What a great post and some great, captivating moments!
I'm happy you saw the thread I did about joining the tournament that day and even more so that you joined and have been sticking around.

It's true, the flames are annoying. I think they're meant as obstacles. It is particularly annoying when you spawn in them. Luckily, the shield is up when you spawn, and you can get away before you take damage. Shield is disabled when you use your weapon, or automatically after 5 seconds when you don't use your weapon.

I think a way to get around the game mode obstacle is to add the "rules" of the round to the score board (this shows when you press and hold down the tab key).
Currently you can see it if you press the ESC button (this basically pause the game, but.. you can still die when playing multiplayer).

You have no idea how bad I was at this game when I first started. I haven't played any counter strike or that kind of games. I've played fallout (starting at Fallout 3), S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl and that sort of games, but never any multiplayer mode, so... I was BAD, just ask Hive account@zillionz and Hive account@obifenom 😂
If it hadn't been for the community, I would have stopped playing right away.
I hate losing! But the atmosphere in among the members is just great.

Shit talking with Hive account@silverblue84 when one of us lose a mini-game, taking the piss of Hive account@zillionz, making fun of @gaotantacinquefor being founder and still being as poor in the game as I am and seeing Hive account@mickvir improving his game over the past few months. Everything there is great, such a vibrant community.
Sometimes we're lucky to have Hive account@herman-german join us too. Been a while since I saw him in the pew pew game though.

As for today's prize, that was well deserved! Imagine if you had been hiding when you kept killing me and Hive account@zillionz. Your KDR was 9 to 1 at one point.
You would have taken the KDR prize with that 😜

!BBH !PIMP !ALIVE !BEER !SLOTH !LUV !LOL