I was kicking around the idea after seeing Purge and a few other high level players do this, of offering coaching to our newer players.* I know Valve is offering a Mentor program eventually but for the time being this could help. The idea I had was we could have a spot on the forums for mentors/students to sign up, and we could have like time-slots where mentors would be available to help people who are new for learning a hero, item builds, positioning, etc. I've noticed that quite a few people who are showing up are like completely new to the game so having some observed coaching could help. Just an idea though, thoughts?

This is a great idea that Jbrown and I were actually kicking around the other night. What do we need just a sign up forum?

That should work, just a signup for coaches with like their normal available times or something like that could work. What do you think?

I think this is a great idea and we should def do it. Would you be down for coaching the first one?

Well I was thinking it could be more of a casual thing, like here are the people who are available and such and such time, contact them if you'd like tutoring and see if they are available instead of on x day we do coaching for y hours, or something.

maybe we could have the coaches post what they are best at/ what people would benefit most from if they were to learn from said coach

ya i mentioned this earlier as mentors and whatnot, but ya i think this needs to be done. it should be one of the fundamental parts of our community

I think it should just work like Random Acts of Pizza does? People can post an [OFFER] to mentor or a [REQUEST] for help, and people can respond/reply accordingly?

CptWalmart, I think you just agreed to Moderate our new Mentoring forum

i gotta get in on this moderating shit one day

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basic template of what it could look like

Doob

About yourself: just a lil something to break the ice

Steam Name: your steam name though it changes so idk bout this lol

TimeZone: your timezone ie Eastern Standard time or the like

Best Times to Reach you: best times when you can train with your mentor

Points of Improvement: Things you would like to improve on

Best Form of Contact: This will prolly be mumble but some ppl have preferences

Heroes you Play Best: Things you do great be it heroes or anything really

Heroes you have Issues with: your worst played heroes

Mentor

About yourself: just a lil something to break the ice

Steam Name: your steam name though it changes so idk bout this lol

TimeZone: your timezone

Best Times to Reach you: best times when your doobs can train with you

Best Form of Contact: This will prolly be mumble but some people have preferences

Teaching Knowledge: What information you can feed the doobs to help them succeeded to be the next singsing

Well that's all I could think of atm so hopefully we can get this started

Also If you do decide to do this I feel it would be easier to have 3 threads
like

Mentors - Threads of people who are taking doobs an how many they want to take on

Doobs - Threads of doobs who need help improving on the game

Training Sessions - Threads of players picked like Mentor makes a thread of all the players he wants to take on as doobs. The mentor would then pm the doobs though steam/mumble what have you an start their path to enlightenment. Though the reason for the thread is for uploading replays as well as the doobs giving feedback on the mentor who helped them or just shooting information back an forth.

Last but not least I know I for one don't know everything about this game but I feel I know enough to at least help out a few players If they want to learn though it would work both ways b/c we would be learning as well as them so in turn in could work out very well just as long as the experienced players do their part as well.

Instead of steamname just have them link their profile, that never changes.
Other then that, Good start!