Byte — More helpful content from Zaibatsus soldier Ipz, bringing out another video for those wanting to understand the game and learn from the top level of Premiership TF2 in Europe. For those that missed his debut video, it was quite helpful to those who play soldier on cp_snakewater, optimizing your spots and spam of rockets to maximize your damage.

This week he brings to you in-depth analysis of SteveyJJ’s POV from a match on viaduct.

Be sure to subscribe to his channel and big up for all his time and effort he’s putting into these videos will only fuel him into doing more to help the community players!

Speaking of which, while SteveyJJ is in the limelight with all this attention, we recommend you all watch the vod from tonight’s very close and tense game between Decerto vs Sparkles Motion Some great picks and one sublime moment on process setting up a sweet airshot on one of decertos scouts.

Byte — Tonight we see Sparkle Motion take on the mighty Decerto.Ozone, where both teams acquire points to either contend for the 2nd spot playoff or cement their place in division 1.

Arie — The VanillaTV YouTube channel just hit 1 million views. If  you’re not familiar with the channel, do check it out. It’s where we, among other things, publish the VODs of casts, usually the same night (if twitch/youtube play nice), and the VanillaTV Insight series, where we show an entire official match from a player’s POV with the mumble comms.

Thanks to our amazing subscribers, you can instantly skip beyond all those pesky pauses and server changes that these prem teams seem to insist on and cut straight to the action. It’s a great way to watch VTV casts, especially if you keep playing Dustbowl and MvM during our live streams.

So a big thanks to  CUBE for curating our excellent YouTube channel!

Byte — Another week goes by and with a short break from the premiership teams, we’re back on track for a showdown into that all important 4th spot.

That all important 4th will guarantee the team in competing for the title, however it’s up for grabs.

Vinland Suqp3r, Salmon, delzic, Rake, CaptainHax, kos

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SOLAR lailli, qnx, hycz, Peter, Paul, vanilla

ETF2L ETF2L Season 15 Premiership Week 5 SOLAR vs Vinland

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TIME

• Monday June 17th
• 21:15 cest
• 15:15 edt (na)
• 05:15 est (aus)

CASTED BY

• VanillaTV Livestream
• VanillaTV Mumble
• Teamfortress.TV

SOURCETV

• relay.vanillatv.org:27100

Who will win this match?

• SOLAR (75%, 9 Votes)
  
• Vinland (25%, 3 Votes)
  

Total Voters: 12

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Arie — It’s been a bit of a slow year regarding VanillaTF2 articles. We used to have quite a few regular contributors posting interesting stuff, but a bunch of those people are no longer in the TF2 scene or lost interest in writing.

Luckily this site is completely open to contributions, simply log in with steam and press the “Write an article” link in the top bar. Don’t be frightened by the word “article”, a simple post consisting of just a few lines is fine as well. Here are some examples of both simple posts and lengthy articles of years past:

• Nor joins notag
• Problems in the frog pond
• A Fisshu for the people
• January’s VanillaTF2 Top Ten
• Antlion Audio Modmic Review
• Rant: TF2 and its potential as a spectator game

So yeah, feel free to submit gossip, team transfers, youtube VODs, tutorials, reviews or whatever else you think would interest a competitive TF2 minded audience. To kick things off, ipz’s latest video of his Tips from Ipz channel:

CanFo — The Electronic Sports Association (ESA) is organising a £1,250 launch tournament on Sunday, June 23. Different from the regular subscription tournaments that will kick off in July, participants do not need an ESA Premium account to collect their winnings, everyone is eligible to win money that can be invested to enter more tournaments or subscribe.

If your team finishes in the top 16, 100% of the winnings are paid into your team’s ESA wallet from where it can be distributed among the players by the team leader. The prize distribution is listed on the tournament page.

Thanks to ESA’s new partner Ozone Gaming, the first place additionally receives 6 Ozone Rage ST Headsets.

This tournament is open for all. However, all matches your team plays in this tournament contribute to your rank. Ranked tournaments will start in August.

The setup is single elimination and the teams are seeded, meaning the two best teams can not meet each other until the later rounds.

Start of the tournament is 12.15 CEST on Sunday, June 23. You may notice that the start has been moved back by an hour, compared to the first draft of the tournament, after some members of the Team Fortress 2 community asked not to start that early in the morning.

Each round until the semi finals is played “best of 1″, meaning the winner of the map advances to the next round. The semi finals and the finals are played as “best of 3″ with the loser’s pick system to decide the played maps.

ESA is the first competition in Europe that uses the so called “North American” setup for Team Fortress 2. In detail, this means, each map is played in 2 halves. On 5CP maps, the first team that scores 5 points total wins, on King of the Hill maps, the team that scores 4 points total wins the map. Because only the win conditions for the first half can be triggered by the server config, please pay attention to the overall scores in the second half. For the full information, please take a look at the rules page.

Every map is estimated to last 75 minutes. This does include the allowed delay of 15 minutes and the total playing time of 60 minutes. Please do not delay your matches longer than 15 minutes. Your best bet would be not to delay your matches at all and start on time. If your opponent fails to have a full team or refuses to start, please immediately get in touch with an admin to ensure a smooth progress of the tournament. Any matches with no result at the start of the next round will be decided randomly by an admin. If your match is delayed by a few minutes because of pauses or technical issues, you need to inform an admin.

The signups are open now. If the signups get close to 64, we will increase the slots to 128. In this case, the final will be moved to Monday evening instead of Sunday evening.

Please make sure that all your players have their Steam ID entered on their profile or your team can not be approved for entry. You can enter your Steam ID in the format STEAM_0:#:###### in your Dashboard.

The Quake Live Community Holysh1t has published an interview with ESA director  Mike Lawrenson aka Didge that should clear up some doubts about the model and ESA in general.

If you have any questions, please answer them in the comments or in the ESA IRC channel #esa on Quakenet. You can also message  Sonny Black or  CanFo directly for any questions.

Arie — If you’ve missed last night’s close game between  Broder and Skidmark Central you get a chance to see the brotherly team fight once again tonight. This time they’re again the expected favourite, as they’re taking on  Vinland.