FakkelBrigade: Green managed to not only show up for / play more than one round in a cup, but actually won it as well.

Cake and refreshments will be distributed accordingly. Contact CommanderX for your share of the loot. End of message.

Well fuck you very much. Last sunday the Greeners concluded ETF2L Season 7 with a 5-3 / 4-2 win against Piggy Bankers, securing their 2nd place on the division 4e table and thus their well-deserved spot in division 3 next season.

Roughly 4 months after the formation of FakkelBrigade: Green its roster has changed significally. We’ve waved goodbye to Swarlz and Matji, said so long to Pornangel, Fitz and Innuy and have taken on Chris as medic, Ran as soldier and Ent1re as backup. Now that ETF2L Season 7 is behind us, we’re once again shuffling things around. We’ve recruited Waster to reinforce the soldier team due to Ran not having as much spare time as he used to, transforming our line-up as follows:

Medic: Chris
Scouts: Miaouss / Pyle
Soldiers: Beetle / Waster
Demo: Major Malfunction
Backup: Ent1re / Ran

On a related note, FakkelBrigade: Green has signed up for Season 6 of the Wireplay TF2 League and will be playing Division 3a. Also, most if not all Greeners have signed up for i40. Which should be awesome.

Major Malfunction

3 months ago FakkelBrigade Green was formed. At the time I gave them 4 weeks, which is the average lifespan of an ‘FB2′ team. Surprisingly, they’re doing quite well in division 4E, holding 2nd place at the moment. Could this be the first, stable new FB team?

FB Green in 2nd place

(click image for player biographies)

Hello all, this is a public announcement for all those interested in our team affairs. After 2 or 3 weeks of trialing scouts and medic we can finally say we are done!

We ended up getting with another two members from the latest FakkelBrigade 2 team to fold: Swarlz (who was originally waiting to join the Knifeback Mountaineers, and who many people said would inevitably join) and Matji (who would join to play scout again under the FB banner).

We needed only one scout and of many highly skilled candidates we chose a French guy who is named after a Pokémon… Miaouss (who was actually the first person we trialed, we couldn’t get enough of him and in the end he gelled the most with the team, not to mention his awesome aim!)

After the soldier update came out, Matji wanted to play soldier as his main and Pyle expressed interest in playing scout.

And so the final roster stands as follows: 

• Beetle – Soldier
• Major Malfunction – Demoman
• Matji – Soldier
• Miaouss – Scout
• Pyle – Scout
• Swarlz – Medic

Thanks go out to everyone who trialed for us.

Beetle

Once Upon a Time in The West The Netherlands, there was a group of stoners that – by chance – found themselves playing the Team Fortress 2 Beta together in a cybercafé in Utrecht. A common love was found that resulted in many late hours of  rape on public servers. Inevitably, a clan name arose by the name of FakkelBrigade; the perfect description for these disciples of the Green Temple. During the months to come they evolved into competitive play, playing Division 3 in ETF2L and took home the gold lame mouse pads and coupons in the first Dutch LAN incorporating TF2 in its tournaments: The Reality V.

Of course, such a love story couldn’t last long. One by one, the Founding Fathers dropped and faded away into anonymity. Krypton the Crude Colossal, Source of Annihilation, Ze Ferocious German and finally Worst Player Known to Man. It was now up to  The Insane Exfane, Arie The Arrogant Atheist and Jonni The Juiciest Jew to dream the dream of taking FakkelBrigade from that basement in Utrecht to the higher ranks of the community. And they did. FakkelBrigade became an institution within the European TF2 scene offering sanctuary to all who need it on their Mumble voice services, covering countless matches on their Source TVs while making fun of everything, everybody but especially each other on their website. And while some souls were lost, the FakkelFamily is ever growing and long lost/forgotten orange avatars still pop up every now and then on shady publics and custom map servers.

Anyway, cutting a long story short.

Today, I’m excited to announce our return. The source of annihilation returned to moniker Private Gomer Pyle originally bestowed upon him by me, the worst player known to man, Major Malfunction. We teamed up with FB2 legend Beetle to introduce a new chapter into our chronicles.  FakkelBrigade: Green. Some had already noticed the new team on ETF2L and we’ve already been contacted by a dozen trials, so I reckoned a small notice was due to elaborate on what’s what.

More information and an actual announcement will be made available shortly by Beetle, who is in charge of such things as well as providing counter-weight to the state of the other two being the self-proclaimed soberest person in the world.

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Signed: Maj. Malfunction