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Quoted from Koeitje

But anyways, even if a call is shit COMMIT TO IT. 6 guys doing the something that isn’t the most optimal in a situation is better than 3 doing it and 3 others sitting back or trying to another thing.

QFT!

Well main calling to me is defined as the guy who has the final say in a push/hold but really I am not too sure how this works with any other team so I can only determine it with my team.

In general I make a decision I hope it is followed but not just me who makes decisions. I tend to just see what my team is doing, obviously when it is important we don’t die 1 by 1 I call for a regroup somewhere or whatever but otherwise I’ll analyse what is going on that is usually we got someone hiding, someone behind with our aggressive team and we should either push to support, hold or fall back as their high-risk, high reward plan failed too quick for us to respond. People need to say what they are trying as early as possible for me to really make a decision, sometimes when I see no immediate threat our scout Pikachu who usually calls push when he is working behind them or harassing them, I just go with the flow cos sometimes he is right and we should support. Sometimes I play around our pocket, CrashSite who is aggressive so if we don’t push up with him he might die (or if I don’t shout at him to get back).

Basically get used to your teams style, judge their positioning, judge their health….judge how much you trust them at times like I would know in 5 seconds if I didn’t push in our flanking scout(s) would die quickly for nothing so when he calls he is in and distracting, we gamble and push on in and can usually catch their medic and perhaps clean up if their demo doesn’t sticky the entrances correctly. It is a game of timing really…last point pushes can be rehearsed so much, you need an idea of what everyone is doing when they push together; know who is delaying their entry to the fight to come in with full ammo to face people needing to reload, who is going out what door, who needs to be multi-ubered, who is popping their uber, who calls a focus and who can shoot at it.

In time you’ll get a better picture, even my picture isn’t clear. All I know is there are players in my team which will focus on their own game, their own role and their are players in my team like myself that will lead, long as we get a good idea of what we’re doing we can think how best to react and help eachother out.

tl:dr – Play together lots, know your team, have someone make a decision ensure it is followed even through failure and know your players who lead, know who follows and learn how to push together and most effectively.

i think its best everyone just mutes their mic and play

Quoted from CommanderX

There are some videos on mge with top teams mumble comms synced to a demo as well if you have access to that

anyone knows where to find those? :s

Let your Demo/Soldier main call.
if you really insist maincalling as med(like I do.) tell your heavy classes to assist in calls giving information that helps you to order a push, you can’t see what’s ahead if you don’t have a wallhack, or perfect gamesense.

Like I do

Quoted from Taimou

Let your Demo/Soldier main call.
if you really insist maincalling as med(like I do.) tell your heavy classes to assist in calls giving information that helps you to order a push, you can’t see what’s ahead if you don’t have a wallhack, or perfect gamesense.

Like I do

I like the idea of having the roamer call (in lower divs, at least). It’s just always made sense to me, because of his flexible positioning. And Demo as well. Medic has enough to do imo :D

I think I’ve put a lot of emphasis on improving my own main call skills as medic because that’s what i thought every medic did in higher divs. It seemed through people I had talked to previously, that medics were most often the main callers of their team. Not always of course, but mostly.

Quoted from GibbZ

If you want any examples of what NOT to do, watch admirable. He makes calls to spawncamp (that fail), to uber scouts with no backup (that fail) and calls to hold point A and B on gravelpit simultaneously. He is the perfect example of what NOT to do as a calling medic.

Thats what happens when you uber bad scouts….. WAIT WHAT.