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  also: TF2 Tournament Post of Doom In case you missed it, in today's chatty I posted everything that yo... : hirez
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    • glad you are back! : hirez
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    MDB Error: connect failed -- MDB connect failed. when going to the esports links :O : pyide
    • It is fixed now. The database was having seizures. : AscorSix
• Dallas is set. : RyDogg1
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  You need to make sure all the captains know to restart the server after executing tournament.cfg. Othe... : alias
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    Is there a way for demos to be captured that show all viewpoints (ie, all player viewpoints) in a single ... : taronish
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      the SourceTV will do that, won't it? : electroly
      • the SourceTV demo* : electroly
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    tournament config is set to execute on start using the shortcut/command line I enclosed with the zip. : hirez
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      Yeah that will work, though I have a feeling most people will just do an rcon exec tournament.cfg and go ... : alias
      • cant use it on ctf as it makes it take 3 captures of the intel to score 1 point : hirez
• i'm all sorts of excited about this!!!! t-minus 3 hours 30 minutes :D : Korban
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  What sort of player counts do the various SourceTV servers have anyway? 1 slot for most/all? : alias
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    I'm going to be running 3 proxies on shackwest for the east coast matches. : hirez
    • ha ha ha : Grumbeld
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  Do we know what servers each match will be on? I'm just curious as to which East coast match I'll watch. : Grumbeld
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    once I have confirmation from server admins, I'll send out notifications & post here : hirez
    • pretty sure ieGS vs whoever (who are we playing?) will play on Chicago since Skull the Troll is on my tea... : DrFlammable
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    chicago - hiro/felraiser - 8.9.17.206:27015 dallas - drflam/fushigi - 68.142.120.178:27015 zerosignal... : hirez
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      chicago is in use right now it seems (so I cant confirm its ready yet) - at least sourceTV isnt working r... : hirez
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        dallas is fixed & ready to go. chicago is getting the kinks worked out now! : hirez
        • chicago looks good to go : hirez
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  Captains - rcon cheat sheet: (posted to steam group as well) //rcon Cheat Sheet rcon_password PASS... : hirez
  • I'd hope that everyone waits on non-tournament mode maps until everyone is ready and then makes it live. ... : Grumbeld
  • rcon sv_password PASSWORD // server join password rcon mp_tournamnet_restart // resets to warmup state, ... : alias
• yo, 2fort the first week should be bananas. I hope to be able to watch some of these matches live. : boomstickah
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  SourceTV sourceTV dallas: 69.62.158.85:27021 sourceTV chicago: 69.62.158.85:27022 sourceTV zerosigna... : hirez
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    I am unable to connect to any of those. :( : omnova
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      please hold : hirez
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        try now : hirez
        • WE HAVE LIFTOFF HOUSTON. : omnova
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            hmmm. they all show people connected... : hirez
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    • I was able to connect when I changed the port to 27020 : Grumbeld
  • The source TV fails after 4 retries :( : twifosp
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    I'm failing to get into WDC SourceTV - I connect to 208.43.124.230:27020 but it then points me at 192.168... : Jonathan
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      use my sourcetv proxy above please, not the server itself. : hirez
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        Ok but what does WDC equal? : Jonathan
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          I'm guessing Zerosignal? : Jonathan
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            yeah thats zerosignal's server : hirez
            • Thanks I'm on now. : Jonathan
  • The one in Dallas works : Maddog_Delphi97
• Let's do this, dudes! The Jammy Dodgers wish to extend the best of luck to Terath's confusingly named te... : Xevo
• 40 minutes until East Coast Matches Start! : hirez
• 15 minutes! Get to your team's chat room : geedeck
• 15 minutes to game time! : hirez
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  • there is, but the maps are really made for 12v12 only. : hirez
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  I'm watching the JD vs Feek match. I think it'll be a good one, but I'm going to set early predictions o... : Grumbeld
  • I'd like to add that this game is 12v12... let's hope all games will be like that. : Grumbeld
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  Apparently there's a tornado ravaging some of team Feek, so the match hasn't started yet. Let's hope they get out of that disaster okay.

  Jun 01, 2008 4:17pm PDT
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  Apparently there's a tornado ravaging some of team Feek, so the match hasn't started yet. Let's hope the... : Grumbeld
  • Oh :( : Jonathan
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    I ended up losing a baby tree in my backyard and the stairs to my deck wiped out :( luckily our power... : kainen1
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      Did you play TF2 whilst that was happening? That would be pretty epic. : hardfl1p
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        yeah i did, which was scaring the shit out of me because outside the trees were pretty much horizontal an... : kainen1
        • Kainen, you are quite thoroughly hardcore. : A Sponge
        • that is dedication. i can imagine you squinting, wind blowing through your hair, debris flying around wit... : hardfl1p
    • Damn dude, that must've been scary as shit. You kicked ass though, so glad to see everything turned out ... : Xevo
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  hey, what time are the west matches tonight, in central time? would it be 9:00 CST? i'm too dumb to use... : electroly
  • yeah, 9pm CST : Grumbeld
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  Wow... JD was an inch away from getting the cart to the final point, but Feek pushed them back and held t... : Grumbeld
  • Final point of the 2nd map that is. : Grumbeld
  • epic defense by JD... Feek only capped the first point... so JD wins Goldrush : Grumbeld
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  I sat the middle match out and watched Lakren. He was pretty much amazed me as to what a spy could do. Go... : geedeck
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    i'm not even that good of a spy.. it's frustrating to play at first, but they're so necessary in bigger g... : lakren
    • i agree a lot. can pivot a game quickly if you get one of those 'great spy runs' : kainen1
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  ieGS beats [fu] 3 - 0 : DrFlammable
  • Good games ieGS. Really rolled us there. : Arctic Fox
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  question about 2fort scoring... it goes by caps and not by team points, right? I'd think we'd just set t... : Grumbeld
  • 5 caputres of the flag, not points : DrFlammable
  • yeah, I need to tweak that. it should be 5 flag caps. : hirez
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  terath (feek) vs. abagail (jd) was a tie. Doh. :) GG! : kainen1
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    aside from everyone on my team hating each other, it was a lot of fun. can't wait till next time!!! : Korban
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      • thank you laurgasms. i don't hate you either. i love my entire team :D : Korban
    • Yeah, I didn't understand all the hostility. Seemed like too many people wanted to be Chiefs. : Colleton
  • Yeah great match, sorry you guys didn't understand the rules on granary. Just trust that the tournament ... : Xevo
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    A very good game! Some really intense moments, our utter drubbing on Granary aside. We won Goldrush 3 ... : A Sponge
    • you tell 'em abby! : Korban
    • yeah, lots of tense gameplay and chatter. good games though. your pipes were really pissing me off on g... : kainen1
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      I am informed that Granary was 3-2. Awesome! It felt so much more. Damn this adrenaline high. : A Sponge
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        your second granary cap we had 3 guys not playing, and didn't even go to the middle at the start, we thou... : Jackass1233
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          Oh no, your lack of rules knowledge hurt you for a cap? Shocking! : Xevo
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            i'd tell you to shut up, but your own team members did it enough during the match. You obviously just can... : Jackass1233
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              Hey, this is my subthread. : A Sponge
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                WHO WANTS FRESH COOKIES??!?!?! :( :( :( : vile
                • i do! : Korban
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                  Fresh cookies are welcome in my subthread. I need to triple my bodymass if I am to survive the Winter. On... : A Sponge
                  • You're Dawn French? Now it all makes sense... : hardfl1p
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              You are so fucking easy to rile up that it isn't even funny, lol! : Xevo
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                hi there, Pot : Korban
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                  ...just in case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_calling_the_kettle_black : Korban
                  • oh I got the joke, way to go ruining it by explaining yourself =P : Xevo
                • hahaha : Jackass1233
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  2L2C v. fs| was a win for us, 2-1 on maps, 6-3 on points. We won Goldrush 3-1, Granary 2-1, and lost 3... : Felraiser
  • it was a great match, those first two maps were fucking intense, especially granary. great games guys! : theWhite
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    The first two games were pretty close, but you guys just seemed to turtle on 2fort under the premise that... : hardfl1p
    • We just couldn't settle our defense, so we couldn't develop our offense, so I developed a headache. : Felraiser
  • ggs everyone : jujubees
  • Good games. : megarust32
  • great games guys : okellyc
  • gg guys. Granary and goldrush were awesome! : itsjames
  • Excellent match guys, Granary was fucking nuts. Very well played. : zerog83
  • GG y'all! : AxeMan808
• Felraiser (fs) 2-1 hirosushima (2L2C). Pretty tight game. : hardfl1p
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  west starts in 20 minutes. any sourcetv servers up? : re4ctor
  • connect directly to Shackwest, Dallas or Chicago, use port 27020 : hirez
• Is there a non-tournament server for people to eff around on? I mean I could pub it but uuuuuuuuhhhhggggg... : geedeck
• Is sourceTV recording demos??? It would nice to have the one from fs 2l2c : D45hiz
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  Biggest disappointment ever. :( : K1Bond007
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    Yeah, Chicago made me cry. I hope we get that match scheduled soon (and on another server [sorry Skull, ... : Grumbeld
    • The match was fun, even with that headache though. Of course, that might just be because I was a demoman... : Grumbeld
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      The little cart UI thing disappeared (which is critical for defense), the server was hitting some bad lag... : K1Bond007
      • *had that map accounted for something instead of nothing, rather. : K1Bond007
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      • happened to us after the first cart checkpoint as well in Feek vs. JD match. Sucked! : kainen1
      • That happened to me too! It was a bit confusing, but it was pretty clear where the cart was so it wasn't ... : itsjames
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        You guys all know how to get the cart UI thing bacl? Type record (demoname) in the console and then once ... : NastyJack
        • *back : NastyJack
        • Yeah, it's apparently a bug in Valve's code for this game... not sure if it's a recent bug or not. Is ... : Maddog_Delphi97
        • the captains will have to stop their demo though :( : SolveChrist
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          Is this a known bug? First I've seen it. Someone said this to us over voice and ... well I don't even kno... : K1Bond007
          • First time I've seen it too. The demo thing is super easy to do if it happens again. : NastyJack
        • It disappeared in round 2 each time for us :( : sanchez
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          When you're already recording a match demo, you'll end with 15 separate ones for one round. Shit needs t... : FlamingGimp
          • Yeah true, I wouldn't recommend captains do it. : NastyJack
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    • Very sorry it happened to you guys. I've got no idea what happened even now as the east coast teams playe... : Skull the Troll
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    i'm going to punch a baby : entropy
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      I can't imagine what that was like sniping. The lag was totally fucked up but at least as a demo I don't ... : NastyJack
      • There was a serious lack of threat from snipers/spies because of the server performance, shame. : Audhuml4
  • :( : Audhuml4
  • So true :( : Malku
  • S.O.S. I sent out Shack Messages asking about rescheduling availabilty, please respond via steam or Sha... : SolveChrist
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    yeah. sorry it worked ok on the earlier match. not sure why it shit the bed on you guys. we'll have MORON... : hirez
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      Well can't we get a west server? I mean Moron is East isn't it? : K1Bond007
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        I think Gonzo's clan has a west coast server that we can use, it was available tonight, ask him if we can... : sanchez
        • yes! we will have that one on west too!!! : hirez
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      yea we had some lag issues on chicago for the east coast match as well. not nearly as bad as these guys f... : theWhite
      • Before the match started, we waited maybe a half hour as it dropped everyone about 20 times. : K1Bond007
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    Gnomish, did you just bang it off the crossbar and get slashed in the shins by an Icelandic man? : twifosp
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      • KNUCKLEPUCK : twifosp
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    • *quack* : project13
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      gnomish have you been practicing your triple deek? And what about the Flying V? : K1Bond007
      • or your knuckle puck : Dschinghis Khan
  • Even though we lost and I was lagging like hell and I got disconnected at the end, it was a fun game. Co... : electroly
  • holy ownage : Jackass1233
  • SERVER PAUSE DRAMA! : flubba79
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    That was my first ever competitive game of online anything. Wow it was awesome. Though probably some of t... : crummynz
    • kudos to your healings! those rounds of granary were epic! : dopeman
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    soo. . . I guess no healthpack pickups are allowed for the initial melee-for-color-choice round, eh? lol... : YamatoTwinkie
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      yeah, I'll make that clear on monday : hirez
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        I actually stretched the limits of this melee thing in our match tonight... it's a cute concept and all, ... : Xevo
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          k, thanks. I was basically trying to find an elegant way of determining a coin toss. I'll check out the d... : hirez
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            I appreciate you looking into it. I mean it's a cool idea, but little things like getting the teams to s... : Xevo
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              I'm sort of inclined to say anything goes almost, that each team show up with whatever class they thing i... : hirez
              • I like the idea, but there's so many potential abuses... Pyros have the longest attack range, and there's... : Xevo
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              You're totally overanalyzing this xevo. Just call out a class, that's the class, meet in the most open a... : FlamingGimp
              • lol I hadn't even considered crits off. Yes in the perfect world this would be easy, but we all know the... : Xevo
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  Do we have a website with all the results? : sanchez
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    http://ems.esportsea.com/?a=x.schedule&stageid=2021 Click captain's names, not updated yet i don't think... : dkrulz
    • yeah I'll have it done shortly : hirez
    • its updated. : hirez
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    I assume it'll show here with the results. http://ems.esportsea.com/?a=x.schedule&stageid=2021 A stat... : K1Bond007
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      K1Bond -- I am very adept at SQL. If your issues is SQL side, I can offer help. : twifosp
      • is are : twifosp
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  I hear by declare playing 2fort after 2 hours of tournament play to be the water boarding of tf2. : twifosp
  • i agree with your post. : Mmmmmoo
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    Yeah, I think the tourney is long enough without CTF and it really isn't fun with congested maps like 2Fo... : omnova
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      If we play CTF we should take the teams down to 8v8 (on just the ctf map) to make it a bit more feasible. : dkrulz
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        And if we play 2fort, we should really play it first. : twifosp
        • I was going to say commit suicide first. : sanchez
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    Yeah it was pretty rough especially with how tense things were on granary. : bcyde
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      You guys are kings of ninja caps. : sanchez
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        • Yup, I landed on top of the bomb exactly 0.2 seconds after it capped. : sanchez
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          Yeah that was awesome. Techpriest did some nice ninja caps on granary too. : Alco23
          • Late post so no one will see this but Techpriests' work on granary was awesome because he did that stuff ... : Fayk
        • We were all laughing our asses off when he did that. It didn't save us in the end but it was golden. : omnova
        • I knew the clock was running out but didn't realize it was THAT close. Probably best I didn't, or I'd cho... : Fayk
  • yeah, we're going to play launchzone next week, and then that will be it. last 3 match ups with be no ctf... : hirez
  • you guys are playing 30 minute rounds of granary, right? How can goldrush + downtime before and between ... : Xevo
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      I would be more inclined to agree if it was 8on8. : twifosp
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        • I used to smoke cigarettes and drink turpentine. We're all self destructive from time to time! : twifosp
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    At least 5 captains/first-round picks have expressed distaste for 2fort/CTF maps and the extension of mat... : Felraiser
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      I think the intention was to add variety to the map rotation. Variety can be a good thing, so it wasn't ... : twifosp
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        Exactly. There are "fun" arguments, as well as serious-business reasons, for discarding CTF. The gametype... : Felraiser
        • dude. you know its not being "forced upon the tournament", I told you that a lot of people requested I ad... : hirez
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  Round 1 is over and we all owe hirez some big thanks for all of his work on the tournament. It went very... : twifosp
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    Don't think two teams in the Western division have played yet. : dkrulz
    • Oh, well getting as many teams to play on the same night with this level of organization is still a prett... : twifosp
    • yeah, chicago shit the bed & they are going to reschedule. sucks. but what can you do. : hirez
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        http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17094325#itemanchor_17094325 : K1Bond007
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            5 points 1 in favor of Jackhammer. Jackhammer won goldrush with n00bja's team capping 3 points, stoppi... : twifosp
            • That last push on Granary where you guys got the overtime cap was an amazing fight. It was absolute chaos... : Gonzo
      • Monkeygone and SolveChrist. : JarEme
  • i agree with your post. thanks hirez! : Mmmmmoo
  • Rd 1 is not over. :( : K1Bond007
• Had fun with NDI on West div, I picked it up near the end. Was fun playing with you guys :) : Mikuya
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  The Peculiar Neurodegenerative Inhabitants of the Kazawa Atoll defeat For Feeks Sake 3-3 (win on time) on... : FlamingGimp
  • it was fun. good games : Mmmmmoo
  • definitely, good games all around : Mikuya
  • Was pretty tight on all three maps. GG! : Alco23
  • Sorry I dropped out, hardware issues (my fan died) prevented me from continuing on. : yosemiteclimber
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  PROBLEM Both Chicago and Dallas had horrible lag tonight, did any of the other matches experience this... : dkrulz
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      Chicago shut down Source TV before the match because of problems. : K1Bond007
      • Actually no, I knew of people who watched the source tv of our match. : Audhuml4
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      That's a good theory. Neither Dallas or Chicago had SourceTV up until this point. I experience lag on s... : twifosp
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        SourceTV lag could be attributed to sourcetv broadcasting voice for both teams. I remember EVERYTIME it d... : Demius
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          it shoudnt be broadcasting the voice. on the eastcoast matches, I check all the servers, and none of them... : hirez
          • It wasn't for Chicago/Dallas. : dkrulz
          • That's definitely what was causing it if voice chat was being sent from the game servers to the STV. : Xevo
        • Ugh no way, that's a server .cfg setting that is defnitely supposed to be turned off it STV is being used... : Xevo
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          • lol, awesome to have you back dmazzle! : Xevo
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          Having sourcetv be on the same server as the game server kills it. the extra disk I/O lag spikes most ser... : devnullgt
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            k, maybe we can use moron for the west sourceTV proxy? : hirez
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              use sourcetv.empx.net... it runs on a separate box. I can give you the SSH login and all that : devnullgt
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                yeah, that would be great. I can set up multiple sourceTV proxies on one connection, which is ideal. : hirez
                • That sounds like a fine solution, I know people really appreciate being able to watch matches on STV, tha... : Xevo
      • for the eastcoast matches, I had them proxied to relays on shackwest, so there should only be 1 client co... : hirez
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    • Yeah there was some lag spikes occasionally. : bcyde
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    Yeah Dallas had the worst lag tonight. I had the highest ping out of everyone on the server at around 150... : sanchez
    • Yea, my ping was triple the normal on Dallas. (Good thing it's normally 8.) : twifosp
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    I know chicago was bad on the 2nd match, didnt know dallas was having problems too. : hirez
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      Just your usual SourceTV lag I think. : JarEme
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        but it really shouldnt lag that much, at least the early match - since I had proxy set up and only 1 sour... : hirez
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          That sounds like the best theory to me, that the direct connections to the server for SourceTV instead of... : Xevo
          • ok, I'll see about using dallas/chicago/moron to proxy the sourceTV for the west coast matches : hirez
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      This was at the end of Goldrush, and a good indication of the dallas pings. http://shackpics.com/files... : FlamingGimp
      • Ugh that's pretty brutal. : Xevo
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        its so strange though. look at blue! only 1 above 100. : hirez
        • Conspiracy. : FlamingGimp
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    Yeah, I have REALLY shitty lag problems with ShackWest tonight. So bad that I couldn't play. : Rice-Rocketeer
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      Hmm...I wonder if my lag is SourceTV related. : Rice-Rocketeer
      • I dont think so, otherwise we'd all feel it. you have a bad route, since its always bad and everyone else... : hirez
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    I've noticed for the last week or so that I'll get occasional random spikes of what feels like packet los... : bipolar
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      Pull up net_graph 1 or 3 (3 tells you choke), the rates will give you a good idea of whether stuttering i... : FlamingGimp
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        What if it looks like the stuttering is coming about as a result of voice comm? Whenever someone talks... : Rice-Rocketeer
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          Yeah that was related to how the SourceTV was being run, most likely... looks like hirez is going to have... : Xevo
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            Whoa, REALLY? So my problems are SourceTV related, you think? HMMMM! : Rice-Rocketeer
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              Umm I can't tell if you're being serious or not, but if you were only experiencing that during a West Coa... : Xevo
              • Well, I was experiencing it before, but prior to these matches and scrims in the past few days, I could p... : Rice-Rocketeer
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  How did WDC behave? any problems? : ZeroSignal
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    I heard of no issues. seemed to do well, thanks! : hirez
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      cool. logs are sent already, demos are uploading currently. : ZeroSignal
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        Did we end up getting any stats from the server? If not we should see if we can get that working, it rea... : dkrulz
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          Yeah I would be totally into seeing the server logs so we can get it in one of those stat tracker sites. : Xevo
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            I don't know what hirez has planned (I've sent them to him), but I could make them available online I sup : ZeroSignal
            • Well assuming hirez is cool with it, this is the site most people use: http://www.thursday.com/tf2logger... : Xevo