I started with UT99
Playing with Rooster, Danny, CookieMonster, DragonAsh, Ashram, and Survey_Says had the greatest impact on my skills. Playing in The Roost was probably the best times of my UT99 experience. Those where the good old says. Of course I was on 56k and a dumb teenager at the time so all I did was playing computer games and work so that could be part of the reason why I got as good as I did on a dial up connection.
UT2k4
When I moved to Florida I got a cable connection and hooked back up with ISV-K, my old clan from UT99. This got boring very quickly and soon Rune, Hanky and I moved to TB:: - The Brothel. Playing with TB:: quickly honed my skills more than I could've imagined. Fork, 9_Inches_Of_Afro, Naked_Fat_Guy, Panama_Red, Delphi and the others quickly found my weaknesses and after a while they where elimated. We where the number one team for ONS for a long time and also took the number one spot in CTF a couple of times from teams like Notorious. The best part of it all was that we really weren't that serious so competing at such a high level was really fun. Especially when everyone thought we would get destroyed and we always ended up putting up a hell of a fight.