2012
i had knowledge of competitive tf2 and i watched many frag movies and casts on 6v6 games that were mostly in extv. i ended up installing tf2 after i upgraded my pc (i came from quake1/quake3cpma and doom). extv advertised tf2lobby as a good starting point so as soon as i installed tf2 i went straight to tf2lobby with only about 150 hours played (mostly on scout).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpOxevTO52c here's my first tf2 frag vid with one single lobby as scout. my intentions starting this game was to look for a highlander team and demoman was easily my most comfortable class to play for that game mode, i noticed that some of the highest level tf2 players like b4nny, enigma, and harbleu played highlander. so my goal was to move my way up on highlander since there was such a huge skill gap between the divisions that i felt like i could easily make my way and somewhat impress one of those invite gods to recognize me and pick me up. (didn't work out that way) I still ended up playing 6s on demo in the UGC league as well on steel after meeting cheifsittingduck in tf2lobby looking for players for his team that he was making with his son spirit_reap3r. we played ugc steel the roster for old skewl ballahs was cheifsittingduck, cadsmar, invizible, spirit_reap3r, myself, and mypocketblows. we actually had bullet as well on scout before cadsmar joined the roster iirc. and he trigger botted (lol that was a disaster) we soon figured out how obvious it was and then we cut him. mypocketblows was irl friends with him i think and after that season he left us but then we continued on in esea open that next season. with roster changes and everything our open roster was cheifsittingduck, spirit_reap3r, invizible, myself, psyche, and freakin. we finished the season 10-6 going 15th out of 16 in playoffs (yay) and picking up ikpure just before playoffs which practically helped us getting to playoffs in the first place since psyche was a horrendous medic back then. but after all that i stopped playing in esea and i continued my way to making it to the top of highlander to hopefully continue my main plan of making platinum and then getting picked up for an invite team for 6s (lol im an idiot)
2013
so its 2013 i spend 6 months playing highlander irc pugs and playing with my 6s friends (6cuties/server depopulation squad) which made a highlander team as a joke called 9cuties that i played in platinum as my first season which blew my mind i was really thinking i could make it to invite now that i INSTANTLY have a platinum highlander record under my belt after only having like 600-700 hours into the game. we got rolled that season but i still baited a bunch of highlander players for having a platinum badge on my profile so when i played irc pugs for highlander i would get picked like 80%-90% of the time which boosted my ego highly. so then pulse picks me up for his highlander super team which had a lot of like OG highlander gods from around 2009-2010 and this was looking good. but pulse elected that we were not going to be a scrim team and just show up for matches, needless to say we got stomped super hard and died mid-season. but boy did i have a big boner when i was owning invite players in highlander tryout scrim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwJrVd7Py_s (owning indust and dummy)
after all that i played platinum one more time on another somewhat super team which was uBs and that did okay but many many maaany roster changes and shit so that kinda got fucked over. after that season but also during that season i make my return to 6s when cevo came back and i joined gls' new team he was making with slardel (no pawblem) this roster was rlinez, hero, blew, slardel, gls, trisk, robin, kent, and myself.
we finished 7th in the open division and had a 12-4 record i had a great time playing on that team https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j46YRE_Ss3g but i surely noticed that i had more fun playing highlander than 6s...
2014 - 2015
blah blah blah i play highlander again but this time i join IFA for their silver team carry the fuck outta them and had one of the greatest times of my life cuz i finally achieved something, then i play with them the next with even equally to almost even COOLER CHILLER PEOPLE and we make it to 3rd then i just stop playing tf2 all together give up for my invite debut after lan got removed from esea and cevo leaving so i was like "damn this game is super fun but its dead now." all between those highlander seasons i play on some matches that i backed up for in IM for AG w/ insom and shit and then i abandon the game after i find nosgoth then later dirty bomb. play the shit outta those games get in a couple teams play in some matches blah blah blah. i then play on a team that techdude makes called clam bake i played nearly every single class on that team as like 80% starter and landed a baller airshot without even moving my mouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tRV3oWYxpw at that time windows 10 was coming out for free so i decided to upgrade to windows 10 like 2 or 3 days before grand finals... i started the session right before i left for work and then i were to finish the update when i came back that night. well when i did come back windows 10 updated incorrectly and i couldn't get past my login screen thus i had to reformat my entire pc and had a lot of issues connecting to the internet with my pc thus being late for finals and not making it so then they put eulogy in for me and the matches got ddos'd to fuck and i was glad i didnt play anyway.
2016 - current
so then i return to tf2 one more time playing pocket on a 6s team with an old highlander friend called decent dudes
that roster had wish, crossfire, super, yipyapper, myself, and rhy. this team was pretty awesome and was decent (heh) and had loads of memes. we finished that season 6th after getting sadly embarrassed to woodpig black in open on our 2nd match on viaduct where i streamed it and went super emo-like and blammed my team and sorta stopped trying played like a fuckin moron. after that i left tf2 again mainly because my work schedule was getting a lot worse and now i just work all the fuckin time and i just play video games casually. i soloq overwatch sometimes i play tf2 pugs and embarrass myself there because frankly i dont know how to play anything but demo or soldier anymore for some reason and now i just pub battlefield with my dirty bomb friends or ill occasionally duel in quake3 cpm and reflex. basically im all over the place but hey video games are fun and i have no problem about it
TL;DR
i came from quake i watched tf2 prior to playing it, i upgraded my pc installed the game played tf2 lobby found out invite players played highlander so i tried to get to platinum as soon as i could while also playing 6s in open.
made it to platinum never went far, didnt get picked up for invite
made my return to 6s with a quake super team with gls slardel kent rlinez hero trisk blew robin
then i found out even tho i had a blast... that i found highlander more enjoyable and my cup of tea so i joined a silver team got 1st place, tried to get first place in gold the next season and then 1st in platnum after that. but i ended up making 3rd in gold the next season and i quit tf2 for other games like nosgoth, natural selection and dirty bomb. made my return in 2016 with the team decent dudes and went emo on the playoffs and threw against woodpig black now i suck at tf2 and play video games casually cuz i suck
if u want u can add me if you wanna duel in cpm, reflex or mge no splash/ammomod im down.