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Originally Posted by mofeta
Counter-Strike, this game has pretty much consumed my youth, it all started in a LAN center a few blocks from my house, I used to go with my childhood friends and be there for 1 hour maybe 2, 3 was too much at the time. As time passed and the summer was over, I started going on weekends.
2 years later I was playing on the competitive CS scene, playing there was much more fun, ever scrim or match was incredibly fun and winning one was an overwhelming feeling, winning championships and getting cash prices was the best of it all though, getting paid for winning in a computer game oh well.
In early 2003 I moved to the United States, leaving all my LAN friends behind and being somewhat lost in this online scene. Here I joined CAL, and withing 5 months I was playing in CAL-M. The feeling of competition, and being able to play with some of the most respected teams in the world from my house was just unreal.
My advice to you people is to join CAL, start getting into IRC, scrims and such. There you can get better and see this game with different eyes as you do now.
#redemption @ gamesurge
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Used to play with a TFC clan (another HL mod, but CS sort of killed it) that was regarded, at one point, as the best in North America, if not the world. The best part was that we were really a bunch of nobody's (people who play online games competitively will understand this -- we weren't a clan made of big household type names) who came from the lower levels of leagues and pretty much overnight started beating top clans. Of course, everyone flamed the hell out of us and called us newbies, but that was half the fun. There really is no feeling that compares to handing a clan's ass to itself when they have no idea who you are.
I really hope valve (or a third party) gets things together and makes TFC:S so I can waste my Monday and Thursday nights away once again.