҉NuclearGamer

Hey
Many of you are aware of it already but this is the public post to make it official.
After taking a long time to come to this decision, I have decided to step down from Head-Admin and being part of staff. It took so long to finally decide as for a while I felt that I couldn't step down in a sense, but I feel like the timing is right and I didn't want to continue in a role which I was struggling to find the will to work in.
There are a multitude of reasons for it being now and people can feel free to message me if they want to talk further, but I'd rather talk about my time as staff rather than focusing on the leaving.
Outbreak has put countless obstacles, challenges and environments in my path for me to deal with and given me a depth of experience that not many people can say they've taken from an online role. From running events to dealing with people on a more personal level, I have been able to grasp an understanding of people from so many different backgrounds.
Unlike back when I was moderator on CSS, there was a level of emotion to it this time that I never had before and I can only say I'm grateful for being able to work on this community in that way. It might just be an online gaming community but it means a lot to me. Outbreak became something that putting time into was more valuable to me than a lot of things which other people might have thought should have taken priority, but I'm glad that it did.
One of my few regrets is that during my time we weren't able to establish expansion on a server level for a prolonged period of time. We grew as a core community and, in my opinion, became far more unified than we were before I entered the position but it appears the task of further game server expansion is on the shoulders of those who I will leave.
I'd like to thank everyone who has ever put or will put voluntary work into this community, as staff or otherwise. I will still be around as a member (though busy due to exams for the near future) and if I ever decide to return to staff I'll work my way up, the way any ex staff member should.
My only request is that as a community we try show our appreciation for those who put effort in a bit more. I'm aware many of you do appreciate people's efforts and you do mean well, but showing that bit of acknowledgement and perhaps turning the whining or picking into doing or constructing would go a long way towards progressing this community further.
For anyone who is confused: Kwaheri means Goodbye in Swahili.
Thank you Outbreak
Mathew

funny cus ive already spent double the amount of hours on battlegrounds than h1 because it simply is a better, more enjoyable game 
kinda like saying why would you buy dota 2 if you already have league (i know both are free, its just meant as an example), dota 2 is simply a better version of the same concept

Why does the trash icon not work?!

Bad Rats.
 
This has been given a lot of shit, but having actually taken the time to play it, I've discovered a surprisingly deep and fun puzzle game, kind of like Lemmings or The Swapper, but more intelligently designed.
 
 

I also enjoy playing Insurgency but noone plays that aswell, Twiix and I have been playing GTA V yet its not very fun when we have nothing to do but when Rhyse comes on we do some stupid shit and I like to see more people come join in.
 

Underrated is really confusing?
What is underrated?
A game not many people have played and is good? But that's what overlooked means.
There are very few underrated games. Usually because when the majority of people don't like something it either means it's bad or it's niche. Which means that the likelihood is that most people here will not like it or it's bad.
tl;dr post overlooked games not underrated games, underrated/overrated is possibly the worst way to describe games ever, other than cinematic, yuck.
Singleplayer Games:
The World Dies With You (DS) - Anime game Kingdom Hearts (PS2/PS3/PS4) - Anime game Rimworld - Fun dwarf fortress/prison architect style management game were you manage an off world colony Multiplayer Games:
Zombie Master 1/2 (Sourcemod) - Really fun sourcemod Natural Selection 2 (PC) - FPS/RTS Hybrid me and @VENGA BUS play this sometimes is fun Warhammer 40k Dawn of War (PC) - 1 and expansions is da best. people that I know have this @Fluxy @VENGA BUS @Mintlou @Keiji Motori Star Wars Jedi Knight Jedi Academy - Fun arena combat star wars game Pirates Knights & Vikings @VENGA BUS @SonyTwan Tabletop Simulator - Play any boardgame with others, some of us have this Quake Live Starcraft 2

Been a russ fan for a long time.
He summarizes how corrupt half the music industry is, great music.

FUCK THE MOANING BASTARDS
 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BROTHER!
 
XXX

Once went from $1 to $250.
 
Gambled from $20 to $842
 
Lost about $2000
 
Won from a UMP Saber Tooth to a Fire Serpent.
 
Moral of the Story, Save your money.

Bet 2 sand dune p250s, minimal wear, on csgo lounge ended up losing the skins 

When I first started getting really into CSGO skins, I managed to buy a FT AK-47 Fuel Injector. At the time I was in a comp with my friends and we was about to lose so I said the retarded thing of "If we win I'll bet my AK"
We won. 
So I put my AK on roulette, all in and won! I was up to around 40 dollars. I kept this up and got up to around 115 dollars and cashed out a flip knife blue steel st ww, I got bored of that after my first comp and put it back on the website. At that point I was at around 110 dollars and the knife I wanted was 120 so I tried to bet my way up, after doubling after every loss I managed to lose it all in around 5 minutes.
I then proceeded to turn my PC off and sat in the darkness for like a solid 5 minutes... Fun night.
My story is shit compared to @ZakTEF's I'm waiting for him to post. 

i'm dead

Thx for hosting the tournament  

How to play with brandon and rachel.
Go, I'll trade you, FeelsBadMan.
 
Was a good tournament, looking forward for summer c;

I loved hearing Rachel and Nuclear argue before and after every match in teamspeak.
 
GJ for making a decent tournament which wasn't massively unbalanced team wise and was fun for those competing you both have earned a rep

Thanks for the tourney Godseen and Lewis, i had fun :)

Most kills and bomb plants in groups.
Overtaking nick as the best terrorist.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
(Sovman with the 4th best kd in the whole tournament playing more games than 2/4 who did have more)

Winners: Team 3 / Team Tree - Nick, Sovman, lkgddr, Cereal & Wurdy
You will each be invited to OB Champ and awarded the OB ESL Spring 2017 Trophy on the forums. 
Runners Up: Team 5 / The Vengays - Extinct, Veng3nce, Joji, Designated Retard, Quake
  The Finals Bracket. Results in the final consisted of 16-5 on Nuke and 16-8 on Mirage.
 
 
Group Stage results should anyone have missed them.
 
Thanks to all who took part and a special thanks to @Lewis for giving up the time to help me run it. Hope to run a larger scale production summer tournament which will include stream and more hype.

Fuck me no wonder people don't want to organise shit for you guys

I want to see a cheesy pp-Bizon rush when the other team is in eco tbh.
Also 
Scrune is the most chill teammate I've ever played with and enjoyed him being on my team.
Much love <#

You're all fucking shitters who I have to purposely play bad against to stroke your egos.
Godseen and Godrune, all I have to say.
 
Seriously though, perhaps Sovman and Nick are a tad strong a combo. Perhaps our 'tiers' (which bear in mind were just thrown to provide a basis for the team randomiser, not to be 100% exact) weren't the most accurate and people could have been moved up and down. However, did it seriously impact the ability to create a competitive tournament? Not really. Can you say that any number of opinions would be able to predict how consistently people perform in a tournament? Not really.
Perhaps we could have reached out to more people, but truthfully even then there would still be arguments and accusations of it being unfair. It's not like we are 100% clueless as some of you made out, maybe not as active as ideal but not completely out of the loop. The people we were unsure on we took a moment to think about and see how they did in different games, otherwise it was just our opinions.
We didn't 'pick captains' or '8 strongest players', we just did it so the numbers would pull out certain people to chuck onto teams and have it roughly fair, which it was since each team had 2 stronger players and 3 others. Even the team that had the combo of Stiqqy and Absolute (arguably the weakest duo to be put together out of all the strong end duos) were able to only lose 14-16, 14-16 and 11-16. They were never really stomped and they lost more because lower end players (ie. myself, pasickle) under-performed.
We were able to provide roughly fair teams, try put some different people together and put it into a competitive format. That's all we ever wanted to provide and anyone expecting much better is deluded. My only real disappointment is the way people handled themselves before, during and after exiting the tournament. I wish more people could maintain a competitive edge while still having the same attitude as Wurdy & Scrune have mentioned - unfortunately it seems I'll never see OB be a place for that.
All the same, I hope for a good BO3 tonight.

Stats really don't mean anything, especially without context. (It's like saying my team was better than your team cause we beat you 16-11)
Can we just have a wider participation on the making of teams? Can't see how this would be a bad thing.
(Also thanks for hosting tournament xoxo)
If you're gonna put chus as a captain cause of last tournament, then blyss shouldda been one at least.
 

Considering how sore and petty OB's losers can be (as we've already seen), I'm not sure that's the best idea 

I think next tournament I might just stick to being a host without the player part 
Well the group stages ended like this:

Which pitted T5 vs T8 and T2 vs T3 in the semi finals. These two matches gave us the following close results and consequently the final matchup for tonight:

So congratz to both teams now in the final. Reminder that the final will be at 6PM BST tonight and it will be a BO3, people should turn up at least 10 minutes before their match. Good luck to both teams.

Team 4 now renamed to ToxicUbers
It's only fair cause we got 3 toxic people in the team, the Uber stands for how much Danny and Rachel  will carry us.
Cheers!