i saw snowblind in a pub and googled his name

The highlander open was being advertised and i decided to join a team for it, we used tf2c for our one scrim we had, only played two matches and then i joined a ugc team afterwards for the fall season

Was browsing random games at twitch and found slins stream, kept watching for few days and really liked how it looked and was played. After like 1 week i made a recruitment post on etf2l.

The yogscast yearly mix-up :,D

used to play on a NA community server, bumped into Kwazi, who asked me to play philosoraptor pugs, organized by the rock of the NA tf2 comp scene, Kalkin, amazing times with really cool people, who'd be in Tony hawk Pro Skaters, which later became x6, Kalkin set me up with a team to play in TWL div 4,where we got to scrim maps like Pro_dustbowl. And well, from there, it only went downhill.

I kept seeing players in pubs with fancy medals and I wanted some for myself

I played a few TF2Center lobbies as pyro and then decided to compete in the Archimedes Cup last January. Haven't looked back since.

Meatshot 8) vol.2

i am soooo gut, i can play pyro with kd 50:25 on valve pubs, i want to play against skilled players
google, tf2mid.cz, tf2center.com

Watched some of Star_'s stuff; made an iron HL team with a bunch of online friends from other places. Played demo because no one else wanted to.

That team eventually picked up Nursey somehow. GGs.

Damn... it was such a long time ago, I can't even remember... Maybe it was some stream by Team Empire back in 2008, not sure. If I recall correctly -AA- Gideon was casting and streaming for that org. So shoutout to him :D.

A childhood friend had just won div 3 in etf2l and wanted some irl friends to get involved, so about 5 of us got the game and tried it out in mostly pubs. A couple of us got thrown in at the deep end with about 30 hours in the game each to a div 3 mix, they all hated getting shouted at for not knowing calls on badlands and pretty much never played again. I got hooked and here I am almost 4 years later.

I saw Salamancer's cast of Quantic Legacy vs Classic Mixup and was intruiged from then on.

Thanks Sal, for opening a new world of TF2 for me

jaegers way old jump tutorials and that one video with the best medic at the time whose name i forgot
oh yeah and wonderlands jump_littleman video
edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN99Al_rRnI

i talked with 2nuts on a low grav orange server (didnt know who he was or what comp was at that moment) and he said he a match tonight and i could tune in,and so i did.
addicted to competitive in any game since that

people talked about yz50 in a pipeline pub like 20 hours into my tf2 experience, I googled him and watched his frag vid

I wanted to get super good and be better than mangachu and make fun of him

im fucking terrible

I actually started playing tf2 for jumping/competitive I barely played pubs I just did jump maps and after awhile mge

Had a friend play in CEVO ~2009 told me about it, started watching videos as I didn't exactly have time to play back then. Interest kinda died around late 2010 started watching again in late 2011 or early 2012 decided I wanted to play HL after watching this platinum all star match https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07GfhRY6Cfo

my first season consisted of me playing scout/soldier/demo/heavy/sniper for 6 weeks (I got to play scout twice) in UGC HL S7 in steel...

Eventually got tired for playing for HL teams that died after 1 season, took a 3 month break and decided to play for a 6s team.

The Highlander Community Challenge in 2010

Used to only mess around on trade and dr servers (lol) and i managed to catch i52 on stream which sparked my interest.

tf2.com.pl

i was playing with euro friends on arena servers 24/7 until one day a friend of mine named caneD (whom i apparently played ps3 tf2 with. i never knew lol) asked me and another friend of mine to play on his etf2l team which we agreed to

extine's america vs europe documentary vid

Watching the UGC Highlander Season 6 Platinum Grand Finals got me into competitive TF2 before I even really played the game at all and I got familiar with top players like ruwin, Platinum, b4nny, yz50, cyzer etc.

My first ever 6v6 team almost 3 years ago was with Scizor and Rolling too. Really cool to see them still involved with TF2.

Don't remember how, but I just stumbled upon the stream for the S10 Grand Finals between Quantic and Mixup. Kept up with the following season immensely before I started giving 6s and HL a try.

Newbie mixes. Decided to join up in one, one day. Shoutout to pie_hero for being a sick coach. Then got addicted to 6's via cc//, broder and Epsilon games.

A guy in a pub had a "comp.tf" tag on their name. It sounded interesting, so I visited the site.

wait...this actually works?

playing esl gather(pickups) in 2008