The feeling you get when you win a really tough match is incredible.

The gameplay, really.

Also the fact that after many many hours the game still makes me laugh when something silly or totally random happens

Great Casters casting a great match

You get to have a bad rep, wreck someone who thinks you are bad, and they'll feel awful for losing to you.

gameplay but i think i squeezed all what i can get from this game, still really fun though

also if you really like the drama in this game you need to go check out some other communities where some other super wild shit happens because honestly tf2 is pretty tame when it comes to like shit getting real

Pretty much this. I'll never forget the day we took down Reason http://etf2l.org/matches/60019/

all the crazy plays at LAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPQlXNH36mI

When I'm streaming I'm sat there bouncing in my chair going HOOO at all the airshots and stuff. Dashner can confirm from all my "REPLAY DAT" shouts at LANs.

Alex "Lange" Van Camp.

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I like my team :>

The air control feels better and smoother then any game i've ever played. The simplicity of it is very easy to understand when you first start playing, but once you start to really learn how to move well, its insane how high the ceiling is. It also allows people to move in a very unique way and create their own style, which i think is really cool.

The fact that TF2 can be played in a actual organised manner in competitive unlike in pubs

Drama :^)

The true power that could be unlocked from every class (except for pyro, engi, and heavy. they take 0 skill lmao).

rocket jumps

The huge skill ceiling on all of the classes

The airshots, the skill ceilings, the movement, and playing with legends like "Bren" himself

playing pubs with friends, then starting a pug group with them, and finally forming a team with them to play in leagues. tf2 was my first competitive game so it was all new to me.

also the frag / meme videos.

chilling in mumble with my team.

playing med cuz u dont have to aim

owning noobs

The closeness of the community - at some point in our careers, we have all probably went out to teach someone new how to play our game/meta.

Verticality. The air control, airshots, big bombs, insane fast rollouts, massive sack waves on Viaduct, shooting scouts out of the air, mindblowing midair crossbows at the last second.

Crippling depression

Being able to downfrag indecency

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The fact that we're not motivated by money. We're here because we (hopefully) want to be here. If it's not because of the game, it's because of the people we meet.

As I like to quote now, the Sloth eSports guy at GXL complimented the TF2 players there, and went on to say "I got in a fist fight at a CS LAN once."

med picks

i miss lange :(