Have you ever been really competitive at a video game?

no. 
 
i play the shit out of TF2 but i just play it for fun (108 hours of fun and counting!)

I think the last time for me was Tribes (the original, way back when). I loved that game to death when I was younger and played the hell out of it.
 
I wasn't in a clan or anything, though.

Used to be very competitive in Rise of Nations. Looking to restart my old competitive rts flame with RUSE this year.

I played a lot of Action Quake 2 back in 99/98, we had a pretty awesome clan. Also played a lot of Rocket Arena 3.
 
I burned out after a couple of years and haven't been competetive since. Now I only play mutilplayer if it's co-op.

I don't really have a competitive mindset.

I played the shit out of Battlefield 2 and was in a clan and everything. 

I do Bad Company gamebattles matches once a week, I enjoy it quite a bit.

Call of Duty 4. Ended up winning my current HD monitor... even though we came second place.
More than a couple thousand hours in that game... Play regular matches, either ESL or just vs random clans on irc.
Other than that... did some Quake 3, and counter-strike. So yeah, I'm an FPS kinda guy.

" Yes - the obvious game of choice being World of Warcraft... but maybe that doesnt count, because my playtime was probably the average for WoW players. Otherwise, SOCOM 2 and Ratchet and Clank 3 were my choice of games for competitiveness. "

Yeah I was in acompetitive GB ladder on Gears of War for all the way up till about 2 months before Gow 2.
 My team made it in the top 100 and placed 60th out of however many teams there were. 
 
Now I dont play competitive anymore, Unless you call playing mw 2 and getting frustrated than maybe.

A long time ago I was really keen on Civ3 and would play the game of the month competition over at CivFanatics. Everyone starts from the same game save and then uploads their winning save to the server. Usually I was mid-table but one month I snagged the single city cultural medal since no one else went for it :)

Would like to get back into it someday but my life is much busier these days so I don’t have anywhere near the time necessary to be competitive. Some of those guys would play games for 50 hours plus (I saw one game that was over 100 hours, and that person was top that month).

I think that’s the only game I’ve really been competitive at, I generally do not like playing directly against other people as even if I’m winning there’s that nagging feeling I have that the other person is not enjoying the game at all. In RTS for example I am sure that in 1v1 there is usually only one happy player in each match, the person who is losing hates it. That’s why I really liked playing in the CivFanatics game, it’s turn based, we can take our time, and yet still be competitive while having enjoyed the game. People would also post about their games afterwards, and talk about what they did well or the mistakes they made, was a great way to learn and get better at the game. When Civ5 comes out  I'd love to start playing again...

Was deep into wow pvp, trying to get gladiator in arena is no easy task and it does chew away on your life quite a bit.  But it was fun and I like the mixed skillset you needed to be awesome at wow pvp, you needed good tactics, fast reactions, and a clear mind.
Tho the balancing has gotten wonky in Wotlk compared to the golden days of TBC arena.

" if I’m winning there’s that nagging feeling I have that the other person is not enjoying the game at all. "

When I was younger (about 10 years ago) I was really competitive in a lot of games, like Counter-Strike, Pokemon, Street Fighter II Arcade, etc. Nowadays, I just go with the flow and play games for fun and I'm amazed at when I look at the online leaderboards.

harvest moon me and my friends compete to see who can make the most profit

Quake 3 clans.  Some of our members won in majorish events.  I was never quite as good as them though.  I beat them very rarely.

I've been pretty darned addicted to learning the ins and outs of all sorts of games since the late eighties, so I'm sure I'll be throwing a bunch more up here as I think of them later.  Whooo, boy, here we go.

 
Started off much of my competitive gaming with Street Fighter 2, usually maining Ryu and Blanka.  From there, it was Mortal Kombat 1 & 2, usually with Sub-Zero and Liu Kang.  I was huge on Twisted Metal 2 and Tekken 2 for years, maining with Thumper in Twisted Metal 2 and usually Paul in Tekken 2 (and just about every future Tekken).  Command and Conquer Generals was my next competitive game of choice, and though I knew the mechanics inside and out, I'd say I still lost 80% of the time.  RTS games seem to attract very differing levels of hardcore gamers, and you could say I was hardcore-light.  Not sure if I'd count Diablo 2 as being "competitive," but I'll toss it out there anyways.  That's probably the single greatest time-sink I've ever invested into, and my addiction to Diablo damn near caused me to flunk out of college.  I also prided myself that I never used multiplayer mods or bots to play my characters.  Every hour I logged into Diablo 2 was my own, and I shit you not, it had to be in the high hundreds, if not thousands.

 
Other than the aforementioned Tekken series, I didn't play much else competitively for years until Halo 3, and then I was hooked all over again, despite the fact that due to my vision, I've got a shitty kill/death ratio.  I still play Halo 3 pretty regularly, and I was starting to really get heavily into Lord of the Rings Online until circumstances dictated that I needed to cut the monthly fee for that game.  Hoping to get back into a MMO when I can, probably The Old Republic or maybe even back into LOTRO. 

I just lost in round 7 of a Dawn of war 2 tournament. After that it makes me want to gear up for the next one!

 
As an avid fighting game whore, with Tekken being on my number one list since Tekken 2, I'm very competitve when it comes to games  To this day I've been playing Tekken 6 since it's release in October. Striving to become a 'master', I've made it pretty high in the leaderboards, (number 54 as my character) have a win/loss ratio of 80-something-point-something % and have admittedly taken a spaz when I lost to someone who did nothing but grab.    

Have I ever been competitive about a videogame?
 
Hmm there's always this sense of competition when playing online I suppose, but the only ones I ever really went nuts about (lets say sweat palms from the tension) would be Smash Bros Brawl, had some very tight battles, stuff of legends.
 
Also the PVP in World of Warcraft was awesome and gave me many an adrenaline rush back in the day (before its downfall :P), and a fair share of Halo 3 (or reach beta, to an extent) always wants me to win and do anything it takes.
 
In good spirits tho, cursing out teammates because they lack the proper IQ is not a real gamers way.

I'm trying to get to a competitive level in Geometry Wars 2.

Played CoD 4 pretty competitively. But my old xbox buddys all split. Now I mostly play with RL friends and they don't do the clan stuff. 

Got involved in the clan scene playing Quake 2 back in the day (on a fucking modem). Never got more competitive than a few practice matches against other clans, though. Then I moved on to Quake 3 and actually did fairly well, wasn't too shabby. Didn't roll with the pros or anything, but I got by. Also played a fair amount of WarCraft 3 online trying to climb the ladders but I wasn't that great.  
 
Aside from WoW, that's pretty much the extent of my online experiences. Every game I've attempted online has led me to obsess and practice mercilessly to hone my skills. That's why this whole 360 LIVE culture leaves me feeling "meh". A few games here and there of drop in/drop out 5-minute free for all bullshit is not my idea of good multiplayer. 

street fighter iv 
I am afraid to get super street fighter iv and blazblue because I might get too addicted

There's a local tourney around every other month for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but it's nothing major, it might as well be me handing out invitations to my house to compete.  However, there are cash prizes, and I've gotten like $50 from it. 
 
Also, I play Pokemon semi-competitively.  EV's and IV's are really difficult to comprehend, I try to work on that stuff.  But I'd like to say I'm pretty good.

I got a little obsessed with Hexic a few years back, just shortly before it was blown open, and was #1 in the UK, #54 in the world, at it for a good while. I reguarly aim to complete every game I play on its highest difficulty etc, so I guess I have competitive traits.

The most competitive I ever got was attending a few MLG events about 4 or 5 years ago. The first time was for Halo 2 and our team did decently enough. The second time was for a Shadowrun tournament which we got hosed at after some almost heroics. 
 
What kept me in the competitive nature of gaming was the bonding I did with a lot of my close friends who I played with on these teams. I am not a naturally competitive person, I much prefer social gaming most of the time. But taking the Us v. Them attitude with some close friends at a tournament is just a thrill. Plus we were pretty good. 

I've been super competitive with Modern Warfare 1 and 2.  Back in the day it was Quake 3, Jedi Knight, and Diablo II.

i was dead serious about the original counter-strike in high school.  went to a good many LAN tournaments, did well in them.  they were local tournaments that never got more than a couple dozen teams and i was usually playing with good players.  4 2nd place finishes and a 1st place finish to my name in CS LAN tournaments, as well as a 4th in a fairly large tournament.  the last LAN tournament i ever played, my team was disqualified in (what i think was) the semi-finals after we were crushing a team and they complained that we could see them through smoke.  your color depth setting can make it easier to see through smoke and, sure enough, two or three of my teammates were using the illegal setting.  we were pretty confident we could win the tournament, so it was a big bummer to be DQ'd over something so small.  i can't necessarily defend my teammates, though.  they should've had the legal setting, regardless of their intent (it's possible that they simply overlooked it...i don't remember which setting it defaulted to).
 
i was never good enough to play at the top level, though.  just didn't have enough skill to shoot good players in the head faster than they shot me in the head.  i was extremely average (if you'll pardon the oxymoron), in relation to the competitive community as a whole.  could still crush casual players, though. 
 
i dabbled in other shooters as a result of going to LANs.  i won a quake 3 tournament as well as a UT2K3 (or maybe 2K4, don't remember) tournament, and i had some decent finishes in other UT2Kx tournaments. 
 
the game i was probably best at, though, was day of defeat.  i could hold my own against the best players when i was at my best.  the community never got super big, but i really loved that game.  i was on a team that went undefeated in an online league's (CAL-open) season. 
 
me and my counter-strike friends also got pretty good at a little half-life mod that i think was called Battlegrounds.  it was a revolutionary war mod.  it did okay for a mod that i'm not sure ever got out of beta.  same goes for Digital Paintball, another half-life mod. 
 
the source engine (as well as shifting priorities) kind of killed my interest in competitive gaming.

 We had couple of PS2's and TVs in our office's pause-room couple of years ago. Game we played over and over again was PES6. Had some really hefty matches on our breaks. Couple of times we even arranged some tournaments in the local pub. I had PES6 for Xbox 360 back then already but went and bought PS2 version of  PES6. And practiced it to death with different teams and tactics. On the tournament I did quite well I think. The results are bit hazy because of the amount of beer we ended up drinking. Awesome times.

I was a very serious Diablo II Lod player around the summer of 2007.

Probably Supreme commander, I used to play that a lot and loved building a shit load of defences so I could make a huge army to destroy the enemy. Nothing beats winning a match in the most over the top way.

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