2sy_morphiendCould be drastically shortened if you no-life it or have genuine talent or find a mentor and seriously care about improving your play (demo review, asking for critique, constructive scrim atmosphere)
People say that everyone has a certain amount of innate potential or talent but seriously, has anyone ever just picked up a mouse one day with zero prior experience and been absolutely amazing? It seems like even if people jump straight to IM/invite relatively quickly after picking up TF2, they always have prior FPS or computer game experience.