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Recently, I got the chance to sit down with PENTIA’s/infernal Gamers’/myRevenge’s/Jew Power’s/SQUALL’s/infernal Gamers’/PENTIA’s/8DOM8′s/infernal Gamers’/PENTIA’s/Team Empire’s/PENTIA’s/ELEmentals’/SHIFTplay’s/Know Your Enemy’s Techtron. Little else need be said.

It’s Summer and natural TF2 hibernation. Some teams try and keep up, others take a break, others still jumps on the fold train. Infernal Gamers looks to be going for the latter solution, and after Kondor’s decision to Summer merc for Eternity, shit just got real: Techtron is out. The details of mentioned medic’s 3rd (or is it 4th?) drop from mentioned team can be extracted from the following log:

iG techtron: you leave us?
oO: no
iG techtron: http://etf2l.org/teams/297/
iG techtron: you leave the team in etf2l
iG techtron: and we fold
oO: just merc for eternity in this season, because we cant play and drop
iG techtron: so maybe i will leave if we dont play
iG techtron: because in 4moths i go to army
iG techtron: and i want to play
oO: as i know un1c and chich cant play in summer… so its your right to play for another team
iG techtron: so i quit from the team
iG techtron: ..
iG techtron: listen ph i quit from the team i told before 1week… i want to play in this summer and i go to army in 4moths so i move to play in pentia with friends
iG techtron: ..
iG techtron: dont mad
iG techtron: ..
iG techtron: :) you know i love you
iG techtron: <3
Dvoina9 Ytka: ok np, gl :)))

Good luck :)

Thanks to Retshock for the tips.

It’s off season, and the typical time to make roster changes. We’ve already seen both TCM and Dignitas changing out their medics. Here’s a fast overview of the latest movements:

Stoic

Observant people will have spotted Daf participating in their latest pcws. This stallion has been active since the days of TFC. He’s breakthrough on the TF2 scene  came from switching scout to (a world class) soldier in Wotr/4kings a year ago. He is now fully back to the scene and should prove an important part of a stronger Stoic.

Daf: The main lineup is: Medic – Royze, Soldier – me, Soldier – Crink, Demo – Vali, Scout – Super, Scout -Rake. At the moment, the team play 4 days a week (Monday – Thursday with Sunday off) I’ll be playing at least 3 of those days, mostly 4. Jones will fill in when I can’t play

VanillaTF2: What happened to Jones? Busy chasing skirt? (he got a good score in the handsome pagant)
Daf: I’m sure chasing skirt is an integral part of it, but as I understand, he started a new job recently and is also going away traveling for a month to the States! Why would he go semi active in TF2 for that? Don’t ask me…

WeMadeFux

Another Irishman in the wind, Admirable. The former soldier of Wotr2/Coolclan (and Pentia) has now switched to medic completely, and will do his part as a working class hero in WeMadeFux. Admirable can often be found healing pickups, thriving in 2vs6 situations: “jump on them, let’s fuck them up, bro”. Admirable has formal medic training from FakkelBrigade.

VanillaTF2: A comment on Admirable joining your ranks?
Predz: uhm.I stole his Tshirt. I felt i owed him something. So I let him join

VanillaTF2: Is he main lineup medic, TopGear backup multiclass?
Predz: Yessir

VanillaTF2: Want to say something positive about his contribution to the team?
Predz: hmm. I’m probably the wrong person to ask for that. I feel I must always insult him, being Northern Irish and all.

The team will be going to i40 this summer.

The Last Resort

TLR has been in a poor state off season. When Viqun joined some weeks back, Mvp let us know of them restructuring due to scouts leaving the game. The second piece of this puzzle seems to have arrived, in the form of  Havok. This funny character was last seen inactive for the now folded Pentia. He is perhaps most remembered for his brief appearance in Imperial about a year ago. With world class meatshots and magic bullets, can he be what the team needs? Mvp/Marco explains:

Marco: We finally have our lineup for the next weeks/months, with havok and viqun as new scout couple. AAL still is around and will play until his departure around august. although there might be another change coming up in the next weeks.

VanillaTF2: what change?
Marco: You will see, sorry, can’t say any more yet

The team will be  attending Summer Assembly.

Broder

Wltrs originally joined as a long time sub, has now officially joined the team.
Berserker is still on a leave of absence due to exams, but will return mid June  for full time trolling duty. Upon asking Wltrs for a comment, he says “naw :<”. The team will be seen attending Asssembly come August.

Infernal Gamers

There’s a saying of “fool me once…”, “fool me twice…” But nothing really covers “fool me 3 times”. Chatter soared through the intrawebs when it was known that Techtron joined the team for the 3rd time within a matter of months. The team recently lost 3 players, but has already gotten some replacements. We asked Zip what was going on:

VanillaTF2: Could you explain the situation? What happend? 3 people left?
Zip: Yes, 3 people left – angel, wlz and waiz. We were still together only because of Moscow Lan. In-game disagreements between players

VanillaTF2: Are you set for a stable 6 man main linueup now?
Zip: yes, we’ve got 3 new players : techtron, un1c and kondor. and we are going to participate in ubercharge tournament and AFS

VanillaTF2: This is the 3rd time Techtron joins. I know many will be wondering, why do you keep on taking him in after he left you so many times?
Zip: Because he’s a really good medic :)

VanillaTF2: Think he will stay this time?
Zip: I hope so.

EMS VI

3 Matches tonight.  Wildcard did a nice overview over at ESL, including getting predictions from Byte, Dave, F2 and Torden.
Source: ESL

Broder 2 vs 0 Infernal Gamers

• 21.15cet, badlands (5-2) and granary (6-2)
• STV: 193.192.58.44:20002
• Match Link

Team Dignitas 2 vs 0 I Don’t Know? Pink

• 20cet, badlads (1-0) and granary (1-0), amazing game
• STV: tba
• Match Link

Unexist 0 vs 2 HolyShit!

• 21cet, badlands (2-5) and gullywash (1-3)
• STV: tba
• Match Link

Wireplay Season 6

 Hadouken! vs Rejects Postponed due to lacking h! players

• 22.15cet, division 1 week 2, Obscure (rc5) amd Freight
• STV: tba
• Match link

Our friend  Galant is back for updates on the Russian Lan. Take it away, champ!

Update: STVs are up for today:

TF2World.ru | LAN #1
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TF2World.ru | LAN #2
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TF2World.ru | LAN #3
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TF2World.ru | LAN #4
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TF2World.ru | LAN #5
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TF2World.ru | LAN #6
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TF2World.ru | LAN #7
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TF2World.ru | LAN #8

Hello Vanilla readers!
It’s me again, and now I want to share with you some news about tomorrow’s LAN in Moscow. Yesterday groups were announced. Here they are!

Group A:

• abnormaLity
• RageQuit
• Chaotic Community | silver
• flashpoint

Group B:

• Infernal Gamers
• Only Rockets Love You
• Aqeze
• Death Adder

Group C:

• Unexist
• RAGE.MULTIGAMING
• Eternity
• Combat-Folk

Group D:

• Chaotic Community | Black
• Yummy Elite Sausages
• Crucial Team
• Team Slayers

All first teams in groups were seeded, then another four teams (who are second in groups) were seeded, and finally other 8 teams were randomly divided into groups.

Maps in group stage are fixed: gullywash & freight, badlands & yukon, granary & turbine. It’s interesting to note that the most exciting matches between 1st and 2nd teams in groups will be played on granary & turbine. After group stage 8 teams will play play-off matches in single elimination mode, maps – best of 3 – are decided by deletion.

Tomorrow I will try to keep you informed about all interesting matches and provide STVs here. Also there will be some coverage and live-videos in my La compétiTF blog.

See you, Galant.

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<informant> what team?
<techtron> iG
<informant> did they recruit u again?
<techtron> yes
<techtron> he ask me if i want to back
<techtron> and i want back to play with ig
<techtron> and iG start to play really weak when i leave..

Goodluck.

While Euro players have had a couple of nice LANs recently in UK and in France, here in Russia we are waiting for LAN in Moscow.

• The details:
• 2,200 euro (+-) prize pool
• May 8th, one day marathon from 10am to 11pm.
• Maps: badlands, granary, yukon, gullywash, freight, turbine, well, obscure (rc3) and gravel pit
• Rules: Similar to ETF2L

It will be 2nd LAN which will brought to all Russian speaking TF2 community by the biggest community portal – TF2World.ru. With the Russian TF2 League Season 3 just over, this LAN has 10 teams who qualified by playing the league.The 6 remaining slots solved by a competition between other teams and mixes.

Out of the 16 slots, we can find some well known teams from the European leagues:

• Infernal Gamers (d2 etf2l)
• RAGE.MULTIGAMING (d2 etf2l)
• Unexist (ems)
• chaotic community | black (d2 etf2l)
• Eternity (d3 etf2l)
• Only Rockets Love You (d3etf2l)
• Yummy Elite Sausages (d3 etf2l)
• RageQuit (d3 etf2l)

Unexist and iG are seen as big favourites to play the finals, with strong results in ESL and ETF2L respectively. But, its going to be a close race, and as we all know, playing at lan is very different from playing at home.

Will try to keep you informed, and good luck to all teams, Galant.