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From across the pond comes a breath of fresh air with a new squad for your viewing pleasures. rk- from ESEAnews catches us up:

(ESEAnews) – Though the roster has slowly been forming before our very eyes thanks to that neat little Transactions tracker, there was still no official confirmation that the infamous “coming soon” would every actually amount to anything.

But, after a whole wack of speculation and more than their fair share of GotFrag TF2 threads (may that site burn forever), The Experiment has officially been unveiled for your viewing pleasure – lineups and all! – and with a financial backer that’s been in the news lately:

The Experiment:
Medic – Brad “PYYYOUR” Ross
Demo - Tim “dummy” Olson
Scout - Adam “Reptile” Dopko
Scout - Justin “justin” White
Soldier – R “ww-” C
Soldier – Tyler “TLR” Morgan

Team Sponsor - Christina “DrChristina” Olszewski

This small two-minute clip comes from the beastly TLR – containing alot of air-rockets and some nice Medic picks.

Featuring ESEA-I and CEVO-P match frags only.

PLDX Stream

- Abhorrence

After the split between TLR and Marco alongside his all German team mates they have been on the search for a new organisation. Which, today has been finalised! Made In Germany, EX-TLR have become part of the massive organisation that is Blight-Gaming!
Marco mvp Wichmann said this regarding the move

After parting ways with TLR I’ve been busy talking to various orgs being interested in my TF2 team, but James has stubbornly been messaging me for several weeks, if not months and came up with an offer of support we couldn’t resist. Future plans and projects were discussed and we have no doubt this will lead to something big. Blight-Gaming (as you can see already) will expand over to Europe and we’re very happy to be a part of it.

The complete release can be read at http://blightgaming.com/articles.php?id=96

The current Blight roster is:

Marco “mvp.” Wichmann

Ronny “Ronny” Chilinski

Andy “aves” Vesper

Lukas “bash” Stauffenberg

Timo “Thy” Krüger

 Tim “GeaR” Glöckler

Also, becoming a part of the Blight-Gaming steam group (http://steamcommunity.com/groups/blightgaming) will allow you to see a special surprise that will be revealed within the coming month

You can already see it on the right column,  Aves joined TLR. For those who lived under a polygonal stone the past year, Aves/andy is the beast who reaped havok (pun intended) back in the day with Clan00, Trademark Gamers/TCM and most recently, Team Rockit. I got in touch with TLR clan leader Mvp to learn more:

Torden: Viqun left for austria, Aves got bored with the bar, you combined 1 + 1?
Mvp: Aves moved to Vienna for studying. So hes more often av again and so i took the chance.
Torden: what about viquie?
Mvp: Well.. hes going to austria for 4 months for skiing and we have no idea about his inet being a.) av and b.) being good enough to play. Its very unlucky for viqun. But we had a meeting and made a decision
Torden: the fucker is going to ski for 4 months, i wouldn’t be too beaten up about it
Mvp: As I’m responsible for the team i had to take action, as aves was pimped by various other teams afaik

Torden: Is bash doing main scout now, then?
Mvp: Yes, Bash and Aves

Torden: whats the deal with flix? gonna keep him?
Mvp: Ronny is back from his trip. So no, ronny stays medic. Flix did good though, so i keep him in mind whenever i need a medic :P

Torden: Don’t you feel bad for Rockit now? 3rd time folding before div1…
Mvp: They folded 6 weeks ago. But overall, yes.. rockit as an org is very unlucky with their teams. But I heard they soon get a new tf2 team! So good luck to rockit :P
Torden: Juicy, they already got one in mind?
Mvp: Yes, afaik they are in talkings
Torden: everybody loves the talkings!

Best of luck to TLR, Aves and Rockit etc etc etc!

Torden

That’s right, last week the skeptical ETF2L Experimental Ordanance Cup went underway; the rules as the name suggests, being experimental – all unlocks being allowed, and stranger still, in each game both teams were forced to use at least 2 unlocks from a set list – the aim being to test out some of the more frowned upon unlocks, and hopefully receive feedback to possibly have an effect on which items are used in the upcoming cups and seasons. Tonight the cup was wrapped up, with the final of the high bracket being played.

Similar to the Monday Night Madness hosted in the spring by ETF2L, the cup had 2 separate brackets; low and high with 32 teams in each, for all those unaware, this (ideally) gives the lower skilled teams a chance to enjoy themselves in a cup where they won’t be immediately out of their skill depth, but also increases the chance that the top teams may encounter a challenge perhaps early on!
Despite the small amount of Division 1 teams in the higher bracket, perhaps due to it having short notice on a Wednesday evening, and no prizes, thankfully TLR signed up, raising the bar of the higher bracket considerably higher!

Down to the final results:-

Low Bracket Final :- Team Defiance 2 – 0 Entropy Team
High Bracket Final :- TLR 2 – 0 RAGE.eSPORTS

See the full low bracket tree
See the full high bracket tree

Congratulations to TLR and Team Defiance!

That looks to have just about wrapped up the first Experimental Ordanance Cup…opinions?

Thanks to Davi1dd for his contribution.

As we’re half through the qualifier cups already it’s time to give you some heads-up.
With TCM-Gaming, Team Dignitas, Epsilon Gaming and PowerGaming placing in the top 4, they made huge cash and also got an invite to the upcoming EMS season 7.

So who will be the 12 missing teams?

The first qualifier kicked off last Tuesday allowing 3 teams to get their tickets for the final tournament.
Peace and Love and To Be Announced took their chance with a win streak straight to the final, which means nothing less than being qualified.

dajackal:

qualification was pretty easy. only first round against pentia took like 15mins but after that we broke their backbone and got 4 rounds fast. final wasn’t played because players needed to go sleep (it was like 00:00 in winland when 3rd round was over)

PENTIA had to deal with unexist and they succeeded.

techtron:

I am very happy that we got qualified to ems, I hope we will finish maybe 2nd place in our table and I wish everyone good luck

Yesterday the 2nd qualifier cup has been played and we have the next 3 teams participating in the EMS.
The Last Resort and unexist took their chances to go unbeaten into the final, which wasnt played due to the fact of CBA-ness.

mvp.:

I’m so thrilled. ESL/EMS is probably the best league/cup, so this was a major step for us.

Also the new team of Refuse managed to achieve their spot.

xzar:

We would’ve expected nothing less but to qualify. The loss to unexist was unfortunate, but boy are those ruskies beastly at granary. We’ll be looking forward to playing them again in EMS.

So here we go now with 10 out of 16 spots taken. Dont miss your chance, as there are 2 more qualifiers coming up:
Tuesday, 07.09.2010 (TOMORROW!), 20cet -> Sign Up
and
Sunday, 12.09.2010, 20cet -> Sign Up

Some people could see it on the ETF2L roster last night,  Havok is out of the TLR roster after not showing up for the Ubercharge Quarter finals earlier. Mvp explains:

It’s a sad day. With havok not showing up in the last few days/weeks, even though he promised, I am more or less forced to kick him out of my team.
havok is a really friendly and nice guy, but his letting us down for the ubercharge cup yesterday was the final straw.
I wish him best of luck for the future.

On this occasion TLR is recruiting another scout (div1 material, german prefered, not a must). Feel free to contact me.

The current TLR lineup is

• Mvp, Leader, Soldier
• Gear, Soldier
• Ronny, Medic
• Thy, Demoman
• Viqun, Scout
• Bash, Scout/Soldier

Not many scouts with div1 experience are currently searching. Maybe Cami?

atrox_ left us with this:

TLRs website will play host to the latest in TF2 stars interview series, starting out with the interviewing of TLRs very own team with plans to branch out (hopefully!) into others in top TF2 play. The series has started with the interviewing of TLRs team captain Marco mvp Wichmann, with team demoman Timo Thy Krüger to follow suite very shortly.

Can you give us a brief overview of your TF2 backstory? i.e. why you started playing/when/what’s your clan history?

I played TFC, and with FF being a total fail I gave TF2 a try. I started playing PCWs with some old TFC mates and began to like it.

So it didn’t take me long to find a team which had some successful results: Team Fracture. Consisting of players like appe, agron, treigzek and Chode.

Afterwards I joined the former TLR team with wai, wlv and some others. Sadly, that team didn’t last very long and I moved onto duncs (currently Team Dignitas) Übersexuals. I decided to go inactive some weeks later though. Then making a comeback in the summer of 2009 with my all-new german team r@ts.

We’ve had a good start and moved from div2 directly to div1 with some very good results. It was because of these good results that we became part of The Last Resort. My 2nd appearance in TLR.

Read the rest of the interview here

Thanks for the heads up, always interesting to hear what former members of the legendary Fracture have to say!

Viaduct stvs (starting now)

• broder vs epsilon: fakkelbrigade.eu:27100
• The Last Resort vs. Team-Dignitas: 188.40.102.206:30000
• tcm-illegal: 85.236.101.74:27015
• cc-pwr: 193.192.58.44:20008

As TF2 players are slowly losing their tan, the upsurge of tournaments online and offline have made their appearance. Tonight is the first set of games for ESH that will send the winners to the semi finals/finals on Sunday. So what can we expect tonight? Some upsets? Let’s take a closer look at the top seeders on their way to the quarter finals with my predictions along the way.

Predictions Bracket1 :

TCM
Round1 vs DSTM
Round2 vs -PoD-  : A game where the new russian team will have a chance to show what their made of. With kondor and Ice aka unic, this scout combo has caused havoc before in Empire. But can kondor still aim?

illegal
Round1 vs BiG
Round2 vs Rush :This is the game to watch, i expect an intense matchup but Rush might just manage to knock out the top seeders of this bracket which ends their journey. Source TV pls

Quarterfinals
TCM vs Rush : One of the less equal matching quaterfinals, and probably too early for Rush to shine…

Predictions Bracket2

 broder
Round1 vs DSTM
Round2 vs Squall : Allthough Loco’s team always deserves credit, I think this will be pretty straight forward for broder.

Epsilon
Round1 vs CdC
Round2 vs Eternity: The second new russian team to make an appearance, allthough not as strong as PoD. Too early to judge this team.

Quarterfinals
Epsilon vs broder : With 2 of the top snipers, jh and wltrs, this match will be a very intense one indeed. A question of the team who is better prepared or prepared at all?  Source TV pls.

Predictions Bracket 3

PwR
Round1 vs Vitae
Round2 vs PnL : Allthough PnL have a interesting lineup, PwR will be looking to confirm their domination, and thats on anyone along their path.

k1ck
Round1 vs [DA]
Round2 vs cc//: An interesting game but an advantage for the k1ck team which should be able to qualify on.

Quarterfinals
pwr vs k1ck: I don’t see this being any different for PwR dominance, add to that after k1ck’s disapointing performance vs TLR,  this matchup just seems to lean one way. Source TV pls

Predictions Bracket 4

TLR
Round1 vs elem.v
Round2 vs px. : TLR should be able to easily capitilize on this matchup.

dignitas
Round1 vs Bacon
Round2 vs MTF.px : Allthough this px² team did surprise Epsilon, I don’t see it happening a second time as Dignitas seem to have almost found their legendary form.

Quarterfinals

TLR vs dignitas : A hell of a match to look forward too. After TLR dominated Dignitas in ETF2L AFS, you can be sure that dunc will be looking to prove the contrary tonight. But did Dignitas prepare Viaduct? As you can count on TLR to be prepared, as star tactician marco loves to have his team tactically prepared for new maps. Outcome? Depends if Diggy did prepare….so i see TLR still standing when the dust settles… Source TV pls

Big thanks to Slick for his contribution

After 2 early folds, div1 seems to have gained a level of stability with 6 faithful teams of similar skills. With just over half the games played, no team have a perfect track record. TLR are riding high on their 2 map wins over Dignitas this Monday, while idk? have only 1 previous game so far, a point sharing with Broder.

Byte and The Pledge will be casting for ETF2L radio. Clicking the link in “cast” will take you right to the right mumble (1.2). Go to #etf2l.radio (quakenet) for shoutouts etc.

Epsilon eSports Shintaz, Predz, Exfane, wai, Extremer, F2

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Button Bashers Viqun, Mvp, Ronny, Havok, Thy, Bash

ETF2L AFS Division 1, Week 3

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TIME

• Wednesday July 21st
• 21:15 cest
• 15:15 edt (na)
• 05:15 est (aus)

CASTED BY

• ETF2L radio

SOURCETV

• fakkelbrigade.eu:27100

Who will win this match?

• I Don't Know? (59%, 10 Votes)
  
• The Last Resort (35%, 6 Votes)
  
• Tie (6%, 1 Votes)
  

Total Voters: 17

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DEMO

VIDEO

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Pub heroes vs Pros

• 19cet, Badlands and Gravel Pit (Turbine decider map)
• STV: fakkelbrigade.eu:27100
• Mumble Cast: fakkelbrigade.eu / Port: 64740, Hosted by  Dave, Swarley and  Torden. Join #etf2l.radio for shoutouts.

Update: No draw possible due to decider map

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Lineups

Pros

• Thy (TLR)
• Byte (TCM)
• Haunter (TCM)
• Evil (WeMadeFux)
• Bybben (Dignitas)
• Rebeli (Dignitas)

Pub heroes

• Lord Benjamin
• [½]³
• Am/Pm
• Reload
• Deviland
• Hugo
• Rarespycrab
• Metaljarate
• Evilduck