Hey all, long time no update! The regular season for ESEA and CEVO are just about to end, and while we are taking the #1 seed in CEVO-A playoffs (with 3 FFWs out of 8 matches…), we probably won’t be making the ESEA-O playoffs, and with a little luck will finish the season exactly .500 Which is a little disappointing, as we had to give up 3 matches without a fight due to roster issues and forfeits. We played our ashville matches with only a day’s preparation, but now with those out of the way we’re scrimming badlands in order to finish off the season strong, playing carnal gaming and the terribles next week.
Regarding CEVO playoffs, you can check out the newspost here, which also includes a link to the future brackets. 2 matches per week, with viaduct, gullywash, and coldfront being the first 3 maps played. There are a bunch of decent teams that are set to make playoffs as well, most notably Dinosaur Bones/Team Explosion, who forfeited to us on freight I believe to focus on their ESEA matches, which are both on Thursday (match day for CEVO as well). Natures with yaug seems to be the other team to beat in playoffs. Apparently, winning CEVO-A means we get a chance to go up against a Valve team, so we shall see if we end up with that chance
For all of you wondering why there weren’t more updates about the team, it was because I was away on vacation for 10 days. But I see that with the new TF2 update, baldy our resident hat fanatic has been busy enlarging his collection.
BY THE WAY if you have a vintage tyrolean medic hat, please contact me
Back on topic – so we had a few rough matches against top teams in ESEA-O, and I think I have doubled my dropped uber count lack of scrimming meant that we got rolled on gravelpit by TF2 PUG NA, and on yukon by team explosion. Both very good teams, one of which is probably going to win ESEA-O. To further complicate matters, we were trying to add a backup solly onto our roster just in case we have scheduling issues or real life business catches up to us. In addition, Panda has decided to take a break from comp TF2, which has led to a scramble to find another starting scout to fill in, as Leia is also too busy to start.
Long story short – after a week or two of hecticness and no scrims, we’re going to need some time to settle back into things, get our roster ready, and make sure we put in a good effort to make ESEA-O playoffs, which should happen unless things completely fall apart. But we’re pretty set on finishing out the season strong. Fingers crossed!
We have another match tomorrow on yukon against Apocalypse Gaming, who recently had a few additions to their roster which should make them pretty strong. Our CEVO match is scheduled for tomorrow as well against vooDoo Gaming. Next week: another unfamiliar map, gullywash! We will be playing against The Machetes, also with a recent mid-season roster shakeup, and against Kawaii Kingz, which I honestly think will make a strong run in the playoffs as well. We’ve scrimmed them a bunch of times and they are definitely a solid team. Should be a good match!
Came across this video when browsing TLR’s youtube channel, which I highly recommend going through (he has some nice rocket jumping videos in addition to all the flashy frag vids of course):
So despite all the scheduling and scrimming for the past week (no, we didn’t scrim well a single time to be honest), we ended up with two forfeit wins last Friday, which was kind of a bummer. Our opponents for our CEVO match didn’t show up, and the other team we were playing for ESEA couldn’t get enough people, in part due to client issues. So, our first week passes by rather uneventfully, but we get our first real test of the season this Tuesday against Businessmen for viaduct (2nd out of 4 viaduct matches!), with two more viaduct matches possibly on Thursday (since it is the map for CEVO this week as well). We will keep you updated once we have those matchtimes finalized.
Interesting to note – it was brought to our attention by Sigma that the captime for viaduct mid has been recently (in a ninja patch last week actually) cut in half when you only have a single person standing on it. By making the captime much, much faster, it leads to more frenzied defenses. Some of the strategies seen in the ESEA finals of last season, such as holding in the house on defense, are now much less viable because it takes too much time to get back to the cap point.
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…
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!
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.
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.
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.
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:
orzTF2 is now sponsored by SavageGaming! ESEA Season 8 registration ends Jan 3rd, make sure you sign up!07:10 AM December 14, 2010from web
CEVO is over! 1-2 loss vs. natures on gpit. best of luck to everyone else. orz is looking for a solly and scout for next season!07:13 PM November 09, 2010from web
ESEA Season almost over - 3 losses in a row :( but 2 last badlands matches vs. carnal gaming and the terribles. Hope to finish strong!11:52 PM October 22, 2010from web
Which is a little disappointing, as we had to give up 3 matches without a fight due to roster issues and forfeits. We played our ashville matches with only a day’s preparation, but now with those out of the way we’re scrimming badlands in order to finish off the season strong, playing carnal gaming and the terribles next week.
lack of scrimming meant that we got rolled on gravelpit by TF2 PUG NA, and on yukon by team explosion. Both very good teams, one of which is probably going to win ESEA-O. To further complicate matters, we were trying to add a backup solly onto our roster just in case we have scheduling issues or real life business catches up to us. In addition, Panda has decided to take a break from comp TF2, which has led to a scramble to find another starting scout to fill in, as Leia is also too busy to start.
). I’m putting this up because apparently some of you finding our site have done so by googling for rollouts and such.
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