I like the one red letter.... the first time.

It was overused in the video and with dynamic text, it impaired the presentation a bit.

Other than that, I really enjoyed this video.

Both good clips but it was a bit trippy hearing the same song 2x in a row o.o

What's the status on TF2Center?

I'm interested in helping with an alternative, but the project would take a long time to complete, and I thought that an alternative was already in the works...

Also, it seems like this would be a good time to remind people of Crit-Fail PuGs: http://pug.crit-fail.net/

While they're not TF2Lobby, they do have a somewhat more intuitive interface than irc PuGs and can be adapted to either HL or 6s.

How fixed are rosters? My team tends to pug scrim around that time anyway, but we often have a rotating roster during those scrims...

I think some of that is just because there's no explicit hierarchy, just an implicit/inherent one. The infrastructure could be reused, but it's not, because the game modes are artificially viewed as competing. I wish I knew more about etf2l so I could comment on a league that does seem to successfully integrate HL/6s.

There's also a lack of incentive for HL content creators to continue creating content. It might be a fun thing for them to do, but the nature of the HL community has resulted in a lot of... misplaced entitlement. People think the high level games *deserve* to be cast but don't seem to be willing to work to help that happen. People who have cast HL or other formats are called out for not casting specific games, as if they're the ones letting the HL community down instead of all of the people who refuse to be involved at that level.

My issue with HL is just that it takes so long to get together.

If I want to in house 6s pug, I can get 12 people in a mumble willing to dick around relatively quickly. I can go from "maybe" to "ready to go" in roughly 10 minutes. HL takes roughly an hour to get started.

I have never had a 6s scrim start more than 10 minutes late. I have never had an HL scrim start LESS than 10 minutes late.

I don't have time to sit around in a slowly filling server and do nothing. If I'm taking time from my day to play videogames, I want to play videogames.

All that said, I actually do enjoy the HL gamemode quite a bit, even if I almost never play it these days.

Theoretically, I'm LFT as med.

If every match takes the max time, but you have 0 transition times, the tournament would last for 5 hours. In the interests of time, we'll run 2 servers simultaneously, so if things go smoothly, we'll take 3 or so hours, but only cast half the matches. I'm closing signups now, and it would be nice if everyone interested could get in mumble and join the "ultiduo" channel.

chi.tragicservers.com Port: 64751 password: tRR

We'd like all of the matches to be on the same server - we're going to stream/cast them all. So... no.

Also, if you want to ghost comms and watch stv, stv is relay.vanillatv.org:27102 and we have listen channels set up in our mumble, IP: chi.tragicservers.com Port: 64751 password: tRR.

Please do donate - http://goo.gl/DqMRYF . This whole event was organized to raise money for Child's Play. If you put "UNUSUAL" and your SteamID in the comments of your donation, you'll have a chance to win an unusual at some point over the next few days.

Check it out here: http://www.twitch.tv/it_burns_when_i_pvp_event

It should be a good match. We have eXtine and SuddenlyStarMia casting.

We'll be raffling an unusual as soon as the match is over!

That will depend on how many teams we get. In the interests of time, I think we may end up only doing one round per match.

We're live with 9 people trying to murder dflame :)

Our 6 pros are Tonight's Entertainment, so if you're interested in murdering dflame (and bopper, mausy, cole, hero and java-b) with numbers advantage, donate here: http://goo.gl/DqMRYF

Enter your steam id and the keyword "PRO9" when you donate to be included. If you manage to be the top donation with this keyword, you'll get a humble bundle key too.

By "soon", I should say "around 1 PM EST".

The whole event will be streamed here: http://www.twitch.tv/it_burns_when_i_pvp_event

The way we worked it last time is we had everyone in the same mumble, as we run the events back to back and have casters cast the whole thing through.

Mumble info is: chi.tragicservers.com Port: 64751 password: tRR