since apparently no one saw that I already made a post in this thread with my story, I've decided to make another one since the last didn't really do justice to the fascinating story of how i joined eGO.
A year ago before i joined eGO or even played tf2 me and some of my friends from school actually played tf2 on the xbox, we had a lot of fun with it and we were really good, it was buggy as hell but we did all the awesome exploits, getting into the skybox in 2fort and gravel pit, all that good stuff. Anyways i had bought it for the pc a little after, since i heard it keeps getting updated and everything. The sniper vs spy update just came out, and i didnt even know the name of one hat. I remember just chilling in an achievement server, trying to figure out how to shoot a huntsman, and then i just went on some random server on 2fort, which was the eGO server (back in my day, there was only ONE 2fort server, crazy right?) and i got one of those automatic console things saying "join eGO now!" Since it was the first server I joined, I was all like "aight", so I joined.
So I made an app, I was 13 at the time and I was accepted into eGO the day school ended for me, so I was active as hell in hopes of getting a promotion. Well, I was as active as I could be without using a mic or getting in vent. But I posted a lot in the forums and I always played on the servers. I was a 2fort regular for maybe, 3ish months, then i tried out blackmesa, and I fell in love. I spent my first hour there spawn camping the enemy teams headcrab room, which , for those who don't know, leads to where MY teams spawn is. I made my first friends in eGO in blackmesa, Deja Vu, Thereven, and some others that I just forgot pretty much.
Then I started attending events, the first event I ever attended was awesome, Zergspower was hosting it, and it was Mental Buga's first event she ever EC 2'd. I had so much fun, I was actually kicked first since i never realized i had mic receive volume on 0, so i never heard anyone talk, but after i rejoined it was 10 times better. Events were constantly full back then, which is something i really miss actually, people were a lot more active back too for that matter, which sucks. Anyways, I went to every event possible from then on, I became friends with Mental Buga and Masterpiece, and a lot more people through those events. I still didnt use my mic, but i was extremely active besides that part, so this is 10 months since i first joined eGO, I was attending another Clan wide meeting, probably the 10th one since i never missed them, and I was really annoyed with how I was never promoted, So after the meeting, I talked to Scrappy Doo (an old Division Leader for TF2 at the time) and asked why was I never promoted, I spent like 5 minutes going on and on about how active I was, and why I deserved it. This was also the first time I used my mic, like, ever, so I was nervous as hell. Plus I was talking to a Division Leader for the first time, so i was even more nervous. So anyways, after I finished, he was afk for like a minute, then told me I was promoted. Probably the only time ever a guy has gotten promoted by yelling at leadership, im just that cool.
So after I became an eG, I thought I was able to host events and everything now, turns out i couldnt so i tried to help out any way i could. I even actually kinda sorta hosted a few events thanks to iGreen, an old TF2 EC/Advisor, who let me host an e vs e scrim so new tf2 players could understand the basics of scrims, even though i had no idea how they worked myself.
I started using my mic, but i never went in vent. I thought vent was just stupid and It was just as fine to use in game chat or whatever. But anyways i became friends with some more people, i just forgot a lot of their names. Kevimaster, Werner Voss, Marine4God, RBrandon, and some others that arent active anymore, or that i just forgot. I was the ONLY guy in blackmesa who did any admining, and im not exaggerating, if it didn't require a ban, I admined it, for everything possible, cause i like yelling at people. I kept this up for months and months, almost a year since i became an eG, until I finally became a full fledged admin in eGO, the second after I found out, I spammed Kevi to make me an EC, which he did. Me, Activate, And Sequel were the New EC's, and I barely knew either of them. Now they are some of my closest friends in eGO. I co hosted every event i could get my hands on, and after i got rcon training i hosted every event i could. In fact, in march I hosted around 13-16 out of 25ish events for tf2. Then I finally started being active in vent, became friends with some other people, and yeah.
I'm positive I forgot to mention 1000000 people that I met in eGO, and I'm sorry. As corny as it sounds, it would take ages to mention everyone. I'm glad to help as much as I do for this division, Be it trolling, hosting events, doing the Admin Scenarios, whatever, I have fun doing it all, and I hope i can continue doing as much as I can.
o and i liek kanye west
and activate loves me