Over the course of this past weekend, the NA Newbie Mix group has been picking up more and more steam. Since the ESEA LAN finals, we have seen an increase of over 100 new guys in the group, and as of right now there are around 600 people total. While this number was a little scary for me, it’s also super exciting - 600 players means the possibility of 100 new teams, which is a mind-blowing figure.

So, to compensate for all these new players, we need more resources and help from members of the community. If you have a server that doesn’t get used during the weekend why not offer it up for new guys to play on? Also, we need some more coaches to help show the new guys around. If your team isn’t scrimming one night and you’re bored, instead of playing DOTA2, you could run a mix and be a real hero to the community.

We have a chance right now to expand the competitive community, and we could potentially double the playerbase if we put in the effort. These new players have shown an interest in playing competitive TF2, and now it’s our job to show them what we love about this game. The ball is in our court. If we want more sponsors in TF2, we need more players, and this is a great opportunity to bring those players in.

In addition I've been picking up the players that are a little past the "this is a rollout" or "this is a roamer" phase and hold PUGs like 4-5 times a week with a lot of coaches (like giffy and monster and eulogy). the faster we get newbies playing the format the faster we can make self sufficient pug groups and teams. I know teams and networks that have come of the newbie mix (probably responsible for a number of UGC 6s teams), and it really helps just to put new players with each other. The fact that they can discuss competitive tf2 with coaches that know the game is just the icing on the cake for me.

Bumping because Giffy asked me to. Good stuff.

Edit: Okay, he's mad because I was supposed to say something about the group. I swear he didn't beg me to bump.

Four servers incoming!

give me admin in the group so i can host events and ill host pugs every monday. i'd probably do that anyways but you'll get tired of me messaging you every monday eventualy.

shout out to vick for being annoying every night and holding pugs even during LANs. He is esports

This is awesome. I think with some proper organization this is exactly what the community needs. I will support this in any way I can.

i added you. HRG server can be made avaliable if nothing else.

I don't have any servers, but I could show any aspiring roamers the basics.

Scholar wrote:

shout out to vick for being annoying every night and holding pugs even during LANs. He is esports

Look man, we held those *after* the matches were over. lol, I can't be the only one who wanted to play really badly after watching those finals.

Zigzter wrote:

I don't have any servers, but I could show any aspiring roamers the basics.

I would love to take you up on this.

I've seen how this group operates and I can assure you this is a real chance to inject new blood into comp TF2.

if you still need servers after all these generous offers, i have a 14 and a 19 slot available
i can probably also bug other people and get 1-2 more if they're that needed

I'm away on vacation at the moment, but I could probably provide a spare server at the very least. I'm not very familiar with this group since I took a short break from tf2. Do you guys have a website or forums or anything? Could be helpful to get all those players communicating with eachother, eventually forming teams. Or maybe there could just be a sub forum on this site.

nixnyte wrote:

if you still need servers after all these generous offers, i have a 14 and a 19 slot available
i can probably also bug other people and get 1-2 more if they're that needed

I think server wise we're usually good (with one or two), just having more coaches to answer questions would be good though.

Well add me on steam. I don't mind coaching

I added myself to the group, ready to help out coaching and/or with our Server.

Giffy you didn't make the google doc editable btw! Anyway the newbie mix is great and has already spawned a low level pug group and about 3 teams if people can help then they should this is making a difference.

giffy add me as an admin, ill do some coaching

Good to see people are doing things to expand this community. :)

I've done several newbie mixes. They're great fun and very helpful. Milehigh and Shwan are bosses.

Yeah i've played a few times with these guys and it's a pretty chill way to spend some time.

Dodecagon wrote:

Yeah i've played a few times with these guys and it's a pretty chill way to spend some time.

Just for the record, the PUGs I organize aren't necessarily "Newbie Mixes." They are similar, but I don't market to brand new players to 6s the way Giffy's group does.

I can coach some scouts on the art of being retarded and dying a lot, pm me on steam for details if interested.

Nah, jk, i'd love to do some basic scout stuff if you guys need another coach.

So I did a quick run through and tried to give everyone who wanted to help admin but if somehow i missed you in the 600 people just message me and I'll hook you up.

threads like these should be shown to sponsors thinking of picking up a tf2 team. it shows how the community can come together as one to get things done. its cool how much support there is for newer competitive players.

Hmm. Probably couldn't hurt to join the group. I'm not new, but I've barely done anything competitive wise.

Ill join, would be happy to mentor some scouts as well.

We just had a newbie mix tonight with like 5 pugs going on at once. It was awesome. We need to do this every week.

had a lot of fun, props to the mentors and players tonight

HRG's server literally ran by a toaster.