Registration ended at midnight, so I hope you got your team got paid up in time! Season 11 of ESEA promises a lot of action with over 70 teams registered with fees paid in three divisions and another 25 trying to secure spots for a total of nearly 100 teams listed on the standings today. We’re looking at some significant division revamping this season. Good luck, have fun everyone!
Click the jump for details!
Invite:
The votes are in and counted, and your Community’s Choice winners for promotion to Invite were Leviathan Gaming, Season 10’s Intermediate fourth-place playoff winners. We’ll also see last season’s IM champions the dinosaurs playing with the big boys this season under the alias Pinball Wizards for a total of two Intermediate-to-Invite promotions. Mihalys Flow and srsly br0 are following in Classic Mixup’s footsteps this season, both bringing together some “oldie but goodie” invite-level players to vie for the top spot. We’ll miss a few names this season including The Experiment, Snooplicity and the never-present Spacewhales, now going by the name Curb Stomp. These three teams split up, with The Experiment’s A_Seagull and ww- moving to Mihalys Flow, dummy and oPlaid heading to srsly br0, BasikMMTXC joining Pinball Wizards, and gozar going with High Rollers Gaming. Likewise, we’ll see Snooplicity’s Weeble in Classic Mixup and 38special in Leviathan Gaming. Aside from boomer_’s move to srsly br0, Curb Stomp, as usual, is largely MIA.
Paid and reserved:
- Classic Mixup
- Leviathan Gaming
- Mihalys Flow
- Pinball Wizards
- srsly br0
Pending payment:
- High Rollers Gaming TF2
- Quantic Legacy
- Mighty Ducks
Intermediate:
This division got an exciting overhaul in preparation for Season 11. Pinball Wizards (formerly the dinosaurs who upset LASER BEAMS in post-season to secure the championship) and the Community Choice winners Leviathan Gaming both made their move to the Invite division, and Season 10’s bottom-three Heinys Harem, THERE’S STILL HOPE and craig and friends are dead, but we still stand to see IM’s leaderboard grow by seven teams. After shutting everyone else out and essentially creating their own league at the top of Open by the end of Season 10, the top twelve from last season’s lower division have earned their right to play in Intermediate. We’ll see a lot more action here, and we’ll get to follow some of our favorite teams as they move their way up the TF2 ranks.
Paid and reserved:
- Vector-Gaming
- Mayhem
- Ass Pounders
- aMazing Gaming
- royalty
- Carl Sagan Foundation
- Xensity
- SYOPS TF2
- Slippin with slipz
- Smoke blunts hit cunts
- The Mad Men
- That's So Rando
- gucci swag
- eX-Submit a Ticket
- Team iT
Pending Payment:
- Kawaii Kingz
- Businessmen
- 90lg
- Dogma
- LASER BEAMS
- Beybladers
- Australians
- Immortal 6
Open:
I’m not really sure what to say about Season 11 Open except that it looks like we’re looking at another case of “anything can happen.” There are sixty-seven teams currently on the standings, though that number could grow or shrink in the next week or so, and between losing the top twelve, teams changing names and teams who didn’t want to take the heat I’m not really sure where we stand. There are three divisions currently: West, Central, and East although we will probably see some combining soon. West only has four teams as of today. You can click on the link to view the standings page for Open.
Originally published on CommunityFortress on Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:03 by neko.
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