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never mind :)

So it appears. I didn’t know reddit was this deep inside HL’s arse.

If Season 15 receives abnormally low signups, we’ll know whom to blame.

Quoted from herpderp

Excellent example of “How to piss off as many potential highlander players as possible”.

Says the nerd that says highlander is dead…. GG elekneus :D

Quoted from Skyride

Why on earth do you guys post this stuff in /r/truetf2?

Where then? /r/tf2 is for dead horse beating meme attempts..

Quoted from Skyride

div49 UGC players, low level hl players and people who think that pinnacle of competitive Team Fotress 2 is top fragging a tf2lobby.

If anything, I’d say that’s the perfect reason to post it exactly there. If they are as clueless as you say then at least any “help” won’t go to waste (as opposed to posting on the etf2l forums where everyone already thinks they know everything, for example)

Telling someone that your way is ‘the real one’ or ‘the only way you should do things’ never ever works out. Especially on the Internet.
Congratulations, TF2 is dead. Oh wait, no it isn’t, what about highlander?

I’d say that for most people in the bracket, there’s a bigger gap to bridge than people who’ve just never tried competitive TF2.

Like take the average reader of /r/tf2. Probably just a normal gamer that happens to like tf2 a bit more than other games. They don’t have any real endearment to a way of playing the game, they don’t have information floating around their head that is innaccurate/wrong. They are a blank slate.

“Hey i’ve got this thing here I think you might want to check it out?”
“yes sure!/nah don’t think it’s for me”

There, cool. You’ve either gained a new person you can show the game to, or you’ve very quickly worked out that person isn’t interested, while leaving them with a good impression if they ever change their mind and somewhere to go if/when they do.

“hey i’ve got this thing here, it’s much better than your thing there”

That’s a much more difficult pitch to make, and you’re making it to wayyyyyy smaller number people.

The way to grow 6v6 is to promote it to people who’ve never heard of competitive tf2 at all in an unrelentingly positive way. Don’t bitch about highlander (but don’t be afraid to give your opinion in a tactful manner if asked). Just keep doing more events, more discussion, more casts, more streams, etc,,, but most importantly get people talking about it on places other than etf2l and tf.tv.

Are there not leagues in SA and South America (Argentina and Brazil)? I’m sure i’ve seen frags from teams in those countries in the old extv plays of the month.