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Arie — Part 2 of Shintaz’ introduction to competitive TF2 is up, dealing with highlander, the fun of playing TF2 competitively and rushing your tiny little legs home from school to get gud at dem ‘puter gamez.

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There is no doubt in my mind that at this time, competitive TF2 has the most friendly group of people in any game. Sure, you get one or two bad eggs (admittedly, I may have been one of them… MAYBE), but experiencing a LAN with your TF2 buddies will be something that you’ll never regret doing.

I’d like to give a huge thank you to the Arie over at VanillaTF2. I’m sure that site will play a huge part in articles to come.

beach/Arie — Tonight we might see the first non-rofl-roll game of the season when BFF/Nerd Party/Skidmark Central/WhateverTheirNameMayBeTonight face off against Vinland.

The Rosters

 Skidmark Central

Medic –  skeej
Demoman –  kaidus
Soldiers –  Daleth and  flisko
Scouts –  kiler4fun and  Greg

 Vinland

Medic –  Jose
Demo –  Suqp3r
Soldiers –  Darn and  Salmon
Scouts –  Rake and  delzic

beach — Hey everyone, so it’s that time again, we’re looking for new streamers and casters to join the ranks of VanillaTV!

Our current streamers and casters are all excellent, and we obviously wouldn’t be anywhere without them. However, we are constantly on the hunt for new up and coming talent to keep our content fresh, original and exciting for all our viewers. Currently we’re looking for 2 new casters and 2 new streamers (to take the pressure off AnimaL and Warden!) If you feel like you fit the criteria, either fill out this form online, or simply message Byte, Trell or Skully on Quakenet IRC (#vanillatv) and we’ll take it from there.

Bluee — Hello, folks! TeamFortress.TV have some exciting matches scheduled for pushing the last ~$3k of the official i49 fundraiser. To refresh, TF.TV is sending one North American team to i49 in England (now decided to be  High Rollers Gaming TF2, the winners of the ESEA Season 13 LAN).

To help push some hype and raise money, they’re holding not just one, but two incredibly exciting showmatches!

The first, HRG vs. Epsilon eSports, will be played on Sunday, May 12th at 21 CET, with  cbear and yuki casting, and Comedian on camera.

The second, HRG vs. Broder, will be played on Sunday, May 19th at 21 CET, with Salamancer and Admirable casting, and huhy on camera.

Each showmatch will consist of three maps. After each map, there will be a server switch as to make sure every team has a fair shot. On the third map, a coin flip will determine who will get to choose either the server or the map. The servers to be used have been graciously provided by Tragic of tragicservers.com and Arie of VanillaTF2.org.

Additionally, those who donate during the showmatch and comment on the indiegogo page with their Steam ID will have a chance at winning an unusual tonight! That’s right, 1 unusual hat will be raffled away courtesy of the old eXtv i46 auction, thanks to Chaplain.

Hildreth – So another season, another unbeaten streak for SNSD, another 30 points out of 30 for the four time league and cup champions of European Highlander. Their closest contenders and opponents for this season are DAROUTOUTOU, the colossal French community team, starring some of the best French TF2 players in all positions, but even their flair and exciting lineup was no match for  SNSD on the week 5 clash on Gravel Pit, with SNSD taking both rounds convincingly and securing a maximum of 6 points. The Frenchies however showed the kind of form that says they are no pushovers, beating every other team and taking 2^nd place, and managed to fight their way through the Playoff game versus Parrot Gapers in a 3 map victory. Tomorrow night, Sunday 12^th May at 20 CET, DA! have the chance to make history and dethrone the still unbeaten  SNSD in the final, tune in to TeamFortress.tv stream with Hildreth, Jake from BlackOut Gaming on the microphone along with Jon on the stream.

SNSD Buttnose, Droso, Kaidus, Linus, ALX, CUBE, TheSucker, Tviq, Hurri

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DAROUTOUTOU Daff, Plapla, T-Mac, Degun, Exon, Tek, Mista, k3, Flippy

ETF2L Highlander Premiership Grand Final

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• Sunday May 12th
• 20:00 cest
• 14:00 edt (na)
• 04:00 est (aus)

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• Teamfortress.TV
• VanillaTV France

SOURCETV

• fakkelbrigade.eu:27105

Who will win this match?

• SNSD (63%, 25 Votes)
  
• DAROUTOUTOU (37%, 15 Votes)
  

Total Voters: 40

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Galant — Today we are impatiently waiting for our playoff games. Last group stage matches in Group 3 will be finished in 1 hour and playoffs will begun! 7 teams, who have progessed from 3 groups, are next: A6, Pixling, LMS, HoverCrabs, We Don’t Care, duns, Versus. You can check the results from yesterday matches here. All logs from every match are loading automatically right here.

We hope that VTV can cast final games later, but at this moment – if you wish – you can watch russian stream on Pixling TV (casting by the most charismatic russian caster right now – Catman) or join STV relays: connect fakkelbrigade.eu:27102 & connect fakkelbrigade.eu:27103.

The winner of Pixling TF2 LAN Party will get bottle of Jägermeister, t-shirts, some money and of course golden cup!

Arie — If you’ve been around competitive TF2 for a while, you probably remember the name  Shintaz, or one of his trillion aliases. He’s started a series of TF2 articles over at unigamesity.com, writing about his experiences as a top TF2 scout in  Epsilon.

In his first article, he explains how different competitive TF2 is compared to public play, and how both are still fun.

Well, I’ve had many great personal experiences in competitive TF2 and am not ashamed to say that it played a huge part of my life for a good couple of years. I flew to other countries to meet a team of friends who I’d been playing with for ages, I’ve had my heart race when it came to the final of a Scout 1-on-1 tournament, and I’ve endured many other moments which I’ll never forget. The reason I share this information is because I’d love for you to experience everything I have – and it’s never been easier to do it

Read the rest here.