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Beta — As we come into the business end of the season, only 2 games are remaining for some teams at most.  With this in mind, every point counts and tonight is no different, with broder vs Crack Clan both of whom are wanting that second place spot.

Of all the hype about this season, I guess some of the familiar faces in the broder team returning to the game or for some moving house did get quite a lot of attention.  They are currently ahead of their competition tonight by 7 points, having won more maps this season but they have played 2 more maps then Crack Clan.  Apart from a massive upset in other teams remaining games this season, a victory on at least 1 map tonight will near enough secure 2nd place place before the playoffs stage of the season.

broder

Medic – Mirelin
Demoman – ryb
Soldiers – Zebbosai and Tek
Scouts – cookye and Bybben

Broder Mirelin, Zebbosai, ryb, Tek, cookye, Bybben

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Crack Clan Admirable, Brego, T-Mac, ipz, smzi, TviQ

ETF2L Season 14 powered by Twitch: Week 6 (Premier Division)

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TIME

• Thursday February 28th
• 21:15 cet
• 15:15 est (na)
• 05:15 est (aus)

CASTED BY

• VanillaTV Livestream
• VanillaTV Mumble
• TF2World.Ru TV
• Teamfortress.TV
• Crack Clan Mumble
• TviQ (POV)
• VanillaTV France
• Crack Clan

SOURCETV

• fakkelbrigade.eu:27100

Who will win this match?

• Crack Clan (73%, 8 Votes)
  
• Broder (27%, 3 Votes)
  

Total Voters: 11

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The ball for tonight’s game firmly sits with Crack Clan.  With the team currently sitting behind broder, a 2 map win tonight would be the preferred choice to negate the risk of their next match up not going as expected.  This won’t be an easy task for them, Crack Clan have made some changes in house with the French Soldier T-Mac coming into replace  minimoose.  The flanking power of the opposition scouts could be a concern for Admirable tonight, especially on the larger mid-fight map cp_Process.

Crack Clan

Medic – Admirable
Demoman – Brego
Soldiers – ipz and T-Mac
Scouts – smzi and TviQ

Things to look out for?

- The second map for tonight will be Process, could we see some potential sniper play come in from TviQ?

- Brego vs ryb – The school boy vs the lecturer – how will this battle end up….I know where my bet is being placed

- T-Mac will be under the spotlight tonight, will he be able to deal the vital plays need to securing points tonight?

That said there have been some questions raised regarding some of the play style used by broder this season.  It will be interesting to see how maybe some smart gameplay could come into tonight’s game, with strong death matchers on both teams, who will come out on top?

Tune in tonight at 21:15 CET with Arx & Beta guiding you through the action, with the camera being controlled by  Animal.  We will have a nice new feature on the stream tonight, with further adaptations to the damage monitor being developed by Arie hopefully ready to go live.

WAIT WAIT – there is more! Tonight we will have our first edition of English and French broadcasts with Luzzu & KnoxXx hosting the game for our French viewers over at our French Stream. If you fancy watching both, this can be accessed from our Twitch Team page here

Disclaimer – This article is long and about Highlander, if you don’t like or watch Highlander then this isn’t for you to read.

 Hildreth – Yes ladies and gentlemen, well…mostly gentlemen, it’s that time again where Highlander pops up on this website, the game format being akin to the weather after the main news has been delivered, getting that little chunk of time at the end of the programme, although for a lot of people the weather is the most important part (plus the weather girls are more attractive than the newsreaders). I have started to write this commentary on the dawn of perhaps the greatest TF2 achievement of all time made by arguably the greatest, most dominant team of all time – I have put emphasis on the words ‘perhaps‘ and ‘arguably‘ to avoid comments comparing the merits of achievements. If you are however not aware,  SNSD have come away with yet another title, winning the 3rd season of ETF2L Highlander Premiership division and taking a hefty sum of €1,035 divided by 9. This makes it their 3rd season and 6th tournament win undefeated, with only 3 map losses (plus a round loss on Gravelpit this season to May Contain Nuts) during the whole time, giving them an unbeatable 39-0 record in terms of matches (including default wins and bo3′s). It would be a 39-1 record if you included the showmatch between American champions   The Syndicate and  SNSD, but that brings the topic to another area, an area that asks why no-one has been able to defeat  SNSD, why the only teams that have touched them have been just sneaking rounds/maps off them occasionally over the course of nearly 3 years and why European Highlander is not an established scene like the North American scene who as of this season sees UGC boast 350 teams in their North American divisions whilst ETF2L has half the numbers. What has gone wrong with European Highlander? What has gone right with North American Highlander and why was the 2nd best team to challenge  SNSD a group of high level 6′s players who rarely practised? For me, a person who has invested a lot of his personal time trying to create a scene in Europe, the frustration of the position of our scene today feels like to me I have wasted my efforts – we in Europe have perhaps the best infrastructure in terms of a league, a community with coverage and organizations to deliver the best TF2 experience in the world yet we have failed to do so – so why?

Skyride — Hey guys, as some of you may know I tend to handle the majority of what goes on behind the scenes in the technical side of VanillaTV. The quality of our streams, often these days the overlays, the scoreboard are all things I’ve worked on. However the last ~6 months or so I’ve been trying to get right down to the nitty gritty of streaming technologies. I’ve done a huge amount of testing and investigation on all the software available, I’ve been trying to push player streams here in Europe for a few months now, and I’ve sat down with dozens of streamers and got them sorted.

With the recent release of OBS, I thought this would be the perfect time to sit down and write a proper ground-up guide on it.

You can find over here on my own blog. It covers using OBS in combination with Dxtory (which is the the best way to configure a stream to play on), and the fall back of using OBS alone. I’ve also explained in detail how to correctly configure it, tweak it to get the best performance/stream quality, and a huge number of things you can troubleshoot if you are having issues.

If you have any questions, feel free to leave them either here on VanillaTF2 or over on my blog, I’ll be checking and replying to both. Cheers!

Beta — Tonight we are happy to bring you another instalment of ABC Tuesday with yet another ETF2L S13 Premiership Game!

It’s been some time since we have had a Premiership games on a Tuesday let alone consecutive nights.  Is there something currently in the water? OR is this a sign of believing “Monday & Tuesday are too early in the PCW week for games” are coming to end?

Whatever you believe, tonight Arx, Beta, Comedian are on hand to bring you  Quarantine vs Epsilon eSports

Beta — After roughly a month break, ABC Tuesday returns tonight to bring you the second round of the ETF2L Premiership Qualifiers.

Tonight we will see Naughty Badmen vs Chinese Mafia for a chance to face off against our winners from last night uV Gaming.  The winner of tonights game will have 1 hand on the only available premiership spot with the loser joining Division 1.

Being September and football season, this game will be at an earlier than usual 20 CEST / 19 BST – So don’t be late!

Naughty Badmen Si, T0da, Larsa, Haunter, Coinz, Kiler4fun

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(-.(-.(-.-).-).-) quad, evokje, Gubbins, HarderThanYouThink, Raliator, ups

ETF2L Premiership Qualifiers

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TIME

• Tuesday September 11th
• 20:00 cest
• 14:00 edt (na)
• 04:00 est (aus)

CASTED BY

• VanillaTV Livestream
• VanillaTV Mumble

SOURCETV

• relay.vanillatv.org:27100

Who will win this match?

• Naughty Badmen (50%, 20 Votes)
  
• (-.(-.(-.-).-).-) (50%, 20 Votes)
  

Total Voters: 40

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ShoX — Bored of me yet? With a mixture of long standing team mates and the scraps from Team Infused in the shape of Boomeh, Greg and most recently Mike team Quarantine are attending LAN with the intention of putting the cat among the pigeons. With Boomeh’s sudden change of heart regarding LAN and Mike’s recent and controversial exit from his former team I thought it’d be good to throw a few questions their way.

After the jump we hear from Mike and Kritzonite about all things i46, who they think they’ll beat, how much Mike would love to beat Infused and why they don’t think LG will be able to compete for the top spot.

ShoX — (Credit: WAR for the majority of the questions) . We’re over the half way line with our Introducing: series of articles where we aim to bring you a mildly amusing look into the ePsyche of some of i46′s most prolific players and provide you with a window into their (often disturbing) world. I caught up with numlocked from Infused (no one wanted another dunc rant, right?) and attempted to wrangle some drama out of him.

Finally, I get to interview an Englishman. How’s life at Infused these days?

Life’s good. Everything’s really chilled and we’re all working towards the same goal (winning lan, obviously), which is a major improvement on how we used to be – everything was far too tense and we weren’t getting the results we wanted to get

Keep reading…