I'll send a PM asking for email addresses then and get everyone signed up.
Slow work day today :)

As far as real strategies, it's probably a good idea. All the stuff here at the moment is probably already know by everyone anyways so it's not that big a deal, but for anything beyond this it might be better to have that google group.

Well, I'm best at pyro.
I play quite a bit of soldier and I'm pretty comfortable with it.
I also play a good bit of demo, but Mex has that covered.
I'm also a decent medic in a pinch.
I'm a decent heavy as well, but I generally lose if I go up against one of full-time heavies.
I like playing engi, but I'm toast if the other team has a decent spy.
I should probably stay away from scout/spy/sniper, although I had a decent run of each in the last tournament when we needed one.

I'd like to start a Google Group for talking about the team. Any objections? Comments kind of suck for doing anything beyond making random comments. I think all I'd need is an email address to get people set up.
Also, if anyone has something similar to Google Groups, I'd like to hear about it.

As far as team name goes, it should have something to do with 1 or be utterly ridiculous like "Anne Franks Attic Rave". Probably needs some alcohol to come up with a name like that.

As far as class balance:
Best: Soldier, Heavy, Spy (relatively)
Mediocre: Demo, Medic, Engineer, Pyro
Worst: Sniper, Scout

Note that I'm the one who's OCD about playing each class equally, so my mediorce and worst classes are relatively balanced out. Instead I ranked it more along the lines of which ones end up being more useful in general.

.... and as far as a team name goes, we could always use my band's name in Rock Band: 2 In The Stink. It's dirty, it's funny, and my band rocked, so we could like, totally rock too!!!

It's been a pretty long time since I've played, but from my best recollections......

Best: Medic, Soldier, Engineer
Mediocre: Demoman, Scout
Bad: Sniper, Spy, Pyro

Here are my preferences:

Best/Most Comfortable: Medic
Depends on the Weather: Sniper, Pyro, Engie, Soldier
Avoid at all costs: Scout, Demo
You're kidding, right?: Spy

One thing I tried to do in the draft is get people who are good at multiple things so we have some flexibility in the tourney. I think almost everyone has multiple classes that they are good at. I'd like to see us focus on a class balance per map rather than just overall. Each map is different and requires slightly different class balance to be successful. Also, it depends on how the team plays together; we've all seen "stacked" teams get beaten by teams with lesser-known players because of this.

Once we agree on the maps (Psych is pushing for mostly 5point CP maps), I'd like to scrimmage on them and see how we play as a team. Let's continue to write down our self-ranking on each of the classes so we can use that.

Mine:

BEst: Pyro, Medic, Heavy
Decent: Demo, Soldier
Horrible: Engie, Scout, Spy, Sniper

Well, aside from pyro my best bets are spy and medic. I can be a competent engy, soldier, sniper or heavy if we really need it. The only class I suggest I don't touch that often would be demo, but I don't think that will be an issue with Mex covering that role well. I just realised I forgot Scout, which probably shows how much I play it (and therefore how much I should play it). So just to have it in list form to make it easier for future reference:

Best: Pyro, Spy, Medic
Competent: Sniper, Soldier, Heavy, Engineer
Avoid (in our best interest): Demoman, Scout

Hi guys!

It's important to figure out our class balance from the beginning, so everyone can focus on specializing and improving their roles instead of experimenting in the middle of a match.

The main problem I see is that we have 4 really good pyros(Fxeni, Deftly, Tboon and OG) but if we field 4 pyros we're screwed.

So if you'd be so kind as to * post what class you'd prefer to play and the one you know you're best at*, please do =)

If I may suggest, I'd hope Deftly and Fxeni stay pyro (one support and one offensive) because they're damn good at it. I know tboon can be a good heavy and medic also. Taer is the best spy definitely.

So for sure we need 2 medics, 1 heavy, 1 or 2 good engineers depending on the map, 1 spy, 1 really good sniper, soldiers and demomen.

Asterith
atomicvideohead
Bonus_Eruptus
cube
deftly
fuzzybunny
Fxeni
Grubber
Laarrs
Mex - Medic / Heavy or Demoman
OG_Slinger
Queueball
taer
Tboon

Stuff we need to do:
- Need a name
- Schedule some practices
- Need someone to step up and help organize