Our blog post courtesy of Valve just came through! We still need coaches! So if you know anyone who is able to, tell them to sign up as a coach!

If you want to help this is a great place to really test your mettle and 6's knowledge. We're always looking for more Newbie Cup coaches and helpers for events.

New players always enjoy the guiding hand when playing the cup and this is a great opportunity to cultivate new blood into the scene! It's kind of hard to describe the feeling you get when you've couched a few Newbie Cup teams and watched them grow from newcomer all the way to Intermediate and main.

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 itsself 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:

This is a 3 week long commitment starting December 15th to January 5th. You will need to be available online around twice a week, and able to answer text questions from your team throughout. You can also request a co-coach to split responsibilities.

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) during the cup.

EU coaches are also welcome but you will have to work around NA times.

If you're interested, join the TF2CC discord and apply for coach in the linked channel.

Merci!

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Quick Necro to ask to whoever has had this issue, including Mark; what resolution do you play on and is it native

I usually play on 16:10, 1440x900p but I decided to just try and see if playing on my native 1080p resolution would make a difference. I've only tested this via 2 scrims and so far it hasn't triggered yet.

I thought I was going crazy. I have the same issue, I also recently started using my logitech G600.

I assumed it had mouse acceleration by default but that doesn't seem to be the case. It's a fresh mouse and my drivers are updated too. I'm starting to think it might be a problem with the newer logitech mice and the source 1 engine since I haven't had this issue with source2 so far.

Auto-record all tournament matches. I just checked my demo folder and no casual matches are in there. I also have scoreboard screenshots enabled for when a match ends so I can double verify.

EDIT: Ok so I tested it in casual and checked my console and it seemed to be failing to record casual games(?). So I was actually wrong, it does indeed try to record casual games as well. I reinstalled my game with the same recording settings and sure enough, it's grabbing casual matches.

However, it's not taking screenshots of the scoreboard at the end of casual games, so you can still know which demos come from a scrim / match. So it's servicible but ultimately is less convenient overall and bloats more than P-REC.

Nope, it works perfectly fine. Many people in low divs (including myself) use it.

It's somewhat open, especially if people don't have commitments for Highlander (highlander scrim on weekends with Monday being their match day). The vanilla schedule for a team is usually scrimming tues-thursday though. You could find a team that only plays matches or one that does scrim outside of Tuesday / Thursday.

If you can't find a team that fits well, you could also roster as a substitute and play PUGs until you find one that does or your schedule opens up.

I've edited it to be more clear but I wrote it in that way because Main and Advanced players PUG and scrim deep into the night more often than their lower division counter parts (starting past 10 usually). I've never seen an IM team not just drop dead to sleep after a 10:30.

1) At least for the lower divisions, yes. I can't speak on Main and above. There's a healthy amount of teams and RGL is honestly way better than UGC. Open as the only real free division is subject to a lot of sandbaggers and people dipping down (with class restrictions) though, so if you care to fight for a top 3 spot be prepared for that.

2) Only Main (and IM if you consider 9:30 and 10:30 to be super late) teams and above scrim super late. If you play in open, typical scrim times are at 8:30 and 9:30 with default match times being 9:30 on wednesdays. On average you will probably finish at around 10:30 so it should give you enough time to get to bed. Official matches with a lot of back and forth, pauses or breaks between halves will cut into your sleeping regiment. So you will probably want to encourage people to ready up, be on time or just grind MGE till you steamroll everyone so you can sleep. If you play on a team that is understanding of your schedule, then if scrims go on for too long or people are too late you can cut it short via a change in the match timer or round limit. You can try scheduling scrims earlier but I cannot say how successful you will be.

3) When Pugchamp died, everyone moved into in-house discord servers. Most are usually private and circle jerky, so you gotta know a guy who knows a guy. Some are public though. You can find a spreadsheet of all pug servers here.

TF2CC is pretty much the prime spot for lower division PUGs at the moment as well as a learning center with question threads and resources. Recently, higher division PUGs up to Main have been introduced if you feel like open PUGs become too easy.

Some of my favourites from the 4Zae Charity Stream:

https://clips.twitch.tv/LongCarelessMonitorFloof-8CX6UYLhlXUaBL1i
https://clips.twitch.tv/ConsiderateFaithfulTortoiseEagleEye-c2n3Pkg9t77gKqfx
https://clips.twitch.tv/AmusedRelentlessFennelPlanking-4aSJAmFFXErZI_da
https://clips.twitch.tv/ConcernedShinySandpiperKAPOW-WroXbB4wvg7SmgCw
https://clips.twitch.tv/CrowdedTenuousPheasantKappaWealth-N5iRDe5siIir78mu

I don't know if anything can beat the time we all huddled in a circle to reload the righteous bison while looking down and then joining a casual server to terrorize while named different Storm Trooper units.

The bison has a very interesting reload when you look down...

Salut all, TF2CC is running our 4th newbie cup and we have 200+ accepted signups wanting a starter position!, our last cup had 24 teams and the forecast is that we're going to have more. Thus, we need more coaches to fill in the demand.

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 itsself 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.

This is a 4 week long commitment starting April 19th to May 19th. You will need to be available online around twice a week, and able to answer text questions from your team throughout. You can also request a co-coach to split responsibilities.

EU coaches are also welcome but you will have to work around NA times.

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) during the cup. We also are always looking for more event runners to have extra hands on deck.

If you're interested, join the TF2CC discord and apply for coach in the linked channel.

Merci!