ETF2L’s Highlander challenge has advanced into the quarter finals, so Califax decided to set up some interviews to get to know the remaining eight teams a bit better…
In the coming days, we will see all teamleaders of the remaining teams answer 7 identical questions, which will reveal a little bit of their past, present and future…
Next up is Tobyy from Twistedplay Circlejerk.
Q1 – Can you give us a short introduction of your team and the pub-community/server you originated from?
The team is a mix of old TF2 pubbers (from CoW/SBC/NP) from about a year ago, and people who have happened upon us since the original TwistedPlay (now Infused.tt) team formed in late 2009. When speaking in terms of the highlander challenge I don’t think “pub-community” is an accurate description, more like massive bunch of retards… most of us were only just starting out in comp TF2 when the team was formed.
Q2 – When and how did you first hear about the community challenge, and how did you assemble your team?
“Operation sexy legs” was implemented approximately 2 months before the highlander started. It was basically just whoever in mumble was eligible to compete in the challenge, no formal assembly. Unfortunately Woody was also on the mumble… we couldn’t really say no. When we realised we might have a chance in the cup, we tried to get better people in, but they normally turned out to be hackers.
Q3 – How did you acquire your buddy, and how much of an influence has your buddy been?
We originally had Vazzan, but seeing as he was worse than the majority of the actual team (:DD:DDD:D) we got Ziggy, and when asked whether he could play he simply stated “I don’t have a job”. This was definitely someone we needed in the team, what with his expert knowledge of gay spots due at least in part to his media studies degree.
Q4 – How did your team get ready for the tournament? (Practise wars, training mods, strategy sessions, buddy lectures?)
In all honestly, we don’t do much preparation, maybe one or two highlander mixes over the whole tournament. We learnt the more complicated maps such as Steel through a slide show of paint diagrams; alas Foster still gets lost on his way to D point. It has been a bit of a problem as at least half of the team has pretty bad knowledge of the public maps, but we’re getting there. Apart from when Gent steals Ziggy’s ammo at startup, and Foster walks through Gravelpit left door, and then bonks. Shit gets nasty.
Q5 – Can you tell us how your experiences were with the organising part of the challenge matches/practises, with 14 team members, and opponents?
It’s a massive mess, trying to assemble 9 players has proven a challenge in itself; I think we’ve only played one game without mercs! We had to teach some random BF2 friend of Foster’s how to play Pyro in 5 minutes last game because we couldn’t find anyone else. He still outfragged Woody.
Q6 – How do you rate your chances to actually win the challenge? What team (besides yours) in the final eight do you think has the best shot at winning?
On paper I suppose we have a shot at it. Having players whose ability is Div 4/3 and above (apart from gent, he’s so bad) helps quite a lot, but gathering the discipline and tactics to overcome the opposition as they get better might be our shortcoming. SNSD are very strong, I used to play in Oceanic 6 with a lot of them and I know they’re good players. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were the strongest team, so Hat’s off to them… gettit? (Puns ©Foster 2011)
Q7 – What will happen with your team after the challenge? Will you be participating in a possible follow-up highlander or 7v7 league?
Well half of us are in the same 6v6 team so we’ll obviously stay together, everyone on the team knows everyone else, we’re all friends and we’ll hang around on mumble with the rest of the extended TP community. Gent’s Prem now, Arcy’s looking forward to winning div5 next season, and Woody is just a retard. Such a massive retard.
Originally published on VanillaTV (vanillatf2.org) on 2011-02-09 by califax.
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.