pretty cool idea - and i personally appreciate any educational content geared towards newer players.

however, i think you'd garner a lot more interest if you used video examples with voiceovers. Marxist does a stellar job with this on his youtube channel.

Please don't let it die like the Scout blog did.

I already do something similar on my channel but I just go through demos and anal(giggle)yze them, producing such a thing is quite time consuming for me and when I speak I struggle to explain things clearly and my enunciation gets quite poor. When I write everything is a lot easier for me as I have time to think.

I will start trying to incorporate some basic videos to get my points across when drawing in paint just doesn't cut it.

I don't know what Byte used but it worked really well for drawing on TF2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKR3U0ow-bEt=1m50s
If you can get that to work it would be cool. I mean he's on your team so you could ask him about it or something.

He will yell at me and call me a retard :'(

your pills*

Could have talked more about how to make traps less visible, e.g. above head height/corners/cones/inside rocks

Aww yeah.

Second post is up which I'm looking at badlands middle: http://warhuryeah.wordpress.com/2013/11/20/badlands-middle-control/

I've gone for something different and is more team orientated situation but from a demoman POV, again if you have any suggestions or if you have something you'd like me to write about, let me know.

Just read through your Badlands post, you have a very funny and engaging writing style that also conveys a lot of important information especially to me as a newer Demoman.

The diagram was very useful as well. While I agree videos could help, if all your articles are going to be like this, I don't think they're necessary.

Great work and I hope you continue to update it!

I love that now I can tell our demo to "stop being a pussy" and it can be an actual call.

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Really loved your writing style and although I don't main demo it was still very informative!

What I would recommend you doing is turning this into a YouTube series to reach a wider audience, maybe flying around the map with noclip with Byte's drawing tool to help demonstrate your point.

I disagree with balcony being the less favourable route. you're less vulnerable, more options for places to go if you get jumped, and you can still reach everywhere you can from train except for balcony but why you'd want to focus so much spam on the enemy demoman I don't know.

I find it as a more passive option, when you go balcony you are in a position where you cannot follow up that well and your team will rely on good team work with the soldiers and the scouts, it can be effective in a organised team but if your team is disorganised you can just find yourself with the enemy pushing over your team quickly.

I also focused on the normal route more because this method can transfer to other maps like gullywash and viaduct but I forgot to mention that part.

Read my earlier reply, I'd love to but it would take longer to produce as I've never done it before, and I feel a lot more comfortable explaining something in writing.

New post on positioning:

http://warhuryeah.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/learning-to-stand/

Again, keep leaving feedback.

wait, it wasn't before?

http://warhuryeah.wordpress.com/2013/12/11/how-not-to-die-in-the-first-5-seconds-of-granary-middle/

Another one, apologies for the delays. I'm toying and looking in to the possibility of doing some videos as well to complement some of my articles.

VIDEO WHAT?! (about gullywash middle)

http://warhuryeah.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/gullywash-middle-overview-video/#more-100

AWWW YUSSSS: http://warhuryeah.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/your-set-up-as-demoman/

How to pipe:

http://warhuryeah.wordpress.com/2014/02/11/how-to-hit-all-your-pipes-by-following-this-simple-guide/

Just wanted to say thanks for doing these, always entertaining and usually informative reads :)

A blog about killing shit:

http://warhuryeah.com/2014/03/04/decimating-the-opponents/

if I put as much time and effort as I do with TF2 into building a boat I could have built a massive yacht by now

The most valuable lesson of them all. Thanks WAR.

War, what is the best way to call your teammates uneducated scrubs for telling you that you're overextended?

Best way I can describe it - Get them in STV of the game you "overextend in", then watch every players position then ask the question "why couldn't you guys be that far up to support me?"

Then, listen to the excuses...then realise some are bullshit (too busy reloading rockets, scared to come in if someone is looking at them, checking if an imaginary scout is behind, capping when a scout can do it) and then hopefully one day they might snap, like I did in a Div 5 game and realised if I followed up my retarded roamer who is suicidally aggressive, I can get easy frags as none of them shoot me. We beat a Div 2 team on that day.

....Or maybe you legit overextend cos you don't pay attention to your teammates position, no matter how slow they are at pushing - got to push as a team bro.

I call them drosophiles.

http://warhuryeah.com/2014/04/23/understanding-viaduct/

It's been a while...

Really great article on Viaduct, thanks for writing it! I don't feel wholly comfortable on koth maps usually, but this is really helpful and this is amazing.

Thanks, I put trainers on them so you know they're the scouts, they run a lot.