Best way to improve is by playing people better than you in my opinion. Good players will expose more holes in your gameplay and you'll come out of the game with a long list of things you need to do to get better. You tick a few things off that list then get destroyed again. Rinse and repeat until prem.

Apparently alle has always played on a laptop with massive input lag so I expect him to pound at LAN.

buttnose is honestly one of the best players in europe

for me the main thing I'm trying to understand is why a competitive player looks at a tournament with prize money and thinks "Nah".

Excellent use of selective quoting. What are the reasons to play ETF2L exactly? And how do they trump the reasons you just listed?

Simply put, beggars can't be choosers. If we get an opportunity we should be jumping on it, but instead people fall into the ETF2L safety net.

I guarantee ETF2L admins would find a way to fuck it up.

The answer to all of these is potential growth. How the fuck are esea and esl an inferior product? Have you used the ETF2L website? ESEA, ESL and Razer can grow, we can get big tournaments/leagues/prize pools whatever if we show support for it. If ETF2L had 10 000 teams playing in it then it wouldn't be able to offer anything more than it currently does.

Yes signups matter, as Sideshow said, do you remember those razer tournaments that they ran twice a week? I wonder why they stopped.

This result only confirms a few things. First that the skill level atm is probably lower than ever and second that ETF2L breeds an incestuous environment for tf2 that makes it impossible for the game to grow. We missed out on ESL because...? ESEA also had a lack of open signups because there was only one skill division and the same mentality we are currently seeing in these cups of "I don't want to just get wrecked by top teams" was prevalent. (to be fair the timing with the bitcoin scandal could not have been worse). Now we are struggling to fill 32 slot cups that have bigger prize money than ETF2L prem.

For any open players reading this that are scared to play against prem teams: If you lose then you will learn more from that game than any scrim you have ever played against an open team. Prem teams will point out and exploit everything in your gameplay as a team and as a player. Even better still this excellent learning experience will take no more than 20 minutes! If you don't want to improve then why the fuck are you playing a videogame competitively?

2 world wars 1 world cup and week 1 etf2l (owned germany)

knooxx? more like KNOOB

these are the worst top10s i've ever seen

tf2 community:
"Why isn't tf2 a big esport? I want this game to be big and successful"
"ew is that a tournament HAHAH why would i play a tournament i MIGHT LOSE"

I can get there for about £70 return. If there's rentals I'm down.

Do people who play chess professionally or compete in similar ways get P1 visas? Also seems like this was an isolated case, since it says that other players (in bigger games) have gotten P1 visas. Although I have heard of cs players getting their visas denied, mostly Ukrainian/Russian players tho if I remember right.

dmoule: "hey im back did i miss something ? EleGiggle "
Sondi01: "yeah, playoffs"

edit: http://etf2l.org/teams/19298/ twitch meme archive

99% of players shittalk. I'm pretty sure I've called every player in prem a mouthbreathing retarded fuckhead. This is probably even more true as you get to the higher levels since there is a strong correlation between arrogance and skill. The key difference is that people rein it in when they're streaming because honestly it just looks bad, it gives people who are watching a very bad impression of the games community. You seem completely oblivious to this, and even seem to be proud that you air your dirty laundry for everyone to see?. Also, the justification of shittalking like this by saying that other people do it is completely flawed even.

Also,

As far as I can tell this is the purpose of your stream.