Differ's attitude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZKxA1ETIQA

Percy's a really scary sniper and an improving scout. I've caught her in dm servers a few times and I can tell she's definitely better than previous times I've seen her. If she can get her scout game even close to the level of her sniper prowess she'll be a force to be reckoned with.

Ryan is a good player and a super nice guy. It was a blast meeting him at GXL and I consider him a good friend. It was sort of lucky that we ended up with him as, with only a day or two left before registration was closing, our previous roamer bailed on us. We took our chances with him and while he was certainly less experienced than the average of the team he listened, adapted, and improved extremely well over his time with us. He is a very smart person and was a very dilligent flank watcher for our team that often ended up with a 5/1 split with him alone holding down the flank. Filling that role would often leave him with less than great stats but the stats don't show just how well he did his job... a job that I'm sure was often frustrating, difficult, and often dull. He was also no slouch when it came to getting forces, making big flanks (when the right opportunity presented itself) and other game-changing plays. He is also a good sniper- probably the best on our team.

I am only speaking for myself in this post and not anyone else. The decision to bench Ryan was a majority decision by the team, not a unanimous one. I disagree with the decision and am very unhappy about it. He's had a bad week and a particularly bad match due to a number of circumstances like a changed setup (desk) but I don't feel like he's fallen behind to the point that he's worth benching. In fact, he's only improved during his time with the team and narrowed the skill/experience gap.

In summary, he's good and super nice and if he ends up on your team I will be jealous of you because you get to hang out with Ryan.

http://i.imgur.com/fgs76Op.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/fgs76Op.jpg

Thanks to goldfish for taking this picture

I use no custom hud and I've been crashing a bunch :[

http://cdn5.brusimm.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Matthew-Modine-in-Full-Metal-Jacket.jpg?56e547

Quite a number of people have expressed to me that they have no idea how to get onto and use IRC. Cinq blessed us with atf2.org but after it went down people no longer had their easy "automatic" way to get into the scrim channel and so IRC use has been on the decline and atf2.org's absence is a big part of that. Now people are trying to pre-schedule all of their scrims for the night which carries a huge risk of significantly screwing over your evening of scrims as well as everyone else's. All it takes is one team somewhere in this web being late or some 5-0 rolls and everything falls apart. You either risk sitting around waiting for up to 30 minutes or you end up leaving a scrim part-way through just to join another one that you planned (this is frustrating and dumb for all parties). That is why I personally try to only schedule our very first scrim of the night and then go to IRC. Anyway, until we have a better solution (currently in the works, but no eta) please use IRC...

There's dozens of different ways to get on IRC so I'd like people to tell/show here how they do it. The season's going to start soon and it'd be nice to rejuvenate the scrim finder channel with teams of all skill levels.

My very traditional way of doing it:
1) Open mIRC program. Set up your name (and other options if you'd like). This can be found in File/Options.
2) In the very back window, at the bottom of it, type the following: /server irc.geeksirc.net , and give it a few seconds to connect.
3) Then in the bottom of that window type /join #tf2scrim.

This should now open the channel and you should see other users listed on the right. Watch for other users posting messages and click on their names to message them and propose scrims. Or you can type in the main chat and propose one yourself and people will message you. Type something like this: 6s mid open y.ours process. Hitting the up/down arrow keys will cycle your previously sent messages for easy repeats (but you should generally not spam too hard).

http://www.oldversion.com/windows/mirc/
I personally use version 6.0

http://www.mediafire.com/listen/z5ypi839q5w7wa4/x_magic-chime-02.wav
This is the chime sound that I use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3zTFNXfxf0
The video didn't need to be this long. Oh well, I talk a lot. Also sorry about the sub-par quality.

Thanks in advance

Carpool opportunity:

Our 4th guy backed out so we need one more nerd to help split the costs of gas that occur when driving aZn's big SUV. Please look closely at the map below and if you're close to it add me and we can talk. Our hotel room is totally full, however, so we cannot help with that. Sorry.

Map:
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Indianapolis,+IN/Toledo,+OH/Greenville,+PA/Oaks,+PA/@40.6918389,-83.1704709,7z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m26!4m25!1m5!1m1!1s0x886b50ffa7796a03:0xd68e9df640b9ea7c!2m2!1d-86.158068!2d39.768403!1m5!1m1!1s0x883b872dfc1e4e79:0x7c3cc89f453ac345!2m2!1d-83.555212!2d41.6639383!1m5!1m1!1s0x8833b6dc8919a629:0xce7154d3d56e080d!2m2!1d-80.3911785!2d41.404499!1m5!1m1!1s0x89c6916b2624f6d3:0xaea2c23a1dd82c4d!2m2!1d-75.4636031!2d40.133503!3e0

Add me here:
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197971152439/

Most people aren't cut out for teaching. They don't understand how to effectively present information to others nor do they have any patience.

The name thing is a bit too subjective for my tastes. I'm going to retype what I already said to Lux.

You should do a small tourney (or round robin, or whatever depending on # of participants) and have the winner take the roster. Whoever comes out on top will probably be most deserving of it and will have earned it in at least some capacity. Do it, Lux. Consider this my team's entry if you end up doing this.

Charlie tried out with our team a bunch and overall we really enjoyed him. He made it to the last few potential tryouts before we made our choice, and we're pretty picky. He's really solid, has tons of great experience and deserves high open at the very least. He could maybe comm/call a bit more (though to be fair we have a lot of talkers and we smother new people out) and overall just stay positive, Charlie. Don't get down on yourself, you're good :]

Jaguar = paid
ScrewB = paid
PinKushin = paid

Great player, Chill dude, Good taste in music

Christina Hendricks, anyone? Mmmm...