the people on the spreadsheet. OR just make a team with your pug friends. Every 6th person will have to do this, so step up if you have a bit of free time. If you want to super-super help, pick someone up who can't pay their fees OR contact me about paying someone's fees via tftv pm.

I will update this spreadsheet every 30 minutes I am awake and every ~3 hours overnight (yup, i have the alarms set) until registration closes, which is in 2 days. Fece will also be updating it whenever she gets a chance. This will probably be slow starting off, because I'm finishing up this post at 3 AM. Please don't let that intimidate you. :)

Think about your top 5 moments playing competitive TF2. It makes me so happy just thinking about those moments, and looking forward to future moments like them. Thinking about those moments is what keeps me organizings and playing competitive tf2 as seriously as I can, and it'd be a shame if we as a community lose the opportunity to make more of those moments.

apple (but i cant have it anymore)
cherry
hero
key lime

I should say that siN has been sick since the start of the new year, he mentioned it in an annotation on one of his videos. I'm not sure if this is related.

Twitch channel is going to have a total of 100 million views by the end of this, crazy.

Need coaches to finish off the night. And newbie mixes are just on Fridays, sorry.

still looking, try me out please

any class, any div. prefer roamer in IM, but i don't really care at this point.

Yes this is still a glitch. Putting together a video demonstration now.

edit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13JupxjHUuU

Looks good, but I'd hesitate to add the pompson because of the ubercharge mechanics. I'd imagine it being spammed from spawn on last, potentially gimmicking the fuck out of people pushing with an uber, which isn't something I'm particularly fond of.

The other weapons are all good though, and I applaud etf2l for keeping the cozy camper out.

it's called a colon dude, we all have one.

Somewhere between 8 and 10 newbie teams should be registered and paid up by this Wednesday. The drive was pretty successful.

as a kid i was super casual
club penguin
habbo hotel
line rider
roller coaster tycoon
rocket power beach bandits

as a young teen i played some good stuff with friends at lans
age of empires 2
cs 1.6

edit: i also forgot! i played the heck out of secret agent barbie with my sister. that game was a solid 8/10

Maps are perfectly fine for this season. If a new map arises that is better than the current ones, I'll be the first to push for it, but no such map is currently ready imo