http://teamfortress.tv/thread/20668/how-long-have-you-been-around

Edit: That thread asked about when people started playing in general, how they found out about competitive, and how long they've been playing competitive, but it's whatever.
One of my friends showed me The Orange Box in 2008 so I got that, then played on PC when it went f2p.

^ DrJeremy that thread is about when you started playing competitively, technically a different question

I started on retail release of Orange Box (fall 2007)

a friend told me about it in high school in 2010 and now I have like 4800 hours and he's disgusted and I'm disgusted

since f2p/uber update

Account created today + unrecognized link hmhmmm

The account is from March 2013, dude.

Christmas 2010, voted for 2011 because I essentially started playing in 2011.

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For those who don't remember when they bought tf2
https://store.steampowered.com/account/store_transactions

The first time I played TF2 was Christmas Eve 2007.

Jan 4, 2011: The Orange Box (Retail)

It's not even that long ago, but it was back when the Backburner did +15% damage, the FoS tanked 60% damage, the Powerjack did +25% damage, and the Flaregun's crits were dependent on range

Maybe it's a browser thing but this doesn't go back far enough for me, even though I know my date. I can only go back to about 2010.

When did they stop giving out those Merc medals? Those have the date right?

I played the free weekends of the medic, pyro, and heavy update, and finally my friend gifted me the game in September 2008.

I have no excuse for being as bad as I am.

http://i.imgur.com/JdI0kZG.jpg

I didn't get a pc that could play normal maps until late 2011/early 2012 though

Novemember 2012, came straight out of the Xbox 360 Orange Box competitive scene to the PC pub scene. Took me a year to realize PC had a comp scene.

February 7th, 2009. A friend from middle school got me to buy Garry's Mod, and subsequently TF2. The oldest thing I remember doing is playing on cashworks, and I still have no idea how I got into competitive. Probably from pubbing gravel pit all the time with typhus, which lead into watching cbear casts hah.

YOU'RE ONE TO TALK, I have over 6,000 hours :(. Fairly certain I've convinced myself I don't really have 6,474 hours in this game (in part because of idling and sitting with the game open for ages, also in part because I'm still awful at this game).

as soon as it became f2p, only comp for 1 year

Pretty sure I started in 2009. Started comp when I saw those UGC medals but then realized highlander is a not a fun gamemode.

Mac update

Around when the F2P Update came and still playing :)

april 2009

January 2012, saw one of Star's videos on it, started playing, bought an actually good PC, sold my xbox and started playing it as my go to game in early 2013.

Started playing with awful fps in January 2012 for fun with a couple of friends. I wasn't playing a lot until I watched the semi-final of the Highlander Nations Cup between France and Finland in 2012 casted by Pognon the one and only. That's what got me into the comp scene.

A couple people I knew in high school picked it up and I had another friend let me try out the game on his PC.
Downloaded it and started playing myself in April 2011.

April 2009. Saw a friend playing and it looked really interesting and unique, orange box was on sale for $5 or $10 and here I am 3300 hours later...

May 2008, christ I have been playing this game too long to still be garbage at it

started playing the xbox version and moved to the pc version in like 2010 or something.

i played when cyzer carnage was still good

Installed the game in the winter of 2011, after I got a computer that could run the game.