.

Played with nonis in some horrible 5v5 koth reddit tournament. That's where I made my transition from only playing sniper in the arena RAGE server to playing demoman.

Then starry, ittybittykitty, pengi, gloom, shyguy, and myself formed a fairly short lived 6s team. They're all still really cool guys.

sal's cast of quantic vs mixup badlands

i think it was this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJvtXaLXjAE&list=PL06A045C2505ED09C&index=3

first competative game i ever watched and that got me in to it

I wanted to step up my scout game so I youtubed scout guides.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opJMTfataIA

after finding that one I searched up comp and remember reading slins scout guide and doing as much research as I could before I did my first lobby. I was so nervouse lol

OMFGNinja inspired me to become better at spy

pwnage.tv
it was the shit
rip

Blaze because I know him IRL

Tagg.

Met him in my community's pub (The Rabbit Hole/TRHServers), and kinda kept up with him and how he was doing as he progressed from TWL, to Open, to IM, and now into Invite.

Also helped my first team (Sunday Funday :<) when we were first starting out by going over maps with us and explaining the importance of pushing with advantages, telling certain hold locations, and watching the occasional demo or two.

method aka mitch

swedes after harbleu got him into comp tf2

john was talkng about it on kbmod

Around in 2010 I Played in a portuguese pub pretty often, and these guys (coinz and haunter) were raping so hard, decided to look them up and found their frag movie, they were kind of a big deal, this fragmovie is still one of my favourites

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4xR-7122x4

Only 2 years later in 2012 I really started playing competitive and got my first team

the highlander community challenge

i got dave_ into comp tf2. huehuehue

i think i was introduced to #tf2.gather.us 5 years ago by a clanmate named techy.

g0nz4

I asked how to get into comp tf2 on 1 of sal´s video´s. I can´t remember the name of the guy who explained everything to me on skype but i still remember that he´s 1 of the nicest guys i´ve ever met.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVSXo1BG28w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHHtEZWBJqQ

Was browsing around randomly on youtube and saw this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWVQA7RRafA

Wreath helped me make a pug group which spawned a few highlander/6v6 teams that i've been a part of

dopewolf and Fern

Watching leogeo's cast of this live got me into comp tf2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bgbnTLsl8kE#t=75s

2009, I was already aware of comp tf2 from Reptiles movie. I wanted to get better at soldier and learn how to airshot. Played a lot of ammomod that summer. I was a regular on Axl's Tf2 Custom Map server. Met a guy named SNoB. He invited me to play in an Axl's highlander pug. Shortly after that he started Tf2 Snobs, a pug group. Had no idea what the fuck I was doing but i loved it and met some cool ass people, including Nahanni. After that group died I moved on to CP Pugs (what a circle jerk mess that was). Met my friend Spyke on there and he invited me to play roamer on his team.

Team 3 / Bloodyiron. RIP 0-16 Cevo-p

Was early 2008 and I was getting sick of pubs (engineers were so overpowered!!) so I gave 6v6 a try, bloodyiron was willing to pick me up and we went 2-6 in CAL-o S1. woo!

StaleWaffle and the Blaqkl!ght Community

freddy/giffy and smire

The most recent ESEA LAN.

Had been playing for roughly a year, saw it on the TF2 subreddit, watched, then found a Steel HL team.

darn, now i hate him

Kevin "mackey" Mackey

Kisuno

think & thrill got me into comp

gr1m showed me that you could be better than just "good at pubs" at the game