If you want to make money, it isn't.

If you want to play for fun because you enjoy competitiveness of organised TF2 matches, then I recommend you play.

Perks of playing include involvement in the community, but you have to play and pick your friends/teammates because you might end up playing with people who make the game unpleasant for you, so make sure you find people who have the same short term goals as you and move on when the time is right.

Also don't be afriad to do things differently, for every idiot with an opinion is an idiot with another opinion.

From a competitive standpoint, this game is just better. It's more rewarding of skill and raw DM, whereas other games reward using abilities/magic whatever, and just plays out at a much faster pace. I'll always say yes, it's worth being involved in competitive TF2 just because of how damn fun the game is. If you're thinking about becoming a professional TF2 player though, it's not going to pay well unless you win lots, get a sponsor, or stream. Lots of people have already recommended playcomp.tf and linked you to all the necessary configs etc., one other important thing you could do is talk to streamers who play/played TF2. Seagull, now OW professional for NRG used to be considered the best roamer in the top of the game. B4nny, despite his bad reputation, is the best player in the game right now and does often offer valuable advice.

I don't think anyone's mentioned this yet because we all forget it's there, is P-REC. P-REC stands for POV-Record(ing), which uses valve's demo feature to record all competitive matches. This includes tf2center, pugchamp, officials, scrims, etc. You can find it here. This is important is because once you get into competitive play, it's nice to have these demos to review your play and see how you can improve your play. You'll want to get into the habit soon, so that it's not a pain later sitting through a competitive match you under-performed on the second time.

One thing I want to say as a lot of my newer friends have a hard time figuring out working with custom files in videogames, is that it's pretty simple once you get the hang of it, and most things come with file paths included. If you find yourself in need of assistance with custom huds/sounds/p-rec/etc, you may add me on steam and I can help you to the best of my ability.

Welcome to the community, enjoy the game!

Not Always http://www.teamfortress.tv/37502/400-hours-on-tf2-and-looking-for-a-new-team

You're right there but get downfragged.

Another important lesson, don't be swayed by downfragging, it's just TFTV, end of the day it's not important.

yes

Looking to get some mge in before participating in today's newbie mixes, if anyone is down to do some solly vs solly let me know

I though I'd just post this here instead of making a new thread.

steam

and again thanks for all the help on the cfg/preferences, I think I've got everything regarding that down.

Would be great to hear how you got on and if you enjoyed it :)

Unfortunately didn't get picked, which is fine.

Big thanks though to Slicerogue, who added me and then took the time to go over some basic gamesense/positioning stuff then did some mge w/ me.

if you arent playing competitive team fortress 2 in the year 2017, lets be honest, ur probably like an idiot or something

Try again next week! They go on really late- once one group finishes, the coaches come back to get more people (more coaches also will show up throughout the night) so if you don't get picked, hang tight for the next game

Fosho, The thing is for whatever reason they started at 10:30 est instead of the regular time which is 9:00 est, Have work the day right after very early in the morning so I have to head to bed around 11:30 ish, feelsbadman.

Did a couple of mixchamps today though, was a lot of fun.

Unfortunately no admins were available until 10:30 and then and at 10:30 Kevinispwn briefly came in and quickly on the spot modded squidmatron. Squid had never dont the picking process before so he didnt know to pick people completely new first until i had to tell him post picking. He felt pretty bad and hoped that trawson would come back next week. I think they should be back to normal next week.