Describe your role in a team.

[UnityRiot]

I'm pretty much the worker bee/drone or the independent person. If I'm playing football/in a group for work or something, I'll pretty much follow direction of other people and add in my own opinions and ideas along the way if I feel like it. If I'm playing TF2, I'll go off on my own, do whatever I feel like offensively, and completely disregard what anyone else is telling me to do XD

 

[SideburnsPuppy]

In terms of school assignments, I don't often work in groups unless I have the option to work with really good friends or if I have to work with somebody, because my role in a group is usually "the one who does more or less all the work," and it makes me feel spineless and taken advantage of.

I don't play team sports, because in my experience it's just been another opportunity for people not to pass to me, and I don't play multiplayer often because I'm not that good at videogames.

 

[Capt. Crankypants]

I'm the one picking up after everyone else's mistakes/stupidity. This goes for games like Battlefield 2, as well as sports (soccer in particular). Everyone loves to CHARGE and ATTACK...
I dont blame them for wanting to always do the exciting bits, but they ARE team games for a reason.

 

[jojoemon]

In hockey I'm an aggresive offensive player, and in football i play defense, get mowed over, but trip the ball carrier inthe process. So basicly, i'm either a center or i'm cannon fodder.

 

[rembrandtqeinstein]

I'm the guy who says "there is no I in team" but doesn't actually do anything else.

 

[dagens24]

I'm the rough and tumble doctor who pulls everyone from the plane wreckage only to find out the blond girl is my sister and is best friends with a pillar of smoke who has taken the form of a bald guy who I used to be rivals with who is now dead because of some sort of never ending cyclical time loop!

 

[Pegghead]

When it comes to sport I try to get into the game but I'm only good at particular sports, though for the sports I am good (As in not bad) at which involve a team in soccer I play an alright defense.

If it's a team doing a basic task I'll just try and get everybody to work together and initiate us all coming up with a good plan.

Though when it comes to my day to day job well...

 

[MARGARITAMANX2X]

in real life i hold together my teams D-line in football and am the sniper on XBL

 

[Godhead]

I'm usually the last line of defense in sports, and is the guy who goes complete Rambo in fps.

I also like to rush it in l4d when the rest of the team is full of complete tards (thankfully not as usual as I used to expect)

 

[RUINER ACTUAL]

Mostly rapid assault with an SMG or AR.

 

[cyberoth]

I'm the distraction.

No, seriously.

In every game I play where teamwork is possible, my role is to heckle and annoy as best I can, dying as rarely as possible.

Examples:

Battlefront 2 : Grab a chaingun. Fire wildly into a group of enemies, so they notice me and shoot me. Flee to get healing. Look as my allies get kills. Repeat.

Smash Bros : Grab Ness. Spam PK Thunder. Wait till the other team gets pissed and goes after the thunderspammer. Watch in glee as my teammateswoops in to save my silly ass.

Let's face it. A good distraction can decide the whole game. I'm a damned good distraction when I put my mind to it.

 

[Xeros]

I'm not a big fan of sports, but when I do play I'm pretty damn good at defensive positions.

 

[MattZero]

I set up whatever we're doing, assign the roles then assign someone else to be in charge of everyone else, then do nothing for the rest of the endeavor. Afterwards I put A MATTZERO production in huge letters across the top.

 

[Mozared]

Eh, it depends.

One example is projects I had to do with other students at school. If you put me with my friends, I'd generally shove it and did what I was told, because I knew that while I had some nice ideas of my own, they wouldn't understand them anyway.I simply didn't want to bother with going through the whole process of having a discussion about it. If you put me with the lazy folks in the class, I'd generally be on their balls the entire time telling them to do some work, while coming up with my own ideas and steering my groupmates as well.

In an optimal setup I'm in a group with people of similar intellect and interests as me, and in those groups I always end up being a proper leader/teacher. Assessing the situation, knowing the big lines of all divisions/sections and through that looking at the shortcomings we have and inspiring my teammates to do something about it.

I need to keep the overview, it's just me. I don't need to know all details of what everybody is doing (as generally the people in question are better at their own job than me), but I need to know enough to figure out where we are failing so I can teach, connect, improve and inspire the weaker links.

 

[BakaSmurf]

IRL? I'm the lazy guy that just wants to sit in the back occassionally throwing an idea on the table just to be able to claim some form of participation... And yet I always end up being the freakin' leader ordering people to do this and that, and generally getting shit done just in the nick of time.

Life's funny like that.

In Video games? I'm the lazy guy that hangs back with a sniper rifle and takes potshots at people foolish enough to pass through my crosshairs. Or if I'm feeling randy I'm the dumbass that goes charging against the entire enemy team, and takes out half of them before being killed by a random grenade.

A 'badass Redshirt', to put it in layman's terms.

 

[Heeman89]

In hockey I usually play Right Wing, in USA football (not to confuse my friends from across the pond) I play either QB or WR. In paintball, airsoft, laser tag, etc. I usually play either a support or decoy roll.

 

[zehydra]

The guy who likes to run in the enemies' base and take out all of their snipers from behind. If possible, with a melee weapon.

 

[Taco of flames]

I'm fairly multi-talented, so I can fill any role. In WoW, I have tanked, healed, and DPSed in dungeons. If I ever play a shooter, a genre which I fail horribly at, I am the distraction. I run in with a big gun and grenades and spray everything with hot lead/lasers/plasma/etc. In real-life scenarios, such as a group project in school, I tend to be the one who can do everything. People turn to me if they need something done. I don't contribute much to discussions, but I do damned good work. In sports, I'll play a role that allows me to use my mass to an advantage, such as a post position in basketball, or the guy preventing sacks in football.

 

[Hallow'sEve]

Well....in Left 4 Dead, I'm notorious for...well, leaving my teammates for dead lol

I've never actually played a "team game", like with roles and such (WoW, sports, etc)

 

[Jedoro]

Back when I played soccer I was mostly the goalie but also defense. I wasn't the best with the ball but I could run down the guy who had it.

In other settings, I'm more the team leader. I know what needs to be done and usually know who can do what best, and assign tasks accordingly, making sure I'm doing work, too.