Darkdwarf — Group E contains the mother of TF2 – Finland, home of such legends as Darn! and hymzi. Fighting them is one of the other premier TF2 nations, Germany, Estonia and Norway, one parent of the awesome 6v6 team Broder (When will we see you stomp again, brothers of the north?!).
Germany
German team captains Thy and Schocky is two really experienced and talented tf2-players, even though rumours has it Thy is quitting for real life and Schocky’s quitting for Shootmania. They have had a pleasant job in collecting talent for their team however, as Germany has been the home of many good players over the last year. Ipz and Brego has hit the top of the scene lately in teams like Quarantine and Decerto, and in the cup they’re being mentored by a veteran group of germans, a few lads from the old ButtonBashers team. Schocky, Thy, BasH, ThUn and KLar have all been on that roster before and will be looking to bring some good ol’ teamwork back to Vanilla’s streams in the future.
Lineup basH
pBL
schocky
Thy*
beN
biester
Bighomer
Brego
flix
ipz-
kentsfield
KLar
reCon
RisinG
Sonny Black
ThUn
zodiak
Finland
Finland, oh Finland. To my knowledge they’ve won every ETF2L Nations Cup hosted so far, and they’re definately looking to bring home yet another buckle. This may be the only one of the favorite teams in the cup that mostly consists of highlander veterans, rather than 6v6′ers. Of course, zoob has brought in some top end talent from the 6v6 scene, such as meatshotter cookye and top sniper Septique. This will present us with interesting clashes of highlander tactics vs 6v6-tactics when Finland fights teams like Sweden or England.
Lineup zoob
SabaSaba
Battery
BobberH
Cookye
Crux
Diegoo
fraggen
J0rmund
letku
MInd
nappr
Santtu
Septique
Setlet
yonus
Estonia
Estonian leader M2R is at the moment only registered in Estonia’s national teams (both 6v6 and highlander), not in any regular teams. This brings forth the burning question: is M2R not that good with his game, or is he a patriot who only practices and plays for his country’s glory? No one that I know of knows, because this team isn’t really made up of well-known players, and neither is M2R. Tafka is the most high-profile player of the team, with experience in the team Perilous, who shook everyone with their performance in the beginning of 2012. Otherwise, most players are from the estonian community highlander team Playmate.Lineup Oin
sheff
M2R
DCOY
rottencat
0hYeah
Dekamano
dinks
Funky
Kenny
Named
nbik
ouch
paavian
paul_1988
S2ga
Tafka
yodalr
Norway
Norway’s lineup is lacking their Broder-stars of Macisum, Torden, DrLeånn and Herr Braffle. Still, Ace and Bungle have managed to bring in a player like Crouton, one of season 11′s best rookies, a f2p-to-prem-rocket. The roster boasts a lot of quite unknown players from the depths of divisions two to four, and a majority of them have played together for a while in the highlander team tfortress.no from division two. This bodes well for a new talent to show itself to all those people watching the Nations Cup, and maybe ascending high to the next Broder team. Sadly, my scandinavian brothers in Norway won’t stand a chance against heavyweighters Germany and Finland. Worthy of mention is Heavy Is GPS, who runs his own YouTube-channel with gameplay vids.
Lineup Ace
Bungle
Brass_Monkey
crouton
Daniel
E-thug
FF63
Gompy
Heavy Is GPS
Issun
JOHNNYJACKAL
Nitram
qnx
Rudi
wer
Xifi
Predicted outcome
Finland
Germany
Norway
Estonia
Originally published on VanillaTV (vanillatf2.org) on 2012-07-07 by Darkdwarf.
Recovered from the Internet Archive (archived copy) as part of tf2esports.com's preservation of VanillaTV's TF2 coverage. The original site is no longer online. All rights remain with the original author; reposted for historical reference.