Arie — Tonight the (expected) bottom of prem teams SOLAR and RLM are meeting for what should be an interesting fight. Both teams will be looking at this match (and both their upcoming matches against LMS) as the chance to get some points on the ETF2L premiership table and fight off relegation.
Rosters:
SOLAR:
Medic – Vanilla
Demoman – Lalli
Pocket soldier – hycz
Roaming soldier – qnx
Scouts – maidu and cor
Revoluzion la metagame
Medic – ilike2spin
Demoman – Exon
Soldiers – Haunter and Tek
Scouts – Flippy and quad
We talked to ilike2spin from RLM to get his perspective on the match.
VanillaTF2: First season in prem, your team is not expected to finish above the bottom three. The same can be said about SOLAR. Do you feel tonight’s the night to get those first 6 points?
ilike2spin: Yes, you only have to look at our lineup to know the potential we have. I can’t help but feel if we had a big community figure in the team, like kaidus or something, people would be all over us. As it is, we have a lot to prove but we are capable of it.
VanillaTF2: SOLAR is a team that has grown over the seasons and has team experience in their favour. But like you said, your lineup has some big names in there. Do you think your individual skills will get you the advantage over SOLAR’s team experience?
ilike2spin: Sure we have a lot of individual skill in the team but so do solar, we’re not going to rely on individuals to win. We know what to expect from them and they’re sure to give us a tough time but we’re finding our form now and we’ll show it tonight.
VanillaTF2: Standard question: What player on your team should we expect to see some fireworks from, and what player on SOLAR do you expect to give you the most trouble?
ilike2spin: The scouts on their team and their roaming soldier are really great, watching some of their previous games they often come up with the goods and their aggression is something i’ll definitely be expecting as medic. Like I say though they have quality across the board, Lalli on demo has some great aim and Hycz too, honestly they don’t have any glaring weaknesses and it’s hard to pick out one player who might be the one to watch. For us though, it has to be tek or exon , they play a generally exciting style of TF2 and i imagine they’ll be awesome to spectate.
Join VanillaTV tonight with casters Byte & SuddenlyStarMia bringing out the soothing voice along with Animal directing for an action packed battle.
Originally published on VanillaTV (vanillatf2.org) on 2013-05-16 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.