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