The issue with a newbie mix drive is it means that the people in charge of it have to deal with getting mentors, providing funding, doing background checks (to make people of similar skill level be on a team and make sure no-one is alt-ing or sandbagging) dealing with issues within teams (such as mentors leaving, players leaving, players not liking each other, players not liking their mentor, teams dying, etc.) and this group of people has to do all of these things for every team done in the drive throughout the entire season. This results in like 100+ hours of pure headache and is something allot of us at newbie mixes didn't have a ton of time for to do this season not to mention didn't really want to spend their thanksgiving break working on some newbie mix team that died because they didn't like their pocket. As much as the newbie mix drive is great for making new teams it takes A ton of work and im surprised kevinispwn did as much as he did without exploding.

edit: i hear everyone throwing around the newbie mix drive as if its some small thing that can be done every season. Its a big project that takes time and without allot of trustworthy people to do it or people who have enough time and are broderline insane(or have enough alchohol) to do it alone. Its wayyy too late to start a newbiemix drive.

I will say however that if you want to contact some UGC teams and convince them to come to esea we can probably work out some sort of mentors for them.

not that im a supporter of RGL, but i will say it seems better than HL. why do people see the need to run a full time spy or an engi on offense.

Good gamers. Ive known them all for a few seasons if not more. They are all very flexible and chill to play with.

he's nuts.

dont pick up players who arent committed and cant show up...and if they complain about it let them know why its happened.

Who messed your day up? Are you ok?

This is a thread where the goal is to try to get people to lead teams. Whether they do it is another thing but I cant really force them to do it. Just trying to spread awareness that we have the players to make like 5+ teams and just are not leading.

sharing the workload and being organized greatly reduces the stress. if you have a friend who can start a team with you, it isn't as bad. I used to have trouble with this too, but once i got organized it was wayyy easier.

So I knew that there weren't many teams and allot of players looking but it didn't really hit me until 18 people added me for a tryout in 1 day since I put up my lfp. Please make teams and don't wait until the "extension" and throw together a team that will die in 2 weeks. Now is the time to make decisions and start leading. We have the potential to get back IM if the players that we had looking for teams right now could be on a team.

Some advice I can give to new leaders(based in the 5 teams I have led and made mistakes in):
1.) Stay organized, write everything down in one place.
2.) Have a set scrim schedule and make sure everyone knows it.
3.) Find players who are non-toxic and dedicated. there are allot out there.
4.) The best player isn't always the best choice, sometimes the best person is.
5.) Always make big decisions with your team, communication is key.
6.) Always listen to your team.
7.) Don't be a snake. You'll lose trust withing your team.
8.) (optional though advised) Lead by example.

I wish you guys luck and hopefully we can get people on teams and have a great season. Thank you for reading.

edit: btw if you are making a team make sure to contact ether so he can add your team to his list.
http://www.teamfortress.tv/43350/esea-s26-rosters#10

edit 2: Fygg has also created a Spreadsheet for people who are LFT. Information is here: http://www.teamfortress.tv/43451/esea-lft-spreadsheet

edit: New information.

Our roster is currently
Scout: Bwelp
Scout: Change
Pocket: Kohly
Roamer: Megaboy
Demo: Stock
Medic: Slicerogue

Subs: Cookie, sully, ThorEatsWorms, procreative, saturn

Looking for capable subs of all kinds.

add me here: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Slicerogue

its true

Legit was a great teammate and a big fragger. When I tried out for this team in the very early preseason they were very good. I can only assume that they are even better.

i have no clue, ive never used them lol. i just know where to get them.

Yeah but people pick rkt over other clearly better medics for the meme. I once saw b4nny take rkt over feces...

skeez particles, you probably saw it on bearodactyl's stream. https://www.dropbox.com/s/9n17jjw01q7ictz/skeezparticles.zip?dl=0

you can also find it by going to his stream and putting !skeezparticles in the chat