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Trath — Well the first Premiership match of the season is here.  Who would have thought that Prem teams would actually play their games on time? It is a new age for TF2!  Truth be told – this dosen’t seem like an exciting match on the face of it; the defending champions Epsilon eSports are huge favorites, whilst the unproven Tryharders have a really, really small chance. But you know how it goes… it ain’t over til the fat lady sings.

 Tryharders have been trying hard, playing a lot for the past two weeks.  They picked up Super Scouts  Longas and  EstaniS, as well as crazy jew demoman  Erectus.  While nobody thinks much of their soldiers, and most high level players dislike  Taimou‘s aggressive style of play, they are rumoured to be working on some oddball strategies that nobody has prepared for yet.   Epsilon have been on a roll for a very long time.  I cant remember the last time they lost a match, if ever.  Nobody can argue they are #1 right now.

VanillaTV have risen to the occasion at the last minute and will be bringing you a star-studded international extravaganza with eXtelevision’s  Salamancer, our homophonically amphibian friend from across the pond, who will be joined by our very own Admirable on the mic and Comedian on the streaming duties.  Turn on, tune in and drop out shortly after 21:00CET.

Last but not least, thanks to the TF2 streaming revolution you can also catch POV of fearless Finn, Taimou, and the Tryharder’s team comms over on TaimouTV, including their warm-up games right now!

Epsilon eSports KnOxXx, wltrs, stefan, GeaR, randa, F2

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tryharders EstaniS, longás, mineral, Koeitje, erectus, Taimou

ETF2L Season 11, week 1

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TIME

• Tuesday January 24th
• 21:15 cet
• 15:15 est (na)
• 05:15 est (aus)

CASTED BY

• VanillaTV Livestream
• VanillaTV Mumble

SOURCETV

• relay.vanillatv.org:27102

Who will win this match?

• Epsilon eSports (83%, 89 Votes)
  
• tryharders (17%, 27 Votes)
  

Total Voters: 107

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Faint — The winner of the AntLion Audio ModMic is  Rinta for the couple of nice haikus she wrote, although it should be mentioned that  Sonny Black’s entry may have won if it wasn’t for 6 syllables in the first line (damn technicalities!). Ty to all those who entered, and gratz to Rinta!

CanFo — Tonight Team Infused and Epsilon eSports will battle out who gets six Sparkle GTS 450 1024MB 128bit DDR5 One Slot graphics cards, in the final of the invite bracket of the   Excello Sparkle TF2 Winter Warmup Tournament (I challenge the casters to read out this sentence without mistakes). I would like to take this opportunity to thank all teams that participated in both the open, and invite bracket, and made this tournament the biggest TF2 tournament at Excello so far with 52 teams participating. But now back to the final!

VanillaTV will be casting tonight’s match with  ThePledge and  nvc on the mics, with nvc running the stream as well. Casting will start shortly after 21:00 CET!

Epsilon eSports F2, KnoxXx, GeaR, stefan, wltrs, randa

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Team Infused flisko, cookye, numlocked, Greg, dunc, Mike

Excello Sparkle TF2 Winter Warmup Invite - Grand Finals

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TIME

• Thursday January 19th
• 21:15 cet
• 15:15 est (na)
• 05:15 est (aus)

CASTED BY

• HiScore.tv
• VanillaTV Livestream
• VanillaTV Mumble
• TF2World.Ru TV

SOURCETV

• relay.vanillatv.org:27100
• relay.vanillatv.org:27101

Who will win this match?

• Epsilon eSports (65%, 105 Votes)
  
• Infused.Tt (35%, 56 Votes)
  

Total Voters: 161

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Faint — Tonight sees the start of the Invite bracket of the Excello Sparkle Winter Warmup TF2 Cup.

With the winner of last night’s open bracket   Karnage eSports gaining the 7th seed, they face off against  Infused.Tt. This gives the newly formed Karnage a chance to show what they can pull off against a top prem team.

Elsewhere  Crack Clan gets a chance to show themselves back in form against exotic, and  Epsilon eSports face  Team Decerto which should be a simple game for the former of the two (in theory at least).

The last of the quarter-finals features  Broder against  Yoyotech, which should be a cracking game and will give the newly promoted teams another chance to battle it out.

Hildreth — Welcome to part two of my three part article series documenting and reviewing the calendar year of 2011 in the world of competitive TF2. I would like to apologies to the Aussies, Africans and Asians for not really featuring you in these articles but I prefer to focus on the two main scenes which I actually know a something about. Anyway without further ado, I present to you the months of May to August of this year.

TL:DR – TF2 dies, gets born again and we have an awesome LAN.

Hildreth — 2011 was a great year for me personally; being the year of the ‘panda’ in the Chinese calendar – might have made that up, it could be a smaller animal with a likeness for orange vegetables – and has been one of the most eventful years, dare I say ‘THE MOST’ eventful year in our competitive scenes history. We have had the biggest LAN to date, TF2 going Free-2-play, launch of a new casting organisation and many, many great matches. It has also been a year of doubt and controversy. The slogan ‘TF2 is dead’ being printed on TF2 discussion boards everywhere and still being typed by many there has been dispute and frustration over unlocks, LANs and growth in the TF2 scene. There has been more gossip, controversy and drama than you’ll ever see on Maury. TF2 has changed – rising stars of TF2 have gone ’pro’, old pros have gone on the Brink of losing interest and leaving the scene. Coverage has changed and developed with new people writing articles, making videos, volunteering to cast or stream and hell we have even seen a new game mode start to become accepted in Team Fortress 2. To start it off I found a gem of an old-fashioned TF2 rant/commentary by  Foster with an actual positive outlook for 2011 and to steal a quote from it made by  Darn:

“Unless TF2 gets a proper LAN tournament in 2011, it will be the last year.”

Make of that what you will.

It’s been a long year. I intend to go over it month by month highlighting the memorable matches, the big dramas and the key events that defined our scene this calendar year. To avoid a TL:DR fest I will split it up into 3 parts, one to release now, one of New Years Eve and the last part in 2012. I would like to apologies to those who do not follow the Gregorian calendar, if for example you are Jewish please re-read this again in 9 months.

Update: I had a meeting today with assembly organisers and it seems there will be no tf2 games at winter assembly. I keep you updated if theres some changes.

M0re — Winter assembly needs you. I’ve been in contact with the admins about the possibility to have TF2 at WASM. I’ve been told that theres less than 10% chance for it after horrible summer assembly. Hardly got enough teams to join the tournament and teams were honestly low-mid mixes. I’m now early to have chance to get TF2 a spot in and I need teams to confirm their attendance for me to have a finished list of at least 8 teams to present for assembly admins. Also I’ve been talking with Comedian about two casters to attend the event, if it happens, to get some streams going on for you fans out there.

Teams interested should contact CKRAS|M0re as soon as possible over on Quakenet or Steam.

Darkdwarf — After watching the epic grand final of ETF2L Season 10 between  Infused.Tt and  Epsilon, I, and I am sure many more with me, felt I didn’t really understand everything going on. Fellow newbies, don’t worry,  Byte‘s here to provide some insight into what actually happened on the first map of badlands. If you want to find out more about the game, VODs, demos can be found here.

To get the latest vid’s from Byte’s youtube channel

Crasp — As the Christmas holidays approach, ETF2L’s Season 10(!) comes to an end which can only mean one thing – the Final of the Premier Division Playoffs!

 Infused.Tt, who finished the main season in first place, face third-placed  Epsilon eSports, who fought their way past Relic and Crack Clan to reach the final.

We will be bringing you all the action here at VanillaTV, streamed in delicious quality by  Shrike and casted by the dynamic duo,  AcidRenix & Beta!

The match is scheduled for 21.15 CET so you have plenty of time to come home from work, or school, or any other institution you may be required to attend during the day. In the meantime, go read  Kaidus‘s preview to the match on Cadred.

Team Infused dunc, numlocked, Mike, quad, flisko, Greg

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Epsilon eSports wltrs, shocky, F2, randa, GeaR, KnOxXx

ETF2L Season 10 Playoffs, Final

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TIME

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

CASTED BY

• HiScore.tv
• M0retv Livestream
• VanillaTV Livestream
• VanillaTV Mumble
• TF2World.Ru TV

SOURCETV

• relay.vanillatv.org:27100
• relay.vanillatv.org:27101
• relay.vanillatv.org:27102

Who will win this match?

• Epsilon eSports (62%, 145 Votes)
  
• Infused.Tt (38%, 105 Votes)
  

Total Voters: 233

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Faint — With Crack Clan maybe a little out of practice as of late, and having lost to relic in the Semi-Finals of the Excello cup, will their lack of momentum hamper their performance? Epsilon on the other hand, seem to be back in form. Aside from their loss against Team Dignitas in the Excello cup last week, they have been going from strength to strength, and could cause a few problems for CC. That being said, the spanjews are no kid on the block any longer and have a map win against Epsilon in their bag already, from earlier in the season. Having lost their scout, Estanis, Blight’s Bash will be the substitute to try and teach the upper dogs a lesson.

The winner of tonight will secure a place  ETF2L Season 10 grand finals against Infused.tt this upcoming thursday, so tune in to VanillaTV Open Mic with ye olde TF2tv duo rejoice Pledge and d2m  casting, alongside Shrike on the stream to find out who will come out on top!

Crasp —Tonight we bring you some big battles from ETF2L!

Update: Join Salamancer and  Comedian right now as they are covering the rest of the ETF2L One-night cp_croissant cup!

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. CKRAS Gaming 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.

And for you highlander fans out there, TF2World.Ru TV will be covering the ETF2L Highlander Season 1 Week 3 game, between Colony and SNSD which starts at 19:00 CET.