That's right, you're reading that title correctly. Valve has finally gotten its forum managers to add a competitive TF2 section to the official Steam forums. We (CommFT, ETF2L, eXtv, ozfortress, and VanillaTF2) have been emailing with them for more than six months trying to get this to happen and now that it has, the competitive community needs to represent itself well on the boards. Be sure to make an account, post helpful information about the competitive side of TF2, and be friendly with those who do not share your views of competitive play.
Note that this is a new main section of the forums so now discussion of competitive play doesn't have to occur in the context of the "TF2 Beta" forum.
"This has been brewing for some time, but we are finally comfortable with calling this release 1.0, from both a feature and a UI perspective. The app is, of course, free of charge and open source.
Mumble for iOS 1.0 runs on iPhone 3Gs, iPhone 4, iPhone 4s, iPod Touch 3rd Gen, iPod Touch 4th Gen, iPad and iPad 2. It requires iOS 5 or greater to run. The application is currently built for the phone form factor, and work is still ongoing to create a gorgeous iPad UI for it."
Classic Mixup upset top dogs Quantic Legacy in a major way when they removed them from the Invite Champion seat during ESEA’s post-season LAN event in Dallas last weekend, and Mixup’s medic and scheduler Harbleu was nice enough to sit down with me this week and discuss playoffs and season 10 in earnest. I clarified some things in parentheses, but otherwise this is a very closely edited transcript of the interview. We talked about how your attitudes change when you’re a shoe-in for playoffs, the long hours they endured at LAN, and he even threw me a juicy twist!
Hey everybody, only 4 matches left of the regular season before playoffs and some of the best matches are just starting up. Upsets were abundant last week, making this week all the more interesting.
The ESEA LAN finals were upon us last weekend, and the top two seeds #1 Quantic Legacy and #2 Classic Mixup met up for the ESEA-Invite Championship in Dallas, TX. Find out what happened at the LAN after the jump!
Whenever you play Steel you can guarantee upsets are going to happen and this week was no different. We saw some big upsets and nail baiting action and as we move into the last month of the regular season there is a huge stack of teams with 3-3 records vying to get in the top 16 and qualify for the playoffs but in the top 10 i is about finishing as high as possible and getting that slightly better matchup. Anyway lets recap last weeks Steel matches after the jump.
Hey guys, Memaw here once again for another edition of Meet the Cevo Vanilla Team! This time I have team Stay Classy! with me. Don't forget to click "Read more" to view the whole article.
Could you please introduce yourself and your team (Names, Positions, Roles,etc.)?
Our play revolves around being aggressive at all times. There is essentially no such thing as overextending on this team, as everyone is extended. The team doesn't rely on ubers or strategy, it is more of just forcing teams into DM situations and coming out on top of the cluster****s. I’d say we are relatively successful with this, since in my opinion, the team consists of two of the best scout dm’ers (at least against heavies) in Mouse/Weeble, along with having Tri who I think is the best pocket soldier. I've played with pretty much all these people before, so we seemed to click immediately.
I hope you got your fill of Invite during the whirlwind that was the last few days because ESEA Season 10 TF2 is officially a wrap. Next season’s leaderboards are already up and running and teams are scrambling to get their rosters sorted out, but we’re sure to stay entertained off-season since UGC and CEVO are in full-force and we can sit back and enjoy while eXtv brings us all the must-see matches as well as some ESEA-Invite scrim sessions if we’re lucky. Meanwhile, Quantic Legacy met their match this weekend in the form of their long-time rivals, Classic Mixup.
Continuing the roundtable series, we now turn to the remaining invite pocket soldiers, Classic Mixup's TLR, and Tyrone, from Quantic Legacy. Both have numerous seasons of experience under their respective belts, and each has been to ESEA LAN at least twice, putting them in lofty positions indeed. Let's hear what they have to say!
Each "match" will be a best-of-3 endeavor, with the first two maps pre-selected by ESEA out of the 8-map pool used during the regular season. In the event that a 3rd, "tiebreaking" map is necessary, each team will eliminate one map from the same pool (minus the two maps already played), and then a map will be randomly picked of the four remaining options.
Since this is a traditional double-elimination tournament bracket, the team from the Upper Bracket is only required to win one best-of-three match, while the team from the Lower Bracket must win two straight.
Streams
STVs
Saturday, March 3rd:
10:00AM CST - Quantic vs HRG - STV IP: match complete 1:00PM CST - mix^ vs ex - STV IP: match complete 3:30PM CST - HRG vs ex - STV IP: match complete 7:00PM CST - Quantic vs mix^ - STV IP: match complete 9:30PM CST - mix^ vs ex - STV IP: match complete
Sunday, March 4th:
10:30AM CST - Quantic vs mix^ - STV IP: match complete 1:30PM CST - Quantic vs mix^ - STV IP: match complete
