Make sure you sign up by posting the required information in one of the icebreaker threads (here works) or simply join the discord and someone there will get you signed up if you let them know you need it.

it averaged around 3-4k viewers during matches (lower early each day because americans weren't awake and higher later), and the peak was just over 7k right at the end

Definitely, however it's not only for Oceanic players, anyone is welcome to sign up, as long as you are able to turn up at the stated time (Sunday morning for Europeans and very very early Sunday morning for Americans). We've already had quite a bit of interest from people from those timezones, and we'll be doing our best to accommodate them, including getting servers from different regions if necessary. So if any of you guys have friends who are interested in taking that first step into competitive, please let them know about this :)

Every class is at least as good at defending compared to attacking, and most are much better at defending; no wonder teams can't win pushes without advantages. Valve needs to buff at least some class' attacking abilities relative to their defensive ones.

That's it. We don't need convoluted shot clocks or super secret epic tunnel entrances!!!11!!1! We just need valve to fix their broken shit. rip

That would do more harm than good for us and for valve.

and yet even blizzard, the kings of pretending that a casual game is competitive, put class limits into their game. They were so careful to design their game so that the casual experience is as similar as possible to the competitive one, and yet they threw that tenet out in regards to class limits because they realised how damaging class stacking is in a competitive game.

Making the game better to watch and play should be the goal, and class limits and weapon bans currently do that. Ideally soon we won't need to ban weapons anymore but that's dependent on valve as well.

There are pretty much only two rulesets used worldwide: ESEA's, which was designed so they didn't have to rewrite their client mainly used for cs to remove half times, with an outdated whitelist that hasn't been changed in years because esea gives even less fucks about tf2 than Valve; and etf2l's ruleset, which with a few whitelist changes is basically used around the rest of the world.

It's annoying but are we really at a stage where we can afford to ban weapons just for being slightly annoying to play against? We've been moving towards a more open whitelist for years and it's not like this weapon breaks the game in any way, it just has a tiny amount more potential in terms of charged shots and 0 ammo required in exchange for removing the ability to spam down sentries from afar.

Personally I actually hate the weapon and would love to see it reworked/banned but I just don't think you can justify it when it's so close to stock in so many ways.

Basically you want to do valve's job for them. If it can make more events like insomnia happen then it's probably worth it though.

esea whitelist is years out of date and let's be real so is the ruleset

what a massive fucking joke, 'esport' my ass. Blizzard are literally just using it as a marketing buzzword.

at this point I almost feel like tf2 has a better future for competitive players, at least valve won't invite muselk to play in majors and force five other people to carry him

oh god imagine crowns playing with the na ruleset, you thought there were stalemates at insomnia...

this doesn't work...

that quote is months old

You actually have to push on via

sleep is for the weak, it's just on 7am here :)