Thank you, everyone! I'm more than surprised by how many people responded to here! I'll be having multiple buddies, because I'm sure all of you are very busy people.

Done. Thanks.

For sure! Soldier v Scout might be my weakest matchup. :/

Yeah, I'm definitely on that track. Slowly transitioning from training to training while trying to maintain scrims.

Simple, yet so solid. Love it.

I think until a certain point DM helps quite a bit; I'm still shaky on certain fundamentals.

Thanks! :)

Will do, thanks for the advice (big fan here!).

I wrote the enigma/harbleu interview article, and before that I was an amateur games journalist reviewing games and writing about game design.

reilly makes an excellent point about one type of journalism; reporting. The other hand is editorials.

The reason that there aren't upfrags and downfrags on articles, at least in my interpretation, is that up/downfrags are used to validate an opinion. An inflammatory comment would receive downfrags (ideally) and a well-spoken, fact-driven comment would receive upfrags. Since all the article writers are curated to a decent extent (through enigma), all of them are held to a journalistic standard (which is not to be inflammatory, be informative, and be fact-driven), thus it's far more useful to communicate with the article writer through comments (and/or discussion with others!) rather than through up/downfrags.

Plus, it's awesome to see your own article with lots of congratulatory comments AND upfrags on those. It's the best. <3

Hi, I'm currently a pocket on an open team, and I feel like at the moment my DM is the weakest part of my skillset. I'd like a buddy who wouldn't mind practicing MGE and DM a lot (with the rest of my team, too, when they're around). I would also kill to have someone knowledgeable about 1v1 matchups (doesn't even have to be just Soldier, either), especially on different maps. I learn very fast, especially if I have some direction on what to do.

In short, looking for:
* DM partner (does not have to be soldier main)!
* Likes being asked a LOT of questions! Talking extensively on analysis is a PLUS!
* Free during the nights and weekends, at least some/a couple of those days (I have a standard work schedule in the west coast; I usually return around 6-7 PM on weekdays). Flexible!
* Hanging out!
* Anything more than this is fantastic, but definitely not necessary.

Baby, let's eat ramen all night.

Both of you fight me at LAN, 2 on 1.

Mana, L14.

EDIT: "I" and "L" are different letters

I have an event I'm planning around the Bay area (I'm in Berkeley as well); I didn't realize how many TF2 people there were around here until I started asking around.

It's actually in SF, so you aren't terribly far off (I think I know what area/plaza you're referring to!).

And, my friend, you eat a lot of pizza. ;)

Live interview, this time? :P

LIKEWISE! A delicious brothy time for us. :D

Next time is going to be on me.

(apologies for the blurry and the odd angles)

http://i.imgur.com/WFEx2P2.jpg

...and he doesn't even finish his food!

http://i.imgur.com/J2OWwqB.jpg

Just kidding. We talked about last night's...incident, general trends of eSports and twitch.tv's role in it.

We just have to keep playing the game, winning the matches, and streaming; so, you guys know what to do. Make the noise, spread the word.

P.S.: all of us have some potentially big projects for competitive TF2 in the pipeline for everyone. Can't name anything yet, though. :)

By permission of enigma, I've been hiding aim's posts that I've been considering spammy and/or off-topic.

Well, a bunch of us are going, we just haven't organized it. We can either just mob rush a section or just register.

How many people per chaperone? I don't mind volunteering too. Also, screw it, should we just try to take a block?

He added me as well. We'll figure it out very soon, presumably. :)

Folks, if we're planning to buy seats next to each other, we should do it relatively soon because there aren't that many blocks of open seats left (I'm talking two empty rows according to their setup). I propose we all sit in someone's mumble one day and decide. Perhaps even this weekend? Anyone else have an opinion otherwise?

That said, woohoo, Seattle. Have not been there in a long while. :)

http://i.imgur.com/xaXw3vR.jpg

Work retreat happening this week. I promise I'm having a lot more fun than I look here. The lag is terrible though, I'm in the mountains.