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Here’s my summary of it all.

Both teams were mature enough to not care (within reason) about the ping, the ping difference was not great between to teams they BOTH had to suffer. So lesser bullsh*t.

Secondly i don’t think either team cared, they were just happy to give a spectacle and a intense game, which they definitely did on badlands and 50/50 on granary.

Thirdly, I’m glad that it ended in a draw so no ones “pride” or “patriotism” was belittled or hurt…This game was not to prove if the US TF2 players are better than the EU, it was to show how the US’s strats/gameplay can be played against or used against the EU’s strats/gameplay.

In conclusion? I think its fair to say that over 300/400 spectators out of 1300 admired how mackay/enoryt’s soldier surfing was done. Yes i’m sure in the US we have some “elitists” players who will be saying “but i can even do it better than those two”, that’s not the point. The point is which I made very clearly on the cast, was that in the EU we don’t have soldiers doing this, or we do but no way as concise-quick and brutal like we saw from mackay and enoryt.

I’m sure there will be an increase of requests now in the mentor channel asking for how to rocket surf, to some its a piece of cake to others it’s like huh?

Other than that this game was a great watch and my thanks goes to both teams for participating and agreeing on a neutral server. I’ll look forward hopefully to the next one where i can play vs you guys :D

Cheers

Byte

Looper :D

Just don’t understand why you do the jumps with a sticky in the doorway on Badlands rather than a metre in front of the door.

@byte

Don’t forget the fact that you cannot do many of those jumps without gunboats. ( to still be overhealed / full health. ) Ofcourse, US soldiers jump / walljump more, but still.. in this game gunboats owned it.

Hmm.. I didnt see alot of surf jumping / flick jumping ingame though? On badlands its handy, cuz you can be very fast from forward spawn towards spire and on granary, but I think its risky cuz it consumes alot of health. And that is where the gunboots come in, that are banned in comp play here.

Quoted from torden

You should try doing jumps @ 150ms before you take too much solace

The ping really isn’t an excuse for failing jumps. I play demo in NA a lot and the only difference is there’s a stutter as you detonate and you are propelled half a second later than you expect. This doesn’t effect your actual movement, just feels like the sticky didn’t detonate but then you move back in time half a second. It’s uncomfortable but really not an excuse for complete failure. Jumps won’t as smooth, but they should still get the job done and then some at that level.

No disrespect to anyone I just says what I sees.

Big K telling the way it is!

playing with gunboats

vac ban please

Yeah, more EU soldiers would go super aggro and rocket surf all over if they were allowed Gunboats, they are banned though (for good reason like) so it’s unlikely you’ll see one soldier constantly suicidal on the medic like enoryt and Mackay were.