Hey guys,
I thought I'd post this here in case anyone is interested in checking out the competitive TF2 community. There are going to be two pretty big playoff matches for the ESEA league in TF2, 6v6. All of the guys playing tonight are stars in the professional gaming arena and have won a lot of money and prizes in both online tournaments and national LANs.
At 11 PM EST TODAY:
CompLexity gaming vs. frm. Sway GamingMap: cp_badlands
Both these teams have had a pretty big rivalry in the past. CompLexity (up until last week when they lost the CEVO season 3 professional league to Pandemic) was the most dominant 6v6 TF2 team in the world. They have won CEVO-P seasons 1 and 2, nVision, GotFrag invitational, and others. You really need to check out these guys to see how awesome they play. Sway gaming has also been a historically big contender in CEVO-P and has been in the high playoff ranks in other leagues. Reptile is probably one of the best soldiers in the game, and Sway runs some crazy strategies that are high risk/reward. Should be a good match.
To watch this match, there are two options. You can either check it out in SourceTV (which I will post a link to around the time the match starts - there will be plenty of slots to watch). You can watch any player on either team if you watch it through STV, I recommend this option. You can also go to
www.pwnage.tv and click on their live broadcast link of the match on the main page to watch it through a commentator's perspective (he's spectating). He will give you commentary on what's going on... but you don't get to look at things you want to look at since it's streaming his POV.
Who's playing?
CoLalexwut
dummy^ (Demoman)
oPlaiD (scout)
pyyyour (Medic)
REP- (soldier)
Reptile_ (soldier)
sycknesS (scout, sniper)
Sway amr_ (scout)
destro- (demoman)
`caseey (medic)
herooooo (scout)
reen (soldier)
yaug (soldier)
TBA @ MONDAY:
Team Dynamic vs. Team PandemicMap: cp_badlands
This is kind of a cool match in my opinion, mainly because one of my HL2DM/HL2CTF team mates in [VDuS], A Seagull, plays soldier for Dynamic professionally. He rapes. He's won CAL in HL2DM in just about everything, so naturally his skill carries over. But anyway, Dynamic is a team that's really come around in the past handful of matches. They knocked out Sway in CEVO-P who was heavily favored. Team Pandemic is now the team to beat. They recently beat CompLexity in CEVO-P finals and took the crown for the best team in North America. They're going to try hard to continue their momentum and match up again hopefully with their biggest rival, coL. They have to get there first though. Pandemic has the best scout combo out there, and in my opinion, a bad ass medic.
I don't believe there is a pwnage.tv stream of this game, but I will update this tomorrow with information regarding SourceTV so you guys can check it out.
Who's playing?
Team Dynamicanimeman (Soldier)
brennon (Scout)
forcesteale (Scout)
Orzo (Demoman)
Seagulls (Soldier)
TheFragile (Medic)
**There has been some player swapping since another big TF2 team disbanned recently, so these may not be exact lineups
Team Pandemiccarnagejohnson (Scout)
exploit (Scout)
glue^ (Medic)
Jaeg (Soldier)
relic^ (Soldier)
SoLIDSnaKE (Demoman)
Be advised that the type of class they play doesn't always stay the same during the match. The medic and soldiers will almost always be the same, but the scouts will often change to spy, heavy, sniper, or engineer on certain situations. It's really fun to watch, and if you don't even know anything about competitive TF2, this should be entertaining regardless.
{pDs} Lead Salad: bike why did you change your name
Jessica343: so I can get heals
{pDs} Lead Salad: oh damn good idea
{pDs} Lead Salad has changed their name to {pDs} Lead Salad (is a girl)
Jessica343: hahah