beach/Arie — Tonight we might see the first non-rofl-roll game of the season when BFF/Nerd Party/Skidmark Central/WhateverTheirNameMayBeTonight face off against Vinland.
The RostersSkidmark Central
Medic – skeej
Demoman – kaidus
Soldiers – Daleth and flisko
Scouts – kiler4fun and Greg
Vinland
Medic – Jose
Demo – Suqp3r
Scouts – Rake and delzic
Skidmark Central’s strengths clearly lie in kaidus’ ability to produce massive damage output, but after I underestimated kiler4fun last season and he ended up doing superbly, I’m going to eat my words and predict big meatshots coming from him; no doubt he’ll be cleaning up the frags once kaidus softens up the Finns tonight. Logs from last night’s PCWs versus Crack Clan shows this to be the case, with kaidus finishing top in SC’s damage output, and kiler top fragging for his team on both Badlands and Gullywash. Greg has also been picked up most recently, so Vinland need to keep an eye out for those sneaky back caps. Vinland played Division 1 side Decerto last night, also on Badlands and Gullywash. They had bad luck on Gully, losing 4-3, despite Rake top fragging overall. However, they managed to win Badlands convincingly with a score of 6-1; again, Rake top fragged, suggesting that Darn will be looking to his scouts to have a chance of succeeding tonight.
We caught up with a member of each team who happened to be on our friendslist, first up Rake from Vinland.
VanillaTF2 : Your team has been practicing quite a bit, do you think your team is already at a point where it could do justice to the Finnish powerhouse teams of the old days?
Rake : We’re just a bunch of new kids on the block (+ Darn ) in comparison to the old Finnish teams, 5 of us don’t have the premiership experience needed yet. So I would say we’re not there yet atleast.
VanillaTF2 : You mention experience and your team’s lack thereof….this is “BFF’s” third season in prem (in some form anyway). How is your team planning to deal with the experience gap tonight?
Rake : We’re hoping for their coordination to suffer due to the new players on the roster. We haven’t actually played them, but based on our results, I would say we can beat them on a good day.
VanillaTF2 : Who’s going to be the most interesting players to watch on your team and why? And who do you think for Skidmark Central?
Rake : Definitely delzic if he brings out the sniper on our team. Also Suqp3r makes stuff happen. On Skidmark Central I would say kiler or kaidus , as I feel those are the two players that’ll pretty much decide the outcome tonight.
VanillaTF2 : Any shoutouts?
Rake : shoutouts to Santtu and iikq, for being a way too passive demoman.
Equally hard hitting questions answered by Skidmark Central captain kaidus
VanillaTF2 : This is your third season with “BFF” in prem, although with changing rosters. Also, your individual players are more experienced at this level than your opponents, do you think this will give your team a clear advantage tonight?
kaidus : Well it will give us some advantage for sure, but on the flip-side you have to be wary of a team you’ve never so much as seen before let alone played.
VanillaTF2 : Unlike Vinland, Skidmark hasn’t been practicing much this last week (as far as I could find on logs.tf), you also have a revised roster, do you feel that might tip the balance in favour of Vinland?
kaidus : Well I too checked some logs and Vinland look like your typical darn team; one day they’re putting up a reasonable challenge against broder, the next they are getting wrecked by mid div1 teams. Our roster changes are a pain but ultimately greg is the only last minute one, and he’s experienced enough to gel quickly even if he still needs some time to get hi DM back where it was. If there was to be an upset this season this is probably it, but it would be a pretty big one I feel.
VanillaTF2 : Who should the viewers keep an eye on in your team tonight and why? And who/why in team Vinland?
kaidus : If you want to see failed jumps that cost the team rounds, watch me! Otherwise, watch kiler for the cleanups and fliskoo for everything else. For vinland it’s gotta be delzic, but I’ve heard that suqper is three times the demo he ever was a scout when vinland used him (which is all I’ve seen), so perhaps he’s worth a pop too.
On the casting front, these are your options tonight:
For VanillaTV, Byte returns to the mic, together with MagicalKillaCow aka Hayden, who you might have heard casting the Pixling.ru LAN together with Mia last weekend for VTV OpenMic.
VanillaTVFr have also joined the casting boat tonight with Pognon & his old skool friend remitche.
On TeamFortress.TV, Yuki and ilike2spin will talk you through while huhy directs the camera.
Originally published on VanillaTV (vanillatf2.org) on 2013-05-14 by Arie.
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.