Hi everyone! You may have seen on the community post from the TF Blog. that TF2CC is honoured to be running our 10th Newbie Cup. Our TENTH instalment in this event series! Wooh boy does saying that never get old.

With sign-ups open now until April 4th! We're a 9000+ member discord focused on providing new players with an environment to learn, play pick up games and participate in events. We also run divisonal PUGs from NC to Main+ as well as late night all-div mixes.

Players with little to no competitive experience sign up to be placed on a team of six, lead by a coach who will mentor them on the basics of how to play the format and help them learn the maps. They will have three weeks to learn, practice and grow together before facing off in a tournament scheduled for the weekend of May 3rd and 4th with the following week for playoffs, so tell your eager pubber friends who've always wanted to try out!

We have a lot of players eager to play especially with our TF2 blog announcements. As always, transitioning those who range from casuals to light experience into playing 6's would not be possible without the aiding hands of our coaches to teach these foundlings the way. If you want to help the scene grow and test your 6's knowledge, you should join the TF2CC discord and apply for Newbie Cup Coach in the linked channel!.

All Coaches that adequately participate will receive an in-game medal courtesy of Asia Fortress organizers and their head admin, Vytal. Those that are nominated by players may be eligible for an extra prize.

Requirements for Main and Co-Coaches:

IM+ playoffs experience is preferred but will accept even seasoned amateur players (or equivalent). Our base ranges from people who are new to the game its-self to experienced pubbers and below 3rd place Newcomer who are all very new to 6's. You will be teaching them very basic concepts, how to get scrims and occasional demo reviews.

Overview:

There are three types of coaches. General, Main and Co-coach. General coaches are for everyone to provide public lectures. Main and co-coaches are part of a 3 week long commitment starting April 7th to May 10th* . You will need to be available online around twice a week, and able to answer text questions from your team throughout.

General Coaches:

If you don't have a lot of time commitment but still want to help out and participate, we are looking for coaches to do general map reviews, host a class, or help answer questions in QnA sessions for everyone in our teaching corner (or other concepts such as main calling, mental, making an RGL team etc) during the cup.

If you can't participate but would like to support us, you can donate items to our storage account , use nitro boosts in the server for special perks or check out affiliates that help us continue running these cups such as Vytal's Trading and Quicksell server.

NOTE: Based on feedback; We no longer accept out of continent players and the hour floor for participants has been increased to 500 by default.

Regular TF2CC Invite Link
Discord Channel to Apply for Newbie Cup Coach

Your hyperlink re-directs back to this post instead of your twitch.

Most places I've seen over the years would happily accommodate them at least in some way. Most Euro's I've tried to work with flake pretty much every time. My speculation is that there isn't a large enough pre-existing history of on-boarding new players so those that have a little interest fizzle out because they feel isolated even with help. Maybe it's a viscous cycle.

I know Newbie Mixes and TF2CC would welcome them if there were EU coaches and runners respectively. There used to be an EU Newbie Cup alongside the NA one until the Euro staff just disappeared so it was consolidated to NA only.

Speaking for NA, the majority you'll find are invite only or you need to know a guy to know a guy.

If you want something similar to TF2Center, I'd suggest RGL PUGs. Otherwise I'd join TF2 Coaching Central (TF2CC) and work from there. TF2CC specifically is mostly newcomer to around IM level while we are looking for people to host higher level PUGs for their own audience.

If you're active enough and a good sport you can ask around in both for a more in-house experience if that is more of your tempo. Hope that helps.

They are, albeit improperly, directly pulling a quote from Saph to point out the original author's hypocrisy (which has been deleted for a while because it was just an impulsive post).

Bumping as our blog announcement came in!

Hello all! TF2CC is grateful to be able to run yet another Newbie Cup. Our NINTH instalment in this event series!

with sign-ups open now until December 11th! We're a 7000+ member discord focused on providing new players with an environment to learn, play pick up games and participate in events. We also run divisonal PUGs from NC to Main+ as well as late night all-div mixes.

Players with little to no competitive experience sign up to be placed on a team of six, lead by a coach who will mentor them on the basics of how to play the format and help them learn the maps. They will have three weeks to learn, practice and grow together before facing off in a tournament scheduled for the weekend of January 11th and 12th; so tell your friends!

We have a lot of players eager to play especially with our TF2 blog announcements. As always, transitioning those who range from pubbers to light experience into playing 6's would not be possible without the aiding hands of our coaches to teach these foundlings the way. If you want to help the scene grow and test your 6's knowledge, you should join the TF2CC discord and apply for Newbie Cup Coach in the linked channel!. Coaches that do well will also be given a share of the prize pool.

Requirements for coaches:

IM+ playoffs experience is preferred but will accept even seasoned amateur players (or equivalent). Our base ranges from people who are new to the game its-self to experienced pubbers and below 3rd place Newcomer who are all very new to 6's. You will be teaching them very basic concepts, how to get scrims and occasional demo reviews.

Overview:

There are three types of coaches. General, Main and Co-coach. General coaches are for everyone to provide public lectures. Main and co-coaches are part of a 3 week long commitment starting December 14th to January 11th* . You will need to be available online around twice a week, and able to answer text questions from your team throughout.

General Coaches:

If you don't have a lot of time commitment but still want to help out and participate, we are looking for coaches to do general map reviews for everyone in our teaching corner (or other concepts such as main calling, mental, making an RGL team etc) during the cup.

If you can't participate but would like to support us, we have an affiliate link with Mann Co Store you can use as well as a donation account for items.

NOTE: Based on feedback; We no longer accept out of continent players and the hour floor for participants has been increased to 500 by default.

Regular TF2CC Invite Link
Discord Channel to Apply for Newbie Cup Coach

Based on anecdotal evidence and some supporting polls like the Angus Reid Institute, most hate him and majority believe his government has performed poorly in almost every category. However, his core audience of suburban home owning car drivers would still vote for the conservative party. I feel that we can't really find out whether there has been a practical enough of a shift until the next election. Conservatives still heavily harp on "owning the libs" and "anti-woke" gibberish rhetoric.

That being said he doesn't have the same media popularity, backing of billionaires and Christian nationalists with unfettered wallets; though I think he could still win again.

It's been like that all week, just says invalid parameters on the steam error page. Did their API get changed?

Do you notice your game flashing black when you are loading into the main menu? Do you alt-tab while your game is loading in? Try not alt-tabbing.

From my knowledge, there's three main causes to this:
I) Your game starts at a different DirectX level and loads in a different one when the game fully loads in
II) Your game switches resolution when loading in.
III) You have conflicting graphics settings in your config versus VPK modules in your custom folder.

I) If you haven't refreshed in a while, I would get a new graphics config. Firstly, in any of these steps; make sure to check your autoexec.cfg (if you have one) or config.cfg. If you use Mastercomfig, double check that you followed the instructions for using an autoexec properly because it's different. You can try putting the DirectX level in your launch options:

-dxlevel 90 (or 80 / 81 if you use them instead).

You might need to put it in your config.cfg as well.

II) You can try the same above with resolution. I've had this issue when I used to frequently switch them back and forth. Just changing your resolution or aspect ratio can break the overlay. This problem is even more pronounced for Discord. Ideally, you use your native resolution and aspect ratio of your monitor. The command for your launch options is:

-w # -h #

Ex. -w 1920 -h 1080

III) Check that your config.cfg and autoexec.cfg don't have extra commands that effect your graphics settings that you've put in.

If none of these work you should also run Mumble and Steam in administrator mode to see if it persists. You can also put -safe in your launch options to launch the game in safe mode and see if it yet again, still happens.

Not really, the only reason those forums were kept alive was Mothership changing the feeding tube. Now that he's gone there's no reason for them to keep it up. Plus it's expensive af for what it is and I highly doubt anyone wants to moderate them.

https://imgur.com/a/ukN0UWC

Pretty much every format up to 16v16 has been tried before including everything in-between. If you want a more recent example, look at Faceit clan wars and what a dumpster fire that was. You know who else disliked Faceit?

Why does a competitive format need to be exactly the same as the base game anyway? TF2 having so many drastically different ways to play, community modes etc is one of the dope parts of the game. Is their utopia really just Valorant where every mode is the same (I sure don't). I honestly really enjoy that I can play 6's scrims and then goof off in pubs or go play jailhouse. I think many players do.

I think it's also important to note that the word fun and whether it's enjoyable or not is noticeably absent in that type of argument. I don't think we need to make up formats just to have pub players learn that those formats are bad. I actually think most pub players are more open minded than we think. The Newbie Cup has received thousands of applications over the years and the vast majority of players are understanding, especially when you sit down and explain.

I think our energy would be far better reserved for making the scene a better place than a fundamentally and emprically unfun gamemode.

There it is, it's just a selfish desire to run more sniper. This stance does not come from a place of education, practice or experience. Running an off-class is a team choice, not a purely individual one. I've been told many times by off-class lovers that they were thankful for the experience on generalist classes because even if you are not interested, it's very useful to understand class dynamics and how your opponents will think.

It's also very tough for a specialist one trick because when you start getting countered you don't really have much to fall back on. Not to mention, specialists have a MUCH easier time against bad players so it's very easy to get complacent and stagnate your own growth because cheesy strats can be effective. Those PUG spaces are meant to show you what's realistic and fundamental. They are definitely not setting them up for failure. Allowing anybody to off-class whenever they want, would.

Did your high school history class fail to prep you properly because they mostly covered recent history and local politics?

Why is this a problem for you anyway, are you struggling to climb out of Newbie PUGs on an alt? Newbie Mixes is meant for absolute beginners and TF2CC has 4 PUG categories. Newbies, Amateur, IM/Main and Main+ which have different rule sets. So if you want to run the funny just get good.

I don't, he's been told this a million times directly. There are ZERO items that were ruined to try to placate competitive players yet they will still cite balance changes that were done for the casual audience as being problematic. He blocks people who give him feedback. Even on streams when he does item votes, if his fans pick something different than him his reaction is "wow uh, okay". He surrounds himself with dickriders like Richter.

He doesn't want to try Newbie Mixes and definitely doesn't want a debate. Having a scape goat is pretty convenient. Even if you are not trying to make a social stand just as a general insult or takeaway for issues.

And if we are being honest with ourselves, while MyM was an utter disaster; the base idea lead to the game being in a much better and ergonomic state. Valve's balancing only got better with time, matchmaking is much more convenient now. Quickplay back in the day was pretty slow and defaulted to Valve servers, anyways. The only stinker that still remains is the Ranked Gamemode (I'm not even going to refer to it as "competitive" because it's not). This is a difficult pill to swallow but without MyM Valve may have gotten a lot more complacent than now but much earlier instead of post blue moon.

This thread is an unnecessarily complex thought experiment for people to realize that there is an absence of competitive youtubers that talk about the scene and talk TO other content creators. That requires them to be semi-active in those circles. You have to appeal to normies, they are the target crowd and you need to talk to them in their language.