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Torden — It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there…now where to start. One of the biggest dogs right now is Infused, who’s secured themselves 2 new recruits, Quad and Flisko. The former was seen pulling something as hilarious special as a quadruple (fitting, yes) overbooking of trials this past Monday, until Infused pulled the longest straw. The latter, recently cut from TCM alongside Pena, as things simply weren’t working out, was ironically what pulled Quad away from TCM and into the infused roster. -Much to the despair of byte’s boys, who is trying to find a new scout to accompany the return of powerduo Haunter and Coinz as soldiers.

Those portoes aren’t the only ones back to old tricks, as members of the former Dignitas have been seen playing steady this week, with upcoming talent Larsa instead of Haza. The new name is “Relic“, and is said to have signed up for ETF2L. As top scouts are removed from the available pool left, right and center, the options for TCM and Tt are getting scarce, however all is not lost as Qun‘s newfound backup position might see him seeking a new team to play badly for on 1 map at lan. Meanwhile, MrMystery claims a return of Broder, but inside sources are adamant they’re still lacking players to take over the world (of div1) just yet.

One thing that is certain, Infused are now confirmed for ETF2L, with Boomeh also moved to backup, which should now ensure all top teams will be collected in (at least) one place this season! That’s the compact version, we haven’t been short on tips this week and 1 of them were from Daleth, who was kind enough to supply us with rosters (edited for known details).

ShoX — According to the StageLAN website there’s less than 10 days left for something (Registration at a guess – it’s not that clear) and a little over 2 months until it’s supposed to happen proper. Seems odd for a LAN that was met with huge enthusiasm and energy when it was first announced several months ago.

What’s going on? I spoke with ‘staff’ member Qun some weeks ago and Hofven just today, neither have any information to report. So is that it? Get everyone’s hopes up, launch a website and disappear? Has there really been nothing to update the community with since the one and only post in June?

Even if it does go ahead I have my doubts; will players from the top teams actually buy flights to the Ukraine? Or will all the energy and good intentions fritter away when it comes to keying in a credit card for a flight to an unproven event in a far away land? Time will tell.

* Update – Catman was kind enough to answer a few questions.

Torden — Carrying the torch for awful journalism, this post features a summary from me browsing a website, you fill in all the details! The pre season mating period is perhaps my favourite time for TF2, and it’s been long since as prosperous as now. Instead, The first spiked news comes in the form of a Sovjetan re:union, Eternity, the side that worked their way up to premiership in ETF2L’s season8, but folded before the delayed season9.

5 players have been added to their ETF2L roster, which by estimated guess looks like this:

Vad
gdk
Spicke
Waiz
Whiteglow
Blade

But, that’s only the start. Let’s indulge.

Lord Khronus — After the announcement of S10 of the ETF2L two new teams have come to compete at the highest levels of Team Fortress 2.

The first team might look familiar for those who followed the nations cup.  Mister is back to give his best in Premier.  Starring the Spanish selection with some tweaks, here’s the full lineup.

Mister:

• Taimou (Medic)
• vayne (Demoman)
• Lork (Soldier)
• Pescanova (Soldier)
• longás (Scout)
• Harryhook (Scout)

honeymustard —  The new Epsilon is all well and good, but there’s plenty of other happenings that we haven’t talked about yet. So let’s take a looksies:

Here’s another one of those interactive posts, where I put things out, and you can fill in the blanks. Let’s rumble!

Infused
As we’ve covered before, the last Infused is no more, while they’re said to make a final appearance together at the upcoming Epic lan. Meanwhile, scouting protégé Greg is at work with a new roster to compete in i43. I had the pleasure of having a chat with him earlier, and he confirmed the following preliminary lineup:

Hat (medic)
Boomeh (soldier)
Ghent (soldier, trialling)
Numlocked (demo)
Greg (scout)
“” Viqun (scout)

With Numlocked confirmed, this will surely throw some pebbles into the cogs of Epsilon (see below). Furthermore, Mike (soldier, k1ck) is also rumored to be a candidate, but this is unconfirmed.

It’s not quite the breaking news I’d hope it’d be when I first started editing the logs but never the less the writing is on the wall for the future of Infused.TT. With  nVc stating his intentions to abandon the team along with fellow countrymen SoniX (Demo), Crzy (Medic) and Plumb3d (Soldier). Leaving behind Greg and still-banned Boomeh to continue the team.

Rumours of instability have been rife of late, and quite rightly. With the team being unable to participate in pretty much every league and cup going due to the extended ban of Boomeh it must have been pretty tough to stay together without some kind of common purpose and goal.

Maybe Plumb3d knew all along?

The team looks set to attend Epic.LAN6 without nVc although if that actually happens remains to be seen.

Much love,
ShoX

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