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use mumble and tell your team where you want them to be.

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Maincalling in 3 easy steps!

Step one: Tell your team what to do

Step two: Watch as your team do exactly the opposite

Step three: get mad and quit TF2

Good luck and have fun!

Be able to do all of the following

1) Not be a typical male i.e. be prepared to listen, adapt and aim all at once.

2) Use the scoreboard alot, it requires you to calculate what needs to be done, again this is while you’re playing so multi-tasking is against man here…

3) Be prepared to raise your voice, as harsh n thick it is for some, some of the players are channeled and zoned into what they are doing and just focus on what needs to be done in their eyes but as a team perspective it could be the entirely wrong thing.

4) Be prepared to have some tolerance

5) *BONUS* tip: if you’re good at maths then you’re odds at being good at maincalling have just increased significantly :D

There’s plenty more tips I could state but those are the obvious ones.

Cheers

Byte

make sure you scream out every call and let them know that you are more important than anyone else in your team.
also make sure you blame and get mad with your team mates if they do something else that you called, even if it worked and they killed the entire team.

Quoted from Switch

Maincalling in 3 easy steps!

Step one: Tell your team what to do

Step two: Watch as your team do exactly the opposite

Step three: get mad and quit TF2

Good luck and have fun!

way too fucking true

Quoted from Monkeh

Ensure your team is willing to do what you say when you say it, even if they think it’s the stupidest thing they’ve ever heard. A bad call that is followed by 6 players has a better chance of working than a good call followed by 3.

This is so true. Can’t emphasize this enough in my opinion. Maincalling is one thing but having 5 people really do it is the other.

Quoted from Enef

As someone who has maincalled and been a part of a team with a decent main caller my advice is this:

Unless your team are retards, don’t micromanage every little detail or question their decisions, a huge part of this game is trust. Trust that they know what they are doing or that they have a good reason for the decision they made.

Expanding on this; when I main call I don’t necessarily trust that people will do the right thing, but I do trust that they will learn from mistakes. Another reason I am against micromanaging is that you’re not allowing player’s individual skill and/or knowledge to shine through. It’s a team game and I believe that each and every individual in the team should add their own “character” to your play, that is what makes you a *team* (as opposed to a group of players).
If someone’s play isn’t up to par, but could be with micromanaging, I’m still not going to do it – they will simply have to get better (and/or be replaced), although often it’s not so much a matter of skill but rather one of confidence in their own abilities, which is another thing you destroy when taking micromanagement to the extremes.

I see the main calling job as just a veto when it comes to decisions. Ideally, everyone in the team is on the same page; only in the event of exceptions you need someone to have a final say, but ultimately -in my opinion- you should work towards not needing that.