By several hours a day I mean something between 2 and 5. Definately more than 20 hours in 14 days.

But of course I understand that teams want to take people with experience, I'm just looking to get into the best environment possible to improve.

Oh, don't judge me by my tf2 stats pls. I have no idea why but they are messed up to no end.
First of all it says I have 2 years of service. But when I started, egypt didn't exist.
Once I idled for 3 days and nights straight to see if something was wrong, I got 20 hours added to my total play time. By feeling and estimated maths I'm pretty sure I should be around 1500-maybe 2000+ hours. I have friends at 1000 who play much, much less than me.
I played several hours like every day except a few days last week for the past several weeks.

This all sounds silly, but I play much more than steam thinks I do. I don't like it either.

Yeah I will maybe make another thread in the mentoring section

Thanks a lot, will definately add you. I don't remember MGEing you, what do you alias as?

I don't think my aim is THAT horrible, but it's not perfect so I MGE to improve it. Especially my pistol aim is pretty horrible I think.

Before I accidentally deleted everything I did that all the time. Usually, after a good match I remember every time I got a kill or I died, so I usually check the demo afterwards to see what I did right/wrong.

That's another reason why I wanna go beyond MGEing and DMing only when there's no PUG available. I always try to play smart but of course in MGE there's not that many ways to outsmart the enemy. It's even shittier when everything is just empty. Sometimes there's like 4 people on every MGE server playing bball, no one on any DM server, pickup.net is down to some issue and nobody votes me on pug.na. I remember during that time I spent some time memorizing all the map position names, watch rollout videos and play on some better pubs, but I'm sure playing proper matches with a team is more useful than that.

Because Renhet said it on page 1.

There is like 1 dm server I know that I have less than 150 ping to.
Kind of obvious that a team helps getting better, that's why I'm looking for one.
But if the general consensus is to always join at the bottom, I guess I will see if any div6/open team is looking for a scout.

Ok so this is the current situation:
I believe myself to be a half decent scout by now and since I don't feel like playing pubs all day anymore I'm playing PUGs most of the time now.

I'm thinking about finally joining a team, however, I don't even know if I'm actually good or shit because I have no one to tell me. I usually do well in pickup.net PUGs, but due to server issues I couldn't play a lot lately. I try to get into pug.na sometimes, but I guess as a NN your chances to be picked are near 0. Or maybe I was just unlucky.
I MGE like 1-2 hours a day to make my aim less terribad and because it takes so long to get into a PUG anyway. I win like 99% of scout vs scouts and 90% of scout vs soldiers on the average server, but it's not like I'm playing invite people there and it doesn't gain me any experience of actual matches. So still no way to know if I'm poop or not. I also do not have half of invite in my friends list to annoy.
I don't feel like joining some div6 ETF2L or low open ESEA team if I could actually do better. I also don't feel like going to ETF2L and apply for some high div and get shit on by everyone in the comments.

Bottom line: I would appreciate some advice from people with experience on where to apply.
And if some mentor has nothing better to do than to help me get better, that would be very cool.

My long-term goal is to become a top scout so if you wanna help me with that, I'll be sure to give you a free bag of nuts of destruction once I won LAN.

Whenever I start a thread, it's a wall of text, enjoy your read, I'm going back2videogames.

Dat triple air.

Idk man, winning a ranked tf2 game sounds pretty rewarding to me. I also don't think there will be any shooter in the next couple generations to contest tf2 for me. If by reward you just mean money; I think winnign any amount of cash by being good at tf2 is pretty dope. It's not like anyone is gonna starve without tf2 money.

Yes

Woah, this was such a good speech, it made me edit my hatepost.
gg ruwin

-I was being unnice, I edit this to politely state that I strongly disagree with the quoted post-

I hear talking but I don't hear adding!

Can someone sticky this and call the thread "comprehensive scout guide by Ruwin" (and some other people talking)?

4.7

Lol. Someone add this man, he possesses the perseverance and refractoriness a good pyro needs.