CommunityFortress

edit: updated upcoming ESEA-I matches, EG match re-scheduled

It's the beginning of a new decade and Team Fortress 2 is continuing strong! We've witnessed a year of big changes and updates, and come through a brutal war relatively unscathed. CommunityFortress has been proud to support several different community efforts that are helping to improve the game, bring in new players, and expand the coverage of competitive matches!

2009 featured the emergence of the TF2 Mentor Program, where players can get assistance from veteran competitive players.  There was the announcment of the CommFT Map Testing team, which will be working with Mapmakers to fine-tune maps and increase the diversity of the game. On top of that, Cinq continues to improve the #tf2.pug and #tf2.pug.na IRC channels. These channels have replaced the previously prefered Pick Up Game system, and provide a great place for new and old players to find competitive games.

CommunityFortress is continuing to improve the quality of it's coverage based upon the grass-roots support of the community. This site is based upon the contributions of members of the community, and the more people involved the higher quality of coverage and information.

'09 also featured a multitude of video coverage that is continuing to improve. The CommFT youtube channel introduced the community to eXtv, a Match Recap series done in a unique and informative style. It also features the work of Wanderfull, who covers map startegy and terminology. CommFT ended '09 with the introduction of our Top 10 Plays series, put together by Lange and hosted by Vinny Da Boss. This series is dependent upon user contributions, so save those star moments, and shoot us demos + ticks! We'll be introducing a system for submissions soon. The first video can be found at PLDX, although future installments will be showing up on our Youtube channel. Subscribe to stay up to date on the latest videos and look for more episodes of eXtv once ESEA-Invite starts back up.

Which is coming right up! ESEA's TF2 divisions have been continuing strong with Season 5 featuring an extensive list of talent in both the Invite and Open divisions! Not only that, but this year will be featuring LAN playoffs! ESEA also switched around it's map rotation a bit this year, introducing KotH which was fairly well recieved, and bringing Turbine back into the rotation. As teams get back together after a Holiday break, we're finally starting to see some matches again with three matches scheduled within the next few days. The first two are left overs from Week 2 and will be played on Follower while i7 and MoB gaming will show us how North Americans play Turbine!

MoB vs Pandemic Mon Jan 4th 10PM EST (Follower)

Blight vs. Loaded Mon Jan 4th 11PM EST (Follower)

i7 vs MoB Wed Jan 6th 9:30PM EST (Turbine)

Keep your eyes peeled here for all your TF2 coverage as Alienware Arena kicks back up, TWLs multi-division madness continues, while ESEA's Invite and Open divisions continue to bring the heat.

Last and certainly not least, the CommFT Holiday Tournament is underway! Thanks to all the teams that signed up for supporting our efforts! The bracket will be updated by Jinn shortly as matches continue to be played.