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UKeSA Week 3 10.3 :: vs Oh My God It Is WON

One of the better division 3* teams. Shouldn't pose much of a threat, although we're a bit shaky on both well and turbine.

* = division 3 as in ETF2L division 3

ETF2L Week 8 xx.x :: vs Nwave DEFAULT

Ahh, the lovely chaps of Nwave again. Last week they made cube hate cp_well even more and this time we get to play them on gravelpit! It's a bit more important this week as it's ETF2L and we want to have a clear no maps lost-record. After Nwave there's only one game to go, it being against veAre, a german team that is currently 6th in the division.

UPDATE 10.3: Apparently their team folded once again and unless they come up with a new team, it will be a default win for us. I wouldn't be surprised to see a new nwave team soon.

ESL Season 3 Week 1 12.3 :: vs eLD TIED

ESL starting again and after the disappointment of last season, we actually got placed into a proper division this time. eLD getting a shot at us again this week after their loss last sunday in the ETF2L. Our win on badlands was quite solid(7-1) but managed to win granary only 4-3. Arguably they missed their most influental players.

Wireplay season coming to an end

The season is now over for us. It was a bit weird as we had such good results vs the top teams yet managed to only tie some of the middle tier teams.
Personally I'd say that the games vs TCM and Druidz were the most fun, intense games we've ever had so the season itself left a good aftertaste even if it was the league we performed the worst(resultwise) in.
The Druidz game actually became a win for us as DRz folded.
Some teams still have games to be played so I'll post our final standing in the tables at a later time.
Full results list in xls format can still be found here










We are currently discussing(yeah right) if we should play in TheSGL or not as we might want to keep our focus on other, more familiar leagues with better teams.
Already signed up for the next season of Wireplay, which should be good assuming the skill level of the premier teams will stay about the same. Did a bit of scouting while writing this and to be honest, it looks a bit grim for Wireplay concerning whether the top teams will sign up or not..

The Rumour Corner

sherpa getting back to ns...
Pizza forced to take a break around may...
cube joining a polish team...















Altbst, the ugliest soldier known to man

Schedules and stuff

Haven't updated the blog in a few weeks as nothing interesting has happened really.

UKeSA Season 1 4.3 :: vs uP Gaming WON

Our second game in the UKeSA. Won the first one against miBty quite comfortably and this one should be a pleasant stroll for us. Feel free to prove me wrong.

Wireplay Season 2 4.3 :: vs Dignitas LOST

Well they're the best, we'll do OUR best I hope!

EnemyDown xx.x :: vs weapons of the rebellion, not ColorZ!

High stakes in this one, a whopping FIFTY POUNDS(or actually, is it euros?). The last game of EnemyDown for us, we're playing ColorZ who won the division below us. Again, should be easy for us as we didn't lose a single map in the 7 group games we played. Date not set yet.

Apparently we're playing weapons of the rebellion instead!

ETF2L Season 4 week 6 8.3 :: vs elD WON

The season is nearing its completion and we have only 3 games to go, this being one of them. My bet is on us.

Wireplay Season 2 5.3 :: vs Nwave TIED

Wireplay also getting to an end soon, we should finish fourth which isn't too bad. Lost against wotr quite tightly, tied 1-1 in fastlane after leading the map for 28ish minutes and after that lost gravelpit which was a bit of a mess.
But again, Nwave shouldn't be much of a problem. After that we're playing Dignitas.

Other than those games, we've got some internal shit to deal with if we want to actually compete in division 1 in the future and win the first season of UKeSA.

ESL Season starting soon and we're playing in division 2B which is a bit of a sigh. At least we're not in division 3.










I'm not going to regularly update stuff about the bball/scout/instagib fun cups, will make a bigger update about each as they get finished.

We didn't make it to the Cadred top10 Clans list of february but honestly, we should be in there instead of a few teams(1, really). Hope a nay-sayer reads this and starts drama or something. Just do it.
Then again, the ranking mechanics work against us.

Interesting tidbit of information: We have WON 26 games, LOST 8 and TIED 4 games. (Officials, defaults excluded)

God Hand is an awesome game and anyone who owns a PS2/PS3 should get it. Or get a console just to play it.

A rather overconfident blog post this time! wltrs stepped down as a writer and Steven hasn't kept his promises of making an entry :(

UKeSA and stuff

So yeah, we nailed a spot in the UKeSA championship division which wasn't too surprising.
I suppose our main focus will now be on winning the championship title and claiming the 1000£ prize pot so we can get some ice cream and all that good stuff. I think we've got a pretty good chance to be first and I'm 100% confident we'll end up in top 3! If not, I got a grapefruit waiting for me.

Our group looks like this:











Main resistance quite definitely coming from delirium.. possibly northwave but didn't they like fold last week or something? Hope they get their shit together.

NEXT UP:

ETF2L Season 4 week 5 22.2 :: vs dmg WON

Will the russians put an end to our magnificent 3 win streak, are the days of terror over?! hope not! Our biggest game in the ETF2L this season and should be a good one. A quick look at their current roster reveals that they've found some quality scouts to join them.

EnemyDown 23.2 :: vs Hampshire Heavies WON

If the russians fail, will these chaps put us down? Highly doubt it but better be careful. Currently on a 6 win streak in the EnemyDown league.

UKeSA Season 1 25.2 :: vs miBty WON

The date might not hold, it's the default UKeSA date. Don't see a reason why we wouldn't play, though. Actually lost a pcw 0-1 to these guys so better be EXTRA careful. In the end I see us winning this one anyway.

Wireplay Season 2 1.3 :: vs weapons of the rebellion LOST

As wltrs mentioned earlier, still not scheduled. It'll get played though.
UPDATE: scheduled.

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Fun Facts:
Altbst has a grey parrot
wltrs is a flaming heterosexual

Mystery of the week?
Other than a parrot, Altbst also has a kid...?

Russel Crowe is a handsome man

Played three officials after the last update:

EnemyDown :: vs Troopers 8-0, 8-1 WIN
ETF2L :: vs Fakkel Brigade 6-3, 4-4 WIN
Wireplay :: vs plan-B 4-1, 1-0 WIN

And gladly won all of them.
Interestingly we played the plan-B game with a merc demoman, deith, as we parted ways with numlocked due to different reasons!
Now that Seb is gone, it also means that I'm back in charge, all hail King Pizza! Actually we sort of shared stuff so that I handle ETF2L and PUBLIC RELATIONS, Steven handles Wireplay/ED/ESL, wltrs wants to arrange pcw's and I made cube to do the recruiting because I hate that shit?!

In other news, we got in our first conflict with vTroopers but it's settled now and the story is pretty boring!

Admirable wants to contribute to the blog.
Anton turns 8 years old, happy birthday, buddy!
Here, I got a picture of some finnish kittens:

WLTRS EXPOSED

This is just shocking but the world needs to know the truth..

10:47 - ^wotr²^wltrs: i have a dot on my screen
10:47 - ^wotr²^wltrs: :DD
10:47 - ^wotr²^kevorkian Ιησους: bluetac?
10:47 - ^wotr²^kevorkian Ιησους: :DDDD
10:47 - ^wotr²^wltrs: yes
10:47 - ^wotr²^kevorkian Ιησους: LOL
10:47 - ^wotr²^kevorkian Ιησους: this makes the blog
10:47 - ^wotr²^wltrs: cba caring everyone does it
10:47 - ^wotr²^wltrs: No
10:47 - ^wotr²^kevorkian Ιησους: ye
10:47 - ^wotr²^wltrs: i dont wanna be a cheater
10:47 - ^wotr²^wltrs: DONT
10:47 - ^wotr²^wltrs: U FUCKER
10:47 - ^wotr²^kevorkian Ιησους: wltrs EXPOSED
10:47 - ^wotr²^wltrs: ILL HUNT U DOWN
10:47 - ^wotr²^wltrs: AND KILL U

lunatic..

ihatethinkingofgoodtitles

Guess it's my turn now, this is a booooring match update but I want to keep Robbe happy.

RESULTS

First of all, wltrs forgot to mention that our Doppelnullen match was covered by pwnage.tv. At a quick glance I couldn't find the archived stream but I'll see to it, maybe I could rip it off the site and host it somewhere..

EnemyDown :: WIN vs Mafia

Not much about this one really, we had a solid game and beat them 4-0(fastlane) and 8-2(turbine)

Wireplay :: DRAW vs Team CoolerMaster

We, the underdogs, pulled out a draw that not a lot of people would have expected. This game was actually played straight after the game against Mafia and we got to play fastlane again winning it 3-2 this time. Cp_well could have gone either way really, if I remember correctly, we even had a 3-1 lead at some point but the final score was 3-4 for TCM.

ETF2L :: WIN vs DCSB

To be honest, I think most of us(including me) thought that this match would be a pleasant stroll for us with all the rumoured and observated roster problems DCSB has had lately. It ended up being a really tight 2-1, 5-4 victory for us. Good game which was shadowed a bit by rage/lag from our side but hey, we won.

Here's a quote from Mole, taken from the ETF2L match comments:

Can’t believe how close this was and you got so lucky! haha. Shame for us this game wasn’t later in the season with only just getting a lineup sorted then one dropping out last minute. But it still proved to be a great game, I really enjoyed it. wotr2 made no mistake in taking advantage of every little mistake we made and we were punished for it and we know where to improve on. Well played though.

NEXT UP

Wireplay Season 2 21.1 :: vs Team Druidz

We always seem to do bad against DRz in pcw's, but those are pcw's and I think we can match them pretty well judging from their/our recent results etc.

THESGL Supernova Series 22.1 :: vs Crack Clan

Ah, get to be the underdogs against one of the top3 Euro teams. Who knows, maybe we'll cause a major upset :) Crack! is always a fun clan to play against.

ETF2L Season 4 24.1 :: vs Clones Inc.

Should be no problem but hey, not a bad team so better be prepared. Interestingly we're playing dustbowl, cube claims to have incredible dinosaurs in hornets-tactics for it and promises us free 3 points!

Got a shitload of officials coming up, glad to have the year finally started!

2009

Leagues and shit

Will be an interesting start for the year with all these officials in different leagues coming up.. except everyone is a bit bitter when we got placed into division 3 in the ETFL2 after getting our hopes up when we heard we might get to play in division 2.
At least the promotion/relegation-system works which is nice, but I just wonder how some of the new teams got ranked higher than us, suppose there's more than meets the eye.

What cube has to say about all this. Just to spice up the blog a bit.

Gladly we got a spot in the premier division in the upcoming season 2 of Wireplay TF2. Would be pretty boring to play in the lower divisions though.
















Sadly our place in EnemyDown season 4 is also in division 3.
















Also, I heard we'd play TODAY the fifth of january in an ETF2L invite cup with teams such as Die Doppelnullen, KomaCrew, Druidz, TCM and 4K but that's all I've heard really, I would ask numlocked but he's away doing something!?

Oh, and numlocked released a frag movie, I'll post the link here although I can't imagine anyone getting it after reading about it from here. Because no one really reads this blog, that is.

sherpa said he lacks motivation because we keep playing no-name teams and will probably be inactive.
biomass hasn't played in a while now, but is still lurking in IRC so maybe his holiday was a big hoax!
Mike has pretty much stopped playing TF2 for now and is focusing on L4D competitive gaming, personally I can't imagine how you can play the versus mode(I assume they play versus?) with such enthusiasm but hey, could be worse.

So as far as I know, our main lineup will be:
Admirable (soldier)
Altbstfrth (soldier)
cube (soldier)
kevorkian (scout)
numlocked (demoman)
pat (medic)
wltrs (scout)

That will leave us with "only" 7 players, in an ideal situation that would be all we need but to truly get the pcw's rolling we might need one more depending on what sherpa decides and what Admirable will do about his studies.

PS: editing this blog is a claustrophobic experience.