Is there a resource hub for the newbie mix? I had no classes today and used that time to crank out video map overviews with area names for just about every one in the rotation this season plus a few more and am wondering where to upload them.

Video map overviews? Shit I wanna see these.

I mean, they're not really anything too impressive; it's just me flying around in freeform spectator mode going through each area of a map and introducing people to the commonly-used terminology used to describe specific areas of a map.

I don't really talk about strategy or anything; I figured that would be a topic for another day, especially considering those sorts of videos take some serious preparing and would probably last anywhere from 20 minutes to half an hour. I could probably do those videos over this weekend, provided I jot down some notes over the next few days.

The ones that I did today are roughly 4-7 minutes long and are meant to help people be more familiar with maps so that voice comms are easier and smoother.

Yeah but that's a great thing. I'd imagine if nothing else they could link them from the steam group. You got a youtube?

Our resource hub currently is just the main page of the group if you send me links or just put the links here ill throw them up on the main page.

What I would love if someone would do, is go through maps and discuss the position of combo and flank throughout each point, both for defending and pushing.

I think that would help new players 1000 times more than just the names of areas(even though its great that you did it frey)

Yeah, I have a youtube account; I'll queue them up tonight (because shitty college internet) and then post some links tomorrow.

Thanks for making these vids frey. A bunch of people i have noticed have never really played 6v6 and get confused real quick when they're thrown in a game and have to figure out what everybody is talking about. It would be nice for people who want to get some knowledge beforehand to be able to do that.

Also hard to talk about positioning and strategy if they have no idea what you're referring too.

That problem will always be there. It's easy enough to look up like a gotfrag article or competitive TF2 wiki and learn it on their own, but sometimes newbies need a friendly comp. environment to see how little they know without being discouraged.

Scholar wrote:

What I would love if someone would do, is go through maps and discuss the position of combo and flank throughout each point, both for defending and pushing.

I think that would help new players 1000 times more than just the names of areas

yeah, obviously, but like I said, those kinds of videos take lots of preparation and would take about an hour each to record. I'll start working on those this weekend.

Have you ever watched Mr. Bitter's 10 weeks with the pros? Is an sc2 series of videos.

Anyway, you could do something similar to that. You could have one "pro" guest each week and you can both go over a map and take as long as it needs. And if the vods are too large just throw them into blip.tv or something. Hell, I am sure even EXTV would let you upload them on their channel.

Hey guys, how's everything? I would love to be a mentor for 6v6 newbies because I have previous 6's TF2 experience. James, let me in!

#131 we definitely would upload it.

I stepped into the mix tonight and coached a team for a map. Will be posting that to eXtvESports, not our main channel cuz my quality was shit :(

ill help some bro's out why not

Just wanted to say I had a fun time helping out last night. Great turnout again, it's very cool to see all these new players wanting to get into comp play. Some really good talent and positive attitudes out there too. Props to Giffy for organizing last night.

at 8:30pm est I started organizing and went till about 11 when I went out for the night. At which point giffy took over till about 1:30am, all of this with about 4 mixes going on at one time. Good shit people Friday is even our slower day.

Think the final four will affect the turnout?

Hearing your sexy voice in mumble made my day eXtine.

i am such a shit mentor

sorry everyone in that granary session i have no idea how roamers work

Dear anyone who is higher than low+: Don't join the newbie mixes just so you can DM others. There are DM servers for that. And if you wanna practice your class or whatever, then go find a fucking scrim at your own skill level.

The only people who are not newbies playing on mixes are the mentors. Too many mixes have been ruined because of players like this

sooo uhhh what server do I join or w.e I'll be down to coach.

Scholar wrote:

Dear anyone who is higher than low+: Don't join the newbie mixes just so you can DM others. There are DM servers for that. And if you wanna practice your class or whatever, then go find a fucking scrim at your own skill level.

The only people who are not newbies playing on mixes are the mentors. Too many mixes have been ruined because of players like this

there was a discussion about low players and newbiemixes and i think the verdict was it's good to have a good MIX of newbs, low players, and mentors. there might be too many low players looking for pugs that aren't tf2.pug.na. vick's group is good for that http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Vickslowpug

low players should add vick to ask for an invite i guess

Scholar wrote:

The only people who are not newbies playing on mixes are the mentors. Too many mixes have been ruined because of players like this

I agree with this. I have seen way too many players in the mixes with too much experience playing. I understand if you get fatkidded in pug.na or whatever but that doesn't mean you should turn up to the mixes so you can show how good you are against people who just started playing 6v6. You guys should organize your own pugs with people of your own skill level. The newbie mix is here for brand new players trying to learn a good foundation. The other problem that these players bring is that they think they are actually better than what they really are, so they try to instruct the newbies and prevent the mentors from doing thier job. This has caused many headaches for some of the mentors. The good news is that we have been working on ideas to fix this and hopefully we will be able to start implementing it soon.

someone should make a frag video featuring only clips from newbies in the mixes (not mentors), it could serve as an attraction for more players to join (could post it on spuf or reddit or whatevs)

Black Dynamite wrote:

The newbie mix is here for brand new players trying to learn a good foundation.

Are you teaching them to bomb whenever they're the slightest bit mad and throw away the whole game? Seems to be working fine for you.

FIGHT

FIGHT

FIGHT

Kapoww wrote:

Are you teaching them to bomb whenever they're the slightest bit mad and throw away the whole game? Seems to be working fine for you.

^don't take her seriously

that is just IM smack talk

This was at like 4 lol. Don't worry, we were doing real mixes earlier.