Trell — Here it is, ladies and gentlemen, the night you’ve been waiting for. Tonight at 21:15 CEST, ESEA Lan Champions Leviathan Gaming face off against ETF2L Champions Epsilon eSports in our second fundraising showmatch, this time around sponsored by Razer!
Last time around, we managed to raise roughly 2100$ over the course of the night, and we’re looking to raise even more tonight! With Classic Mixup’s tickets already purchased, we’re working towards the common goal of getting LG across to i46 too.
This team has long been a dominant force in European TF2 and this season was no different. They won 5 out of their 6 games this season – but, and this could be the most telling point, the one match they lost was to TCM in week 5. Extremer returning from inactivity to replace randa on demoman meant that people were wondering if we’d see the team lose some steam as they readjusted, but it doesn’t appear to have had a major impact and they are still looking in fine form. With the stable backbone of F2 as their medic, can this team go all the way and deny TCM the 1st place finish they so badly desire?
Slick, the manager for Epsilon, had this to say:
A bit of a hectic period with vacation, we will try to get our ass in gear today and start playing again before tommorow’s grand final, hopefully enough to beat a solid star lineup such as TCM has. If I can find Extremer in time… that is… Expecting another close and intense game for the specs!
TCM Gaming
The ‘forever third’ curse that dogged Byte seems to have been put to bed after they ploughed through Infused to make it to this final. Despite only winning 3 of their 6 games in Season 12, they only dropped 1 match, whilst drawing the other two, and, as stated above, they actually won their match against Epsilon, which must give them a huge confidence boost going into the final. It remains to be seen whether holidays will ravage the TCM team or whether they can get the team together enough to give a decent performance.
Byte, leader of the TF2 team for TCM Gaming, had this to say:
What a season we’ve had, if someone had said to me that we were only going to be defeated up until the final by the frenchies (pLine) I’d of doubted them. After winning the semi-final last week TCM gaming think this is great prep for i46.
We mean business and we want to win i46, this is our goal, my goal and TCM’s goal. ETF2L S12 is great practice and prep for that and we’ve shown with the experienced players we have in the team we can compete, adapt and more importantly convert rounds!
We’re under no illusion how good Epsilon are, especially if they are ALL on fire on the night, then they are lethal. None the less, our unique playstyle with how hymzi plays scout, how Zebbosai flanks and thinks along with my positonal element of being in the wrong place on purpose ;) we can still compete.
Best of luck to both teams.
Join us in #vanillatv on Quakenet from 21 CEST onwards as we bring you a dual cast, as voted for by the community. boomeh, Admirable and djc will be covering the game on the first stream, with AcidRenix, Beta and Comedian bringing you the second stream, so you get a choice! Both casting teams will be giving away CS:GO keys during the game for viewers to win!
Pledge — Two weeks ago I was commentating one of Epsilon eSports’ games against Team Infused. While I was thinking what to say next, I suddenly realised a problem that Epsilon seemed to have for a while: they always seem to be better in the second half of the game than in the first half. In this particular game, Infused was leading 5-1 (with a back cap as Epsilon’s round win) when F2‘s men decided to play properly. They came back to 5-5, but ended up losing nonetheless. “If only they managed to play a good first 15 minutes”, I heard myself thinking. Straight after, I asked the Danish medic if he could give me the demos of Epsilon’s officials since the ETF2L Season 11 finals about three months ago. Today, I present you my results from analysing all 29 maps that they have played since then. Let’s find out what’s so typical about Europe’s #1 Team! (at least until the S12 finals)
Trell — Gamers Assembly kicks off this afternoon featuring the best of the french scene and beyond with Epsilon eSports returning to the french LAN circuit for the first time since their grand final defeat to ButtonBashers at MaxLan 2011. Whilst clear favourites, the super-mix featuring Crack Clan titans longas and pescanova ‘Viva la Vida‘, and home-town heroes Punchline. TF2 will have upsets on their minds as they look to take advantage of the weakened Epsilon roster on the way to claiming their share of a prize pot including €2000, with masses of hardware on top.
Update: Congratulations to Epsilon eSports for taking first place, after beating Viva la Vida in an intense 2 map game with a golden cap after it ended 3-3 on freight. Thanks to Warden for streaming, and Admirable, CommanderX, Greg and Pledge for handling casting duties over the past 2 days.
Faint — Ladies and Gents, tonight is the invite final of the Excello ZOWIE TF2 Challenge II!
With Team Dignitas coming out on top in last nights 3 map (almost 3 golden cap) thriller against Epsilon eSports, they get to face up against Relic who beat Crack Clan in the other semi-final last night, all in aid of winning the coveted 6x ZOWIE P-TF Mousemats on offer.
Both teams had convincing wins in their quarter-final games vs. CKRASGaming and Team Yoyotech, and look set to try and show that they are back in form and can be known as the #1 team in europe, a ‘title’ that Epsilon seem to have hung onto for the last couple of months.
The action kicks off at 21:15 CET and VanillaTV will be covering the match with AcidRenix and Beta casting, and Comedian on the stream.
Also covering the action tonight is n2otv, and finally TF2World.Ru TV who will have Salamancer casting.
Trell — Here it is, ladies and gentlemen, the night you’ve been waiting for. Tonight at 21:15 CEST, ESEA Lan Champions 
Leviathan Gaming face off against ETF2L Champions 
Epsilon eSports in our second fundraising showmatch, this time around sponsored by Razer!
Infused took home 
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Extremer returning from inactivity to replace 
randa on demoman meant that people were wondering if we’d see the team lose some steam as they readjusted, but it doesn’t appear to have had a major impact and they are still looking in fine form. With the stable backbone of 
F2 as their medic, can this team go all the way and deny TCM the 1st place finish they so badly desire?
Slick, the manager for Epsilon, had this to say:
Admirable and 
Comedian bringing you the second stream, so you get a choice! Both casting teams will be giving away CS:GO keys during the game for viewers to win!
Team Infused. While I was thinking what to say next, I suddenly realised a problem that Epsilon seemed to have for a while: they always seem to be better in the second half of the game than in the first half. In this particular game, Infused was leading 5-1 (with a back cap as Epsilon’s round win) when 
ButtonBashers at MaxLan 2011. Whilst clear favourites, the super-mix featuring 
longas and 
Team Dignitas coming out on top in last nights 3 map (almost 3 golden cap) thriller against 
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