in its time as one of the deadest( but best) esports of all time, competitive tf2 has had numerous dramas, some funnier than others. most of these are libertarian drama. one notable one occurred back in 2016
b4nny
Grant "B4nny" Vincent is the most successful competitive tf2 player of all time, having at least 30 tournament wins, 4 international tournament wins and numerous other meaningless trophies for his collection since 2008, racking up over 28,000 hours in the game. (no seriously) He is notable for being perhaps the only tf2 player to have made a career from streaming and for his enormous ego, creating numerous moments of hilarity.
(there will be more.)
one of b4nny's most redeeming traits (at least in the past) remains his penchant for tweeting.
his tweet game was so prolific that there is a 15 page thread on the main competitive tf2 forum compiling people's favorites
https://www.teamfortress.tv/32408/favorite-b4nny-tweet
some of these have caused immense seethe.
some of my favourites include:
(ok, this one is pretty funny, hes making fun of someone for not going to lan because of school or something lol)
despite his mastermind X antics b4nny has had a rough relationship with the community through the years.
initially starting off well liked, something seemed to snap in b4nny's heart, turning it cold.
maybe this was when he got cucked by his teammate and continued to play with him after finding out because he loves winning that much. Maybe it was his own teammate leaving mid-playoffs match due to him insisting on swapping the team's roles around for some reason, causing his team to get upset, get 3rd place (up to this point b4nny hadnt been either 1st or second in the top division for 4 years!) and disband immediately after. This also happened again like 7 years later but thats a different story.
B4nny immediately rebuilt his team with new up and coming players (including some who would go on to play in theoverwatch league (lolll)
all was well in b4nny's camp. He had recently met his funding goal to attend the 2016 international lan hosted in some shithole in england idk lol
one fateful day, b4nny decided to beat his liver and stream drunk. Clearly intoxicated, b4nny streamed on. meanwhile an up and coming top european player by the name of thalash decided to do some trolling 
by insinuating that b4nny was getting carried by his now ex-teammate who had cucked him 
in the past. B4nny's ego, already more inflated than the hindenburg (RIp crodies) reached nuclear meltdown levels. how dare a player who has never gone to LAN talk down on me like this! 
b4nny also has a bizarre half-joking hatred for european players, berating their playstyle constantly for being slow and boring (true)
these factors lead to b4nny going on a legendary drunken tangent raving about europeans, accolades and how thalash is the equivalent of what someone might call a plumber or taxi driver driver in the UFC.
the most notable part of this autism fueled rant is b4nny's legendary statement that he requests his new found foe utter when he loses to him on lan(0:33 seconds in video 1 :) )
im sorry im not good i apologize for my ego please forgive me, im just europeean.
uh oh!
this sparks huge drama in the community, with some pointing out that thalash was provoking an obviously deathly drunk b4nny while others laughed at his ego about an already small esport.
august 26, 2016
b4nny has arrived in europe with his team to smite the europeeans once and for all.
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at his sexiest, he is ready to take the win and prove why blumpfkenstiltskin needs to stop giving aid to twink european panhandlers.
can you guess what happens?
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b4nny loses, becoming a laughing stock and likely killing some hobo in retaliation (he lived in la).
b4nny later returns to his uncrushable winning ways, winning every single major tournament in NA until 2021 and eventually getting his getback on thalash in 2018 and 2019 at lan, one being in NA one being in ingerland.
b4nny still plays to this day. i think despite his insufferable ego, its quite impressive hes been able to dedicate himself to this without roping or moving on to another esport. hes clearly a talented team leader and team builder.
ill probably never post again on this site but theres so much funny drama from this esport holy shit lol
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I'm not gonna reveal my power level too much but I played 6v6 at a high level in Aus/NZ tournaments. (high div2/low div1) but I've played against/with the best in the country during the games heyday(2011-2014).
So yea I know the people you're talking about lol. We used to watch stv's of the top ESEA Invite teams to develop strategies and plays
The amount of bickering, egosim and just sheer autism I've seen during the three seasons I played was fricking hilarious. Something about this game just attracts spergs.
I was investigated by league admins after receiving hackusations from some guy who didn't like getting outplayed (I mained scout/util). I've witnessed actual meltdowns and ragequits during league matches.
In the end I couldn't keep up with the autism required to play a dead game in a dead scene at a high level. Also I had classes to go to
Was fun while it lasted though.
!g*mers
Oh and also, NA>EU and it wasn't even close
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I'm sorry for your adhd
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I played pocket soldier and pocket scout for the year I played comp, twas fun. I ended up really liking pocket scout because I was always the one to switch to an off-class when needed. Early in my career I got a really clutch medic pick as spy so my team kept letting me play spy whenever I wanted and I became notorious for being the only frequent (and successful) spy player in the league.
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Haha nice I love the surprise spy pick its more effective than people like to think
I liked picking sniper when trying defending without uber advantage, or to try and force a pop/break stalemate
Also good for pushing granary last. You can get a pick, run back to spawn change class and still have player ad due to granarys God awful last point spawn timer
!g*mers !tryhards
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You're dead
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It was dead in 2014 sweetie
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Nah
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the TF2 competitive scene is a swan song of missed potential. I'm fully convinced that if Valve didn't slap it around like an abortion baby, it'd be bigger than CS was for a substantial amount of time, and still bigger than overwatch today. The amount of skill expression in TF2 is absurd for how easy the game is to read the state of.
But Valve dropped the ball hardcore when they tried their competitive update
6s only works as well as it does because of firm class and weapon limits. They should've started with that (and only 5cp/koth), and slowly edged their way around until they figured out what worked and what didn't
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I left the scene wayy before they brought that in, but they had years of our data from matches to know what works and what doesn't, why didn't they use it?
Maps
Cp_badlands
Cp_granary
Koth_viaduct
cp_snakewater
Cp_gullywash
I'm really struggling with my memory here for the others but just go with every 5cp map that was developed by the 6v6 community. We beta tested heaps of maps which probably ended up being added into the game
Unlocks
all stock but kritz, Boston basher, gunboats etc. The actual stuff that has utility
Classes
1 med, 2 soldier 2 scout, 1 demo. No more than 2 util classes at once.
Done.
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you could simply just go "2 of any offense class" (2 pyros is throwing so who cares) and 1 of everyone else. the class select screen is pretty much perfect for it.
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It's been 12 years I forgot who's considered an 'offensive' class lol. I was just going by standard 6v6 class rules
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Fair!
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For reference, the map pool for valve comp had fricking turbine in it
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Ewwwww
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Jerma
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Jerma branched out, B4nny basically exclusively makes it fat in tf2 lobbies bullying children when not playing pugs
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Snapshots:
https://www.teamfortress.tv/32408/favorite-b4nny-tweet:
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Me while consuming Heavenly Ascension Jade Leaves (spinach) and Endless Stampede Mongrel Flesh (steak) to protect from attacks made of Demonic Sluggish Decay Qi (obesity and diabetes)
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I ain't gonna read all of that, but it's safe to assume all of these competitive bastards are using cheats
sure thing
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I know a division 1 player who got league banned, he used a triggerbot which caused +attack to not show up in the console when reviewing match recordings.
he has still not been vac banned. Tf2 VAC was not hard to get around but Cheaters were well known and usually got kicked out of tournaments.
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VAC in general is not hard to get around, it's not limited to tf2
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Anticheat in general's a losing game nowadays. it sucks, but I can't see it getting better until a generalized AI anticheat is available.
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good thing i only play hoovy on 2fort instant respawn servers
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