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Trell — Insalan 7 draws to a close today as we see the TF2 Grand Final being played at 14 CET.  BLAST have already booked their spot in the final, coming top of their group, and ploughing through their 3 bracketed games.  Todays first game is the losers bracket final between Energetic and LDLC.com.  The winner of this moves on to face the tournament favourites, BLAST, and take a shot at winning the first prize of 660€ + 6 Logitech Keyboards G510 (value: 720€).

Update: VODs of the Final:

UPDATE: LDLC won the first map, Gullywash 5-0, and went on to with Viaduct with a golden cap – a much closer game that Energetic came very close to winning.  This sets up a grand final match up between BLAST and LDLC!

Admirable — Ironically enough, when I undertook to revive the Team Fortress 2 coverage on Cadred back in January 2010 my biggest fear was we would be subjected the razor-sharp wit of a community of Counter-Strike Source miscreants.  In my mind I visualised a political campaign focused on winning the hearts and minds of the wider eSports population, kissing babies and cutting ribbons as I united entrenched communities in a love of hats and airshots.  With the self-proclaimed congeniality of the European competitive TF2 scene behind me, how could I fail?

The surprise for me was not that those dastardly CSS enthusiasts were actually quite receptive to our doctrine of headwear and headshots, or at the very least indifferent to our efforts.  The imagined infantile comments of “LOL SHIT CARTOON GAME” were so few and far between that in hindsight they were more likely a projection of our own inferiority complex as the little guy of team based first person shooters.

Nay, the unforeseen circumstance that would haunt our two year tenure was that too few people in our lovely scene actually gave a fuck.  People certainly had some preconceptions about Cadred before things got underway, a lot of that stemming from the previous era of coverage which had ended on bad terms, leaving vitriol hanging thick in the air and spawninig a home-grown attempt at community coverage, the long defunct Resupply.  Can I be so naïve as to put the whole thing down to  Duncan Wraight’s deep-seated hatred of Heaven Media, an unappealing website design or the malevolent spectre of he who shall not be named…  Richard Lewis?

Admirable — Hi, my name is James and I’m addicted to being a lazy cunt. Seriously, you have no idea. Publishing the Assembly Winter Final Standings six months after the event? Ha! That’s just the tip of the iceberg of my inactions.

Two months ago I lost my phone whilst fucked out of my head in Spain at the Benicassim Festival, a total blackout for six hours which I awoke from with part of the skin missing from my face, arms and legs and a chunk of hair seemingly offered up as sacrifice to the gods of drunken behaviour.

Now that’s just a funny story, but the kicker is that I still haven’t cancelled my phone contract or even reported it lost/stolen. Fuck I don’t even live in the Republic of Ireland anymore where my operator is based, but I’m still shelling out €30 a month – how retarded is that?

Cadred newcomer and TF2TV staffer  Krimson has taken it upon himself to track down the elusive beast that  Admirable, front man of the hottest new team in town Team bAdmirable/redCode (the real redCode, not those fakers bro).  Once nominated for soldier of the season by  xzr, Admirable is also widely regarded as the best medic in Korea and those who know him personally will vouch that he is an all-round cunt.

Only a man so far up his own arse would abuse his power within the world of Team Fortress 2 coverage to shamelessly promote his own team; the fucker can barely even spell “journelistic profesionalism” let alone understand the concept.  Anyway, read the excerpt below if you like to try before you buy, or just jump head first by clicking through to Cadred, the home of premier potato coverage.

Furthermore, despite commenting on your lack of confidence going into your official against BB you pulled out an unexpected win on Badlands! What do you think was the key to your success on that map and that game?

Bwhaha! The Team bAdmirable press office hard at work. Ferguson. Mourinho. Wenger. These are my role models. It’s all about the mind games. I actually thought we were gonna win both maps fucking easy after Power Gaming raped ‘em, it’s all just an act… or is this the act? I forget. Either way, PowerGaming, TCM-Gaming and Thermaltake are the only teams I rate in the Premiership. The rest are garbage, QQ babies and has-beens.

The key to our success was every single one of our players carrying my bloated corpselike arse. Macisum, cube and jan are putting out monster damage on the regular and wltrs and longas are the ultimate clean-up crew. No tactics required. Just rape.

I don’t really have any smack talk about Gravelpit. It’s a map that magnifies your errors and ButtonBashers made fewer than us, so they were deserved winners. We have all been around the block enough times to recognise where we are making poor decisions, so if you want to beat us, now might be the time, before we get some practise in like…

Read the rest of The Red, The Bad & The Ugly over on Cadred.

- Admirable