wgg

mandem's team image looks so utterly uninspired and reeks of ai. on the professional side (lol) i think it's completely embarrassing, for the entire scene, for the supposed second best team in europe to sport a logo that has no heart or thought put into it. ofc this leads to the obvious "we couldn't care less so wouldn't it be funny if a top team had an ai logo lol", but it either leaves no lasting impact on the brand of the team at best, or leaves a negative impression on what the team stands for at worst.

last season's main winners in rgl also had an ai generated team image, and i'm sure there are other teams in lower divisions all across the leagues that do this because they think it's funny (or maybe even in rare cases they think it actually looks good, which is incredibly sad).

idk maybe i care too much and am looking too deep into it, and i can't speak for everyone, but whenever i see one of these shitstains of "graphic design" online or in person, i just have such a negative visceral reaction to it and lose trust in whatever the person, business or product stands for. i also don't know how feasible it is to police every team logo to sniff out any traces of ai. i just know that it sours my opinion of anyone that is stupid enough to use ai slop to represent themselves online, and by proxy it makes me upset that etf2l, rgl, essentials etc. allows these people to tarnish the image of their organizations with their use. hope that at least one person can agree with the title of this thread and starts a conversation about it.

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any chance any/all past episodes will be uploaded on the yt channel, or at least be highlighted on twitch

u already have an lft thread idiot
https://www.teamfortress.tv/62463/mild-lft

does this mean no more naked soldier gifs

wut

my point is that schedules across the world don't really align for an online event that welcomes anyone across the world

unless you meant a purely usa regions cup. asiafortress has their own nc and i'm pretty sure they're trying to ping interest for a second one

on top of ping, time zones are also a pretty big issue. na scrim times would be around 3 am for euros (even though it's a bit friendlier for asia/oceania since that would be their afternoon if i'm not mistaken, but the ping would be even worse). i can imagine that's the most common reason why most people do not want to or simply cannot play in leagues outside of their region

this thread reintroduced me to panchiko, didn't realize they were making music again and now i'm spending my afternoon listening to their new stuff lol

viewers are about to have like 24 hours of lan content with this and rgl lan lmao

cautiously optimistic about the future of this endeavor

i feel like even resup.gg's top 50 list could use a touch up as well. everyone on the g6 core could easily be argued to at least be placed somewhere around the 30-40 range

twitch.tv/ryvn_ryvn_18
scrims/mixes/mercs + kovaaks sometimes
united states
rgl.gg/Public/PlayerProfile?p=76561198355645915&r=40
name is just ryvn

https://imgur.com/a/jHdk6fQ