#comp tf2

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hey what do you guys think about funny 3rd party competitive clips

[wilyzombie]

Best friends forever!!! To the soldier that carried me throughout all of my competitive TF2 days! This awesome commission was done by @moetshander Pls go shower them with love! 

[maybe-veves]

https://youtu.be/BmI1nLgaSjc tell me how to stop being bad at scout, I also have a bunch of other TF2 videos on this channel, if you're interested at all in that.

[uberchain]

(I Hope) This Is The Last Definitive TF2/OW Politics Rambling I Ever Keyboard Enthusiast About

TaiRong’s Twitter rant on why he left comp TF2 for comp OW cuts deep. His talk was very specific to AsiaFortress, but it’s a sentiment for many former TF2 pros and talent who prioritized OW. They wanted more than what TF2 was able to give them. In turn, what it gets interpreted as is a slight against TF2 and its community. 

I too, have also called brothers and sisters “traitors” at one point because I hated how not only they were leaving me, but then seemed to forget their roots. They didn’t owe me or TF2 anything. It’s not that they forgot their roots, it’s that the people who left are just as angry as the people who stayed. 

I will never forget Creep*, a prominent AsiaFortress player from Korea, telling me at i55 that he wanted to bring an Asian team to iSeries one day. In i58, that actually seemed like it would be the case, but the Asian players struggled to field a team for i58 because of a majority of their playerbase leaving for OW. When I reflect back on it, it would have been wasteful to collect who was left in Asia if the best players had left. Full Tilt and Crowns were the EU powerhouses, and even the weakest froyotech roster in LAN history would have probably beaten them. Australia still hurts from 4th Place LAN placements to this day.

Of course I would have liked to see Asia at a major international TF2 LAN, let alone South America or even Australia again. I hope they will get the funding they need if they decide to contest the powerhouses of Europe or North America, and I hope they will enjoy their experiences if they do so, as many TF2 players who fight for passion do. I wished the same for Australia when they came back for i58 and ESA Rewind, even though I knew the curse of 4th Place and the lack of monetary justification must have hurt a fair bit.

The fire/candle burning out metaphor is common in my scene. I’m saddened to hear about Pavane and TaiRong attempting to go through it all and fight hard after so many hours of dedication to TF2, but burning out or feeling helpless as so many others have done around me. I’m glad TaiRong asked Fl0w3r and Pine to follow him at the right time, and as such found more success in OW than they did TF2. It took me some time to accept it, but now I can say I think they made the right choice, as did so many others I saw succeed - Seagull, Muma, Mangachu. SDB, Knoxxx, Zebbosai. Some of the many old names and old faces that TF2 players remember fondly; that TF2 players miss.

I get rebuttals of how TF2 was marketed as a casual game a lot. I know this. It was one of the reasons why matchmaking was met with so much pushback when new devs finally were allowed to implement it. To some extent, I’m inclined to agree. My favourite shit to deal with has to be when I see comments that say that the competitive TF2 pros are ruining the game. That they should just leave and stop pushing competitive on a casual game.

Well...they did. 

After years of watching Valve to push the community’s 6v6, having to grow up and stop being a salt factory about my brothers and sisters going to OW instead, being paid for and thanked sincerely for my involvement in OW from Blizzard, never touching Valve’s Matchmaking since the first launch week until they adjust it again, and now overseeing what might be the most important piece of TF2 narrative in the form of 1 and a half years of filming - I’m okay with them leaving.

They left, because TF2 itself, as well as the majority of TF2′s playerbase, was insistent on TF2 being a casual game. Therefore, people who wanted more than that finally decided “alright, it’s going to stay a casual game” - and found a competitive game instead. Gameplay opinions, criticized business tactics, and other semantics aside - they found a game that did not limit itself to insisting on being a casual game, but wanted to also be called a competitive game.  

I am happy for TaiRong’s success and determination. I understand and sympathize with TaiRong’s anger and his frustration. I am happy he left TF2 if he was no longer happy with it. I can objectively say as a bigger TF2 fan that OW is treating him better so far. How long that will last, I don’t know, but I can 100% say it’s treated him better than AsiaFortress from his tweets and from what I know. Of course I’m sad that TF2 was not enough for him; I understand that his and many other’s anger is more at Valve than TF2 itself. I understand the other side of the story that disagree with that sentiment and will point out Valve’s decisions as wiser.

But that’s okay. I’m glad they left if they weren’t happy here. I’m glad they’re happier where they are.

I’m sure similar fandoms experience this: I see not just former pros, but content creators, artists, Youtubers, talking about how they fear returning to TF2 for anything. The reasons sometimes are similar: they’re afraid of angry TF2 fans who labelled them traitors. They’re afraid of falling back into the comfort TF2 will offer them rather than go out of their comfort zone to try new things for themselves. They’re afraid that they’ll fall back into a depressive state because they were either in a bad state when they ventured into TF2, or they simply will always want more than TF2 was or will be able to offer.

Let them leave then. They are not yours to keep. They were not meant to stay. Their relationship with TF2 was not as fond as you thought it was - who was wrong in that relationship is up to you. Their anger is not because they forgot their roots. Their anger iis not against the community. Some of their closest friends and teammates are all probably from the same roots. 

We did not forget their roots. They did not forget their roots. Their anger was because they couldn’t find what they wanted - so they found it elsewhere. And that’s okay.

*Pavane turned out to be Creep.

[competitivetf2]

Froyotech will not be going to i61

A while ago, Insomnia 61 announced their official Team Fortress 2 tournament would be making a return. They have followed up a week or so later with a prize pot announcement, stating they wil be going with their standard 5K pounds prize pot. 

Due to the nature of TF2 being Multiplay’s bigger international esports tournament, people argued that the announcement came far too late - an opinion also expressed by Grant “b4nny” Vincent of froyotech before the announcement from Multiplay happened, due to difficulties of fundraising costs and other logistics.

Now, it seems like North American giants froyotech will not be making their return to the iSeries stage in the UK. A tweet accompanied with a Twitlonger posted by b4nny confirmed his team will not be coming to i61 this year:

A couple members of the team are uninterested in attending, and in a domino-like fashion others have similarly lost interest. So instead of repeating the mistakes of forcing an inferior version of our team to compete like we did at i58, we have decided to sit out the tournament.

However, b4nny himself has expressed interest in going to i61 to still compete, for his own sake:

That said, I am still interested in going myself. It would be a shame to break my streak of 5 I-series summer LANs in a row. 

If any high level teams need a ringer for the event, feel free to reach out to me and maybe we can make something work.

b4nny has been competing in the iSeries TF2 set of tournaments since i46 on Leviathan Gaming, who came 2nd in an NA grand finals against Classic Mixup. froyotech has won 2 iSeries events - i52 and i55 - and placed 3rd at i58 last year. 

It has not been announced officially as of yet from any other North American teams - or any non-European teams - if they have plans to compete in i61.

[fuckyeahtf2]

teamfortress.tv New Map Cup

Hosted by teamfortress.tv: The New Map Cup will take place next weekend, starting February 25th at 6:30pm EST. The tournament will feature 32 teams (5 NA Invite teams) competing for a $500 prize pool, sponsored by marketplace.tf. The map pool for the tournament is as follows:

cp_cardinal by Phi

cp_daytrip by FatherBrandon

cp_drudgery by Mould

cp_kalinka by Jusa

cp_logjam by Hyce

koth_bagel by Yrr

koth_warmfront by Dagger

pl_tfcl by FatherBrandon

For more information, check out the TF.TV thread here.

[pantspissedinreverse]

there are two things i hate in this world, highlander and gullywash

[pantspissedinreverse]

idk how competitive tf2 has a reputation for being full of only toxic sweats, i just got out of a scrim and all we did the second half was just say "hello everynyan. how are you? fine, thank you" and laugh our asses off in discord as we frag because these are some of the coolest motherfuckers ive ever met :]