There’s a bit of a controversy around a recent ban on ETF2L on some div 7 shitnerd called ex.quad. According to gryzor, the whole thing was a setup by him, to show the ETF2L AC admins will ban someone who is not cheating. It’s interesting to see how the ETF2L is going to explain this mess, but will see it soon I guess.

For some weird reason, gryzor got banned from ETF2L for this little stunt, which has made him quite pissed, luckily, he’s got friends in high places.

Robin Walker (the Valve guy) has been around quite a bit since the old QWTF days (Anti-Cheat in the TF-server itself was implemented in ETFL (the first league, you know — THE ONE I STARTED)) and I’ve had sporadic e-mail conversations about the good old days and things TF2 on and off. I think, unless D2M makes things right really soon, that’s the path I will have to go to try and rectify this situation. I can’t watch Valves good name and poor Robin getting dragged down in this pile of crap due to pure and sheer mismanagement, incompetence, panic-actions and other childish shit over an article. I really didn’t want to take this path, since prizes for people could get jeopardized, but after this, I see no other choice but to take firm and concrete actions. It is your own inability to manage the situation in a proper manner that brought this one on you.

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Last season I had to photoshop our way to 5th place, luckily this year, I’m pleased to say we’ve actually made it to 4th place on our own.

Two weeks ago we were calculating the points needed to stay in divi1ion 1. This week we calculated the points needed for second place.

Our last match against illegal was an exciting one. They, fighting to keep 2nd place, and us trying to knock them down a spot.

After FB winning the first map, we were unable to beat them on cp_freight, despite the Train’s best effort to help us. Taking 3 points from illegal, this still leaves us at spot #4,

It’s been a great season for us, with a new lineup and new tactics, but still the familiar rage of Exfane spurring us on.

This season of FB in ETF2L officials consisted of:

• Arie, that’s me, I kill things with an overpowered gun
• Cook, getting us started this season. Netting us 6 points vs LOL Team
• DrLeon, being an aggro soldier who reads the minds of his scouts
• Exfane, being the ultimate ‘Fragga syndrome’ pocket soldier and general rager/tactician
• Fisshu, my carrier/carried-one and awesomestestest scout buddy
• Looper, being a replacement for Byte isn’t easy. yet performed better than we’d ever hoped
• Mirelin, bughunter and perfect fit as new medic

So see you next season, maybe in the to-be-formed premiership division?

Season 6 of the ETF2L has been a rollercoaster ride for FakkelBrigade.

Switching from season 5 to season 6: we lost Byte, who really upped our game in season 5, we lost Jonni, who didn’t want to play ‘bench-only’ scout, we swapped one Latvian medic with limited English skills for another and we hired a mentally handicapped forklift driver to play demo for us, as part of our ‘equal opportunities’ project.

Leading up to the start of season 6 we’ve considered a bunch of options:

• Folding/trying again next season
• Playing in division 2
• Playing some crazy lineup, crazy strategies, fun mode. Dual engie baby!
• Bribing Byte and hiring a ninja French medic to play for us

We did neither of these things and begged Cook to come play for us once more while we tried to find a medic. Cook did an excellent job as always and after his first match back for FB against LOL he joyfully said: “Would have been nice to tell me my first match as medic in months was an official”.

Also we hired a new demo, called Looper. He should have been fired when he chose ‘Mighty Mouse’ as an avatar, but by the time he chose ‘King Julian’ we were too much attached to this crazy forklift driver.

Cook agreed to play with us temporarily while we went out to find a medic. Luckily two very competent trials were found and after some nice matches we strangely decided to go with yet another Latvian, Mirelin.

Just before the end-of-season-6 transfer deadline, our team was complete. This new lineup has tied against Power Gaming and won against idk?.

Yes, that's FB @ #4, TF2=DEAD

With 1 more match to go we have a (small) chance to take 2nd place. And it’s all in our own hands.

The final match is this Sunday, against all-Finnish team illegal, who’ve had an impressive season. Losing points only to Dignitas and idk?. They’re the current #2 and if we manage to beat them we’ll be ending up on #2 in season 6. That would be a pretty good result for ‘a div 2 team’ that would ‘fold first’. If we don’t beat them on both maps, we’ll stay in 4th place, not bad either

We recently found out about a mental defect in our soldier, Exfane. The diagnosis was made in our match against Dignitas on ctf_turbine. Score 2-2 with 20 seconds on the clock.

Exfane decides to attack (taking our trusty demo Looper with him), despite Dignitas pushing for our flagroom. We lost in overtime.

So there you have it folks, Exfane has no GameSense. Cook is working on it.

Exfane, 2 seconds after pushing in

On the ETF2L news page there is a poll for two fun-cups: one will be a 1on1 cup of (ENGINEERS)whatever class wins the poll(ENGINEER), and the other one will be a fun-cup in a different game-mode, 2on2 turris or pyro paintball to mention a few. Go vote for your favorite class(ENGINEER) now – You don’t want to miss your chance!