Galant — Only two months ago we had the TF2 LAN in St.Petersburg at the OGIC3 exhibition. Eight teams have participated and ISIS once again took 1st place. Now our own community LAN is coming, this time – in Moscow, and 14 teams are already signed up!
Pixling TF2 LAN Party is organized by TF2 community members and simultaneously admins of Pixling.ru – the “Russian version” of VanillaTF2. We have started this project some time ago in our attempt to revive russian TF2 competitve community. Let’s have a look at upcoming LAN and its participants.
We will start group stage early in the morning on Friday, 10th May. Three groups will play one by one and fourth group will play on Saturday, right before the playoff stage. We are planning to start plaoffs about 12 a.m. CET.
Groups are next:
Group 1: HoverCrabs, duns, hotchpotch, FastTrain
Group 2: A6, Team Versus, Dikari, NOJ
Group 3: Pixling.ru, We don’t care, 777
Group 4: LMS, gonewild, bespontovie
First of all, we will see LMS making their first LAN debut, presenting gdk + wg as excellent kritz-death duo. Current etf2l roster soldiers Ordinator and empty will play as well. And unfortunately for LMS their killer-machine reko as always (after 4 years of dominating!) will not come to show his skill IRL. unHuman will help Redzzzz on scout position. Undoubtedly, LMS are the main candidates to win Pixling TF2 LAN.
But they will need to struggle for the crown: after 0-2 defeat from ISIS in April’s OGIC LAN finals, HoverCrabs, leading by their unchangeable medic D1ego$, will fight for the 1st place. The fun fact is that this team, probably, will try to capitalize using the same strategy: kritz + skilled demoman = win. So you are surely impatient to see the battle between gdk and sickless – two strongest russian demomen at this moment. In attempt to make a big step HoverCrabs have switched their regular demoman mort to soldier position and took sickless; hamster will play pocket as always; also Fire came for the vacant position of second scout to help his Moscow colleague Spicy.
The third seeded team was A6. For Galant and ShYr!k this will be the 4th LAN playing together, where two last events in St.Petersburg have been won under ISIS tag. After departure of sickless and Fire into HoverCrabs we were joined by old-school bunch: ultimate scout duo swat + krol, Rubikon as pocket, and long-time ISIS pocket soldier sammie trying this time on roamer position. Interesting fact: in 2011 swat, krol, Galant and Rubikon have already won DSC#4 LAN in an unprecedented battle vs. O’RLY under RAGE.eSports tag.
And the fourth seeded team was Pixling.ru (current division 2 team CTADO roster with some changes): best backcapper in Russia – Recluse - with his old-time partner nabique on scouts’ position; m9ta as demo, nogpyra as medic; TroX and Root will play as pocket and roamer respectively. In OGIC LAN these guys finished after ISIS and HoverCrabs, dividing the 3rd/4th place with duns, who will try to repeat again their success in Moscow. Their upcoming talent – demoman maggot – can be really dangerous for any opponent.
We will provide relays during event and hope that VTV can cast some playoff games.
Originally published on VanillaTV (vanillatf2.org) on 2013-05-08 by Galant.
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.