in the 5th grade i got the orange box for my xbox and tf2 became my favorite so one day when i was at best buy with my dad i saw tf2 in the computer game section for $10 and i remember seeing it was like $20 on steam so i was like omg can we get this??? so he bought it for me and i played huntsman sniper on 2fort on his work computer

acesgamer's videos
and i46 (woops)

uhh i think i was palying ms in 2009 when a friend showedme the game... and then like 2 years later i saw a comp fragvideo and then i wanted to play but my pc was a 20fps laptop

im a f2p noob

The Black Box came with my video card (ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro 512mb AGP). Didn't really get into the game for a couple years after that.

I know the jumper LessThanThree irl and before he was even rocket jumping he showed me the game, I got it a couple years after him in like 2013. He showed me competitive as well in like 2014 and I started playing tf2center.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce4fnBKVX0w
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQFt9oHQ89w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0UoRDGVBhY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkZLJeQ1Nhc

EDIT: also this video for some reason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6_RlfQBNnk

Highschool friends got me to try it when the Uber update dropped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=infPxGmSII0
this one got me interested in competitive tf2

I used to play a tiny RPG for many, many years with a small community of wonderful people that I stayed friends with for years. I started at 11/12 and stopped playing it/other games when I went to college.

Fast forward to my first real career post-school, I have a PC built for me and download Steam. I moved to a new state/city with no friends working 3-11P, so I googled what game has a strong community where you can make friends - and TF2 was one of the top recommendations. Cue my entry to being a Valve A/D backburning pyro main - and I have to say, I legit did make friends very quickly who ended up introducing me to comp TF2:) (also, reading about the b4nny/platinum and m4risa drama got me interested in competitive...amusingly enough)

i watched tagg videos

I guess the "Meet the ... " videos did everything for me, I saw them in late 2008 or early 2009 and was amazed, they were really funny and I loved the classes, at that time I already knew about tfc and got to know what tf2 was because when I finished hl2 and hl2 ep1 I went for hl2 ep2 and saw it came with tf2 in the Orange Box.

After watching those Meet the videos I started watching A LOT of Gmod vids such as "Moments with Heavy" "Heavy buys an Xbox 360" etc and I kinda got addicted to tf2 without even playing it, my computer wouldn't handle it at the time, so I started playing tfc a lot as a consolation till June 2010 I got a new pc and my dad bought me the game

Highlander Community Challenge

My friends and I got bored of whatever other game we were playing and we saw that TF2 was free.
Got in to comp after watching s12(?) LAN finals.

I was hanging out with a friend of mine and he introduced me to, booted it up on the PC and had me play the tutorial and later that summer we played together a ton. Pubbing ect.

Highlander Community College

When I got internet for the first time in my house at 11 years old the first thing I did was google "top 10 online games", I'm still thankfull that tf2 was on first place in the page I saw

i saw esea s13 lan on twitch and was like yo this games lit

My friend wanted me to play Portal so I got the orange box and eventually we started playing TF2

My graphicscard had a downloadcoupon for the orange box. Decided to try it out and enjoyed it. That was in October 2007, time flies

Spy and Pyro pubstomp compilations. Then I played Gang Garrison competitively with my best friend (before he got lost in his girlfriend). Moved on to pubbing TF2 on the 35% crit server that Overseer started on, then gradually started moving toward 6s.

subscribed to 0nti who made hl2dm frag movies and he uploaded some tf2 pug clips back in 08-09 got me interested when i saw his scout clips. couldn't play on my current pc so i had to play at my cousins first
https://youtu.be/9aRpZzF_O9M

watching HL casts from 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byJMFMXK0rg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJkzj1l1Bfo

Star and Jerma

i turned on my xbox and joined the party (irl friend group, we played COD and halo and minecraft together pretty much daily) and there were two new people in there and we played minecraft for awhile

then i became friends with them and then they told me to get steam after playing minecraft PC with them because it is easier to communicate, also they were always playing tf2

then i binge watched bunch of shitty old tf2 videos and then i installed steam and tf2

these ppl are still on my friends list shoutouts to skyler and big john

Played Orange Box on PS3 back in the day, mainly for Half Life games. I gave TF2 a go.

Anyway I built a PC (my first desktop PC) in 2014 and looked at all the free games on Steam to download. This was mainly just because I wanted to get as many games as I could, but also because I couldn't buy many games as I didn't have a pot to piss in after buying the PC parts. I saw TF2 and remembered it being a laugh in Orange Box. I downloaded it and now I have 1000 hours.

It was actually the first game (except Total War games) that I used a mouse and keyboard for. I actually played Dishonoured with a PS4 controller. Derp.

I quit CS:GO and ended up discovering TF2. Best decision ever.

CHOZO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfCiOzL7cYs