I had this thought as well. But since I play spy I really wanted to put this out there for spy. I also limited to spy since there are really only two or three streams out there for spy, and the biggest one (stabby stabby) is really just him pubbing for hours on end. I hope people take this idea and use it with all classes, and not just spy, provided people even like it.

@Bubberkill: glad you are happy with your signed crutch :)

Hello all of you aspiring spy mains!
I am Paals, a spy main in UGC Steel that is looking for new ways to learn about TF2 and the spy class. I have noticed a very small amount of spy mentors and demo reviews in TF.TV and UGC compared to 6's classes or other classes, and wanted to give and get some help in the community.

I am a very small-time streamer, and have been livestreaming scrims and match demos of myself for a little while now in the hopes that people would offer advice, but no one seems to be interested in doing so beside the vague "work on cloak management," or "aim better." While these things are important, they are not things that people look for mentors for, or submit demos for review for. Spy is a very conditional class, that can make all the difference in many situations, or can be useless in others, so such simplistic advice is not very helpful. There also seems to be very few streams for spys to learn from, as compared to the numerous reviews by Mr. Slin and Bl4nk and MANY others for other classes, namely 6's. And lastly, there seems to be a distinctive lack of involvement directly in review from the player being reviewed in most of the reviews I have seen.

So my proposition is this: a Mutual Mentoring Session with me and another aspiring spy(s) on stream. We would look at either one of my demos or theirs together and communicate over mumble/skype about what we are seeing, and discuss it. The goal would be to learn together about what spy can and should do, and discuss and find ways for both myself and the other participant to improve. This would be aimed at silver level spys and lower, as I am most likely out of my knowledge base in Gold and above. The stream would be used as it is currently in other demo reviews, with viewers asking questions/offering their takes on situations from the demo being reviewed.

This is currently just a concept, and I decided to post here and in the UGC forums to see if there is a general interest in the community for a mentoring session like this, as well as a stream to learn from like this.
If you have any suggestions or criticisms please say so, because I am very serious about improving my skills, and I know many other spy mains are as well.

I also could not fail to shamelessly plug my stream: http://www.twitch.tv/paals/new

Thanks for the read,
Paals

What are you guys doing to address the very obvious animosity in the community towards HL and the UGC in general? Any doubt of this can be seen by Cold's very great questions being -fragged immediately.

I'm around there if you need a ride. Friend me on steam and we can talk specifics :)

Wow so it looks like tf2 is going to rule f, g, h and i. This is going to wicked.

I got one of the spots in H, so just one left there. It does seem like we should have enough for 6v6, but there is still alot of time until the LAN so we might even get another row. Who knows? I'm good for this saturday if we do do a mumble get together, and can volunteer a server if needed.

Glad I found this, definitely considering going. Is there actually going to be a plan for our seating, because I think we should heed b4nny's advice and just take the back g, h, i and rows.
EDIT: also only 60 tickets left, need to sonic this up.

I have played with bambam on my low level UGC team, he was our starting sniper. He was absolutely incredible, almost always top fragging, but I wouldn't say he hacks. I would partially agree with his general attitude, since a few days before the preseason match he just unfriended everyone on the team and messaged our leader that he quit, with no reason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUkdjmTrfAQ

The Experiment S9 ESEA Highlights. Freaking hyped by the goose liver.

I do believe this is the one Saber is reffering to as well. the other song in that frag vid is illusion by pryda (also a great song) if it is not the right song.

Hello.
I am n00b streamer.
I made a funny.
http://www.twitch.tv/paals/c/1895124

Thanks for getting back to me so fast! Really happy to be here!

My name is Paals, and I will stream a LOT of TF2. I play spy on Evil Beastly Squirrels in UGC Iron, so will show some entry level comp scrims and matches and demo reviews of myself, I am in my first competitive season of HL. I will also do Jump maps and lobby stacks, as well as general pub lollery.
I have been streaming since September, and have a rather small following already established. I am very engaged with my viewers and will almost always respond to every chat message.
From the land of USA.
http://www.twitch.tv/paals