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Fish — Halfway throughout a season we are always faced with an interesting occurrence as only half the matches have been played and teams are folding. Class changes, name changes, players leaving and various other circumstances leave many a team on the brink of folding. It would seem that only some will see it through until the end, whereas the rest will remain faint memories of pre-season predictions, leaving clumps of players behind who scatter around, forming new teams left and right. To see what has come from the remaining teams, I have assembled a crack team to look at the upcoming matches, and look back in a week or two on their results and laugh at how inaccurate our predictions are.

Joining me for predictions this week is fuo (qn) Pledge, and old_grandma (renoB)

Torden — I started off doing div1a, moved on to include both div1′s, now with Admirable claiming to be “cured” of whatever illness he had, we’re left with yet another division stranded, so I guess I’ll focus on premiership until somebody bothers. -Perhaps the lack of coverage is deserved, considering the sporadic league play – the ETF2L list of weekly fixtures is now officially a complete mess.

Meanwhile there’s actually some high end TF2 going on, with a top scene arguably more capable and competitive than ever before. Epsilon took a surprising plunge against CKRAS and Crack Clan last week, which leaves the latter in a competitive position, alongside Relic and Infused.

Instead of bothering with trying to untangle the scheduling/reporting scores mess of weekly match ups, I’ll rather comment on the games that are so far scheduled for this week. With all 4 of the top placing teams in the wind, this week could decide who will win season 10. Helping me with predictions this week are Byte, Antyy, cOOKYE and Zebbosai.

Torden — Division 1 is thinning out, Vital/Boner, Übersexuals and Level^ are out, while “Respawn Romancers” appear to be out of commission, starting their week2 at week5. Last week saw our first predicted point share between Vital and Trick17, in what appears to have been a close game. Xen team also got a taste of Gravel Pit madness, losing valuable points to MIPC after having steamrolled on Gullywash (or was it Gully last?). Division favourites Broder and Yoyotech asserted a hand on the prize with dominant games against Illegal and Blast respectively.

Due to bugs in Valve’s Gravel Pit, ETF2L has quite generously offered to allow teams to choose a different map this week. Considering the originality of our competitive community, we’ll go with the assumption week3 maps are Badlands and Granary. Joining me for predictions this week are Skeej (VYE), Hat (Yoyotech), Drosophile (idk?), Zebbosai (Broder), and Fish (renoB) who’s even helped out with the write ups.

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).

Psunfragga — After a quick glance at Division 1B you could be forgiven for being curious about who some of these teams are. Shake off that sleepy haze! The season is here and its return has brought about team name and roster changes with a multitude of players returning from soaking in the sun. Let’s take a closer look at the exciting matches we have been graced with in Week 1. The maps this week are cp_badlands and cp_gullywash.

The panellists for this week include:  Mar (Decerto),  Vad (Eternity),  Torden(Broder), Zappis (Illegal) and  Koeitje (CommanderX is our bitch- get a real name!)

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.

Torden — With few surprises since the provisional divisions, the season10 tables are locked and ready. The trigger for me starting this site in the first place, was in fact that I wanted to get back a place for weekly predictions. The usual manner is that they start relatively strong at the start of the season, then going downhill. So instead, I’d like to officially invite players and writers to sign up pr week.

-”Signing up”, as in, being the first to leave a message that you’ll be taking on the task in comments. With enough people participating, making this a consistent feature should be a breeze. The deadline for week 1 predictions will be 20cet this upcoming Sunday. The article should feature:

• the maps of the week
• the fixtures, including a small writeup pr entry
• predicted results and mvp
• community predictions by a few other people

I’ll kick it off by writing for my own division1A (I guess div1B would be more politically correct, but I’ll admit, I simply don’t know enough of those teams that well).