vanillatv. randomly found it while watching tf2 videos on youtube and was hooked to 6v6 and competitive after

i watched a frag video (i think it was torn's experiment video?) and i googled esea

A mod on a pub community I was part of a while back started running weekly highlander pugs for anyone who wanted to show up. After that I started learning about 6s and the rest basically happened.

doggles made a post on a css forum i frequented talking about competitive tf2. i was bored as fuck of css at the time so i installed tf2 and started doing nothing but playing mge because i didnt understand how the comp. side of things worked. a guy named captain corndog said he was impressed with my mge after he and his teammates played me for a few days (lolllll), and asked me to join an esea open team. we went 7-9 i think. got smashed by pinball wizards in ~12 minutes on granary lollll

first lobby/pug ever: http://tf2lobby.com/stats/lobby?id=105804

zeroskill, and I guess TMP too since he got me into the game in the first place

S10 LAN. User directed me to the stream, and I was instantly excited by it. Did newbie mixes, and then new map pugs because for some reason they let anyone play. Ended up playing with clanmates in Steel last summer.

unf's streams

this.

Keith Stone.
Showed me the glorious world of TF2lobby.

Fell in love with the "not 400 spies/snipers" format.

The ones who got me into comp tf2 were my buddies 'krotos' and 'unlead' that i met on 2011.

I met unlead on a half life forum, showed me the existance of mge and explained me what comp tf2 was, later i met krotos via youtube, played some mge with him (i got destroyed)

Both of em' wanted me to play mix/pug but i was afraid to play because i was horrible, later at early 2012 a server created for newbie mixes was born so i started playing there with them.

About 6 months later i got into my first team, played scrims, then switched to another team, and finally switched to the team i am on now and played my first 6v6 league this year. (we ended up #3 :D)

used to go to Mass Insanity Clan #2 24/7 arena_badlands, and of the people were regulars on the server we had a comp player named ohnoes/brandon. he was the best player on the server so I respected him and would even just spectate and watch him play (was the best scout I had ever seen by far). I ended up watching my first match because I knew brandon was in it, it was open finals when he was on hostile faction/nxzl.

I think he inspired a few of us(me, gorilla, kleptomaniak) to venture out into tf2lobby and eventually create our first team. i remember being very nervous because none of the players I pub'd with for almost a year never heard my voice before

Used to pub with hugh_laurie, sdogg2m and marxist-lenninator, then one day for some reason I looked at hughs profile and learned he was on a team.

I watched some frag videos and started following competitive tf2 somewhere in S11
None of the UGC teams who picked me up survived more than 1 match.

High hopes for next season... Eh...

around 5 years ago I played for the WotR (weapons of the rebellion) CSS team who also had a TF2 team. at the time, their TF2 team were one of the best and after hearing about it I was interested in watching them. me and some friends watched them and decided we wanted in on TF2, so made our first team and signed up for ETF2L straight away under the name Scream2Frag (:D) and played our first ever scrim on turbine where I played soldier. we got wrecked. :( they lost interest eventually and I continued to look for a team and study demos :) i mainly watched byte and ryb's demos, so me getting really into tf2 is attributed to them.

I never really experienced pubbing, I kinda just jumped straight into competitive. I guess others who came from a competitive background will be the same, though.

When tf2 was newish everyone was seshing that shit. Dragged a bunch of my local friends onto a CAL team one of the first few seasons it was offered. Think it was 7v7 with very loose class limits like 2 of each tops or some shit. We only were able to play a few matches, getting seven on was a rough.

http://puu.sh/3Eonc.png

image or wahtever is from legit-proof.com if anyone was curious.

twitchjohn and this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dUL7pT8YG5A

Started watching competitive videos I think a year and a half ago, and we started a community team for TLK (The Late Krew) and have been playing for a while now, I play pugs occasionally but I just play with friends and sub for other teams if they need me. Love goes out to my friends who got me started and all the people I've met since I got involved with this community.

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First time I did competitive was TWL 5v5 Fast Attack. I remember doing early comp stuff with people like Gypsy Davey, SuperXlax, and Jesus. I remember also pugging at TF2F and specifically [GGG] as being the big rivals I had way back in the day.

I got dragged into competitive in 2008 by a guy named Mailorder. I was total shit, but I played in the old Idort's Revenge, Fortress of Fapitude and Weeabootique servers a lot and was semi-interested in competitive from my friends talking about how they were into it. So Mailorder just up and messages me one day if I wanted to pug with them, so I did and I had a lot of fun. I had about zero confidence in my skills but he included me a lot—I got some playing time in some TWL 7v7 matches on our old team Fox 11—and eventually I became confident enough in my Medic to start getting teams together and exclusively playing competitive for the most part.

I've got a lot to thank Mail for, one of the coolest guys I've ever met—getting me into competitive TF2 got me into competitive gaming in general. God, I was so happy when I saw that one time Mail fucking bodied Filipino Champ at mahvel on stream. He was such a baller, I still kind of wonder what he's up to these days.

I don't think anyone in particular got me into competitive, but I think watching the entire i46 lan pushed me to start playing it.

sounds like your first crush as well

Watt and chriz tah fah. I was playing on a skial pub where chriz tah fah headshot me while i was playing as a scout. As a scout. Now at the time i was pretty new so i had unconsciously deemed that as impossible and thought that he was god. I met watt pretty much the same way on the blaqkl!ght server. Eventually i asked them about competitive and got into it.

Pubs got boring, I wanted to get better so i went to an mge server. There was tons of good people and i was trash compared to them. I noticed they were all competitive players, so it inspired me to get better and be just like them. So i guess good players got me into competitive tf2.

A lobby stomp team or noob pugscrim team with a guy named EricFTW(or amare) hes retired and kapoww and i mained scout on my 30fps computer but those two mainly got me into it! i am greatful

Played on Texas Team Players (now team player gaming) as soon as they had a server which I think was in beta because my brother was a BF2 admin there. Learned the game a bit, and was asked to join MF! with cprice, burn, joecrow, gonzo, captaincoors, soldier, etc. Then it was on to TF2gather and tricking people into thinking I was decent. It worked for a bit.

who was your first tf2 crush tagg? :)

dobb and Sleeping Life (is a douche)

I was watching a lot of extv casts of ESEA-I matches, and that combined with the Moments of Glory series made me realize the ridiculous skill ceiling that this game has.

no one really, pubs got too easy so researched for a harder challenge and found competitive

then in my first foray i got picked as demo in pug.na where i got destroyed very hard and was made to play med