Click here to join the SourceTV relay, courtesy of Apocalypse Gaming, when the match begins at 9pm EST (GMT-5)... and also don't forget to join me in the Official CommFT Mumble server (make sure you have at least version 1.2.0), courtesy of Apoloexy Industries, as we watch the match together! Also, here's a link to the updated poster, with the changes to the old one done by yours truly! The maps will be cp_granary (pro choice), cp_gorge (pubstar choice), and koth_viaduct (tiebreaker).
For those of you who either weren't around 7 months ago or otherwise weren't paying attention, the Pro-Pubstar games are a social occasion reminiscent of the old days of the Holy Roman Empire where gladiators would be called into the Colloseum to perform for the masses as they slaughter defenseless animals, Christians, and babies.
The premise is simple: what happens when a hardened, veteran pro team with sponsor from the best TF2 leagues meet 9 wacky pubstars who spend all day training in 32-player servers, yelling hacker every time they die? Well, we'll find out tonight at 9pm EST (GMT-5) courtesy of cerious and shintaz, organizers of the classic Pro-Pubstar games!
The EU version of these games finished just minutes before I began to write this article, and the cad himself, Arx, blessed elchi and freeflow as the most valuable players after the Pubstars tied the Pros on Gravelpit and came out on top of Badwater. It was quite the festivity, that it was. Jolly good.
Lastly, lets give some spotlight to the lucky pubstars and pro players who will be competing tonight:
A top ten TF2 team ranking has not been put together for over a year. With the euros putting together their top ten, I have decided to put together a top 10 North America ranking.
With the season winding down, everyone who played through the season have a good idea of who should be in their top 10. I decided to ask the community fortress writers to give me their top 10 list, I also got a rep from every ESEA invite team and all the ESEA open teams nominated by the invite teams to contribute their top 10 list. Overall, I received 18 lists, which I feel like is a nice number and will show us pretty clearly who the public thinks should be in the rankings.
The list of players that contributed to this ranking are:
The points system is exactly the same as the EU rankings: a first place vote earns that team 10 points, 9 points are awarded for second place, and so on.
So without further adieu, the top ten TF2 teams in North America voted by their peers.
From 2/9/10 Muscle Milk and Moolians takes on Pandemic in Season 5 of ESEA-Invite. MmM is in custom Purple/Blu unfiroms while Pandemic is in Red/Grey. All custom skins made exclusively for eXtv by your host, cinematographer, and editor: eXtine. Every team in the upcoming ESEA LAN Playoffs will be sporting unique uniforms.
*Some technical difficulties throughout this Episode with a couple flashes of black. I will be changing codecs and improving my process, hopefully putting an end to these weird gaps.
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Book your plane tickets Ladies and Gentlemen, it's official. The top 4 spots in the Invite league was settled yesterday, even though there are still a few matches left to be played in the season. The teams qualifying for the playoffs in order of placement are: Evil Geniuses, Complexity, Pandemic, and Muscle Milk and Moolians
Click Read More to take a quick look at recent results and how the standings ended up.
tgbf.tv is proud to present a cast of Complexity (11-3) vs Muscle Milk and Moolians (9-5) tonight 11:15 est on cp_granary.
This is a very likely 1st round matchup for the Invite Lan coming up, so make sure to tune in as djfivenine, molk and schetter do a little play by play and breaks down the game for you!
As I am sure many of you are already aware, all ESEA matches must be played by tomorrow (Friday, February 12th). If you still have matches unplayed, you need to get them done by then.
One week left of this ESEA season. First I really have to commend this community. 29 teams are still active in the league and only 9 died throughout the season. I would have guessed over 10 teams in the beginning of the season. This proves that teams will be much more hesitant to just disband when they all paid for the league. One issue I would like to talk about is playing your forfeited, tied and unplayed matches. You paid for at least 16 matches in ESEA, so why not fully play those 16 matches? I don't understand teams trying to dodge matches to get the forfeit win or loss...are you really that desperate to have a better record in esea open? In the end, most people won't give a crap if you have a 9-7 or 8-8 record. Play your damn matches, its tf2, its suppose to be fun, you're suppose to want to play as many tf2 matches as possible. So if you have any matches that you still can play, PLAY THEM!
Alright, let's talk about playoffs. 11 out of the 12 teams are pretty much set, and they are all dangerous teams from eMg at number 1 to the revamped reamped gaming at number 11. The 12th seed is harder to figure out, but I'll talk about it later. But this is IMPORTANT guys...the esea admins still have not made their decision on the number of teams in the playoffs, 8, 12 or 16. If any of them are on your friends list, please let them know that we all want 12 teams! 16 drags it out for too long, and there are more than 8 teams that deserve a shot at the title. The teams with 10 and 11 wins deserve to be in the playoffs!
I increased the rankings to 11 because these are the 11 teams that I am about 75% sure we will see in the playoffs (other 15% if esea decides on a 8 team playoff, 5% if teams break up, 5% if teams lose to someone they're not supposed to lose to). This is probably the last power rankings I do for the season before my super playoff preview...so enjoy...for the last time. ever.
The final week of TWL has arrived! With many teams still jockeying for a playoff spot, and the rest looking to finish strong this should be exciting week all across the board. This weeks matches will be played on cp_yukon, a map that many teams are familiar with but still provides plenty of upsets. There are several really good games being played this week and even a few sneak peaks at possible playoff matches.
Once again, I didn't have time to finish writing predictions for Div4. I know I said I would include them this week but there are just to many teams and I honestly don't know many players or teams in div4 so my comments would be rather... generic. But I promise I will be predicting for all the divisions once the playoffs arise.
Click after the break to bring on the predictions!
molino : wat the fuck for they closed it? u gotta be kidding, i was just warning you to expect smartass try to act cool and post random stuff
eXtine : "I'm your medic" Music Video: «link» Old vid, but new to me. Probably some others haven't seen it, pretty dam good.
eXtine : molino: I did. Thread got closed tho, I'd been warned before bout not posting those threads in art/video, but NO ONE GOES THERE.
bcarr : May I assert an 'FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU' on BRING AMBALAMPS' behalf? I do believe I will.
molino : next time think about posting on spuf extine
move : ggs CAD, it was really intense! :D
TMP : WHAAAAA
eXtine : Sad news for BringAmbalamps, They won't be able to field 6. This means TGBF.tv will be covering eMg vs CAD! See ya there!
himmel : Macs, fuck yeah!
Graham : ty ty
Riff : Only if they have training wheels.
Bikini : Can Europeans airstrafe?
himmel : Kinda funny how "yaooooooo!"' is a catchphrase now :P
Grimm : Shoutout to jinn_ for being hot, since we're making shoutouts now.
chipbuster : euro demo roundtable? yesssss!!
Aristotle : Thanks extine : ) yeah no worries good luck with your work. If you guys have too many submissions maybe break it up into two top tens if it isn't too much of a hassle one for invite level players and one for open. I'm sure it would please most people. :)
