i was 13 when i first started playing comp. 15 now

weeaboos

yes

I don't need it
I DON'T need it....

I NEEEEEEEEEED IT

actually unbelievable. woke up this afternoon thinking that all of the matches except c9 vs clg were clear who would win and I actually let out the loudest laugh when I saw the NiP got dominated by some random nobodies.

I only started to seriously want to get better at this game when it's dying and highlander likely only has one, maybe two more seasons until it'll be like two divisions or something stupid

warning, almost completely highlander only story here

During the late portion of 2013 and the first half of 2014, I was a casual TF2 player - traded a lot, frequented a server chain called PPM for trading. Occasionally, the admins of that server would have a pub session, and I really had fun during those pubs - it was during a time where I wasn't very good but I was getting the basics of spy down. Coincidentally, slemnish pubbed there as well and he always seemed like the player that you want on your team. After a few weeks of pubbing with these guys, I noticed that a few of the friends I had made on that server chain had a steel highlander team - ProPain. I had very little confidence in being able to play at what I perceived at the time was a good level of playing and I had no idea how competitive TF2 works, but I was interested.

Fast forward a season or two, and I decided I wanted to give competitive a shot. I didn't want to start in Iron, because I had heard that iron is for players that are super new to the game and don't know the basics of their class very well. I had a decent grasp that the heavy demo and pyro stays with the medic, and what pick classes should be going for the most etc. So I put up and LFT thread in steel, and got added by maxie - sculpt at the time. I tried out for his team on snakewater (jesus christ this was cancer now that I look back) and I had a lot of fun. I got picked up because the other spy tryout was somehow even worse than I was. Anyway, we did really well in the first bit of the season. I got cut around week 9 for our sub spy because my team realized how bad I was

The next three seasons I didn't take seriously at all. I played on various different teams in s14 and eventually ended up playing steel soldier for malicious citrus. I didn't really have fun and decided soldier wasn't the class for me. In s15 I subbed for a silver team that went 4-5 because their main spy missed a good amount of scrims, so I got play time here and there. In season 16 I was starting to get better for sure, and I subbed for another silver team, although a bit better. I was getting better more and more as the season went on, and in season 17 I finally mained for another team. This was during the summer season of 2015, and I met a few players that did end up exceeding me in the future. Off of the top of my head, rush comes to mind, as he won the gold bracket in s19. We didn't do that well in s17 and ended up all going our separate ways after our 5-3 finish - which wasn't that bad considering we had to play a team that would go on to be top 4 in gold the next season.

In season 18 I tried out for a team of a bunch of good players that I hadn't heard of until then, most of which I'm still friends with today. I got picked up on the team that I ended up leading the next 2 seasons because of the original leader quitting TF2 and nobody else wanting to lead. The first season, we only finished 2-2 despite very strong scrim results against other top teams - unfortunately one of them refused to scrim us because of personal beef. The team died the first season because of players that definitely are not the most calm people under pressure, and after we lost to dragon tales - a team we usually beat in scrims - and then papa jogn's no knock pizza delivery -a team we usually dismantled in scrims - there was no motivation. Some of the more experienced players on the team left to sub for teams in higher divisions, and I got an offer from dragon tales to sub for them, which I took. They ended up just missing out on placement by 1 round of viaduct.

Season 19 was my breakout season. I decided I didn't want to go LFT again, and I made my own team - a continuation of the one that died in s18. Our original roster definitely wasn't a strong as it was near the end of the season, and in the beginning of the season I had no belief that we would have the roster we did. I ended up being able to secure a bunch of established players, and they carried me to a 3rd place gold bracket victory (thanks mirrorman).

Season 20, I was going to try to continue the team I lead, but it ended up flopping when almost none of the players that I originally had wanted to stay, and many of them ended up joining pretty good teams. I rang for a few gold teams in the preseason of s20, and did really well against a few particular platinum teams - a huge boost to my confidence. I tried out for a team that was probably going to be low gold, and I knew that I wouldn't be happy with their final record, but I decided to at least give it a shot to show people that I'm not _that_ bad. The team died in preseason unfortunately, and I managed to get myself a backup spot on a team that was thought to be low-mid plat and ended up making the top 4 of platinum. I got to play a few scrims and did alright, and I even got to play the millstone match against dK and held my own despite us losing without taking a round. This pretty much sums up everything, as I'm still on that team a few days before playoffs start, not knowing what I'm going to do next season.

sorry for lolhl

literally the worst soldier unlock to play against

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how will i ring on an alt and impersonate someone on the roster now

sorry he's mine

maining spy

was his name saam