Sep. 18, 2007, I have no excuse for being this shitty at the game.

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I'm not sure what exactly what y'all are doing in terms of segregating newbies by skill - but it seems like there's still a lot of mixing true newbies with folks with a lot of UGC/pug/low-Open experience - I understand why but it probably is a little frustrating for a lot of coaches when a lot of players have really, really different needs for learning.

Some newbies don't know the names of locations or the utter basics of rollouts and advantages while others have the basics down but need to improve their gamesense or other aspects of the meta.

It might be good to segregate more stringently and have coaches take full groups of similar levels so everyone is equally engaged and make the coaching itself more rewarding - basically have coaches take all newbies or all advanced players.

Lots of times I played the coach wouldn't have much for half the team because they were so busy working on the utter basics with a player or two that they couldn't really offer much to the intermediate or advanced newbies.

I am looking to play videogames next season. Medic would be preferred. I wouldn't mind going back to scout in the right situation, either.

I played on No Homer's (7-9) last season, had a lot of fun and learned a lot. Unfortunately, it looks like everyone is going their separate ways.
I played med with No Sweat the season before (CEVO).
In S16 I played a bit of demo with a team that died rather quickly. I played a few seasons of UGC 6s as well.

http://play.esea.net/users/646338
http://cevo.com/member/118581/

I think my dodging and comms are improving. I would prefer to not do the maincalling for pushes and such.

You should know I am old, I have a 5-year-old kid and I work long hours.
I am almost always online by 9EST and am free just about every night, though.

Last I heard, the Atlanta LANfest had stopped supporting TF2, is there anything in the Southeastern US that does?

5'11"

That was really great.

Super chill, good guy and good teammate to have.

When my daughter was that age was probably the most video game time I've had since she was born. She was sleeping heavily through the night so I could easily get in a few hours from ~9-1am, go feed and change her, then go to bed - but she was always a really, really good sleeper.

Now that she's a lot older, I don't play anything until she's off to sleep and everything is taken care of, which means I usually barely make scrim times a lot of nights.

If I lived in a time zone other than EST I probably could not play TF2 competitively at all.

Like others said above, you can't put vidya games above family, but if this is what you like to do, you should carve out some time for yourself regularly and if this is what you like, do it.

mid - snake
second - gully
last - process

Played with larryyy

two seasons in UGC. He's got open-level DM skill and plays aggro but is pretty good at picking spots and and comms well. When needed, he can provide headshots.
If you need a scout, especially an aggro scout, give him a tryout!

I always want to play soldier, but the team's I've been on always need some other class and there are a million good soldiers out there, so I've had to do everything else.

Cool guy, give him a shot!

Really cool guy, will make a good teammate.

Not about the level (that's me on the other team, you know), it's that running demoknight got you guys to 3-5 in steel with a well-known and skilled demoknight.
While it's great and all that he can pull 330dpm by staying alive and cannonballing folks, the loss of area denial and burst damage meant the rest of your team got positively annihilated because we just flanked you to death and you couldn't do anything about it.

I'm sure there are going to be teams out there that can sorta make demoknight work, but I feel confident it's not going to be the norm, especially at high open and above.