What was your first experience in competitive TF2?

#1

Rustik

0 Frags – +

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My first competitive experience was in the valve matchmaking system itself (not really much to say) with the usual valve server silence that goes on leading to a lack of communication, but it still felt pretty cool to help work as a team when the teams are actually balanced in Valve's system.

Though I'm guessing that most of you experienced it through the third party sites, and if so what was your first game(s) like? What site did you use?

And if you're wondering why I've been posting a lot, its because I eventually want to become a prominent member of the community ;)

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Title

My first competitive experience was in the valve matchmaking system itself (not really much to say) with the usual valve server silence that goes on leading to a lack of communication, but it still felt pretty cool to help work as a team when the teams are actually balanced in Valve's system.

Though I'm guessing that most of you experienced it through the third party sites, and if so what was your first game(s) like? What site did you use?

And if you're wondering why I've been posting a lot, its because I eventually want to become a prominent member of the community ;)

#2

Loser

-142 Frags – +

So many shitty threads

#3

kirby

-1 Frags – +

Playing in a steam pug group on cp_waste.

#4

Almie

55 Frags – +

LoserSo many shitty threads

what's so wrong about this thread? if this is how the community's gonna welcome all new players interested in comp then you can say bye bye to tf2 comp ever growing into a real esport.

[quote=Loser]So many shitty threads[/quote]
what's so wrong about this thread? if this is how the community's gonna welcome all new players interested in comp then you can say bye bye to tf2 comp ever growing into a real esport.

#5

JayKay

2 Frags – +

Played some highlander with some friends I met in pubs then played on my first 6s team in TWL when that was still a thing.

#6

brody

0 Frags – +

my first scrim ever i owned shamoo

found it http://sizzlingstats.com/stats/202734 this was also the last time i did well in a scrim

my first scrim ever i owned shamoo

found it http://sizzlingstats.com/stats/202734 this was also the last time i did well in a scrim

#7

toads_tf

18 Frags – +

played a 6s game on tf2center as medic

rest of team was drunk in mumble, and i had no fucking idea how to play competitive

ended up getting around 8 needle frags with a drop, and i dropped once and no ubers

drunk team thought it was hilarious

played a 6s game on tf2center as medic

rest of team was drunk in mumble, and i had no fucking idea how to play competitive

ended up getting around 8 needle frags with a drop, and i dropped once and no ubers

drunk team thought it was hilarious

#8

smesi

2 Frags – +

extv's plays of the month

#9

Covoo

8 Frags – +

friend tried to get me to play competitive 6v6 in iron ugc like 3 years ago but nothing came of it, never even played. i remember trying to play on cp_croissant, almost forgot how much fun that map was :^)

first REAL experience was 2 years ago being a publord and filling in med for a server iron HL team that had their original med quit due to the release of the tide turner

friend tried to get me to play competitive 6v6 in iron ugc like 3 years ago but nothing came of it, never even played. i remember trying to play on cp_croissant, almost forgot how much fun that map was :^)

first REAL experience was 2 years ago being a publord and filling in med for a server iron HL team that had their original med quit due to the release of the tide turner

#10

Failw1zard

3 Frags – +

The reddit league of still a thing, and I think the first game I ever played Mana taught me the Granary roamer rollout.

#11

pie_hero

8 Frags – +

newbie mixes

#12

Kaneco

5 Frags – +

I grinded tf2lobby for a couple months. Was pretty addicting. Then I stopped playing the game for like a year, only pubs very rarely, then TF2Portugal started a national league and I got my first team there, eventually started playing Portuguese mixes with some really legend oldschool players like Haunter and Coinz of YoYoTech fame and the rest is history.

#13

RadioactiveNinja

5 Frags – +

Got recruited for a steel 6s team as med because I went 19-20 with our demo in demo v med mge. He plays pocket on the same team as me and I never let him live it down.

#14

3680962134679021

9 Frags – +

All of my friends left me for other games and in the search for finding new things in tf2 I struck gold

#15

sops

2 Frags – +

found tf2lobby by accident

#16

fefor

7 Frags – +

I discovered it on 2010 by watching the meatshot movies and some tlr videos, then I started watching moments of glory and extv top10s, on 2011 I was already watching a bit of esea invite matches and then by late 2011 I played my first mix as a medic, it went well but my pc was so shit that I decided I should try comp again when I get a new one, then on january 2012 I got a new pc and started playing mixes/pugs as scout and soldier

#17

powergamer

0 Frags – +

tf2lobby

first time i played comp was ugc hl steel as an engineer

tf2lobby

first time i played comp was ugc hl steel as an engineer

#18

Cerdur

2 Frags – +

I started playing tf2 in the summer of 2014 because my friends were obsessed with it. Right around this time they became intrigued by the idea of competitive tf2. So within a month of starting I had a friend ask me to play heavy on their new highlander team. I don't think we managed to get signed up until the winter season. It was kinda fun. We were all real life friends, and you can't really go wrong when it comes to gaming with friends. A lot of them don't play anymore, but I still play 6s & 4s with the core of that team.

#19

Brimstone

2 Frags – +

looking for tf2 videos on youtube and stumbling across a frag vid

#20

Lesbian_Jake

5 Frags – +

I played in a Sideshow viewer lobby for my first ever 6s game. I was an awful scout and sideshow was the medic.

#21

Inco

4 Frags – +

I saw Cube's Prem frag vid which made me want to try lobbies, then I made an iron hl team.

#22

nanimal

5 Frags – +

Like 3(i think) years ago, I met some guy in MGE bball and he offered me a tryout for his iron HL team as soldier. The team died and I ended up playing pocket in 6s Steel as my first comp season.

#23

apt

-1 Frags – +

A year ago I was offered a spot on some steel 6s team by one of my buddy jbird's friends. I started off as a sub and then their official scout didn't have time so I became a main. I did pretty shitty until the end of the season when I started to kinda come into my own just a tiny bit. Since then it's been nonstop constant grinding, and it will continue to be.

First ever experience? Well, I think it was a HL lobby.

http://logs.tf/783459?highlight=76561198065600921

I actually didn't do that bad.

A year ago I was offered a spot on some steel 6s team by one of my buddy jbird's friends. I started off as a sub and then their official scout didn't have time so I became a main. I did pretty shitty until the end of the season when I started to kinda come into my own just a tiny bit. Since then it's been nonstop constant grinding, and it will continue to be.

First ever experience? Well, I think it was a HL lobby.

http://logs.tf/783459?highlight=76561198065600921

I actually didn't do that bad.

#24

femmebrulee

4 Frags – +

I played a tf2center HL match on gravelpit (because I was familiar with the map from pubs) as medic. I got one uber and dropped 3 times.

http://logs.tf/371022?highlight=76561198114250795

Jul 18 2014 2:48 AM - 1st lobby
Jan 26 2015 9:30 PM - 1st competitive match

:-P

I played a tf2center HL match on gravelpit (because I was familiar with the map from pubs) as medic. I got one uber and dropped 3 times.

http://logs.tf/371022?highlight=76561198114250795

Jul 18 2014 2:48 AM - 1st lobby
Jan 26 2015 9:30 PM - 1st competitive match

:-P

#25

pinto

5 Frags – +

Someone I met on a 2fort server named rushingrussian (who is still my boy despite him not playing much anymore) asked me to join his steel hl team and I played pyro

I used the reserve shooter and the attendant set when it was a thing

I'm so ashamed

Someone I met on a 2fort server named rushingrussian (who is still my boy despite him not playing much anymore) asked me to join his steel hl team and I played pyro

I used the reserve shooter and the attendant set when it was a thing

I'm so ashamed

#26

matchu

1 Frags – +

tf2lobby as spy
thank you stabby for getting me into hl which led to getting into 6s

#27

Aquila

1 Frags – +

ETF2L Highlander Open season 1

as a north american player with 200 ping and 300 hours in the game, our team got 3 forfeit wins, then we ACTUALLY had to play and got destroyed by every team.

ETF2L Highlander Open season 1

as a north american player with 200 ping and 300 hours in the game, our team got 3 forfeit wins, then we ACTUALLY had to play and got destroyed by every team.

#28

CommonPleb

2 Frags – +

added to a mix on irc as med and got my ass reamed a new one

#29

Enterim

4 Frags – +

The first time I tried getting into competitive TF2, the gunboats were banned and I thought that was dumb so I didn't get into competitive TF2.

Four or five years later I started playing on a competitive-oriented pub server very consistently, and after 250 games of matchmaking in the beta I knew I wanted to play 6s, so I formed an esea-open team.

edit: my first MM game in the first stress test was on everyone's favorite competitive TF2 map, ctf_doublecross.

The first time I tried getting into competitive TF2, the gunboats were banned and I thought that was dumb so I didn't get into competitive TF2.

Four or five years later I started playing on a competitive-oriented pub server very consistently, and after 250 games of matchmaking in the beta I knew I wanted to play 6s, so I formed an esea-open team.

edit: my first MM game in the first stress test was on everyone's favorite competitive TF2 map, ctf_doublecross.

#30

Stevie

-4 Frags – +

Saw a guy in a pyub with the TF2Center Tag, looked it up, and played a game when it actually had not become cancer yet.