Been playing
TF2 since beta... joined Noob Gamers server for the first time about a month before Up in Smoke! server died... maybe 5 months ago? I don't know. I joined up because at the time all I played was spy... which I used to be good at, and I wanted to snipe and play 2fort... which I used to suck at, and
nG had a low ping. I stuck around because I wanted to get better, I met a couple of cool people, and now I basically live there. I think the people I really clicked with first were Ryan and Junction, those guys crack me up.
PS I've put in over 600 hours in the game, according to adding up all my classes time played (200 as sniper... 180 as spy... so if you happen to get shot in the face, I feel it's well earned.)