I remember when I just got into toribash. I was getting my money at the official servers. I thought judo was the only normal mode. I made friends with some guy called toniep9 and he sent me 1k tc. Back in time, for me it was unbelieveable money.
I've bought head texture and gladiator stuff. I felt myself fabulous.
Mostly, Tonakai opened the community for me. As a newbie I was playing in his tourneys and soon we became some kind of "friends".