There haven't been a lot of criticisms happening in pugs, regardless if you smurf in our channel or not. Also, the incident with Kissy and Mabel happened nine months ago.
I've been in most of the PUGs happening as of recently, and that hasn't happened since I brought it up in a thread...
While I like you Ucan, and several others (Notably Sharp and the other Fire) I feel that some people within the American side of the community are really pushy when it comes to competitiveness. I feel that as a person, this people actually make me feel worse and in fact want me not to play. I rarely see the point in staying up overnight for American pickups unless its with other Euro's.
Sorry Gheist, but I am going to name and shame here, as I feel that both Freeman556 and Rock have actually been over competitive and actually make the pickups a worse place. Rock for example, came and played a Euro pickup game on Fallout the other day - a 12v12 that I captained on Fallout. Needless to say, it was not my best performance as captain (As I am inexperienced when it comes to larger games and would prefer not to captain them), and we lost the game 10-1. However, Rock makes a notably memory as throughout the game he was whining about people's playing skills and what I call 'the details' of the game. All the way through the game he was making comments to people, and I believe "Made the team lose even worse" as he depressed the team and in fact disrupted team talk. After the awful game, he starts talking bullshit and saying that I can't captain at all. Evidently I couldn't because he was whining in my ear the entire game and a 12v12 really shouldn't imo of been played.
My clan member also told me that he was talking behind my back when I picked him to the rest of my team before the game even started, and when I later talked to him the next day, I raised the points to him, and he was a rude and particularly arrogant to me, and had an attitude of "Not giving a *chocolate cookies*"
Freeman on the other hand, was captaining a game. He picked me last (Fair enough as I am a Euro) and we played some Frostbyte (hmmm). He asked me to drop the flag as he was behind me and I was low. I couldn't see the guy, and I decided not to drop it as I felt I could make it home and because midfield drops can go awfully wrong. I passed the flag back home and unfortunately the enemy team got the return. Yes, my fault entirely, but what I was not prepared for was Freeman's rebuke. Needless to say it involved some swearing and such directed entirely at me. I thought, "What a bastard" as I was not prepared for the aggression of his attack. I later disconnected from the game halfway due to my Dad getting a little cross and pulling out the power lead for the router
However, I already in my opinion have grounds to ragequit.
I name and shame here, just to use examples, and seeing as not many people have the guts to do so. I'm also not hating on the guys either, I'm just using them as examples. I hope I can play some decent games with you guys, but for the reasons mentioned above, I kinda don't want to. True, I wasn't always right, but there's no need to get angry over it.
In reply to your comment about people not complaining Ucan, the minority rarely gets a voice, but it does now within this thread.
Tbh, Euro pugs are way more fun than US, because from what I've seen, Euro players are friendly and encouraging, while the US players are angry and criticize any, and I mean ANY, mistake you make, accidentally or not.
<3 - Always try and include people, it break mah heart when we have to leave a guy out, as I know what it feels like from playing some American games. If you want to start playing some euro's come on down at 2 PM EST, on a Saturday. That's when we start pugging.
This thread is basically "just" dealing with US PuGs. That's bad enough though.
