@sakura Great post, and it shows one of the reason’s why Yeye climbed very fast and does well. I would add from my experience a long time ago that being a leader for Highlander is not the easiest thing in a world either, and a lot of people get surprised and end up throwing the towel in.
A list of some things
- You have to FIND and MANAGE a MINIMUM of 8 people. This doesn’t include your backups, ringers you know, etc. Then you have to do try outs with them, etc. Takes some time.
- You have to find 8+ people who can play at the same time as you! Now it seems people play during weekends and obviously Match day, but at the time when I played long time ago, many teams would practice immediately after match day on Tuesdays and have all different preferences.
- You need to find scrim partners who are RELIABLE. Some teams love baiting and it’s especially worse if you only scrim a few times a week.
- You need to be super organized I found. My friends list on Steam still has all my old lists of team leaders, ringers, etc. I love Discord now (which didn’t exist back then) being used since you can have channels for all different things. Mumble was meh. (Also the rename function on steam’s friends list is helpful to make notes since a lot of people like changing their name every so often)
- Learn to be a social-able person. Some leaders are just straight up dicks or they’re very quiet when it comes to things, etc. You’ll develop a good reputation among other leaders
- The above point leads into this one (which is a more fun point) but you can sort of have team leaders you are very good friends with which generally will lead into each other’s teams being good friends. My team was good friends with a team called USSR at the time and we would do things like Christmas events. Even though the season would be over we would load up Christmas maps and play highlander (badwater_snowy for ex). Sure the maps aren’t perfect but you can off class and just enjoy yourselves.
So yeah it’s a lot of work, don’t underestimate it. My very first team I lead I probably quit 3 weeks in. No shows, enemy teams wouldn’t show, toxicity, etc. I was ready later on once I understood what goes into it.