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@Otter What were you seeing? I couldn’t really figure what difference the stairs changes would make just by looking at the description/pictures.

The Refresh project people just dropped their version of Upward. This one explicitly and intentionally has changes which they describe as small but gameplay-impacting, including removing the infamous through-the-crates angle on last. Several of the bannable map exploits have also been removed.

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THE NEXT SEASON IS UPON US - Episode 32

This episode talks about last-minute league updates, HL qualifiers results, the TF2 patch, and community-run polls and charity streams.

— Useful links for this episode —

Admin ruling on keeping ping-based region rules
HL S10 map order

HL map ranking RCV results
A Drop of Delight charity stream
TF2 update patch notes

@Cjprice FWIW Mastercomfig also released a patch after the TF2 update came out, have you tried that?

Transcript:

Yo what’s up, it’s 2:23pm on September 18th, 2021.
I’m on my break at work, and I’m sitting in my car enjoying a nice beef brisket sandwich.
I am mentoring Medics and teams, just let me fuckin’ know.
I just love talking about TF2.
Um, yeah, hit me up.
kasper#1758 on Discord, Steam’s linked to the forum account, it’s lit.
Hit me up.

Confusingly, the thread ID displayed next to the thread title makes it look like a Discord user ID. What a confluence of events.

I remained convinced throughout the entire preseason that surely the admin team was only going to keep the collapsed Chal/Adv because the team numbers and skill levels called for it. But 14 teams? And apparently there’s a big skill gap in the middle of the div? Isn’t that exactly the scenario where you would want to split it into two RR divs? RR Chal + RR Adv was received very favorably.

Generally speaking these aren’t terribly surprising results, but I think the one oddity that Ranked Choice highlights is the case of Ashville. Steel got more top-favorite votes than Ashville, but it seems that Ashville was more uncontroversial than Steel.

@Xenagos said in PSA TO ALL NON COMBO CLASS GAMERS:

why not just set autocall for medic to like 95%

Oh good point. Yeah, isn’t this what Medic Radar is for?

What if everyone other than your Spy binds the Medic! voiceline to WASD

@puntero

[1005.4.2] - Connection
If a player’s ping, regardless of region, causes the game to be unplayable for other players (e.g. their character is constantly lagging/jumping around, etc…), that player may be blocked from that region’s competitions. If the said player was used in a match, their team may face penalties and be forced to replay or forfeit rounds the player negatively impacted.

That’s not a new rule, it’s old. It’s similar to what you mentioned in your document about players with like really excessive ping.

Also, yeah, out of region players aren’t being forbidden from playing, just subject to restrictions.