Sep 01, 2009, 04:51 AM
Everyone please note that I wasn't making an argument that comp skill =/= pub skill or that pubbers are just as skilled as competitive players, or even that if the 95% of best pubbers were to jump right into competitive action they would be anything above average.
What I'm saying is that the "Pubstar" argument, which everyone on multiplayer FPS games has been shouting for as long as I can remember --ity goes something like, "It doesn't matter how good you are because you only play pubs" -- doesn't make sense. If you are good at the game, you are good at the game, and you can probably teach yourself to be good at the competitive level too. Now obviously the people who anyone cares to watch on Source TV, who are at the top of the foodchain, are a tiny fraction of the entire population of TF2 players.
What I'm saying is that the "Pubstar" argument, which everyone on multiplayer FPS games has been shouting for as long as I can remember --ity goes something like, "It doesn't matter how good you are because you only play pubs" -- doesn't make sense. If you are good at the game, you are good at the game, and you can probably teach yourself to be good at the competitive level too. Now obviously the people who anyone cares to watch on Source TV, who are at the top of the foodchain, are a tiny fraction of the entire population of TF2 players.