We haven't scrimmed in about a week. The reason for that is because I didn't think enough of us were ready to practice as a team, and instead needed to focus on individual practicing. So heres the plan, scrimming will be determined by how many gathers you play in a week. The players in tf2.gather.us are the kind of people we will have to beat in scrims. If you can't hang in a gather then you can't hang on a team. However that doesn't mean you should give up. It takes about 50+ gathers before you stop bottom fragging in gathers, so give it a chance it WILL build you up.

Anyway, back to the plan. Those players that have a "+" next to their name in the tf2.gather.us channel on irc (awarded after 5 gathers in a week have been played) will get to scrim. If there is a tie for a position, the current week's and the all time gather count will be taken into consideration. The gather bot records these pieces of data. Sign up for the #tf2.gather.us channel on gather-network.eu. If you need Help follow these directions or message kormak:

Create a Gamesurge Account: This account allows you sign in and use the gather bot, register at http://www.gamesurge.net/createaccount/


Auth with Gamesurge: After you create your account, put this in your "perform on connect" section of your IRC client: "/authserv login user pass". Do not include the quotes and the user and pass is whatever you used to register on the gamesurge site. Authing must be done EVERYTIME you connect to gamesurge.

Register with the gather network: http://www.gather-network.eu/register/invite/174308/

Customize your gather account: http://www.gather-network.eu/myaccount/controlpanel/edit Edit the account so that it knows your IRC Gamesurge name. Do this by filling in your Gamesurge Auth name (the name you registered at the gamsurge website) next to the text that says "Auth GameSurge:." Next, set your default channel to #tf2.gather.us:

Auth with the gather bot: Put this in your "perform on connect" section of your IRC client "/msg tf2-gather-us auth" (no quotes). This must also be done EVERYTIME you connect to IRC and want the bot to record your gathers.

In case you don't already know, #tf2.gather.us on irc.gamesurge.net is THE place to get individual practice in, make silly mistakes and learn pro tips. If you're serious about playing in a team then gathering is a necessity. If you don't gather it will end up huritng the team.

Pubbing is not a good form of practice. Generally pubbing will dumb down one's skills.

I'd like to thank everyone who came to the Badlands walkthru last night for 1) Showing up and 2) listening to me talk for about 15 minutes straight

I'd also like to commend the people that played in the scrim, for a first or second time playing as a team I felt a strong cohesion among us and the potential to rise to the top.

After that pat on the back, its time to get back to business. More than 6 people showed up for the scrim and to those members that didn't get to play I would like to say that you will have the first option to play in the next practice. We will be rotating players until we can determine first, second, and third string players, also permenant players and backups. So please don't be discouraged or be ready to bail on us. If you are willing to work with us we will definatly get you gaming.


The next practice will involve a Granary Walkthru and then a Granary Practice. The time and date are yet to be determined.



Til then,

-KoRMaK

http://www.gotfrag.com/tf2/story/43759/?spage=1


How to work with demos: http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/Help:Recording_demos

Things to do to get our act together:

-We need to determine who are perm players are and who the backup players will be.

-We need to start meeting regularly and shcedule those meetings about a week in advance.

-doing walkthrus of the maps together so we know where we should be without having to discuss it ingame.

-we will start recommending demos from gotfrag that have really good plays to review.