Next Friday at 8 or 9 EST and it'll be casted!

I have no idea when a good time would be then. I live off campus so I can be in Amherst whenever and I honestly don't know the academic schedule lol.

http://teamfortress.tv/forum/thread/1246-alternative-to-favorites

You could try that.

Munch is a very cool guy and a capable scout. When I was making my own team, he was one of my top prospects.

Yeah, I remember when I first started putting together my PUG group, and there are a couple things you have to explain:

1) You call the person's class, not their name.

2) The whole point of a newbie mix is to learn some metagame and gamesense. The whole point of this is for the player to put themselves in advantageous situations. 90% of the "carries" in the newbie mixes, especially good scouts are good at 1v1s and consistently find themselves in those situations because of lack of coordination and calling. Explain that they need to stay aggressive and smart at the same time. Position means a lot.

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For coaches that want to help, but aren't necessarily "good" or "experienced" enough, just come by and try to teach as much as you can. The newbie mixes are more about being able to teach newbies how to think about the game in a constructive and analytical way. If you can do this and main call well, you are qualified to coach a newbie mix.

I'm trying to keep it to people with multiple seasons ESEA experience, but if not that's fine. If you want to coach but aren't sure how good you'd be, try asking to double up (2 Open coaches/team) so that it lessens the burden. I hate to turn away eager players, just come by and I'll find you a spot :)

This is especially true for the next mix which will be next friday. We're going to keep big ticket coaches casting with duder and lower level ones can help us get consistent pugs going.

Also explains why we had about 20-30 extra people in newbie mixes last night.

That's pretty cool, but my favorites tab has never been broken :p

Also, having a server tab on this website would really help for this purpose too :p

c4sh is a fun player and has been around for a while without finding himself on a solid team. Let's make this happen :)

Yeah, half the time when I coach I'll ask that and everyone will say yes, and then a soldier or demo or even scout is late to mid for every mid :/

It's easy to think you are rolling out right even when you might be really late, that's why people use the clock to time themselves.

Sure, here are the steps you'll have to follow:

1) Join mumble.

The fuck happened to my thread?

Anyways, I'll message enigma about it. I am pretty sure that roflmaoer helped set it up for natf2.

aft2.org

Ask a shitload of questions and make sure you don't look desperate for money.

Also, when people are doing interviews, especially for an office, they are looking at whether they can be friends with someone and get along with them in addition to getting the work done.

What about like right after finals? What is the dorm schedule at UMass around then?

Toasty HUD = Best HUD.

Definitely unknown, but I love it.

I'm really glad these issues are finally being brought up. For the first 2-3 weeks I didn't hear anything from newbies or coaches, and it's really hard to figure out how these are going without feedback. I strongly encourage people to keep posting here, or on the discussion forums on the group page, and please tell the people you mentor to do the same.

A couple of issues here:

1) I message mostly IM+ mentors and the reason we don't have all IM+ is because these guys simply don't show up. This is not to say that we don't have IM+ coaches, it's just to say that we pretty much only have half the number we need. The ratio of IM+ coaches to new players right now is usually around 1:15 or 1:30. This is impossible to manage with only IM+ coaches which is the reason that we are getting people under IM playing.

2) I want to start getting a coaches mentoring session going where we help teach people how to coach. Some people like Shwan, BD, preston have been doing this for a while and I've gotten really good feedback about and if you need help learning how to coach better, please feel free to approach them or me about any questions you might have. A lot of times these are run in such a way that coaches are put into situations that they can't coach well under (ie from last night, putting blinky on pocket soldier and he just went like 45:10 and wasn't able to teach people anything). We need coaches to step back and try to delegate work, not do it themselves, which is far different than the way most actually play.

3) I regrettably have not been able to manage these much since I have personal obligations on friday and saturday nights sometimes, so I can't even speak at all to how these are getting managed. I am grateful of course to all those who help, but at the same time, I've gotten numerous complaints and I'm not sure what I can do about these short of managing them myself. The problem is that I can't devote 30 hours a week to this and we need more coaches, more mentors, and more people willing to take admin and organize pugs to come into these channels. My ideal vision for this is that we have a group of coaches that are all taught to coach and have spent 1-2 nights working with experienced coaches on how to make these pugs better. Ideally, every coach would have admin and just pull 12 people into a pug on their own and start these things. This way if a coach wants to play, they can manage it themselves. Tragic has provided us all we need to do this, and I think its easily attainable.

4) Duder, eXtine and I have all been talking and we're going to try to cast next friday. This means that we need 4 coaches per 10 newbies. I think that this number is probably not possible, but we should try as hard as we can to get it as close as possible :)

5) Please message me and bug me if you have issues about the newbie mix, I will deal with anything that is brought to me.

Sorry for posting a novel, but there are a lot of things being said here and I'm trying to manage them all.