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Jaeger from the top American team Loaded has started a blog http://www.mikemarcin.com/ with Source TV demos from their ESEA officials. There are also mp3s of Loaded’s voice comms that are synchronized with the demos. After watching those demos with a few of my clan mates we were surprised how limited their comms were. Medic isn’t instructing his soldiers, there is very little demoman-scout and scout-scout comms and they don’t make plans “on the fly”. It seems that they are relying on their pre-existing strategies and raw deathmatching skills (carnage) rather than on excellent comms.

Jaeger’s idea to combine STV demo with the voice comms seems like an excellent teaching tool. I would be really interested in listening the comms of a div 1 team with the accompanying demo. Any chance this would happen someday?

Speaking of comms tips, I found this blog post http://szrfph.net/?p=75 to be an excellent starting point on what sort of things should be called.

If you’re not the main caller and you’re regularly using sentences with more than 10 syllables then you are doing it wrong*.

thats the problem a huge ammount of teams face

check sweden vs hungary demo for some panic in game comms when our (duncs, ofc) mumble crashed!

Yeah these are really interesting, as the OP said it seems like they really don’t have any designated caller as such and kinda just act as individuals (albeit extremely talented individuals). I wonder if this level of comms is characteristic of the American scene as a whole or if it’s just what this one clan does? If it is a general trend then that strikes me as kinda interesting, like it’s more in fitting with the more individualistic nature of American culture as opposed to our more collectivist socialised medicine loving European cultures XD

I’d also like to echo the sentiment above that it would be really great if one of the top level European clans could try out a similar comms+demo release :)

all I ever hear on mumble is “you immense retard”