Anyone down to help some noobs learn the greatest arena shooter ever?

I love Quake and arena shooters, though I’m not very good. The main reason being is it seems like it’s hard to find actual matches against people that aren’t bots. Most the servers I’ve connected to just have bots or just tons of spectators just sitting in there not chatting or anything (kinda odd)
Are there any of y’all that frequent a certain server and wouldn’t mind if a noob joined y’all to learn how to frag like the greats?
(I used to dabble in Quake Live, but somehow I bricked my game and I can’t get it to launch anymore)