Actually about a week ago saloon.tf made survey, one of the questions said along the lines of

And clearly from what you said it is, which is amazing :D

Yeah we should reach out to these guys on popular trading sites / servers or something.

i dont use the website myself, but is there stream links on casted matches people can bet on?

Yes

I tried once, the guy refused to download mumble "Because it gives you viruses" and unfriended me

To be fair there is a pretty common scam that asks people to download a fake mumble and play, he probably just thought it was that

I'd be less frustrated if it were that, but I directly linked him to the mumble website and he still remained stubborn

If you have to give one thing to scammers, they aren't ever short of ideas.

when i used to make dumb youtube clips of pug fragclips when the game was still fairly new, random people in pubs would thank me for introducing them to 6s, and i found that really surprising considering all they did was watch a highlight reel

also i helped in newbie mixes once, and i highly recommend other people to pitch in and help because that's a huge pool of players that actually want to get into the competitive side and are looking to start out

The EVL Battle Royale's. As one of the head director's of the event, it's a great introduction for new players to be matched up with competitive players. It's a good feeling when you have former newbies thank you for putting on such an event to help get them into competitive TF2.

I'm moved :')
Thanks for sharing, it really does motivate me to work after dealing with complaints and other negative stuff.

the other night I was talking to this guy in a pub about competitive and someone started talking about how I have no life and I spend all my time playing competitive tf2.
that's basically every time i mention comp in valve pubs

I pub a ton, and over the months I've built a fairly sizable group of friends I always pub with. They started asking me about comp and stuff after I made some allusions to my involvement in it. Eventually they wanted to make a team themselves with me, the only caveat is I have to play highlander, which has turned out to be fun in it's own way. They love comp, and we've won our first two steel games :3 So that's how I introduced 8 people to competitive.

I have a couple hundred followers on Tumblr, mostly TF2 fans since my whole lack of a life revolves around the hat simulator. Every now and then other than SFM crap, I'd write about my early adventures in competitive. A couple of people who were curious about it/also played would ask me stuff or send me messages about what I thought about things. I'd respond back with my personal experiences, as well as resources from here and there. I would get Thank You messages and how their experiences went from a few people who started playing comp with a team or in their first lobbies; a Pyro who started playing in the HL Open and did UGC for a bit, a Medic whose team did well on a Highlander LAN, and a Medic who asked me for advice before trying out a lobby and - thank the sweet Lord Jesus - had a good experience.

Me and Jerm - who also does Tumblr rambles about the hat simulator for folks who ask questions and knows way more than I do - wanted to channel the comp attention from our personal blogs onto something more linear and focused. After a couple of months we recently banded together to make the resource-based Competitive TF2 Tumblr when fuckyeahTF2 sort of slowed down on the coverage. We hit 200+ followers on the first day, and we had a fella let us know that they had a good time learning about Highlander during the HL Newbie Mixes that happened last week.

i'm always trying to get people into competitive, be it highlander or 6s. Sometimes i'd simply direct them towards some links like playcomp.tf and some guides specific to their classes. But i remeber dozens of times, where i explained the different leagues across the world & their respective divisions. It's great to meet someone a few months later randomly on an MGE server telling you that he won div5 or whatnot last season and is looking forward to the next one.

My biggest success was probably the mentoring sessions i did for hgihalnder pyros a few months back, although other other people might curse me for breeding more of this hellspawn. Either way i've mentored more pyros than i can count on hands & feet - some of which are playing towards the top level now.

There are so many players in MGE and other places who don't actually play comp, i'd advise you to give them some tips & recommend them towards competitive tf2 instead of just shitting on them and leaving the map telling them how shit they are.

A month or two ago, when Muselk posted that video about lobbies, I tried to go through as many of the comments as I could, encouraging those that showed any interest to try it as well as some basic advice for lobbies and for following the competitive scene in general. Probably didn't have much of an affect, but even if one person played a few lobbies and got interested in comp than it's worth it.

a couple years ago i was in a trade server and this other scout and I kept running into each other and DMing. my DM at the time was barely even mid open so I wasn't too hard to impress, but seeing a random pubber with good aim and movement was interesting to see. I ran into him on star's server a little while later, added him on steam, and told him that he should try competitive tf2. That motherfucker made IM before I did.

i love you silkthread.

Yeah, after Muselk posted that vid I tried joining lobbies where I saw people with very few hours/lobbies played. I always tried to encourage them to go to mumble so I could guide them a bit but because they were new and European I only managed to get one medic once. He didn't talk but at least he listened to me and I think he enjoyed the lobby as well. After about 3-4 attemps, I stopped. The games were either a roll for us with me getting a ridiculous KA/D and damage or a painful game where I was left in 1v6 situations all the time.