Feb 212010

We have officially ended our TWL season 5 with a loss in our first round playoff match against Perplex/Variance (J4F changed their name, sorry!). We took freight 3-1 with Sigma’s triple jump strat (details in a future post), had a couple of bad judgment calls that made us stop our momentum a few times, but good, solid strat play. We then played badlands to a loss of 1-3, where they just outplayed us at mid, countered our ravine jumps by having traps all over their traincar, and I couldn’t get up top without taking spam and dying to their scout duo (which did a fantastic job doubleteaming me in house all the time). By this time we were all pretty exhausted and it showed in our fragging. It went to a full 2 hours (each of the 3 rounds lasted a full 30 minutes) after our last granary round ended with them taking 4 rounds to our 1. A couple of really good holds and pushes but still not enough as they definitely capitalized on our mistakes and made use of their uber advantages much better than we did.

All in all, a VERY exhuasting night but some very solid play by us, if I may say so :D Leia said that we should go out for icecream, and on top of that I think we’ve all earned a good week or so break from TF2, now that we are officially in the offseason. BUT don’t worry we’ll be back :D For those of you waiting for a tryout, you might have to wait a little bit longer :) Sorry!

And for those of you just dropping by to check out our blog: bookmark us, register and leave us some comments, we’d love to hear from you as well. Definitely going to get some more content up since we’ll be scrimming a little less for a while.

So last night the team had quite the lengthy discussion and scrim session in which we, in a nutshell, decide to be a more aggressive and versatile team. We may not have the best DM, but we’re going to try and make up for that with smart, aggressive play, taking full advantage of any mistakes that the enemy team makes. Tonight we get to try out this new philosophy for the first time =O Panda also typed up a very nice post on our private Google Groups discussion detailing our previous ‘issue’ with our fixed, textbook strat calls and play styles and how he thinks we need to move forward, look forward to that post appearing here soon :)

As for our roster, we have come to the conclusion that we need an experienced soldier or medic to join, not necessarily in a starter role, but who will split playtime with the current starters given our real life schedules. I fully expect to be able to play on even ground with most TWL Div2 teams by the end of the offseason, before CEVO/TWL starts up again. But, we will need one more soldier/medic to help us out. Are you qualified? Know someone that is? You know who to contact :D

Baldy, Chrono, and Leia will split starter scout duties, depending on a) the time of day for hardworking Chrono on the east coast, b) whether or not Mexico or other Central American countries are currently having a civil war, preventing baldy’s packets from making it to our American servers, and c) Leia’s burrito cravings. Panda and Biznich will split starter duties with whoever we pick up (unless we pick up a solid medic, in which case I become that 3rd solly). Luuser will carry, and we will continue to train modopo as a backup scout/utility when he’s not too busy waxing his hair or slamming birdies on the badminton court.

But in the meantime, 1oEST TONIGHT! Against a fully capable, up-and-coming low/mid team as well, J4F. Should be a good one, if we don’t end up doing silly stuff. connect 206.123.125.73:27020 come watch , even if we do end up sucking :p maps will be freight, granary, and badlands.

Just a few tidbits about league play and such. Site is now at www.orztf2.com, and we have a twitter feed too, for quick updates on what we’re up to.

Announced a while ago, CEVO is starting up, and we’re probably going to join CEVO-A Central. Interesting to note: there’s a random team in the professional division that I’ve never heard of; anyone else know who they are?

ESEA-O playoff seeds are announced! Rooting for Sigma and the AG guys =O And while we’re at it, the current TWL Div3 playoff bracket shows us going up against Origin IF we manage to make it past Just4Fame :) And after that, my bet is that Spacebots will take it from Target Practice.

We are also still looking for a soldier or a medic to join up for next season, contact us if interested :D

Feb 162010

So we have our first TWL Div 3 playoff match tomorrow, against Team Perplex/Just4Fame.  To be honest, I don’t think we’ve ever scrimmed these guys before, so I have no idea what to expect :D Most people seem to think they have a good shot at winning playoffs, so that’ll be a comfort if we end up losing. Hopefully we’ll post up some demos and mumble recording afterwards, if I can get my laptop set up with Audacity to record.

EDIT: Update – we’re going to reschedule for Sunday because of the client timeout issue on steam/tf2 :( Oh valve and their coders. We’re also having problems getting our laptops to record mumble with audacity – thanks to Buddah for scrounging up a 3.5mm cable to record a scrim for us :D Should have that up later.

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