One of the original goals of Resupply.EU is to promote competitive TF2 to gamers throughout Europe, and since we started a month ago, we've been steadily working towards becoming the best TF2 site around, providing all the latest match info, interviews, articles and gossip! All the staff on the Resupply Team are passionate about showing just how good our game is at the highest level, so when we saw on the Steam Forums the work of American player Cerious in organising a fun competition between 9 pub stars and 6 competitive players within the North American scene, we were eager to try it here in Europe! With the Pub players following Highlander rules (1 player of each class) and the competitive 6 complying with the usual Class Limits (Medic and Demo 1, all else 2), the competition aims to expose the skill of high-level TF2, and hopefully will encourage more Public players to get involved in playing seriously.
Resupply.EU Gossip Writer and idk? Scout Shintaz decided to head up the competition, and we're proud to announce that an all-star competitive line-up will face the best of Pub TF2 on the 15th July at 6GMT/7CET! Thanks to ReVe, we can also offer a fantastic 1000 slot Source TV Relay, to ensure you can catch all the action of what promises to be an intense game.
UPDATE! Legendary TF2 caster 'A_Spec' from QuadV will now be casting the match live!
The competitive team will be as follows:
| Medic: | dunc (Team CoolerMaster) |
|---|---|
| Soldier: | Moose (Crack Clan) |
| Soldier: | The Insane Exfane (Fakkelbrigade) |
| Demo: | weqo (Team CoolerMaster) |
| Scout: | Shintaz (Team idk?) |
| Scout: | Jh (Formerly 4Kings) |
Subs:
| Scout: | Arnold (Team YoYoTech) |
|---|---|
| Medic/Soldier: | The PRODUCT of a Cook (Fakkelbrigade) |
I spoke to TCM|Dunc to get his thoughts on the game:
Are you looking forward to the game? What do you think will be the competitive team's biggest strengths/weaknesses?
Yeah I'm looking forward to the game. I think it's a great chance to advertise the competitive format to the public players and everyone in TF2 knows, right now, we could do with some new blood!
Our biggest strengths will certainly be our high level of individual ability and huge numbers of hours playing in a proper team environment which the public players likely won't have. Our voice comms should be superior to theirs, the calling et al, and depending on the maps our tactics should be much stronger. The biggest weakness we'll face is fairly obvious - they have 50% more players than us!
Are you worried that the Pub players could pull off a shock result?
There's no doubt that the public players have a chance of beating us. They have 3 players more than us and my life as medic is going to be hell with talented snipers and spies, two classes that competitive teams tend only to face in certain environments such as specific pushes on 5 point CP maps, or attacking on the likes of Gravel Pit.
The Pub line-up, as decided on the Steam Forums, will be:
| Scout: | [PP] Plusle |
|---|---|
| Soldier: | Freeman |
| Pyro: | tr1ce |
| Demoman: | Looring |
| Heavy: | Elementerials |
| Engineer: | DragonClaw |
| Medic: | GaHmeler |
| Sniper: | Morph |
| Spy: | 00T00 |
Subs:
\TG/Cocodaconman
|UKMD|Oliethefolie
Although currently undecided, it looks likely that the players will battle it out on a 5 point map - probably Granary - and a more public styled map like Badwater Basin, before agreeing on a final map to settle the contest!
Here again are all the vital details you need to know, and Resupply.EU will of course keep you posted on any new info right up until game night. See you then!
Date: Wednesday 15th July
Time: 6GMT / 19CET
Source TV: relay.toaster.fi:27021, relay.toaster.fi:27023, relay.toaster.fi:27025, relay.toaster.fi:27027
Think you know who's going to win? Head over to our Forums to post your predictions for the game!
Originally published on Resupply.eu on 10.07.2009 - 00:22 by Dave.
Archived from The Ultimate Showdown - Competitive vs Community! as part of tf2esports.com's preservation of Resupply.eu's TF2 coverage. All rights remain with the original author and Resupply.eu; reposted for historical reference.