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This is an old selfie of me with some fat white kid.

when/why did you lose passion to play tf2 (or just video games) at a high level.

Their scouts are good at clicking. Jinta hits his shots. Everyone on this team that I've talked to seemed nice and chill. Also they got rid of discario so they are actually good now (fuck that guy).

Side question, how important is lerp for hitscan? When I play roamer and off class to sniper, I still have 15.2 lerp. Would changing it to 33 (or whatever standard hitscan interp is) make a big difference in registration? Also, do I need to join spec to change it or can it be in my config.

hits shots like a mad man

My team. Well after the mid season crisis of cutting our med and 2 other players leaving, our team has vastly improved. Monkeysuit has seen the potential so he has decided to play scout, and we are looking pretty good. We have beaten 6 out of the 8 teams we've scrimmed that are currently top 16 in power rankings. We beat syops twice, but we rang delpo on pocket and I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt that they were having a bad day (dflame had some shitty stats). Other high open teams that want to scrim add me here to schedule.

And to clear any misconceptions
This is not what I wanted nor planned on happening. I wanted to play my first season of open with some friends, then some fucking dumb shit happened, and now my team is stacked, and I'm surrounded by players better than me. I didn't cut anyone that I didn't think needed to be, people just left. I probably would still have cereal and evening on my team if they didn't leave.

On to the questions.

How's the difficulty of schedules and the new matchups thus far?
Pretty easy. Since our team changed on a 3-5 note, we are playing teams around 3-5 level, although with this roster I think we are more of a 6-2 type of team.

If your team died (I know a couple have), what happened (please keep it civil)?
Well it didn't die but it got pretty close. I cut out med due to his attitude and 2 other players left because of me cutting him/our performance/other factors.

Have you guys been improving a ton since you've started playing in the season?
I can't speak for us as a team because roster changes, but I think me currently would shit on me 2 months ago by a large margin.

What has stopped you from improving, if something is?
At the moment alosec is having issues with connecting to NFO servers (no idea, he was talking to tragic for hours trying to fix it) so we've had to ring people a lot. I think we are still getting better but it still is a hindrance.

Has anything on ESEA caused trouble while playing?
not really, I guess the occasional server lag but that's mostly gone now.

How do you feel about playing in ESEA?
It's miles more fun than UGC. I've played 1 season in UGC and I can't say I miss it. Everyone seems to give a shit and people actually scrim. Also it's a lot harder to get fucked over in scheduling.

What have you noticed about your team that has made it very fun?
Everyone is super chill. No one gets mad at one another and we all are trying to fix our flaws.

Same question, but what has made you guys improve?
Scrimming for 5 nights a week. We have had to have a ringer for a lot of it, but me personally, I feel I improved a shit ton just DM wise. And I'm finally starting to not just die for no reason.

Sorry for wall of text :-\

quick edit: alias is tojo on esea. Trying to fully re-alias :-\

blaze can definitely play heal class well and cereal hits rockets when he actually practices soldier. Try them out for sure.

Yea I would totally watch some good IM players or even like high open playoffs type of stuff.

A bit late but who cares. I think my first mistake was deciding to jump right into open. I played 1 season of iron 6's and HL before playing this season. Second mistake was probably running a team. I have no leadership skills and I don't have the heart to cut someone if I like them as a person. Third mistake was creating the team with 4 other friends from a pug group. I really enjoy all of them as people and playing tf2 with them is fun, but a serious competitive team is a lot different than occasional pugs.

Recently I cut our medic (well he sort of quit, he yelled "cut me" after a scrim where he dropped on purpose and kill binded to prove a point) for being rather toxic. Everyone (besides me and one other dude) really liked him so it was a domino effect. His departure (and other reasons that I've been recently made aware of) caused another teammate to leave which caused another to leave. Monkeysuit and I didn't have trouble finding three more gamers but I feel shitty. I feel like this team of me just playing in open with some friends really turned into me wanting to win open (which is unrealistic to begin with) and I've become a dick. And I think some of the people that quit or were cut are not on good terms with me which was the last thing I wanted to happen.

Our new team with a pretty much fresh roster is much better than the old one but I miss playing with my friends and I feel like I fucked them over. Also I don't really know anyone on MY team and that feels wrong. We recently beat victorious secret in our first scrim with this roster so I'm confident in our ability to make playoffs. Other than my own idiocy and drama, playing tf2 against players better than me is super fun and challenging. But at the moment the stress of this roster bullshit is out weighing my enjoyment of the game. Next season I'm hoping I can just join a mid-high open team without the fuckery or just stop grinding tf2 and play csgo on an open team.

EDIT: no longer looks like a wall of text

Patrol is the greatest. Try him out pls

I blame monkeysuit for not letting me attempt to make top 21 :-\

Really easy to work with. Takes criticism into account and has improved a ton. When he actually warms up he doesn't miss. Even high open teams should try yung marty out.

EDIT: forgot he is an incredible pug spy 10/10

I've known this guy for a while and his scout DM is very solid but he just does the dumbest shit. Please teach him how to play so he can win video games.

Hey, after some roster changes I'm playing demo this season instead of roamer. Monkeysuit is our pocket and he is very knowledgeable, but he can't really help me as much 1 on 1 becaue he doesn't play the class. A long term mentor would be cool but I have match Thursday and I need to know why my performance is so lacking (example 1,
and 2). Anyone with a season or two in high open or IM on demo would be sweet. Add me here. Thanks!
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BUMP NEED SOMEONE FOR PROCESS WEEK