Do you remember this???

I remember how most of these “lower-tier” teams had cool avatars, tags, steam groups, and even websites and T-shirts, but died before this pre-season even started, let alone the competition itself.

With absolutely zero competitive value in the low-tier level of TF2 clans, no more new clans and players were improving or rising up the ranks to add themselves to the top-tier competition (And remember, this is why we had clans like Swift, eNigma, and even still have Operator today).

Obviously with no new competition, the top teams had no incentive to play or improve except “to stay at the top” and, understandably, they lost interest in the community and either quit, or simply didn’t bother with 6v6 TF2 anymore.

If you don’t want the same thing happening this time around, just play some damn 6v6 scrims (friendly clan games) and keep your clan active.

Don’t just play mixes and pickups, because they’re only designed to help improve your individual skill. And believe me, we have enough individual skill to make endless amounts of frag vids, impressive mid-airs, killing sprees and entertaining spectacles. What we don’t have enough of are organised teams that are dedicated to helping each other improve by playing each other on a regular basis.

If people are still blatantly ignoring this, then they must understand why they’re going to lose 0-9 to a better team when it comes to real 6v6, and not just these run-of-the-mill 6v6 mixes and pickups.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: a collection of individual players that are capable of pulling off spectacular individual plays aren’t what makes a good team; rather, the spectacular individual plays are the byproduct of a good team working together.