Team Orz Updates :: orz|TF2

Nearing the end of the season

Posted by thunDEER at 12:17 pm League Matches, Team orz Updates

Oct 212010

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

Rough week(s) for orz

Posted by thunDEER at 9:58 pm League Matches, Team orz Updates

Oct 052010

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!

News

Posted by BigBadBaldy at 11:37 am Community News, League Matches, Team orz Updates, tf2 update

Sep 302010

Well, after not scrimming for about a week, last night we got rolled on gpit by PUG.NA.

Its fine tho, because the polycount update just WENT LIVE. I need a scout hat, anyone wanna trade? :3 Post in the comments.

So what about CEVO...?

Posted by thunDEER at 3:04 pm Team orz Updates

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…

ESEA Week 1: Viaduct

Posted by thunDEER at 10:05 pm League Matches, Team orz Updates

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!

ESEA... here we go?

Posted by thunDEER at 11:50 pm Community News, League Matches, Team orz Updates

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?

orz is back!

Posted by thunDEER at 6:59 pm Community News, Featured, Team orz Updates

Aug 032010

Yes like Panda mentioned below we are indeed on our way back. I was originally going to postpone this until early September since I’m on a laptop with horrible hotel internet for a month, but one high FPS config and a late night scrim made me change my mind. I’ll reveal who’s joining the new roster in a few days once I get confirmations from everyone, but most of the old crew will be back (and maybe that will be motivation to update our About Us page…)!

For those of you interested in the Engy update and some GotFrag drama I’ll try and make some posts later. For those of you interested in comp TF2: give it a try you won’t be disappointed CEVO Season 6 is around the corner (deadline is Aug 8th so sign up by the end of the week!), and they’ve already posted a tentative map rotation and weapon bans.

See you all soon!

We're BACK! (Kind of)

Posted by Panda at 4:07 pm Team orz Updates

Jul 272010

We scrimmed for the first time in months yesterday, and didn’t get rolled 5-0, which is a pretty good sign. We also started performing a little better later in the scrim than in the beginning, which is also pretty promising. Our schedules aren’t really ready to handle full-time Comp TF2 (and I think some of us are still testing the waters as far as how much we’re willing to play), but hopefully in a month or two things will start rolling again.

Keep an eye out for more posts!

orz Taking a Break

Posted by thunDEER at 9:13 pm Featured, Team orz Updates

May 192010

Hey all, sorry for the lack of updates. Schoolwork has kept most of us busy, and because of summer plans, we don’t plan on playing competitive 6v6 for about 2 months. We may be back in the fall! Although the lineup might be different from what it is now.

In the meantime, you can probably spot us pubbing here and there…

Gravelpit strategies

Posted by thunDEER at 11:01 am Demos and Recordings, League Matches, Team orz Updates

Apr 242010

EDIT2: Alright kids as Sigma said, the dispenser buff is banned in ESEA. Don’t do it! We will refrain from it in the future. BUT if a solly is healing up and resupplying from a dispenser, I’m not going to wait until he’s at 200 or walks away before I heal him…

EDIT: unfortunately, ACE has decided to dispute the match because of us using the dispenser for permanent buffs, and has requested my PoV demo. Thankfully, my P-rec was up and working (I thought I didn’t have it turned on, which is why you see me stop for a few seconds as I frantically try to record again), and for all of you who are interested in seeing a gpit medic PoV, here you go.

Just a quick update from orz: we have now finished our 3rd week of CEVO, with a 2-0 win over ACE on gravelpit. Check out the demo HERE if you want (there is a ~20 minute scrim before that though). Our 2nd week was a forfeit win, and next week we play Top Swaggin’ on koth_viaduct.

Things to note: we do use a dispenser at spawn/B to get our permanent buffs on both attacking and defending. Even chrono gets his during attacking by taking fall damage On attack, we run a standard A push, with heavies going to C. If we get a pick early on, we camp the spawn to buy us a little more time. Our scouts then go through connector after capping A (sometimes with Biz, our roamer), and wait for our call for the gun to go down at B. I uber luuser through the door closest to the shady side of B, and wait for him to take down the gun, and then I run along cliff towards the sunny side, where Synthos will be waiting to pick me up. We then rotate around to the rock by the front door, and our scouts hopefully come in and clean up the sniper/engy and any other people still hanging around. Luuser hopefully follows me as we all rotate around, and biz or synthos has to be up on the roof asap.

You can see some miscommunication during a few of our pushes in the demo posted above, where we come in at the wrong times sometime – it’s crucial that you guys practice these pushes so that people get used to making calls and moving accordingly. We scrimmed gpit about 10 times over the past 2 weeks before we got our stuff down to about a 70% success rate, but even against some good fragging/DM teams, we can pull out a few wins because of practicing these strats.

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