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ESEA-I: LAN Spot Finalized (Week 8 Roundup)

January 28th Feature
Tagged: ESEA ESEA-I Invite NA S10

Fog — Hey everyone, sorry about the lack of a Week 8 Power Ranking, but I had no time to write the article due to various personal reasons. Hopefully this roundup makes up for the lack of power rankings

After a very exciting final week of the season, the LAN spots have been decided! After the week 7 matches finished up, the final LAN spot was still very much up for grabs. The teams played on the classic favourite cp_granary for Week 8.

Granary is a standard 5CP map that along with Gravel Pit, are the only maps used from the launch of TF2. The map itself is known for it’s generally flat terrain, and it’s easy rollouts to the middle point. There have been some changes made to the map from the game’s launch in 2007, with the biggest recent change being with the addition of the second entrance to/from garage. Granary is also known to be a slow paced map with clear choke points and limited possibilities for flanks. Teams will have to rely on their heavy classes to put out lots of damage and also have to rely on their teamwork skills to be successful on Granary. Now it’s time to go over what went down in the 8th and final week of the regular season before LAN.

SalTV – TF2World.ru Night Cup #6 tonight

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January 26th Matches
Tagged: cup La compétiTF russians sal tf2world.ru

Galant — We have launched our russian series of Night Cups right after success of Albert’s Cups during last summer. Since then every cup is gaining 16 teams, the last one – #5 called “New Year Special” (brackets) – has provided interesting games on snow maps (such as old obscure and coldfront) in chase of winning 100$. This time the 6th cup called “PreSeason” will bring again 100$ to the strongest team and games on maps from ETF2L Season 11 map-pool: cp_freight, cp_gullywash, cp_snakewater and cp_granary.

Cup will start today at 18:00 cet. Brackets will be published here.

Our american friend Salamancer will cast all rounds on his SalTV, and competitf TV will mix some lovely music and insight of the game by team ISIS as far they will proceed in this tournament.

The schedule is next for tonight:

18:00 cet – Round 1 – cp_freight_final1
18:45 cet – Round 2 – cp_snakewater
19:30 cet – Semi-Finals – cp_gullywash_final1
20:15 cet – Final, BO3 (can be postponed on Sunday if games will delay)

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2011 – a year in review PART 3/3

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January 25th Review
Tagged: 2011 review tf2

Hildreth — So I have managed to write two parts of a three part series of articles in about 5 days, then work took over and I needed three weeks to complete this part 3, YET it has taken Torden a good nine months, and counting, to finish part three of the Unicorn man series. Not a criticism of the man, I just want to know what happened to the Unicorn man, it is like a TF2 children’s book to me. Having been informed by CanFo about a potential spot in the eSports Yearbook for my article, I owed it to the man to keep it professional and eliminate all my TheSucker being bad jokes. Unfortunately I failed on the professionalism part in the first sentence of the article, so we’re stuck with bad puns and more Sucker truth bombs.

So anyway we’re back with four more months of TF2 coverage, from the lonely hills of Telford, Shropshire to the heat and humidity of Dallas, Texas the big TF2 LANs kept rolling in. Meanwhile the most active and competitive period of the year – the Autumn season had officially kicked off in Europe.

TL:DR Disclaimer – This article is long, I can sum it up by saying ‘stuff happened’ and also, those of you with a sensitive disposition to TheSucker I advise you do not read this article. Thank you.

ETF2L Division 2B: Chaotech and MIPC in the Clash for the Cash

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January 25th Matches
Tagged: Angel Chaotech etf2l mipc vanillatv

Admirable — Last night we saw the Premiership get off to a punctual, yet flaccid start with the might Epsilon eSports riding roughshod over well-intentioned Tryharders in a 6-1 6-1 stompfest. Some would say that the top level of our competitive scene is a in a state of transition, whilst others have already called the time of death, so I have set off on the hunt for some juicier fixtures for you, the loyal spectators, to feast upon.

In my daily routine of circling over VanillaTF2 and the ETF2L like some sort of cyber vulture, waiting to peck the eyes of unsuspecting nerds on their last legs, I spotted an intriguing post from Russian millionaire-playboy-philanthropist-come-ETF2L-Admin, Angel. In it the man behind the Ultiduo revolution, who is never scared to put his money where his mouth is, declares quite matter-of-factly that he will give $200 to the “first man who correctly predict first three places in the right order for group 2B” only to up the stakes again moments later with an additional $300 for the second person to correctly predict the outcome of Division 2B.

Only an hour old and already speculation was rife on the thread about potential match fixing and Angel had once again caught the attention of the community with his random acts of generosity, but that was not all the man with the money had to say on the matter. A second update came thick and fast with our Russian benefactor announcing that the winner of Division 2B would now receive $600, again from his own pocket! When forumites inquiries moved to gain some insight to his motives, he offered up the following:

ETF2L Premiership kicks off: Epsilon are not Tryharders

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January 24th Matches
Tagged: epsilon etf2l tryharders

Trath — Well the first Premiership match of the season is here. Who would have thought that Prem teams would actually play their games on time? It is a new age for TF2! Truth be told – this dosen’t seem like an exciting match on the face of it; the defending champions Epsilon eSports are huge favorites, whilst the unproven Tryharders have a really, really small chance. But you know how it goes… it ain’t over til the fat lady sings.

Tryharders have been trying hard, playing a lot for the past two weeks. They picked up Super Scouts Longas and EstaniS, as well as crazy jew demoman Erectus. While nobody thinks much of their soldiers, and most high level players dislike Taimou‘s aggressive style of play, they are rumoured to be working on some oddball strategies that nobody has prepared for yet. Epsilon have been on a roll for a very long time. I cant remember the last time they lost a match, if ever. Nobody can argue they are #1 right now.

VanillaTV have risen to the occasion at the last minute and will be bringing you a star-studded international extravaganza with eXtelevision’s Salamancer, our homophonically amphibian friend from across the pond, who will be joined by our very own Admirable on the mic and Comedian on the streaming duties. Turn on, tune in and drop out shortly after 21:00CET.

Last but not least, thanks to the TF2 streaming revolution you can also catch POV of fearless Finn, Taimou, and the Tryharder’s team comms over on TaimouTV, including their warm-up games right now!

Epsilon eSports KnOxXx, wltrs, stefan, GeaR, randa, F2

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tryharders EstaniS, longás, mineral, Koeitje, erectus, Taimou

ETF2L Season 11, week 1

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Tuesday January 24th
21:15 cet
15:15 est (na)
05:15 est (aus)

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Who will win this match?

Epsilon eSports (83%, 89 Votes)
tryharders (17%, 27 Votes)

Total Voters: 107

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Pirate Radio Tonight! 22.30CET (22/01/10)

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January 22nd Commentary
Tagged: pirate radio podcast

CommanderX — - There is a hole in my door, there is a hole in my ceiling with water coming through it, there is hummus everywhere but there is no time for those problems now, it’s Pirate Radio time! On this weeks agenda there is all the gossip from scandi land along with a look at at the Sparkle Invitational, the upcoming ETF2L season and some other bits and bobs. Tune in at the same time, in the same places as always:

Edit: VOD and MP3 up!

Mumble – fakkelbrigade.eu:64740
Live stream @ Twitch TV
Also join our IRC #PirateRadio on Quakenet

Links to all the previous episodes can be found here.

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VanillaTV + Competition – Excello SPARKLE Invite Final

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January 19th Matches
Tagged: cup epsilon excello infused sparkle

Faint — The winner of the AntLion Audio ModMic is Rinta for the couple of nice haikus she wrote, although it should be mentioned that Sonny Black’s entry may have won if it wasn’t for 6 syllables in the first line (damn technicalities!). Ty to all those who entered, and gratz to Rinta!

CanFo — Tonight Team Infused and Epsilon eSports will battle out who gets six Sparkle GTS 450 1024MB 128bit DDR5 One Slot graphics cards, in the final of the invite bracket of the Excello Sparkle TF2 Winter Warmup Tournament (I challenge the casters to read out this sentence without mistakes). I would like to take this opportunity to thank all teams that participated in both the open, and invite bracket, and made this tournament the biggest TF2 tournament at Excello so far with 52 teams participating. But now back to the final!

VanillaTV will be casting tonight’s match with ThePledge and nvc on the mics, with nvc running the stream as well. Casting will start shortly after 21:00 CET!

Epsilon eSports F2, KnoxXx, GeaR, stefan, wltrs, randa

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Team Infused flisko, cookye, numlocked, Greg, dunc, Mike

Excello Sparkle TF2 Winter Warmup Invite - Grand Finals

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TIME

Thursday January 19th
21:15 cet
15:15 est (na)
05:15 est (aus)