The 6th Season of ETF2L, the largest competitive TF2 League, is over.
We performed decent I wanna say. We could have done better when looking at the scores of the matches we played. Even the lost maps where mostly only 1 or 2 points difference. But after roster problems with our scouts, our star-player kukkye was temped to try out his amazing skills for a potential division one team next season and our second scout Relentless needed to be replaced because of computer problems. But the replacement, nemppu, isnt the most on timed and motivated player but his skill helped us. Also our second soldier was changed from futari to Minimoose, who played scout before becoming our roaming soldier. But at least our leaders, Noxious (demo), needy (pocket-soldier) and me (medic) played another season without major issues.
Lets have a look at the games (skip it if you dont like details) :
1st week against Carpe Diem, we won in a close match badlands 4-3 but lost 3-0 on granary because our pushes failed at that time, but nevertheless this was a good start .
2nd week against Precursors of Death, we drawed again in a close match badlands 1-1 but lost 4-2 on freight, I dont really remember freight, but I know that nemppu was missing without excuse.
3rd week against Blight Gaming aka Team Celsus, we drawed on granary 3-3, even we leaded 3-1 (mostly because nox imo :P) and we lost gullywash 2-3 where we can blame needy's mumble which crashed and therefore he didnt heard me shouting PUSH.
4th week against noname, we won both badlands 5-3 and 5-0, but later the team dropped so sadface.
7th week against r@ts, we lost gravelpit 0-2 even we had some good defense our offense failed. On gullywash, we were leading 2-1, when our medic timed out and so with 5vs6 they easily drawn it, next round we won the middle fight and nearly capped the 4th point, too. But their demo dropped and they not like we paused the game which is against the rules and so after the pause they again had a demo and we failed to get their 5th point. But because of breaking the rules, we got a 3-2 default win here. As far as I know r@ts didnt know about the rule but because we played and lost a complete round with 5vs6 and they only played 5 sec without a player, I think we deserve the victory.
5th week against eL Diablo's Brigade, we lost far too often the middle fight on today's double-freight. And you cant really push out on the map, so with the leading, they mostly ticked the time away and so we lost the first map 1-2. On the second freight, we tryed everything but failed totally 1-6 was the result.
9th week against hb0da, we played strong on badlands, but their FaN scout, killed our medic 3 times with Uber and so it was 4-4 till the last round. And we after were pushed back to our last, we managed to get back our 2nd point, but they have sent a scout to our last and while capping our second and we went back, we came too late and lost the map 4-5. Now it was turbine time, because of the failed badlands we missed our start and hb0da leaded fast 3-0, but then we managed to come in our game and won clearly 9-4.
That was a season review.
But because of some dropped teams (no week 6 and 8) and the other problems we had, we finished only tied with hb0da on 5th place and ETF2L decided to let us play for it, because the 6th place has to go to the relegation. So again we need to play hb0da, this time on badlands, gravelpit and 3rd map granary in a best of three match.
Badlands was very close, 2-2 after 20 mins. But we lost the next round, and tryed out amazing stuff on middle the following and of course we failed, so in the end, 2-5 was the score.
Gravelpit, we defend first (B) and they won in ca. 6 mins all points which isnt either good or bad. But we were strong on our push on B first and got A very easy aswell and even we failed a bit on C, with 3 mins to try we made it. Second round we attacked first and had some problems to get B, because of their sentry and made A-B-C in 7 mins or so, but this time we failed to hold B, and they beat our time clear with 4 mins. Because best-of-three, another round was played, again we defended first with ca. 6 mins. We went the safe route, A first, B second and then attacking from A to C, but it took too long and we only had 2 mins left to get C. Our first Uber-push failed and so we had to try it without, and I dont know how, but we killed most of them even we died too. But because the attackers have better spawning times, we were again on C while they only were 2 up and so we capped it with less than 20 sec remaining. Awesome, we made it to the decider map.
Granary, I would like to make it exciting, but it wasnt, we simply raped them 6-1.
Because of that decider match won we are 5th place and can play a second, hopefully a bit more successful, season in division 2.
Cheers
