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Lord Khronus — After the announcement of S10 of the ETF2L two new teams have come to compete at the highest levels of Team Fortress 2.

The first team might look familiar for those who followed the nations cup.  Mister is back to give his best in Premier.  Starring the Spanish selection with some tweaks, here’s the full lineup.

Mister:

• Taimou (Medic)
• vayne (Demoman)
• Lork (Soldier)
• Pescanova (Soldier)
• longás (Scout)
• Harryhook (Scout)

Power Gaming, recent winners of the Tt ESH Cup, are now without an MGO as the organisation have decided to stop supporting TF2. A statement from their website reads:

Today Power Gaming announces that we will be releasing our Team Fortress 2 team who have been part of Power Gaming since our launch back in September 2009. We’ve been firm supporters of Team Fortress 2 since our launch however we have decided to release the team as part of our restructuring process, and hence we will not be looking to replace them. The side have been loyal servants to us and have consistently placed at the top of the Team Fortress 2 scene, winning events such as Assembly Summer 2010 and most recently the TT Esports Challenge. We would like to thank them all for their time in Power Gaming and wish them all the best in their future careers.

What’s next for the Finnish squad? I hear Epsilon eSports and ButtonBashers are without TF2 teams…

The ups – The Return of M0re!

I am quite late with this first newsbit as I was completely oblivious to it (My ETF2L forum trolling skills have gotten rusty, unfortunately) but better late than never, as they say. Well, ladies and gentlemen – the man, the myth, the legend – M0re is bringing back his HUD. One of the oldest HUDs around, M0re stopped work on the project quite a while back. Time passed and the hud was picked up and re-released by br0esel. Well luckily, M0re has deciding to get back into it and release a brand new v5 of the hud in the coming days.

Hey, I’ve started making some improvements for the old M0rehud (well I think these are improvements but ofc ppl can disagree) :). So just keep an eye of this topic for updates!

Work-in-progress pictures are available in the aforementioned thread, so go ahead and check them out. You can also show your support by joining M0re hud’s official SteamCommunity group.

The downs – Chris’s Departure from Team Fortress 2

Being a community contributor is a tough task. These unsung heroes are often ridiculed and pestered for their efforts, some of them quit and pass the torch, while others hang around and stay away from the limelight. Chris – the notorious Medic and arguably an expert in TF2 when it comes to all things related to cvars, has decided to call it quits.

A big shock indeed, given the sheer amount of people (myself included) that use his FPS configs and rely on him for help regarding the technical aspects of Team Fortress 2. It appears people constantly harassing you for help over the Internet is not as fun as it might sound. Chris has posted a goodbye thread on ETF2L, here’s an excerpt to elaborate on the situation;

In my experience the gratitude you get for releasing a ton of configs is a shitton of support requests to wake up to each day (usually because people can’t read), so I guess I won’t stop updating, but don’t nag me about it. Do feel free to nudge me about anything missing though, and I’ll add it in so that they won’t become outdated.

But alas, that’s how the machinery works. Wheels will always be in motion and ups and downs are par for the course. As with everything else on the internet, nothing can ever truly die.

- a.

If you use pvhud, brace yourself for some bad news — the man behind it has decided to pull the plug on it. Yes, povohat is done with the project and will no longer will be updating it. This all came about when people tried accessing the official website and were treated with a weird error -

This led many to speculate whether the site got hacked.

Ah hats, once an optional and frothy accessory that evolved into something insidiously important. For these people atleast. Unusual Hat Club has expanded into the interweb after their servers received a significant amount of attention from the Hat dwellers that are out for exotic and rare hats.

What is Unusual Hat Club? Well, it’s basically a site that allows you to trade rare hats amongst each other. The service/website/servers are not sponsored or supported by Valve themselves. Valve takes no responsibility if you get scammed whilst indulging in the dirty and forbidden trade of rare hats.

Provided you are ready to plunk down many-many dollars for a virtual item, the method of payment accepted is PayPal. Though considering the going prices, chewing powered glass seems like a better option than to procure a rare hat;

• Flies/Confetti Effect: $30-$40
• TF2 Logo/Peace Sign: $40-$60
• Hearts: $50-$80
• Ghosts: $80-$120 (Can vary depending on the hat)
• Searing Plasma: $80-120
• Vivid Plasma: $80-$150

Don’t think twice, get your Mom’s credit card and head over here for some trading!

For those who are interested in their servers, you can access them via the links below. Both servers are located in Sayreville, NJ

Server #1 – steam://connect/68.232.171.207:27015
Server #2 – steam://connect/68.232.174.168:27015

Big props to valk :)

- Abhorrence

Lately there have been some really decent movies to watch and i thought that i should share/ comment a little about those frag movies!

Wicked – TF2 band music video by LuckyLuke

An awesome work in my opinion, though not really like some frag movie but a TF2 music vid. Everything is done perfectly! Lovely sync with the music. You should really consider watching it!

Continue reading, for more movie extravaganza