Trell — Unless you’re living under a rock, you’ll have noticed that there is a small, unknown lan happening this weekend in the US of A. Ah, who am I kidding, it’s the highlight of NA’s TF2 calendar, ESEA Lan, this time in its 12th Season!
Held in Dallas with the top 4 teams in North America competing to get their grubby mitts on part of the $10,000 prize pool, we’re all looking forward to seeing some intense games over the course of the weekend.
Coverage will be provided via the ESEA official stream, by djc, cbear, Seanbud, Sigma and Lange. VanillaTV will be helping the guys out with assets in return for some promotion. Read on for more information on the teams and match times!
Classic Mixup
The top seeded team going into this lan, and it’s hard to disagree with their position. You may remember them as the all conquering team from i46, despite PYYYOUR’s best efforts to drop it like it was hot – but despite the pain of the summer lan, it’s hard not to root for these guys. With such a formidable collection of dm talent, any of the games featuring these guys is a must watch. Just keep the trophies safe this time, eh?
Player to watch: RuwinPlatinum, PYYYOUR, TLR, harbleu, enigma, Ruwin
Leviathan Gaming
Second seed for this lan are the other Euro TF2 heartbreakers, LG. Despite losing out in the i46 grand final to Mixup, they dealt easily with the horde of Euros who were looking to return victorious with some American scalps. The team has seen a couple of changes, with clckwrk and Mackey swapped out after their European jaunt, with Hero picking up the scout spot, and according to djc “outplaying Ruwin in their last match vs Mixup”.
Player to watch: b4nnyb4nny, shade, enoryt, Dave__AC, hero1, cyzer
Spacewhales
Despite being the 3rd seeded team; it’s impossible to ignore the raw talent filling the roster. clckwrk partners up with Yz50 to provide one of the scariest scout partnerships since longas and HarryHook, while dummy returns to lan to show everyone how sticky traps are really done.
Player to watch: Yz50 dummy, mesr, boomer, blaze, Yz50, clckwrk
Chess Club
While not expected to perform amazingly well at lan, Chess Club have managed to take rounds from LG over the past season, and haven’t lost to any of the bottom four invite teams. Debateably not the finest platitude, however, it does show that the potential is there, it’s just whether they can perform on the day. Their downfall will probably be the fact that they haven’t practised much together in anticipation of the lan.
Player to watch: kermit kermit, stultus, tri_, Taggerung, Weeble, Omar
Scheduling Information
Saturday 17/11
10AM CST (5PM CET) – Classic Mixup vs Chess Club
12:30PM CST (7:30PM CET) – Leviathan Gaming vs SpacewhalesLower/Upper rounds at 3PM CST (10PM CET), 5:30PM CST (12:30AM CET) and 8PM CST (3AM CET)
Sunday 18/11
10:30AM CST (5:30PM CET) – Grand Finals
Originally published on VanillaTV (vanillatf2.org) on 2012-11-16 by Trell.
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.