Bump to get this back to first page.

I'd be down for helping out in anything, too.

I'm back in the US, so gonna give this a bump.

Gollywobbler is a Medic that has the pleasant combination of both mechanics and mentality. He is a very sound player: he has good surfs and can hit clutch arrows. His uber tracking is also quite good, and he has very good "uber awareness" (how ubers are going, milking, flashes, etc.). Perhaps more importantly, he always carries a sunny disposition with him to Mumble and when your Medic is happy, that makes the team happy. Golly doesn't tilt and I've never heard him say anything disruptive to his teammates ever. Always focused on the task at hand, and how to get better at said task at hand. He has moments of indecisiveness, which can get you killed at the Medic position, but he's a dedicated player who puts time into reviewing and seeking advice, and his decision-making ability has improved exponentially over the last two seasons. Being on a team with an established and experienced maincaller Pocket will do wonders for him and take his development to the next step.

Blazing is beyond his years in terms of his raw ability. I've watched him hit insane shots and sometimes win fights by himself. He will not miss a step at the high-Open pace and his mechanics will make him a strong "core" member of a team. He's also a quick learner, which is a scary combination to have for someone so new to the game. Blazing will voice his pleasure and displeasure with situations, and the latter is something that needs to be kept in check by a team leader - it can sometimes cause Mumble issues, but I have faith he's continued to mature as a teammate since I first met him back in S21. Oh and he also has some disturbing Internet trouble at times, to the extent I thought he was Canadian but apparently he's not. Still, it's not struck disaster during matchtime so that's good. He should be a good project for any Open team trying to ascend to the next level.

Okay Scizor that was just ridiculous.

Hello there.

Having 3 consecutively bad seasons leaves a sour taste in my mouth, so I want to rinse that out by playing on a team for S23. The last few seasons my play was exceptionally poor and inconsistent but I'm going to try and fix that moving forward. The key change is I'm not maincalling (anymore) - I could go on about why I've had to on past teams and how it's ruined my confidence but that's irrelevant. I've been trying to escape the calling ghosts for seasons and would finally like to put those demons to rest. Ideally I just click / heal teammates, track / call ubers, and learn / win. No division preference, especially given that I haven't proven I can perform well at an IM level (my pathetic S19 and S21 play speak for themselves) but if I have teammates that communicate well, care about improvement, and have good personalities (aren't toxic / bad losers), it doesn't matter if I'm on a 1-15 IM team or a playoffs Open team.

Past experience includes Chilling in North Korea (S13-15), Mumble Robots (S19), and BLANC Esports (S18 / 20-21). And I'll postface this by saying that I won't be in the United States until August 2nd, which is during the break before playoffs, but I wanted to post this a little earlier. Should be a good time to get back into the swing of things either way. If all else fails, I will pursue my long-standing dream of playing Soldier in low-low-low-Open.

Thanks for reading. Add me over at:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/Terywj/

Traditionally clearly inactive / dead rosters have never been included with the playoff count assuming that you notify tri about it early.

Why aren't you banned yet. Mana what is this shit.

That's because Invite is always 9 teams. IM isn't supposed to be the bare minimum, it just happened to scrape by with 17 teams this season (don't forget CS divisions are massive). There have been plenty of doubles during the regular seasons of IMs past. Also, they went back to the old school scheduling of only randoming the first 4 matches so it makes sense there's a bigger chance to get rematches.

Audie and Huck together forever.

All of my past teammates have been wonderful people but if I must single a few out I would love to play with radium, and the Chilling in North Korea crew (Abstand, joshin, brownstone, jodd, sv_n). Most of them are actually making (or already on) an Overwatch team, so that's pretty cool.

You're missing the point.

S11: Wanting to get into the competitive scene, I joined a team of primarily Smash Bros. players aptly called Super Hash Bros. We barely got to scrim, had roster / life problems through the entire season, but hey we won a game! icTus was also on this team, so he's one of my longest-running TF2 friends.

S12: After the unfortunate series of events in S11 the team wouldn't keep going. I however wanted to play again, but decided to focus on school instead. Radium was going to use the roster for his team Wutang Financial, so I would end up backing up for that team. I joined Mumble and watched the team scrim whenever I could, and even had the honor of having to emergency ring in a match. College Internet then gave me 200 ping and as a result forced me to play a fragging class on the worst map in existence (Ashville's CP version) where I wracked up a devastating 3 frags. Because if you thought I was garbage at fragging classes now, hoo boy... Regardless, this was a season where I just absorbed knowledge about the game, and I consider it my 2nd most important season ever.

S13-S15: These three seasons were spent with Chilling in North Korea, a team that I would end up leading around halfway through S13. Looking back I'd probably say my time with NK was some of the very best I've ever had. Teamleading and teambuilding came somewhat natural to me, and even though we never made playoffs in any of those seasons, I grew significantly as a player both technically and mentally. In particular, I achieved breakout performance (by my standards) in S15, putting up really good numbers in a plethora of matches, ending the season with like a 2:1 uber-death ratio, and a perfect game (technically two, but the first was from a laughingstock of a "match" where client issues fucked us continuously and we spent pretty much the entire map holding last lol).

S16: Hahahahaha. I played 200 ping Medic from Hong Kong on a matches-only team (under the NK flag) because of the ESEA vs. CEVO bullshit. Look where that got us...

S17: Coming back from Hong Kong, I would end up starting on bsc's team Spacelobsters AKA Octopus Emporium v2 AKA "Hans Fan Group" (thanks defiance). The team had players like seymour, tooth, vortex, and of course the octopus extraordinaire himself. I learned a lot about higher-level play with these guys, and I would (justifiably) be cut briefly before the halfway point. I spent the latter half of the season playing with kace and Avast's team 1K MPH Ass after radium left the team. We had a good time together, and this would be the first building block in creating my next team. Because of my first exposure to high-Open, and the foundation for S18, S17 was the most important one in my career.

S18: Having talked to Avast and SpaceCadet, the three of us would decide to form a team with hopes of reaching IM. We'd meet Shiki and karova, who were trying to build their own team and we joined forces, picking up Highlander superstar Comanglia on the way. Karova would end up leaving due to not having fun on Scout, and Comanglia would follow with personal issues, and I got reilly / dango and vortex to take their place. Fun fact, BLANC Esports was always just a placeholder team name, but because no other alternatives ever really came about the name stuck. Anyway, this was a pretty good season, though not free of some internal issues, but I doubt a lack of those would have altered the end result of losing first round of playoffs. A personal milestone for me this season was ending the (regular) season with sub-100 deaths.

S19: The combination of not being promoted into IM and some of the team problems from before would result in the BLANC split. Afterwards I somehow make my IM debut with Mumble Robots. I can't even remember what other teams I tried out for before joining them but anyway. I thought it would be a learning season, but serious personality conflicts and other shenanigans would devour the team from the inside. The team would quietly go through the remainder of the season as a pugscrim team pretty much, even winning a match along the way.

S20-S21: A return to teamleading with new iterations of BLANC Esports. I would pickup my first playoff win in S20, and another IM berth in S21. Even though both versions of the team were pretty strong and played pretty well throughout, I played like DOGSHIT and had been doing so on the regular since S19. S21 in particular was painful because I have vivid memories of dropping the ball in various matches (though S20 wasn't free of those either - hell, I don't have a single match in those two seasons that I'm proud of or happy about), and those were added to / with various team problems (bon3's lack of drive, Crasian's arm falling off every other week, etc.). I had already made plans to cut myself from the team after the end of the season and give my boys the roster, but then I found out I was gonna be in Hong Kong for S22 anyway so that worked out nicely.

S22: I am enjoying this casual retirement from TF2, and to be honest my interet in the game has never been lower. I barely watch matches, though I am watching Dreamhack as I write this. I'm unsure as to what I want to do when I'm back for next season. Part of me wants to rinse the bad taste in my mouth of three consecutive seasons of awful Medic play, and the other part of me wants to terrorize low-low-Open and pursue my Soldier dreams. We'll see.

Vand you're the best for always keeping us in the loop. And also because you are in fact, the best. \o/