if its css you wanna get competitve in dont bother with clanbase as tbh its **** xD
put a recruitment onto enemy down or the soon to be league eurokrieg.
be truthful about yourself though because if you say yeh well im a mid skilled player and can awp and rifle at a good standar, they trial you and you end up being low and bad at awping and rifling then it aint a good way to start.
if your just starting out at css, i would reccomend finding a decent deathmatch that you like and learning how the mian weapons work (deagle, awp, ak, m4) find whether you are more confortable with rifle or awp. you could then go to normal public servers (detest them myself).
things to steer clear of:
modded servers, things like warcraft mod or anything is horrendous.
the odd hide and seek or mini game server can be fun though.
dont try to copy other peoples settings. no matter how "pro" a player is he didnt get there by copying settings from other players. Find a sensitivity, crosshairscale etc etc that suites YOU. i would reccomend using your monitors native res though a lot of people have the impreession low res's are the way to go but there is no reason to not go native.
so yeh choose settings you are comfortable with and DONT change them unless needed.
try to work on being passive and also aggressive, and learn in which situations you need to be passive / aggresive. (this is picked up in mixes mainly)
for example if the bombs down you cant wait around for people to come to you you have to push forward and try to get that defuse.
DONT be a rager. nobody likes them, if you find yourself getting angry you will play worse ending up in you playing worse. if you find your self getting angry and you not being able to hit anyone, have a break watch some TV or play a different game for a while. come back and i garuntee you will do better.
being angry can also make your team angry. making the teamplay worse. everyone gets mad ofc but just keep it chilled
also dont flame people, on pubs or in matches just dont it gets old and makes you look a fool. even if they have awful reg, 400 ping and are flaming you be the better person and keep chilled. they will only look a ****.
always have optimal net settings.
rate: 25-50k (i use 50k as its best for ME)
cl_cmdrate : 100
cl_updaterate: 100
another thing i find helpful is watch demos of top players playing, see what they do in certain situations and how they work as a team. it also helps by watching the position that YOU usually play . find out ho they hold it and when to be aggressive or passive.
youll be playing in a team in no time then
/sorry if that bored anyone