Only reason this team didn't go farther into the playoffs is because I am terrible at Scout and held them back. drduke/dan are secretly one of the best pocket/demo combos in Open, it was just their first season playing ESEA and so nobody knows it yet. Entire team though is really smart and understands their role and how to play the game. Extremely fun group to be around. Get the team a good Scout pair for next season and they probably top8 Open ezpz.

While this is great learning opportunity for the lower level team to learn, the problem is the higher level team gets very little out of playing a team significantly worse than them. You could try to work on timings or things that generally don't care what the other team is doing, but for the most part you aren't gaining much. One individual person mentoring a team can work because they mentor while their own personal team isn't fully assembled. For an entire team though, it's hard to rationalize using an opportunity when you have your full 6 to go scrim and not learn much from it.

Maybe during the offseason when things are a bit more laid back it could work a bit better. During the actual season though when things are so jam-packed, that is pretty tough.

How has nobody said saber07.

saber07.

Just the entire experience of the ESEA S5 LAN. I had somehow or another ended up in Invite whether I was ready or not. We had a terrible season and had no business going to LAN but ended up sneaking in due to teams ahead of us not being able to afford it. Then going to LAN with pretty much no expectations and 2 subs and coming out of it in 2nd? The entire situation seemed pretty fluky, but in the end it all managed to work out and it was pretty great

First got into the game with the community from the defy pub server back when we still needed server plugins to get rid of crits. Made a TWL Ladder team with them. Past that though, the chaaz^/boogie is the one who got me invested and become more serious about moving up in the game.

#25 you seem to be missing the point of this harder than I thought was even possible

$170

Every single kill in Equalized is the greatest play ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We5b-sPSOqM&list=PL1223E569C2847C5F&index=106

If we are including in the history of ever and not just current Medics, then ruwin.

I've always really enjoyed reading player interviews. Interview a player from one of the 'matches of the week' either before the game to get some additional hype or afterwards to hear their reflective thoughts on how it went. Hearing words from individual player's mouths is good, and I think it helps the game as a whole if people are able to have 'favorite' players or recognize actual names on a team. Just have to make sure that the interviews are worthwhile and the person responding is serious about it. Interviews with "i duno lol we are just better than those n00bz" type answers are just a waste of time and reflect poorly on everyone involved.

Join this team for the once in a lifetime chance to play with the legendary testify

You got things like Rent-a-Knight getting MVP of the biggest tournament to date (at the time) by pretty much wiping the entire enemy team in 5 shots because 4 of them were crit rockets. Fun game.

I was wondering what all had been happening in TF2 since I stopped paying attention to things after S5. I guess now I know, cool article.

Che was always a really nice guy, which is rare on the internet. He has also been playing Medic since like the Paleozoic era, and experience is always important.