An ode to the loveable, horrible, wonderful Counter-Strike community and my first tournament experience

Summary

"It sounds like you need to find some sense of belonging, a group you can call your own and feel at home with." Those words, or words to that effect, are ones my therapist recently spoke to me. I think she probably had in mind something a little more traditional—church, or one of those manly men groups, something like that—but last week I found a glimpse of…