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if you’re a good player you will stand out after a couple of months of playing and all the ‘training and giving people a chance to gain experience in a higher division’ and mentoring etc doesn’t make any sense to me

Truth. It’s hilarious how the recruiting forums are full of people looking for clans that are higher than them on the account that they have some magical self-proclaimed “potential” that they have been unable to unlock so far and that noone else seems to notice. Stop trying to blame other people (which this thread is about) and start practicing, if you really do have that potential you think you do, you shouldn’t have a problem. And if you don’t… well, neither did the other 98%.

If you’re good, people will notice.

Trying to get recruited into a top div 3 team or higher is hard, people don’t seem to understand that. For SpA’s recruitment we usually like recruiting people who have merced for us and we have seen them fitting into our game, because of it we generally have a solid line up. It’s much easier to maintain that solid line up by recruiting someone who has merced for us 10-20+ times than someone we would have to trial and see if they integrate into our style.

I was lucky in the way I got recruited, I didn’t even know/care about TF2 competitively (or any other game competitively), and I was just picked up and taught to play properly a few months ago by SpA when they were in div 4 :P I couldn’t even rocket jump properly when they scouted me, now I’m soldier/scout for them and a (bad) back up demoman :)

Truth. It’s hilarious how the recruiting forums are full of people looking for clans that are higher than them on the account that they have some magical self-proclaimed “potential” that they have been unable to unlock so far and that noone else seems to notice. Stop trying to blame other people (which this thread is about) and start practicing, if you really do have that potential you think you do, you shouldn’t have a problem. And if you don’t… well, neither did the other 98%.

I didnt create this topic becouse I think I’m uberHIGH++ when I’m not. Actually, I even told Loco, that I doubt I could even survive on a div2 standart match. I created it, becouse I think it’s pathetic how people in div3 (just an example) talked to me, just ‘couse I thought I could trial for them with no div3/4 experience. That happening to me twice was the last straw and I had to steam out somewhere…

I’m a low- solly in a mid(+) team, how awesome is that :D

We’re all just cookye’s big bag that he carries around, fut :(

There does seem to be a few people a bit over eager to progress, it would be nice to see less people claiming to be mid+ etc in clan & player recruiting when they have no history or a history of hopping from folded clans & wasting other clans time trying to get in trials, it must get tiresome getting requests from such people :)

You get into higher levels with a team who you progressed with,
not on your own.

That is my experience

Read the whole (or atleast the beggining of) thread before posting.

kkthxbb

well he told u whats the best and now u acting like a little child ffs…

Exactly. Stop being a crybaby and work your way up. A lot of players have to do this so dont feel left out when you trial for a div 2 team and they dont take you because your div 4.

Lots of truth in this topic. The only bit of elitism I abhor is people joining a clan and then leaving it 2 weeks later saying ‘they where not playing my level’. I think the general idea is that in a team based game you have to -excusez le mot- level up as a team. Going omfg noobs im leaving is the worst thing you can do. 1. you just destroyed a team. 2. You expect the team you get in to be absolutely better then the team you left, which carries on your loop of disillusion.

What do you want? Do you want a top team carrying you up to the hardware-prizes-riddled stars ? Do you want to play in a team where everyone has exactly the same fiery ambition in tf2 that you have ? Do you want a team that is flawless?

Even dignitas have a div 3 medic :D (<-condom emoticon) and are still rocking it bigtime. Certainly not everyone has got the time to be a full-time tf2 player. But I generally think that people overstate their own personal skill while this games is based on the concept of -its in the name- TEAM play. FFing TEAM Fortress 2.

You can be 1337 all you want or be an obnoxious 24/7 gamer who knows all inside outs of every packet carried over the internets you just will have to accept yr playing with goddam people. getting carried away here a bit.

Main thing is your playing in a team with people. Your succes is always linked to how well other people do. If your team isn't up to your standards why not try and inform them and learn as a whole?

Just ranting at a former team is damaging to both youself and your former (and future) teams and will get you nowhere no matter how good you are.

I can tell from personal experience that you can go quite far if you got a loyal team that don't exacly care about their personal succes but like to play with each other and get rewarded when they stick together and fight for the communal succes. GL

-HH2- div 5-div3 in one year thx lads yr an awesome bunch.