doing this is just going to be TF2 shooting itself in the foot, again.

none of your points are invalid, but you're also making points based on the idea of growth in this game which is literally a pipedream and shouldn't be the focus of competitive play. The games growth is completely stagnant, and that's not caused by ESEA and moving away from ESEA is not going to help growth in the slightest. The game is 10 years old, get used to the idea that its downhill from here and to keep it quality while it lasts.

secondly, if your priority is to stem the bleeding moving to a free league with no prize pot is 100% not going to solve that. We just spent the last week running around making last minute invite teams to save the invite division because top level competition, whether you choose to accept it or not, is the lifeblood of competitive. The sooner you accept this the better off you will be and the sooner you will realize how important ESEA is to the game right now.

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Honestly, this isn't as bad as it appears to be. Obviously its a downer because its a sign of the deflation we are going through currently, but realistically the IM division was being diluted in skill level and the gap between even mid to high IM was huge, basically there is no difference between mid open and low IM anymore and that's not really a good thing.

With the merged division, the best teams will still come out on top and the lower end teams will still end up playing each other more due to the schedule balancing and the competition will be more balanced overall when it comes to matches, at least that's how I see it going. Throw in the occasional underdog match up in there and there is a huge margin for improvement on lower end teams, and better competition for higher end teams.

On top of that, it will be easier to actually gauge teams real skill level overall I think so that could make progression easier in terms of getting accurate and balanced practice.

Chin up boys, it could be worse.

You mean Lange fucked it up so hard cause he was the one who actually pushed The CEVOvsESEA bullshit at the worst time possible, Justin and pyyyour didn't have nearly as much to do with it besides starting the idea. Lange only gave up the project after the backlash it caused

tri has informed me that if my team is willing to move up, we only need 1 more confirmed team to keep the division so if you are thinking of playing or forming a team please get in contact with tri asap

Being fully aware we aren't ready for the division, High Alt is willing to help make up the number of teams if anyone knows a way we can get a small assist in funding, I am willing to pay for a few of my teammates but I can't invest in all of the fees, please message me asap

id come if it was a BYOC tourney and a legit round robin tourney, otherwise the event is kinda meh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXpFAwlX3Ho

TheFragile is literally a walking talking legend when it comes to medics in this game. It can be argued other top medics were more skilled and such, but hes hands down most influential medic in tf2's history

bumped, looking for backups

actually an insane player

always has been and always will be my favorite team and frag video in this game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84wtleMbPI8

blight.fanom's video is also amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENruOrM01CQ

Nerfing it should be the only thing that allows the item to stay in comp play IMO. I understand why people feel it adds "depth" to the game, but it honestly just doesn't' if you really look at what it's doing to the game.

A word associated with this weapon a lot is potential; potential clutch plays, potential to have more interactive fights, but realistically all this weapon does is make people play counter intuitively. 3 players just sanding still all waiting for burst heals and not actually doing anything doesn't add "depth." Doing 200 damage to a pocket that you can't fight after 2 seconds doesn't add depth, nor does doing a ton of damage to a retreating team and not being able to push them effectively. The weapon is NOT hard to use and the benefits of the weapon are almost guaranteed so the association of the words clutch and potential with this weapon need to stop, especially when you can miss 2 arrows, then just burst heal someone for 100 hp anyways on a third just by throwing it out there and it's STILL way better than anything else available. There is no high risk high reward aspect to using this weapon at all and, in my opinion, is hurting the competitive integrity of the game in many, many ways.

I agree that it's fun to use at times, but continually the argument that this weapon is keeping medic players playing the game is a silly notion, I think a lot of medics would agree with me that sitting and arrowing your team for 10 seconds doing absolutely nothing has been one of he most annoying and dumb things I've had to start doing. Ive played for a long time and I don't see the growth in medic players from the addition of crossbow at all.

I know its hard sometimes because of the rumors that show up on forums, but it would be nice if invite teams did a better job of keeping their roster moves discreet and TFTV did a better job of reporting them in a timely matter. Every roster update post for the last few years has just been way late after everyone already knew the roster change that was happening, not entirely TFTV's fault but would be nice if they were the first line of contact with that stuff. It kinda loses its merit after a while if they are always old news

bump, edited OP, looking for a scout/roamer now

played a few pugs with him, 100% has the mechanics to comfortably play mid-open, good attitude and enjoyable to play with. good luck! (sorry i typo'd your alias on pug champ)