had watched the comp 6s scene for a while, but played comp cod4 so only pubbed in tf2. 4 years ago this week, got asked by rapture/flood to play demo for his highlander team after I shafted him in a toyfort pub. for some reason it got casted by Kip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRsDDgxTjwg
5000 lobbies later i still wear the same pink hats and overextend like a twat.

the highlander open in which i met a bunch of people which i still go into mumble with daily 2 years on

almost what happened with me to the letter except I started earlier

I started playing pubs in march or april of 2009. In 2010, I made a team with some friends to play the Highlander Community Challenge and get those shiny medals. Then, in 2011, I finally wanted to try some 6v6 because pubs were too easy. I tried to play some br pugs, but it is kinda hard to play it if you don't know anybody, so I went to play some 150ms lobbies. Later in the year I was invited to play a Pubbers vs. Pros and did well as soldier, so I finally joined the competitive scene.

getting rolled by team a that ended up in prem with some irl friends

:^)

played a hl lobby, you can see for yourself how well it went..

http://logs.tf/387968?highlight=76561198105468121

Playing in a 6's team with the people I met in a 2fort_egypt server

Stumbled upon vanillatv stream when they casted quarantine vs broder i believe then 1 seasons later i played my first official and got 5-0'd both maps :(

http://logs.tf/31622?highlight=76561198005240249
http://logs.tf/31647?highlight=76561198005240249

edit : did not even notice that i played with scrab and against adysky lol (this was div6 and team folded directly after)

I kinda always knew TF2 would have a competitive scene and I knew it was 6v6 but I was scared to try because I was 13-14 at the time and I thought I would be ridiculed for my high pitch. But in late 2009 I decided to make a team with irl friends and some good pubbers I knew.

7 years later still playing,

My local community have a 4v4 tournament, decided to create a team and join. Tournament died after, but I got picked up by another 4v4 team as medic and decided to join 6v6. I only played one match at the time due to me taking a break from gaming because my last exam on junior high. Fast forward some months or so I tried to create teams but folded shortly afterwards so I was teamless for some time. My first major game was at the AF MC7 week 1 vs. what would be the winner of the tournament, Club Penguin Crusaders. It did not went well and we folded shortly after our match. Now I am participating in UGC 4v4 lol, and going to play for the next major AF 6v6 cup.

http://puu.sh/pcKeg/fc0a87333d.png

Been a while

Kwazi asked me if i wanted to play comp since i already showed interest, and i played in something called the philosoraptor pugs with people like kalkin, Oov, Harblue, Bill and Ted, Garticuno , Bolwind, Seagate, was pretty fun.

I heard about the ETF2L highlander challenge through my pub community, so I decided to try to organise a team as I was a disgusting spy main. Realise not long afterwards that it was a european thing so decided we probably shouldn't do that. Started up some friendly highlander games with a couple of other pub communities, then my friend said he was starting a 6v6 team so I decided to join it. Somewhere in there I also watched fanom s6 highlights and riverdude'd and said to myself "I want to be able to do that someday"

I think my first ever official was in a league called enemy down and it was on goldrush like 6/7 years ago.

i went 3 years ago to a computer coding class in NY and during some free time they held a tf2 lan, and whoever had the most points at the end of a dustbowl game won a prize. Pretty cool way into getting tf2 first, then from there I just played pubs untill I decided to make my own team in ugc iron 6s.

Played scout for an iron HL team a pub community made. We played one scrim and ended the team.

my first competitive game was on a mainline cup

I had played with some of these guys on an arena server, I only played because they didn't have anyone else and one of the team members shouted at me

I had no idea what I was doing so I asked them what I was supposed to do as a scout, I was told watch the combos flank, so my response to that was to just stand with the medic and look backwards, I'm an idiot

logs.tf/236830?highlight=76561198063799177

I left near the start because nanimal was being a douche

I saw a Jerma video that basically said the best way to get better at scout was to mge, so that is what I did. Every now and then in mge servers people would type, "do you play comp?" Eventually, out of curiosity I asked, "what is comp?" and then some guys answered my question and introduced me to tf2center.
This was so long ago! http://logs.tf/488137?highlight=76561198126783872

holy shit
the next year's one was what first introduced me to the idea... then i binged on i49 vods and was hooked

In 2008 I posted my 25 min long spy fragmovie on ETF2L and then KOEITJE (yes I still remember your fucking name) called me utter shit and told me to go away from ETF2L and that spy isn't a real class.

Started comp in late 2012, when I saw clockwork and b4nny frags videos for the first time. I was amazed. then months later I randomly jumping into a pug server. The result is meh though

Also I was playing scout for the div 6 team (div 3 asia) on the same year, got 2-1 before we disband the team in late 2013.

I heard about TF2lobby and got excited so played a game on cp_fastlane as a medic back in spring 2010. It was a shit experience but it took me a few more games to find and make some friends to play with.

I was a demo main and i got pretty good, so i wanted to see who the best demoman in the world was so i looked it up and people was saying it was this "b4nny" guy, i looked him up and found his streams and then after watching some competetive i started playing in tf2center.

6v6 pl_badwater on the tf2.gather.us irc channel. I read everything I could find on playing 5cp in 6v6 to help myself not look too stupid and then they threw badwater at me.

A few members of my clan formed an HL team in early 2012. I watched them a couple of times.

Another person from this clan (may have been on the team, I can't remember) said I should watch the ESEA S10 LAN. I liked what I saw, went to Newbie Mixes, played in Steel for a season and finally made it to Open years later.

How I joined UGC...

Was playing some MGE with friends, then some kid from Europe asked us if we wanted to tryout for a EU HL team in UGC Iron. We ended up joining that team only because he lied to us. He told us he was a Platinum Spy main trying to start an Iron team. That team had 4 NA players and we only won 1 map due to forfeit.

I started playing comp a little bit after I had just started.

I was interested in the game and was looking at youtube videos of it and found extv and started delving deeper and joined an iron hl team and played spy for way longer than I should have. Got into 6s after I stopped playing on a $200 laptop.

tf2center spy while team yells at me
gotta say it wasn't the worst

Some random dude on my friendlist asked if I wanted to play in his HL open team when I only had 1-2 months of experience in tf2. I didn't know what I was doing but nonetheless I was having a blast. Our team placed 2nd in div 6. Before the next season our team leader cut and replaced everyone on the team without telling us. His team placed last in div 5.