British outfit Visualize Your Enmity announce their return to Team Fortress 2 in time for the upcoming season
I've got to be honest with you folks, when I first saw VYE appear on the European TF2 scene back in 2009 I thought that their name was Visualize Your Enemy.
Today the penny has finally dropped when doing a little research for this most informative of news posts; it's Enmity, and after blowing the dust off my dictionary I now feel a little smarter...
A close friend of mine once dropped a clanger when we were discussing ladies underwear, as you do, pronouncing lingerie as "lin-ger-ee" in denial of the word's French origins. Whilst this isn't really the same thing at all it sounded funny as fuck in our Northern Irish drawl, and I can now empathise with those moments when the brain sells our linguistic prowess short.
The new VYE rosters is not short of cultural diversity and I can only speculate there are more than a few cunning linguists in the seven man roster that bestrides Europe like a couple of limber giants playing Twister with a feet and hands planted in the Netherlands, Lithuania, Norway, Bulgaria, Hungary and even the quaint old United Kingdom.
Lithuania's Romas 'dauk' Daukantas asserts his thirdie credentials at i43.
Previously playing under the Digital Warfare and UV Gaming banners, this diverse roster captained by the recipient of ETF2L Season 8's "Upcoming Talent of the Season" award, Skander 'skeej' Zouali, has most recently been known as Twitch. That award left me scratching my head at the time; I mean isn't it quite the absurdity to associate the medic class with talent or skill? Guffaw!
Statement from VYE Captain, Skander 'skeej' Zouali:
I'm happy and excited to have the VYE name return to TF2. After approaching VYE's Joe at i43 and seeing such a large part of their teams being present there, we really wanted to be part of an organisation with such palpability. Not some anonymous persons on the internet but a real organisation whose teams love to play their games. Community-minded, caring for their teams, and never standing still, VYE seems to be the perfect home for me and my teammates. After having disappointing experiences with other organisations, and VYE themselves seeming to have experienced a similar thing with their past TF2 teams, we will do everything in our power to turn that around and give them a TF2 team to be proud of, and deliver them the goods in terms of long term stability, growth, and not to forget, bringing in some great victories!
This beautiful relationship has blossomed since Skander was introduced to the VYE management at i43 through the contacts of fellow medic ShoX. Whilst we may never know the full details of what sex acts were performed in the VYE clanbox at the Telford International Center, things obviously went well enough for the two parties to become bedfellows, so to speak.
Statement from VYE CO CEO Mark 'souNd' Stimpson:
It's great to be back in one of my favourite games and with this team under VYE I can only see great things happening and I want to wish them the very best and will see them all at i44 where they will hope to top their amazing performance from the previous i-Series event. I would like to say thank you to our sponsors: Spire-Corp, Initial Games, Immortal Servers and VisualizeMedia.
The lads actually put in a strong showing at i43 finishing 5th-6th as A Clockwork Purple with a diluted roster that only featured three of their current players; skeej, Nmx and dauk. Dilute in the sense that Team Thermaltake pipe monster Jason 'kaidus' Allen's sick skills were watered down by the presence of two Soviet shitters, Rubikon and blindd. Bwhaha!
VYE are now:
Skander 'skeej' Zouali
Romas 'dauk' Daukantas
Adrian '1mpuls' Tollefsen
Micky 'kos' Clerkin-Oliver
Nikolay 'Landazar' Tsukrovsk
Rutger 'Nmx' Kok
Daniel 'hykleri' Kótai (backup)
You can follow the escapades of this VYE new Team Fortress 2 side in ETF2L Season 10 which is due to kick off this Sunday. They have been placed in the dual Division 1 and will surely have their work cut out for them as they battle for promotions to the bright lights of the Premiership.
Originally published on Cadred.org on Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:27:01 +0100 by James J. McDonnell.
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