I've played on a team with everyone there but defy (whom I've played a few pugs with) and I can safely say this this team's mumble will be filled with fun times.

Seymour will be screaming that he's a duck while novice simultaneously asks *your name here* for heals in exchange for a butt touch (can confirm he does in fact touch butts, met him at LAN). With all this happening defy is probably hitting some sick double airshot as a scout sneaks through to kiss Mike on the cheek; queue the "defy stop being bad" (love you mike <3). W, Seven, Robyn will probably just sing in mumble the whole time while holding down her namesake key all night (she makes it work don't worry).

On a more serious note, this team has some players with a lot of experience in this game and I'm sure it'll be a fun ride for whoever jump on board.

Do you have that jump script that gives you a hundred rockets in a clip in a local server? I could have sworn this glitch used to happen with that script.

Check your power settings and make sure your cpu isn't under clocking itself to save power/cool down. If it's under clocking to save power you can fix that through the power settings like this. If it's slowing down to cool off, you can fix that by getting a laptop cooling pad or making sure none of the vents are blocked off or clogged with dust.

believe it or not skelter but some people find it fun to compete(even in video games!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwagon_effect

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAN0MSCY-MI&hd=1

What do you guys think of the quality on this? Instead of using Lawena or something similar I used Nvidia Shadowplay(realtime recording like fraps at 1080p 60fps with essentially no performance impact) alongside a modified Chris' HQ config. It was all recorded in realtime and thrown straight into Vegas, there was no extra time rendering the frames then using virtualdub or srcdemo2.

I sure hope not, I love KOTH and think it makes 6v6 really exciting to play/watch.

Mainline should get another look since it's kind of hard to evaluate a map when teams run two old-style-super-OP Natascha heavies.

Sunshine is a really beautiful map that looks like it could play well, but it has yet to be tested by actual teams as far as I know(although that's the problem with almost every custom map :/ ). For real though, a TF.TV sponsored tournament to test new maps would go a LONG way toward choosing quality maps for the season instead of rolling the dice like we do now.

Even though that GPU is pretty old now, it still shouldn't have a problem running TF2(especially with a gfx config). To go along with that, generally TF2 is CPU limited so I kind of doubt it's the capability of your GPU that's the problem. From what you described it almost sounds like something in your computer(either CPU or GPU) is overheating(albeit with some funky symptoms) so before you even look at new parts try giving your PC a good cleaning.

Now for the whole black screen issue, have you updated your Nvidia drivers recently? It sounds like Windows is recycling the video driver causing that black screen and device disconnected/connected sounds.

Out of curiosity what kind of machine are you running on right now(CPU/GPU/RAM)?

If you still want your game to look pretty nice but also get better fps, DX9 frames is the way to go. However if you also want to use dx8 on an Nvidia GPU you're forced to rollback to like two year old drivers(Nvidia 306.97 found here) so your textures don't flicker.

EDIT: looks like I was a bit late sorry :[

https://mega.co.nz/#!pQBiEIqJ!z5dKqZ0Jun94wS02fyqFI9lvyAbST2XnxQ0jjHsVuhA

I really like Ash's idea of how to better deal with stickies in DM. Traps are 100% unnecessary/troll in DM but that doesn't mean people shouldn't have the chance to learn to aim and dodge stickies, and I feel that stickies with like a 1.5/2 second lifetime could work really well as a compromise.

This is a collaborative playlist of frag video music(right now it's mostly TF2 with songs from a few quake videos as well)

http://open.spotify.com/user/1251330131/playlist/0oqeAx1wE9WWejfANQJtbl

Anyone can add songs to it if they'd like!

Here is today's entire stream in one giant chunk. I'm sure it will be split up and uploaded to youtube in a few days or so.

They have to grab them at the actual event and throw them on a flash drive I think. Same with POVs as well.