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Torden — A bit of a weird week, as the Vital roster folded, handing the org over to Rejects. Now Fish’ crew is set to rebuild under the old “renoB” name, however with the team being marked as dropped, there’s no official word on their proceedings for week2.

Last week provided no real upsets, whilst showing some interesting stats on badlands vs gully, as all the latter had much more 1 sided games than the former for all 3 match ups. Perhaps most notable, the 5-4 nailbiter between underdog Rejects (now Vital) and favourite broder. This week may make for a change regarding upsets, as Gravel Pit is introduced to the mix, a map sometimes known for providing coin toss results. The 2nd map is Gullywash.

Joining me for predictions this week are Division 1B’s  Drosophile (idk?), Evokje (idk?), Skeej (Visualize Your Enmity), and Hat (Yoyotech).

Torden — Week 1 starts teams out on familiar turfs, Gullywash and Badlands, which should ensure a minimal amount of surprises. On the flipside, there are quite a few newforms going, with teams still building rosters and routines. The current season sees a return of the old formula of 2 equal divisions below the top, just with a change of numbers. Be it for the good or bad, what’s for certain is, there will be some uneven mixups throughout the season.

This week, Div1B’s Drosophile (idk?), Psunfragga (Crack Clan) and Skeej (Visualize Your Enmity) have joined me for predictions. You can of course do the same, in comments below. Draw is 1 map each, Win is either 2 maps won, or 1 map win + 1 map draw.

Note: I’m crossposting this week old article from mygamingedge.com – a few things have happened since then (TCM and Blame played their game – 5-0, 4-3 and idk? and Eternity folded).

ETF2L’s Season 9 has kicked started this week, with Badlands and a surprising choice in Warmfront (an “improved” version of Coldfront). These teams know Badlands inside-out, but most teams have struggled to find time to practice the unfamiliar Warmfront. The map could throw some upsets, though most of the games seem to be one sided affair.

Read more to get all the details! – Honeymustard

Update: All games now over. Big kudos to Galant and Exfane who were the people scrambling to get these teams servers and relays to play on. Make sure to give them some more time, next time around!

Update: Casts are set and relays are up. Check the match overviews.

There are 3 important ETF2L matches tonight.

• Dignitas and  Epsilon kicks off the battle for Top Premiership team of the season. – ETF2L radio + TF2tv
• Yoyotech and  Gamerzone fights to avoid the relegation match vs PX. – Pirate Radio
• Eternity and Refuse will fight to decide which of them will play Season 9 in Division 1 or Premiership. - EmpireTV

In the midst of all this, TF2 casts. It was unofficially announced last night that TF2tv would cover the Epsilon vs Dignitas game. Today, ETF2L radio announced they would be casting the same game. With the (un)coincidental casting arms race of doing exclusive announcements and powering up casting rosters, the night is set for a TF2 casting brawl.

Meanwhile there are 2 other quality games to be played tonight. Luckily, FB has kept their old mumble channel open, which means Pirate Radio will add to the circus.

The respective casters of tonight will be (click the link to launch mumble):

• ETF2L radio: Byte, Dave and SeriousCat – #etf2l.radio
• TF2tv: thePledge, Mvp, with Comedian - #tf2.tv + stream
• Pirate radio:  Exfane and  Torden - #Vanillatf2 + stream (by TF2tv)
• EmpireTV (TeamSpeak3 213.248.53.108:9987): Galant and LETIshNick – #tf2.ru + stream

Pirate radio will cover whatever game is left. If there are 2 games available, we’ll cover the most popular one.

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The real winner tonight will be you as spectator. All the game info and casting details will be available in this post (press “continue reading”)/match ticker!

- Torden

A tad out of date because sleeping pills and alcohol don’t end well apparently but hopefully it’s not too late, I’ll try and do this every Friday but i’m making no promises :D It’s just a quick summary of the last week since things can be a bit hard to keep track of especially when sites don’t let teams submit results :D Lets see how it goes….

- CommanderX