It is official! The league results have been announced and we have placed first in the Premier Division, and therefore the entire league of Wireplay 6v6. This means we have won a TF2 war server for 3 months (Along with 2 other teams who won the two divisions below us). Although this is not an especially long time, it is one of the only decent UK based server hosts for our Finnish members, and hence is a very welcome addition to our range of available war servers.

The main end of season post can be found here: http://tf2.wireplay.co.uk/

Premier Division Table:

The rest of the tables can be found here: http://tf2.wireplay.co.uk/index.php?pg=standings

So thank you for the support guys and gals, hopefully we can do just as well in the other leagues!

Hello again everyone! Just posting a quick update due to an unexpected outcome to the EMS (ESL Major Series) qualifier. We managed to get through to the group stages, and that classes us as one of the top 16 teams in Europe! The fact that we managed this without our full line up is somewhat brilliant even if I do say so myself.

Our first opponent in the qualifier was Team Vertex, a division 3 team including some ex-division 1 and 2 players. We beat them 3-1 on granary even with me failing at jumping to middle most rounds :(

Our second match was against Mister, a division 2 team consisting of the best Spanish players in ETF2L. Our history of clashes with Mister is rather slim, one of the most memorable being the match where we drew 0-0 on obscure (custom map) after 30 minutes, which is extremely rare on a 5 control point map. This time was similar, another epic match of fail pushes and some awesome defending from both teams; after 35 minutes and 2 rounds, the score was 1-1. We attacked first in the deciding round with a very strong offence, which dwindled into a rather disappointing 7:00 minute C capture. On our defence we managed to defend B until the time ran out, with some spectacular sniping from cookye and a sneaky sticky trap stopping their last push before it had even started. 

The 3rd match was against Team KORE; who are currently doing well in ETF2L division 4. We mopped them up in 19 minutes on badlands which wasn't surprising but was rather anticlimactic due to the great game before it.

There was supposed to be a match deciding 1st and 2nd place, but since both gave automatic placement in the group stages, we decided to give a default win to the other team (It was about 23 CET by that point).

EMS Qualifier 1 Tree - Unfortunately (albeit lucky), the two strongest teams in our qualifier were unable to play; TLR and Team Dignitas.

Look out for the group stages, where we will be playing some of the best teams in Europe!

Hello everyone! My overlords have ordered me to do a news post on our recent developments in the various leagues we are in, so being the lovely person I am, I did:

If you don't want to read my wonderful prose then just look at the tables and act impressed :D

Wireplay TF2 6v6 Season 5 - Premier Division

Wireplay has always been the league which we have been the least motivated to do well in, luckily this didn't matter since we dominated the top division anyway! We weren't expecting to do quite so well in the premier division, so it turned out to be good for our confidence and pretty fun.

We did beat some very tough opponents, including two division 1 teams (idk? frog and Empire (EE)), we also drew against PENTIA, who are one of the favourites to come second in our ETF2L division. Sadly rockit folded straight away and now [j] and Empire have followed in their footsteps.

ESL Season 5 - Division 1

ESL is another league which has always been annoying, although some recent admin decisions have made it more appealing, such as banning most unlocks except the medics. The season started later than the others, so we have only played one game, it was against a division 1 team called Blight; we beat them on badlands and drew against them on gravelpit, in ESL this counts as a win, so it's a good start. This league might produce some intense viewing sessions  :P

Every match should be a toughy here, especially since we have to use the ESL anti cheat software which causes problems for some of our members (well, only me and it's not because I hack ;) ).

ETF2L Season 7 - Division 2a

This is the important one people! We still have two of the hardest matches to come (PENTIA and broder, the latter, in many peoples opinions are division 1 worthy). We would be unlucky to not get into the top 3, but being placed above 3rd will be a real challenge, especially with our team being sporadically away on holidays and various other trips which incapacitate them (in terms of TF2 playing).

We beat nwave, empathy and brz, all of which have mainly been comfortable wins whenever we have played them, although they have caused trouble for other teams in the division. chaotic community (c2) managed to take points from us by drawing granary 4-4, which was mainly our own fault due to silly mistakes. Beside that map, we are very pleased with our performance so far and we are looking forward to our next matches.

To conclude, the season has gone better than we initially expected, and hopefully will continue to surprise us positively. Oh and we hope Noxious doesn't blow up the plane with stickies when on his way to New York, especially since he should actually be playing TF2 with us  :(

Wish us luck with the rest of the season! Bye!

IP: 85.17.60.96:27045
Server name: SpecialAttack.net :: Warcraft 3 mod

The game mode: The mod creates 8 special races. Each of this races has special abilities which can be earned by earning experience points. The points will allow you to upgrade your abilities to several levels up making them better each level. The server will contain "long term XP" which means your experience points will remain available after you disconnect. As we're currently in testing phase we cannot guaranty that your XP will be save. If the mod will stay depends on its success.

More information on the class races can be found here.

You will also have a shopmenu available which allows you to buy extra features. These features can be bought with credits earned ingame.

More information on the shopmenu items can be found here.

Below you will find a set of user commands you will need to use or bind:

• War3menu - Opens the War3: Source menu, giving access to most avaliable commands
• War3help - A help menu
• Changerace - Opens a menu for the player to change race
• Skillsinfo - Displays skill information about your current race
• Resetskills - Resets your current classes skills, so you are able to respend the skill points
• Spendskills - Spend any avaliable skill points you may have
• Showskills - Shows your current skill levels
• Shopmenu - Opens a shop menu where you can buy addons for your race such as, extra health or speed
• +ultimate - Allows you to use your races ultimate, if applicable (bind this to a key)
• +ability - Allows you to use your races ability, if applicable (bind this to a key)

You can provide feedback and bug reports on our forums in this topic.

It's time for a tf2 warteam update. Leagues and cups have started and SpA will participate in most of them.

First of all, the divisions and fixtures for the biggest European tf2 league, etf2l, are out. SpA is at division 2a and the games will start next week. There will be many interesting games so stay tuned.

The etf2l has already running the 5th cup. We have won at Round 1 game and now we are at Round 2. You can find the cup tree here.

You can find all our next games at etf2l (league and cup) at our etf2l profile page.

The wireplay league has started already. We have won our first 2 games so far at Premier Division. Check the tables here.

We have signed up for eSports League too. Divisions aren't out yet but you can check out the esl season 5 page.

Last but not least, it's the Esports Heaven cups that are often held. We participate at all cups there (most of them are 1 day cups or last 2-3 days). The tournaments page is here. New cups are added very often.

Stay tuned for our coming matches. Most of the games will have sourcetv available so you can watch us playing. Stv is published at the match page on specialattack.net

A few weeks back we posted a news item on a new experimental server for L4D2 (see below). Now a few weeks further it’s time for a status update.

When running L4D2 modified servers we found that it’s extremely difficult to modify this game without creating a million and a half new bugs. With every new thing we changed or implemented 10 others broke.

We now arrived in a stage were the servers are pretty much stable and were the basic modifications work (more or less). Sometimes we still see occasional crashes and mass disconnects, but way less than at the beginning.

Some of the basic features which now work and caused a lot of troubles are listed below:

-          Fixed extra medpacks not spawning for extra survivors
-          Fixed super Tank HP not being set correctly (Tank now spawns with 15000 HP)
-          Fixed mass disconnects at game end (map switch bug from final stage in last campaign to the first stage in the first campaign)
-          Removed smoker cloud damage (plugin has a nasty memory leak)
-          Fixed ability to move around as smoker while holding on to a survivor
-          Fixed ghost spawn in some final stages
-          Added AFK manager (You’re permitted 20 sec AFK time before move to spec, then 4 more minutes before getting kicked)
-          Added !team and !idle commands (idle time cannot exceed kick time by AFK manager)
-          Added 2 more servers based on 10 vs 10 (Servers can be joined trough the steam group or the quick links in the server monitoring module at the right side of this page)

We’ve also send out a mail to VALVe requesting an unlock of the network settings. The rates are currently limited and it prevents us from adding more zombies and lowering the overall pings. We received a reply that they will investigate the request.

We’ll still be working on the servers continuously to add new features and fix existing bugs. We’re also working on implementing reserved slots for the servers and porting over the SpA points system to L4D2. If required we’ll setup more modified servers and perhaps also with different type of configuration settings.

Enjoy playing and keep an eye out on this site for more server news and updates.

We have launched a heavily modified L4D2 server providing space for up to 18 players simultaneously .

The server can be best explained as some sort of L4D2 / TF2 alike combo were you can join and leave as you please. By leaving in the middle of a campaign you do not mess up the game for the other players as would happen in a normal versus game.

The game is modified to spawn more zombies per horde (60), spawn super tanks (around 12000 HP), permit special infected selection, and more to make the game difficulty challenging enough.

You can connect to the server in several ways;

1) Join our steam community group, and in L4D2 choose ‘Steam group servers’ in the L4D2 main menu. In the list search for the “9vs9 SpecialAttack.net :: L4D2 Super” server.

2) Click this link in windows

3) Connect directly using your console: “connect 85.17.60.96:29034”

4) Ask a friend to connect and join trough steam friends.

If a player has issues joining the server you might want to send them an invite or tell them to press ‘join game’ on your steam friends user info.

We’re still busy on the servers development so small changes might occur. The overall state on the server is pretty much how it should be.

Enjoy the fraggin madness!

We’ve split off the private servers on MrBlonde from the main fork. The private servers now run in a separate fork of 4 instances. This permits us to play around a bit with the settings without messing up the public servers.

Some changes we’ve made are;

- Permit 2 spectators per server (community request)
- Permit normal ghost spawns during finale (community request)

The server still requires testing and feedback. The server can be reached using the temporary search key “specialspec” (sv_search_key specialspec). Connecting to the spectator slot is most likely done by using the following command in your console: connect 85.17.60.96:29034

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These changes have been rolled back. Their not suitable for normal L4D2 servers.

The little christmas competition is over, here are the winners:

Top 3 (slot for 3 months, spraypermit and classlimiter immunity for 1 month)

WildBlaze (1305 kills), Sparks (1091) and Dunken (1033)

Top 10 (slot, spraypermit and classlimiter immunity for 1 month)

 digg (955), Gainy (886), Magma (833), Pestilence (808), Penis (659), TeB (651) and Dekar (507)

Top 24 (spraypermit and classlimiter immunity for 1 month)

Grimz (492), [GDC]Nekrataal (490), Juppé (486), techno6666 [PL] (484), Malk (451), P'Lecki (432), Axeli (431), Murk (408), U² SoniX^ (407), ^_^ (407), Jmalky (400), Takatu (392), Yellow™ (357) and Bart (349)

Congratulations! Enjoy your features. If you have any complains (like I gave you too short slot) please PM me on steam.

Santa has stopped by SpecialAttack headquarters and since you were all nice this year he left a bunch of presents for you! Prepare for some awesomeness in the following days:

Twice as many points-per-donation rate (Today, 21.12 - New Year, 31.12)

 Starting from now until the new year, you will receive twice as many SpA-points for every euro donated - that's 60 points / €.

Doubled rewards for playing on SpA servers (Thursday, 24.12 - Saturday, 26.12)

On Christmas Eve you will get 1 SpA-point for every seven and half minutes of playtime on our servers!

Partymode (Wednesday, 23.12 -  Sunday, 27.12)

Since party hats are the closest thing TF2 has to Christmas we will enable partymode on our servers so you can have fun blasting enemies into presents and balloons.

This is WAR SPECIAL WAR! (Wednesday, 23.12 - Sunday, 27.12)

Along with the partymode we will be running a small competition. The top 24 players with most kills in this time period will receive a spray permit and class-limiter immunity for 1 month. Get in the top 10 and we will throw in a reserved slot for 1 month. And for the best 3 of you the slot will last not one, not two but three months! Are you still reading this? Time for some practice!