mghughlaurieYou bring up a lot of countersniping which is actually not that important of a skill to have since there are so many other classes in HL that can kill the sniper. You can avoid the other sniper a lot of the time on some maps. Lets take a look at a scrim log on lakeside which is a heavy sniper map.
http://logs.tf/75302
I had 14 sniper kills which would seem like a lot but is only actually 22% of my kills and i was focusing on the other sniper whenever possible.
oh god dont remind me of that game