9men

Next week sees the return of the WPTF2L7v7 league. After winning promotion back to the premiership last season (losing only 1 map), we hope to put in a really good performance this season.

In the last few days we have played our first 2 ETF2L Ladder matches. Tonight we will play our third, against X-Squad. We also have another ladder game against BW on Thursday. The ladder is something we hope to take advantage of, using it for friendlies as much as possible.

The results page is up to date with all recent friendly and official results.

On Monday 19th, we played our first round game in the ETF2L King of the Hill tournament. Not having played the gametype much we were unsure what to expect, but over one hour later we were victorious, winning 4-3 (first to 4 rounds wins). We are currently waiting to see who we’ll face in the next round.

Our ETF2L 6v6 game against zD was extremely tough, with us losing both maps. We wish zD good luck for the rest of the season. Tonight, we play Stamina on cp_freight and cp_fastlane.

We have signed up to the ETF2L Ladder which is currently being tested out. We hope to play our first game against X-Squad soon.

The Wireplay7v7 season is almost upon us, it starts next week. Hopefully we can continue our good performance from last season, although the competition in the top division will be fierce.

Finally, we say goodbye to Ozzy, who has left us to find a new clan and Shambler has gone inactive.

Last night we played our week 3 WPTF2L6v6 fixture, beating Keso 1-0 on cp_yukon_final and 5-0 on cp_well. It was a very fun game, yukon in particular was extremely tense, well played everyone!

This week we are playing Phoenix Squad on cp_gravelpit and cp_badlands. The map is scheduled for Thursday 1st October at 8pm GMT. Source TV is available on 9men.org.uk:27040

In ETF2L season 6, we have been placed in Division 5B alongside the following teams – ReWind, Team Effort, Who Dares Wins, MRX team, ze Dummkopfs, Riders On the Storm, Gathering Of Tweakers team 4, Hampshire Heavies 3rd team and Knifeback Mountaineers. Our week 1 game against ze Dummkopfs is currently on hold until a date can be arranged.

Finally, as per usual the results page has been updated with all the latest friendly and league results.

We have signed up to ETF2L Season 6 and are hoping to be placed in Division 5. In WPTF2L6v6 we played our first league game of the season, beating FLB 5-1 on cp_badlands and 5-2 on cp_fastlane. Next week we will play It’s Just, who were previously known as dXp. The maps played will be cp_granary and cp_freight.

This week also saw the arrival of Satako’s brother Kirkeh, who will be playing medic for us. Finally, all recent friendly results have been entered on the results page.

We have been placed in Division 5C for season 4 of WPTF2L6v6, alongside vo!tage, It’s just …, Necrotic United Brothers, Keso Gaming, Phoenix Squad, Blazing Gamers and Team Xplosion. The fixtures will be going up tomorrow, with our first game to be scheduled for the following week.

We are currently coming up to half way through our FakkelBrigade Custom Cup group section, having lost by default in the first week to Luso-Portugueses and beating X-Squad twice on Week 2. Tonight we play SexyP

We have signed up to the FakkelBrigade Custom Summer Cup and have already begun practicing on the new maps. Getting new maps into the competitive map pool is something we are strongly in favour of, particularly as some clans seem desperate to turn TF2 into a “granlands” only game. Our group placing will be announced later tonight.

The results page has now been updated with almost all recent results. We were taking a bit of time off, but are now back to playing regular friendly games.

Tonight we played our final ETF2L Season 5 game, winning one map and losing one map against dA-Gaming. As we await the other teams finishing off their games, it’s time for a quick review.

After starting WPTF2L6v6 expecting a close season with some good games, we were halfway through and losing games by big margins. This meant we have a squad re-shuffle, which helped, but ultimately we were relegated from Division 7B.

In WPTF2L7v7 we continued the success we enjoyed last season, winning every map but the final one on our final game, making us first place in Division 1. This was largely helped by our non 6v6 players, who play a lot of specialist classes that really come into their own on 7v7 attack versus defence maps (CGS, Ditchy and Sh3ll to name a few). Plus it probably helps that our public server spends 90% of its time on these kind of maps so we’re already well practiced

After having our main demo go inactive, we struggled with a temporary replacement and then had to make do with moving players around a lot in our early ETF2L games. Competing in 3 leagues at the same time made it almost impossible for us to trial a new demo man effectively, meaning we took something like 2 months to find a replacement. Thankfully, TroubleGirl from =Fingerprint= agreed to temporarilly join us until the end of the season, meaning we had a player we already knew was an excellent demo man, which allowed us to worry a lot less about games. TroubleGirl also plays a lot more than we did, which meant we ended up playing a lot more friendly games, which has clearly helped us a lot. In the second half of the season we have hopefully gathered enough points to stay in Division 5. The stuff we’ve learned recently will help us a great deal for next season, whatever division we end up in.

Finally, we did -actually- end up with a demo man after all those trials. A thousand apologies to anyone who didn’t get a response from me, but we have now recruited Satako. He will be playing in friendly games with us over the summer, and is now signed up for all of our leagues for the next seasons.

We also lost a long time regular, the impossible to ignore Swedish/Scottish/Drunk Gryzor, who has moved on to CiC. We wish him all the best in the future.

So thanks to everyone who’s played with us this season, and thanks to all the people we’ve played. This summer we’ll be playing friendlies, if anyone wants to play a custom map in a friendly specifically please get in touch as we’d love to try out some new maps as well as the old ones.

We’ve nearly finished our WPTF2L7v7 season, we currently have one game left to play. Having won all our games so far, we are guaranteed a top two position, but hopefully we can put in a good performance and top our division.

We are still trialling demo men, Troublegirl is helping us out for ETF2L until we’ve got a replacement.

Last night we had a close game on cp_freight against Team 31, drawing 2-2 after almost capping in the final miliseconds of the map. Team 31 won the second map 5-0.

The results page has been updated with our latest results. We beat Nicey in our WPTF2L 7v7 game on Sunday, although Nicey were a player down for the first map and 3 players down for the second. We are still awaiting confirmation of our final WPTF2L6v6 standing, however it seems almost certain that we will be relegated.

A Team Fortress 2 patch was released on Thursday, giving the sniper and spy new unlocks. These unlocks are not allowed in leagues until further notice.

Tonight we play Box? in our WPTF2L7v7 game, which promises to be an extremely important match in determining the top placings in our division. We start at 8:30pm and play on pl_badwater and cp_steel, source tv is the usual 9men.org.uk:27040 address.

We are currently still trialling demo men, unfortunately due to our hectic league schedule we haven’t been able to play many friendlies, so this is taking a while. Hopefully everyone will be patient with us, sorry for the delay.

Finally, if you see -9m- Turkey on a server, be sure to ask him whether he’s unlocked the ambassador yet!