dude how am I supposed to compete against a man like Habib.

happy birthday to all 4 of you

sing it in french exile

Trying to play perma offclass is objectively an inferior playstyle, because if it wasn't, there are definitely a lot of higher level teams in invite/prem that would do it.

If you really care about trying to test the viability of other classes (and not just trying to convince yourself that full time pyro/spy works because they're your favorite classes), then you should be looking at the opportunities where temporarily switching to a different class would be more beneficial then playing the stock lineup.

The obvious example is running engineer on last, because a well positioned level 3 sentry gun is really good at wasting the enemy's ammo and shooting people who hold w too much, but offclasses don't have to just be on last. I remember a few season ago a lot of ETF2L teams would run sniper between mid and second (until I believe some of the angles were changed to favor sniper less).
Things like this should be what people who care a lot about offclassing, should be looking for. Find situations where pushing a specific last with pyro or heavy, would be more beneficial if your team plays around it, or a mini sentry engie holding this specific flank makes it extremely difficult for the enemy to punish any aggressive play.

If you want to improve, you will get back on the grind, and try to play against the best players you can. If you did decent in silver 6s, most the people you are playing against aren't actually that much better than you.

Half of your issues have to do with your own teammates and the other half have to do with expecting to place well in the division because you have a decent amount of highlander experience. (also who cares if their team complains because they failed to field 6 on 3 different occasions)

You're playing in a league now where you will do bad unless you are naturally good at shooting people, or actually try to improve. That means pugging, demo reviews and/or practicing DM. If you're fine with improving at the pace of a snail or just want to play in steel/silver forever without trying to get better, then ugc is probably better for you.

You do not have to fracture the community. Assuming the people in this thread are correct, just make the changes to advanced division that the majority of it's player base wants to see.

I could understand at the beginning, the current limitations of the faceit platform force you towards a more liberal player selection, and you maybe want to try something different to increase the amount of high level pugs that go on, but it seems like it's only done the opposite.

I think faceit is a major success for the lower levels, as it gives a good platform for less experienced players, whether that's never played comp before, or a few seasons of ucg/open. At the higher levels, it seems there is a very clear desire from people for a more "exclusive" pug experience.

I don't think this is an inherently bad thing. It puts more importance on pugs for a less experienced individual who maybe does not get picked often in a system where fat kids exist, which also happens to fall fairly close in line with the whole competitive nature that faceit is trying to push in the first place. The current faceit system actually favors someone like me, who does not pug often and usually gets fatkidded because of it, but I can realize the displeasure of the majority of the user base at the top end, and understand where they are coming from.

https://imgur.com/a/jGcAHx2

How awesome I still got Captain and the first auto-pick was a med main

https://imgur.com/a/2KBIHuQ

More than half the teams in ugc will try to forfeit loss you instead of waiting 30 minutes or rescheduling to a different day.

Some admins are extremely biased and are too lazy to look into the actual situation of things to come to a fair solution. If your division admin is your friend, a lot of time you get a free pass for all the stupid bullshit you do.

While ESEA servers do go down and have bullshit, there are always multiple times a season were tragic servers or other big server providers will get dossed down on match days.

the lego games are godly and fun for the whole family.

if ur family forces you to spend time with younger family members for some reason, it's a really solid pick to pass the time.

Tambo is a good man and a great gamer.

Treat him right, and he'll shower you with love and frags.

Did people not read this part of max's post^

Does nobody know that there is a quickswitch loadout setting in the normal options menu of TF2.

If you want to ban the "b4nny bind" then we're talking removing a standard option that has been in the game for years, since as long as I can remember playing this game on pc.

Like are people just blind and they don't see it?

They're all great people who are also good at the video game, but Midas might be the most fun person in the world to have as a teammate.

Hey if you put either of your flags sideways it makes the other person's flag.

You were truly meant to be together