Darkdwarf — Welcome back ladies and gentlemen, to another group preview. This time we have bankrupt nation with recent success in another Nations Cup in another game, Portugal, another team from Asia, accompanying Turkey – Israel, german little brother Austria and, lastly, Hungary. Will Israel crack when they face the barbarians from westernmost Europe in Portugal? Will Austria surprise everyone and actually play as good as their bigger brothers in Germany? Read on and find out how likely that would be.
Portugal
Comunidade Portuguesa (which I presume means Portuguese Community), who took fifth place in division 1 the previous season, was home to five of the players on the portuguese roster, among those portuguese superstar Coinz. Coinz recently played in all-portuguese 6v6 team Equilibrium together with Haunter, who nowadays is seen playing highlander with team May Contain Nuts, Reaper, VoLuM, t0dA, Alphazen and stuntz. Portugal’s first game of the tournament will be against Israel, so the group titans will clash soon. We’ll see if the nation’s football team have inspired the tf2 players to work hard in their games or not.
Lineup Haunter
Alphazen
Coinz
Comics
Dr.KriPtz
pang
PFerreira
Reaper
san alex
Sephiroth
Starved
stuntz
t0dA
VoLuM
XiuUu
Israel
Israel’s a nation on the rise in the TF2 scene. The last ESL season a half-jewish team won the final, after that the very same team placed third in ETF2L, and now, recently, we’ve seen an all-jewish team in the Premier Division of 6v6. The team Random Jews made a short showing in highlander division 2, and before dropping beat ilita PoWeR, the team who later won the division. From this team we have SorroW and Bena, strengthened by the whole 6v6 Crack Clan team, except Royze.**Quarantine* backup soldier Baribur is in the team, looking to be considered a part of the A-lineup, for once. We’ll see if he can show himself strong enough to make Quarantine regret having Knutsson stand in front of him.
Lineup
matNuN
Retsh0ck
Tarkus
BaR
baribur
Bena
fadestep
KAYOTTE
p0le
ReveraL
SorroW
Tsalisher
xTimeE
Hungary
Before setting out to write this article, I had never ever encountered even one of the nicks on the hungarian national roster. Wether this is just me being uninformed, or the hungarians working undercover, or simply the hungarians not being good enough to be noticed, is in the eye of the beholder. However, team leader PingWIN seem to have some experience of leading teams – he led the highlander team Winterfresh to third place in division three last season, and before that have played in lots of mostly hungarian 6v6 teams, examples being MAN UP, Public Enemies, Purdék and Backward Archers. Most players in the team seem to be veterans of the game, with a team average of 900 days registered at ETF2L.
Lineup PingWIN
Athemil
csendemark
Czar
Davej
davishun
Felcser
Kacsaa
Luigi
menerke.
Moreg
n1ven
Rakka
Steve42
Sult
Zyan
Austria
Austria as a nation is more focused on highlander than 6v6 – they have a lot of players who regularly play highlander in between seasons and also on both UGC and ETF2L – notably the many players on their roster from The Owl Exterminators, who finished third in UGC Steel. Team leader Wrock, Klogar and metkrieger all come from the team who won division 3 in highlander – vier. Otherwisely, the players on Austria’s roster is quite unknown and not scouted. This is an ideal situation for Austria to make an upset in. Look out or the almost-germans to give the portuguese, jews and hungarians a challenge for the advancement!
Lineup wrock
metkrieger
chAos
FireWorks
Klogar
Lord of the Dead
Mani
meep
MrFlausch
Muku
private_meta
rev
RiViNG
UndeadNoOb
weinzey
Predicted outcome
Israel
Portugal
Austria
4. Hungary
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.