#Pound University

Join #university and get schooled in tf2.

We are located on the gamesurge IRC network in channel #pound.

This is #Pound's public gaming group designed for talented players that are unfamiliar with the TF2 competitive community.

Team #pound has been very successful in the 8 on 8 format for team fortress 2. Most of our members at one point in their online careers became familiar with competitive gaming because someone approached them on the subject from a public gaming server. For most of us this didn't happen when we started playing tf2 but rather another older game we had previously played. Our members noticed how immensely popular tf2 has become to the average public player, so we decided that the tf2 community needed an outreach program to bring in new competitive players from the wealth of public tf2 servers.

For the first year of tf2 existence the competitive tf2 scene has not expanded like many people might have thought. Valve (the company who made tf2) has plans on releasing new content into the community until all of the 9 classes are upgraded. During this time tf2 will remain a relevant game to most online gamers, combine that with the relative lack of cheating you have an avid player base for a competitive community.

One of the major problems with tf2's competitive community is that the learning curve on team work and strategy for new teams is enough to stymie any new team’s interest in the game. Our contribution to the solution of this problem is that #pound will build a sister team so that they might learn from our success and experience in competitive match play. The end goal is to produce a stable team of players who may not be familiar with the tf2 competitive community, but eventually their team will break away from #pound to become their own stand alone team. At this point #pound will be able to recreate the process with another team of players. This project is called #university (#u).