bball

technically speaking, buying a 120 hz monitor and/or a graphics card/cpu capable of giving u stable/good fps is the fastest way to improve

not the best way to improve, just the fastest h3h

vatican city
liechtenstein
monaco

die rich euros

for the record, I still have no idea what I'm gonna do for the remainder of the season, whether it entails staying on the team I was filling in for or joining a diff team or sitting out the season for school

its pretty funny when teams cut 1 player and assume itll fix all their problems, then realize the problems are still there immediately afterwards

has happened more than once this season so far

gg idk if ill ever play metalworks again

your joke makes sense

yours does not

this is where I volunteer to be their tf2 -> ow historian and sow myself into their inner circle

I knew my day would come! ! !

jesus christ air 75 hrs past 2 weeks take a break holmes

pops joined already, that still makes 5 for the mutiny if homie is gonna play it like that

what does sandblast being banned have to do with lee getting cut or not

just have pops med and get a new scout what's the big deal (other than for sandblast himself rip)

my favs on my friends list/me

http://steamcommunity.com/id/mustardoverlord/
http://steamcommunity.com/id/hulkhogan42069machoman
http://steamcommunity.com/id/vinniemac204
http://steamcommunity.com/id/bobsevensevens
http://steamcommunity.com/id/SpaceGhostsCoffee
http://steamcommunity.com/id/muffin07
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mebrillo
http://steamcommunity.com/id/r0cket_wizard
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197983219266
http://steamcommunity.com/id/jellooo
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mgib

is it still lit at the night show

to be fair, catface was prolly the 2nd best player on that team

and the best is def megaboy who wasn't there

my original post:

"Hi, I wanted to ask you about your feelings on smaller competitive gaming communities in light of the continual growth of esports. Some background- I come from the competitive Team Fortress 2 scene, a game with a small but dedicated community of enthusiasts that is still tenuously hosted by ESEA in North America, but appears to be shrinking where it was once stagnant. It turns out that the skill set of TF2 translates extremely well to Overwatch, and so by my estimation about 2/3 of the top OW teams have one or more TF2 players on them. This is in spite of the fact that many of those same players find the game to be much more watered down, with a lower mechanical skill ceiling, simply because it's the profitable hot commodity right now.

In light of that, and your appreciation for the grassroots Quake community, I was wondering if you could touch on the potential negatives of the growth of esports bottlenecking the amount/nature of games that can be successful. Can we reach a balance where games are slightly more casual, yet still afford enough room for the best players to display their talent (I would argue that CSGO, Dota 2, and perhaps LoL fit in here), or will games of the future focus so hard on appealing to a wide player base that the competitive scene is naturally handicapped (I would argue that OW falls into that category, League is moving continually towards that place, and newer games are likely to follow)?

Further, as the expectations for the minimum size and money flow of a competitive game grow, will grassroots communities continue to become less prevalent, as the incentive to put in the effort becomes less rewarding, with no exposure available whatsoever? I think this relates somewhat, in a roundabout way, to your journalism video, for the record- with the advent of only 3-4 games at a time truly qualifying as 'esports', perhaps people with more diverse interests are fading away, and it's harder to find new people capable of building the network of connections and sources required to thrive in a giant esport.

Finally, a completely unrelated question, but one I'm interested in: we all talk about how the next big thing in esports will be the arrival of the non-endemic sponsors. However, won't that necessarily lead to a bursting of the bubble that is gaming orgs (fnatic, EG, TSM, Liquid and so forth), as they are exposed more and more as middlemen, with these new sponsors folding teams directly into them? Obviously, this is what we see in, for instance, the LCK in Korea."

I thought Thorin, out of anyone, might appreciate the long-winded nature of my post, but he tried super hard to tl;dr it