They’re actually a really great group and not incompetent.
Thanks to waxpax and his crew for letting me post it here.
oh, also, never forget: ALL HAIL TRAIN GOD.
Sep 032010
Aug 312010
So some of you might be wondering ‘well with all this talk about ESEA, what happened to CEVO?’ First a bit of background: orz has signed up for 3 CEVO seasons now (4 if you include revH signing up for the OCZ tournament way back in the day), and guess what? We’ve never finished out a season 
Sad but true. We’ve always had to drop CEVO a few weeks in, never actually completing all of the matches. As of 2 days ago, this seemed to be the case yet again. ESEA would be a serious drain on us, having to play 2 matches a week already. Since CEVO and ESEA have different map rotations, this also means extra scrims on different matches. Given that half of us start school soon (or have already started), we were looking at a serious time commitment that not all of us were 100% about.
However, there may be a plan in the works to continue CEVO on a more casual basis. To give a preview: if any of you reading this happen to be on a lowish competitive team that would like to compete in CEVO but need some help learning the ins and outs of competitive TF2 gaming, keep reading our blog 
We may be announcing something soon…
Aug 292010
Yup it’s finally starting! I’m back home with my desktop and a good internet connection just in time for the start of ESEA. The first week is viaduct, a map we definitely have not played in a while. We’ll talk about some of our strategies AFTER we play our matches, and hopefully have links to the demos and such afterwards.
First up is a match vs. Resurrection (with CHE, thrckstr, and tonka among others) this Thursday. Up until a few hours ago, they had a leader with the tag ‘CD_’, who has been recently outed as the player formerly known as ‘carrots’, a vac-banned CS’er from a while ago. They got him kicked off the team, so hopefully we’ll have a good first match this week.
We’ll also need to get that ESEA client installed for most of us who’ve never had to use it before – fingers crossed for no issues there as its been known to be buggy. In all – I think we’re excited to finally get started, and here’s to a good season!
Aug 282010
Aug 212010
So it’s been an up and down week for ESEA – thread after thread has popped up on GotFrag, both predicting its death and pushing for its survival. The biggest push for ESEA though came from an unlikely (or likely?) candidate, mr. blackfoger of blight fame, who was at the center of this controversy last season. He has supposedly helped over 10 teams sign up and get paid for this season of ESEA-O in an effort to get 50 teams signed up to meet ESEA/lpkane’s ultimatum and prevent Season 7 from being canceled.
So why does blackfoger care so much?
Aug 162010
Last week I was linked to this article (by Tom Crowley of Couch Athletics) and even though it deals mostly with elementary techniques that I’m sure everyone knows, hearing these techniques named and explained sparked some interesting ideas.
The author makes an excellent point with the statement “Ultimately the goal of every class is deterrence, and that’s really what area denial is all about – deterring the enemy team from entering a space”. Really, every aspect of one’s role in competitive TF2 comes down to deterrence. Continue reading »
Aug 152010
Yes according to the schedule, preseason for the 6th season of CEVO TF2 starts this week. Most of you should have gotten your scheduling emails already! Usually the two weeks of preseason is reserved for playtesting new maps – this season, the two maps are koth_ashville, a custom king of the hill type map made by mackey from eMg, and cp_coldfront, which was actually played last season in ESEA but recently became an official TF2 map that Valve put out with the engineer update.
CEVO has put up the custom maps on its site for download, so you can find ashville here.
orz has not scrimmed on this map yet, and we won’t decide on if we want to play preseason until later this week, depending on schedules and such. I’ll try and update this post if we get a scrim in to let you all know how the map is.
Aug 152010
I don’t know how I missed this (well of course I know how I missed it -- no one ever goes to GotFrag for actual articles or news) but rk apparently compiled a bunch of nice introductory youtube videos done by various members of the community, including some of Jaeger’s tips and tricks that he put on his website (including some of Loaded/Complexity’s match comms and other little tidbits) before he ragequit on doing them because he was disgusted with the community (hmm sounds like a certain mapper 
). I’m putting this up because apparently some of you finding our site have done so by googling for rollouts and such.
In any case, even if you have done competitive TF2 for a while, take a look especially at the rollout videos of badlands and granary by platinum, which I’ve embedded here. Enjoy! And as usual, let us know in the comments if you’ve come across any other good useful videos that you learned from.
Aug 132010
So where would one go to get updates about the TF2 community? Why, here at orz.TF2 of course! Ok maybe not. But we’ll try our best to bring you links to articles or tidbits that we find interesting and useful. We have a couple of links on the right, but here are a few more that you can go to for your TF2 fix:
Aug 112010
PC Gamer has news on the next big tf2 update. Seems we’ll be getting a new game mode, trading, AND loads of stuff from the polycount competition.
Polycount winners are:
Expect it all early 2011.
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