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Liquipedia is good start. It's essentially wiki with tournament tracker. Other good sites games own homepage for developer backed games like LoL and RL. Also OW and Dota2. For CSGO place is HLTV.org, joinDota2 for Dota2. Those sites list tournaments and streams.

100% Agreed. A new 144hz monitor, assuming you don't already have one, will have a bigger impact than say a new KB or headset.
 
If you want a KB still, I recommend red or brown switches. You want actuation to be smooth and relatively short so you can stutter step efficiently. People can do it just about any mechanical switch but since you're getting a brand new one might as well go for the mentioned switch types. I personally use the K70 with Cherry MX Speed switches and they're much better to use compared to my old Rosewill with Blue switches.
 
Headset wise I'm not too knowledgeable in this department so you're going to have to wait for someone who is better equipped to answer you about whether your headset is comparable to a decent headset. In the meantime, if you are looking to get a new headset, basically budget end would be the HyperX Cloud headsets and if you're looking to spend more then I would recommend the one I'm using now the BT 770 80 Ohm, only issue is that the BT's have no in build mic so you need have another solution either by buying a standalone table mic of some sort or the modmic.

Your job is to man the camera, why would they hire you if they can just do auto.

It's a fantastic trade. Don't get me wrong I absolutely love Shroud and N0thing. Shroud being so mechanically gifted and early on when I was watching his stream when he still was named meclipse to when he got on C9, it's a great story and progression of someone's career. Towards the end of his tenure at C9, he was starting to pick up a little. He did say he was giving it his all for one final push and while he never lived up to the hype of being a top 3 player in NA, he certainly played significantly better when he was motivated. He'll be back one day I'm sure, but till then his stream is picking up and honestly that is a lot of revenue that he can earn. Coupled with his lack of competitive motivation, if it's anytime to step down, he probably couldn't have picked a better time.
 
N0thing on the other hand was benched. I didn't read much into what his comments were since he was relatively quiet throughout news of his removal. He did post an update video I have yet to watch but it did mention he knew it was coming. I'm not sure who but a respectable analyst (probably moses) mentioned that while N0thing had times where he would single handedly win matches for C9. He was very inconsistent. Which leads me nicely into why Tarik is a much better replacement for N0thing.
 
Tarik is sort of like N0thing without his peaks, peaks meaning that it's not often he would win entire matches for you, but he brings a much needed fragging stability to the lineup. C9 have consistently been plagued by subpar performances from one or two of their players whenever big matches arrive. CS is already hard enough 5v5 against the top teams in the world and if they want to win more significant international tournaments, they need a more stable player like Tarik rather than the explosive potential of N0thing. Whether Tarik will deliver remains to be seen, I haven't really felt his impact in optic ever since eleague season 2 finals when Stan was still IGLing but his current work routine of playing a lot of CS and the new motivation of the top tier NA team should push his ability even more.
 
Rush in optic was unreal. He would open up sites and just destroy opponents with strong aim and aggression. Unlike Tarik, Rush's impact in optic was very visible. Him and Mixwell when they were full speed, even without Stan they could take maps off teams that normally would run over them. Again in reference to eleague season 2, Rush was a very strong factor in beating Astralis, just opening up sites and making the impeccable CT side of Astralis prone to crumbling. Rush is a fantastic choice for replacing shroud. Shroud historically has been known to be the 2nd or 3rd man into the site on T side, namely your trade fragger. That leaves basically Stewie to entry considering no one else on the team can entry. You usually don't want your IGL and best player on the team entrying. No matter how good of an entry fragger you are, you will still die considerably more than everyone else especially against the top teams in the world. Thats where Rush's role fits nicely. Now they have a solid entry fragger that can really open up difficult CT sides. His great aim also translates well to CT and in effect, Stewie can now focus on his roles and further maximise his IGL ability.
 
Overall, like mentioned at the start, trading n0thing and shroud for Rush and Tarik are great trades and I expect C9 to be a significantly more dangerous team given sometime. Whether they will win a significant international tournament remains to be seen but it's a significant upgrade that nullifies the weaknesses of C9 and further boosts their strengths. 

Well if there's any esport which is known or its structure and organisation, its LoL. While i would say CSGO is almost there in terms of being as organised as LoL due to the fact that community initiatives like HLTV.org and Liquipedia CSGO are getting better everyday, LoL is still much more structured and organised.
 
That being said, the lack of a proper site similar to Liquipedia for CSGO is kind of annoying and looking for sub-tier events, teams and tournaments is very difficult. I'm aware LoLpedia exists but its quite unreliable sometimes except when it comes to the top teams and events. So yeah a little confused when it comes to tracking less than the top teams.

All i hear is Boo hoo he said something. Seems like a super white knight scenario, but oh well.

here's the thing..
 
"Digital Millennium Copyright Act"
 
if pewds broke copyright, so did everyone else making a video of PUBG. there's probably a whole host of other things they can pull up to make his life difficult however.

Oh no someone got offended I guess. 

This is blatant abuse of DMCA. Developers have no right to abuse the law to suit their own agenda.

It's a fantastic trade. Don't get me wrong I absolutely love Shroud and N0thing. Shroud being so mechanically gifted and early on when I was watching his stream when he still was named meclipse to when he got on C9, it's a great story and progression of someone's career. Towards the end of his tenure at C9, he was starting to pick up a little. He did say he was giving it his all for one final push and while he never lived up to the hype of being a top 3 player in NA, he certainly played significantly better when he was motivated. He'll be back one day I'm sure, but till then his stream is picking up and honestly that is a lot of revenue that he can earn. Coupled with his lack of competitive motivation, if it's anytime to step down, he probably couldn't have picked a better time.
 
N0thing on the other hand was benched. I didn't read much into what his comments were since he was relatively quiet throughout news of his removal. He did post an update video I have yet to watch but it did mention he knew it was coming. I'm not sure who but a respectable analyst (probably moses) mentioned that while N0thing had times where he would single handedly win matches for C9. He was very inconsistent. Which leads me nicely into why Tarik is a much better replacement for N0thing.
 
Tarik is sort of like N0thing without his peaks, peaks meaning that it's not often he would win entire matches for you, but he brings a much needed fragging stability to the lineup. C9 have consistently been plagued by subpar performances from one or two of their players whenever big matches arrive. CS is already hard enough 5v5 against the top teams in the world and if they want to win more significant international tournaments, they need a more stable player like Tarik rather than the explosive potential of N0thing. Whether Tarik will deliver remains to be seen, I haven't really felt his impact in optic ever since eleague season 2 finals when Stan was still IGLing but his current work routine of playing a lot of CS and the new motivation of the top tier NA team should push his ability even more.
 
Rush in optic was unreal. He would open up sites and just destroy opponents with strong aim and aggression. Unlike Tarik, Rush's impact in optic was very visible. Him and Mixwell when they were full speed, even without Stan they could take maps off teams that normally would run over them. Again in reference to eleague season 2, Rush was a very strong factor in beating Astralis, just opening up sites and making the impeccable CT side of Astralis prone to crumbling. Rush is a fantastic choice for replacing shroud. Shroud historically has been known to be the 2nd or 3rd man into the site on T side, namely your trade fragger. That leaves basically Stewie to entry considering no one else on the team can entry. You usually don't want your IGL and best player on the team entrying. No matter how good of an entry fragger you are, you will still die considerably more than everyone else especially against the top teams in the world. Thats where Rush's role fits nicely. Now they have a solid entry fragger that can really open up difficult CT sides. His great aim also translates well to CT and in effect, Stewie can now focus on his roles and further maximise his IGL ability.
 
Overall, like mentioned at the start, trading n0thing and shroud for Rush and Tarik are great trades and I expect C9 to be a significantly more dangerous team given sometime. Whether they will win a significant international tournament remains to be seen but it's a significant upgrade that nullifies the weaknesses of C9 and further boosts their strengths. 

“Intel’s last desperate grasp at remaining relevant”
 
Youre joking right?

Doing anything for 90h in a short period of time will give you brain damage.
Also, that sample size is pathetic.
 
Yet another bullshit study, woo!

the only people with brain damage are the people who wrote this paper cannot find any place this has been peer reviewed though i'll keep looking

So I finally decided to sign up to the LTT forums as the second I saw Sam and Niko's video I knew there would be some serious discussions going down. 
 
First things first I work in the film and tv industry as Digital Imaging Technician, my job on-set is to essentially handle and process all the data on set, technician support for the camera, become a bridge between the camera and editorial. But along with that handle the colour and look of the production either through live grading (manipulating the colours in real time and distributing this out to all the on-set monitors) or near set grading, where I get full mags and grade them away from set and these are then delivered as Dailies to Editorial and then back to the director. 
 
With a bit of my background and experience explained - I am very much with the Sam and Niko on this one. Although it's kind of very hard to pinpoint one underlying point. 
I understand Linus making a video to get views but it does say a lot about his understanding of the subject, as yes the prices are very high but you need to look at it from the perspective of films costing millions and millions of dollars. 
 
When I'm on set working on a film with 250 million dollars behind it you don't want some shitty ass cable pissing off the director. "Oh sorry Mr.Bay we are having to find a new cable as this $5 cable just shorted out and this means we have to delay your shot", time is money on this film sets. Lemo cables are firstly not only used by RED they are an industry standard cable, Arri use them, Sony use them, Canon use them even the Sound dept use Lemo connections for certain tasks. It's a robust cable, it has a good locking mechanism, good shielding, good water resistance,  good build quality and the list goes on. 
 
For some one like Linus who does not work in the field of major major productions - yes compared to and SSD or HDMI cable of course $2,000 is going to seem like a lot. Lenses for example can cost upwards for $100,000 EACH not for a set each. But in my industry we need the best cables, we need reliable safe media that can run in extreme heat and extreme cold and be battered around like no mans business. 
 
You also have to look at development costs on smaller scales - the R&D on these types of things is huge and when you maybe sell a few thousand camera's a year. You need to get that return on investment, this cost gets paid for by the consumer of these products and if productions and rental houses are willing to pay for them it's going to keep on happening. 
 
I love LTT, nothing against them but when I did see his video I just cringed....
 
If anyone has any questions feel free to ask away
 

Depends on the performance of CFL. Prices for older chips don't usually drop for either team, so you'll have to draw your choice from performance over cost or performance over overall build. 
 
Since you have an i5-2400, I'd look into the i7-2600 which should last you another two years since the cost of the upgrade is only about $240 versus $600 for a whole new platform. 

what?

Some closed-back, over-ear headphones I've picked up that people recommend for gaming:
AKG K550 Audio Technica ATH-A1000Z Audio Technica ATH-MSR7 Beyerdynamic Custom One Pro Plus Beyerdynamic DT770 Shure SRH940 V-MODA Crossfade M-100 You should probably shy away from bass-heavy headphones when it comes to competitive FPS gaming. Look specifically for a wide and deep soundstage, imaging, (instrument) separation and detail retrieval. 
 
Soundstage is perceived space and environment of sound. It determines whether the sound is perceived to be coming from inside your head or beyond the drivers and around you. It can be compared to virtual surround sound; both attempt to produce the same spacious, three-dimensional effect. VSS can sound more ambient and immersive, which will depend on the processor (CMSS-3D, Dolby, SBX, etc.) The reason why stereo should be considered over VSS is that VSS degrades the sound quality and diminishes detailing due to compression from digital processing. You might also experience less accurate imaging and separation. Imaging determines how accurately sounds/objects are positioned. Imaging is inherent to the audio content, so if the game is recorded or mixed poorly, a headphone with good imaging won’t improve the original source. Separation is separating individual sounds from a range of sounds. Good separation properties should make it easy to filter out or discern overlapping sounds from other sounds and track them.

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Alright I stated depending on the workload of gaming+streaming or just gaming, it's all covered in there, so I don't  think I missed his point. I have both chips and he'll be more than pleased with either chip as there both solid, I just compared the different workloads one excels in over the other. Simply put strictly gaming workloads. As I already said what was fastest, I just gave my opinion of what would be a better price to performance, I understand the OP may not care for that, but at least he knows going into it. Nothing wrong with a recommendation  

3DMark Firestrike for realworld perf
Cinebench for rendering/productivity performance

Those are non equivalents.  Native support for 21x9 would mean more vision and potential for people with those monitors.  As for 60hz vs 144hz, no casual gamer below diamond is really good enough anyways to make use of it.

I think someone is just mad that they are losing...

I feel the real debate here is not whether it is competitive, good pointers by some folks here practically cover all my reasons why OW is indeed a very skill based game at the highest level. I'd like to see an in depth response on why OW isn't competitive if there is any. The genre is not new since the concept basically stems from Team Fortress and that game is indeed competitive in every way that CSGO, LoL and Dota 2 are.
 
However, what should be discussed is probably the direction of competitive scene. Jeff and OW team all have been working with feedback from the community and they've done some great things to the game. But I feel like Blizzard as a whole hasn't done enough for a game with OW's potential. Back then when Starcraft 2 was a thing (yes yes i know dead game memes) and was at one point THE esports title to compete in, Blizzard just shrugged and essentially left the game to fester. Sure they gave updates, but that was after many months of debates and pushes from the pros, the community and the blizzard forums. You can look up the early period when Brood Lord Infestor was the main meta and you can see how much backlash Blizzard got for essentially not caring. So where is Starcraft now? Pretty much fallen off the radar.
 
From what I've seen, there are two main ways to push a game towards "esports". One is the Valve way where they essentially let the events run themselves and give financial support through the main "major" events and specific game updates. The other is how Riot does it with, fully controlling the ecosystem and running the competitive scene through themselves. Blizzard seems to have taken the Valve route, but a key aspect is monetary and in game support towards the events and updates to the game itself which I don't see the enough of the end result of. Look the previously mentioned games, Dota 2, CSGO, LoL, if there is a "World Championship" level tournament going on, if you had any following of the esports scene you would know about it. Names like GeT_RiGhT, F0rest, Faker, bjergsen, Dendi are all names you probably have heard of one way or another. For OW? The only real name I hear people talking about is NRG's Seagull, some don't even know he has basically stopped competing.
 
The argument can be said OW is still a young game. I agree, it is a young game. Names like Taimou and tournaments like the OGN Apex still need time to grow and mature. But with the direction Blizzard is so far showing, I think its going to to end up like Starcraft 2 without the part where it becomes a premier esports title.

When FTFY is still a mistake...

ftfy