Comments on: As it happened Week 1 Match Day 1

By: SlasherZA

SlasherZA — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:48:59 +0000

Wow, I only started playing pickups 2 months back… Come from a competitive Day of Defeat background and this is the first game since DoD that I enjoy enough (hugely the community as well) to play competitive…

Sooo, who’s willing to help me develop my medic skills some more? Pwetty Pwease? That, and I’m trying to learn soldier / scout a bit as well, just for the fun of it…

By: vomitshovel

vomitshovel — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:55:15 +0000

Completely agree Whisp. You came in with some wicked demoman skills right off the bat, but we must also remember why we didn’t lay pickups till we were “ready”. We had ragers. Many of them. Ruined any pickup that had anyone even SLIGHTLY not playing well.
Nowadays our community is chilled and ready to help anyone.
It’s all about growth and if we can get everyone playing pickups the growth wont stop.

By: Whisp

Whisp — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:41:24 +0000

I didn’t start pickups until I knew I was ready, I spoke to people on IRC and found out who the best demomen were, how they played and who would be the best for me to speak to, I spoke to _enemy, Goldfox, XoloX and Joint and eventually asked Joint to teach me, we spent hours on empty clan and pickup servers where he explained to me all of the logistics and strategies a demo could use, situational advice as well as aim training. He recommended many aim maps which helped me get my eye in for pipes and stickies, I spent hours slaving over the flight pattern of the various projectiles the game has to offer and how much damage each class can do or will do from various distances. In my first pickup I was lucky enough to be allowed to play demoman thanks to Goldfox, who had been watching me practise on pubs and in servers with Joint. _enemy also gave me some awesome advice which I still refer back to, we also spent a lot of time on IRC where he explained the game to me and told me all about being a demoman, all of these players are eager to help and would definitely show any new guy the ropes.

By: Razerfox

Razerfox — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:10:52 +0000

Check we have 12 active teams and around 85 active players on those clans we just need to get the pickups going strong again to improve the overall skill levels with those 85 players active players and a few others that are clanless we easily can have 100 people on the #tf2 and players ready to play pickups at any time and once we get 3 pickups at the same time we can say we have a solid future as the cycle of competitive TF2 will be able to go smoothly and grow.

http://tf2.co.za/getting-started-with-tf2-pickups/
or if you don’t like IRC you can use http://tf2.co.za/pickup

By: Headshot101

Headshot101 — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:56:42 +0000

You started it Spike 😛

By: Peng

Peng — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:25:51 +0000

I remember spikeelite. when he was still a noob.
so much people i knew when they were noob. 😀

By: Spike

Spike — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:59:56 +0000

We having a really good Oprah session, everyone share your starting out stories. 🙂

By: Peng

Peng — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:11:07 +0000

I remember Goldfox on Fastlane lol, in the clan T.I, funny to see how far he has come. 😀
Goldfox my baby~

By: Headshot101

Headshot101 — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:47:00 +0000

Well said, Theres still quite a diffrence between the skill levels of teams
@vomitshovel
Ya I think the low seed games and high seed games in between them selves will be good to watch : )

When I first started to demo it was around the time that Whisp had joined tf2 and shortly after Joint had left
I found most of my insparation through the likes of Joint and Goldfox and took time to watch many of joints and goldfox’s demo’s and ive been working on it alot
I recieved tons of advice from diffrent people and used some of it and ignored others but after working on it for some time I like to think of myself as one of the most improved and still improving demomen and hope to keep pushing to get to the top : )

By: Spike

Spike — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:52:18 +0000

I started playing the game when it was released, but i was only playing pubs up until the end of 2008. When I played my first pickup Joint was their to message me and give me some tips, I then got some help from Skillpig and Apple. This was the way I learnt, playing pickups and getting advice from the better players. All the low seed players especially the newer ones should log onto mIRC join a pickup and chat to the high tier players. It will improve your game-play tremendously.