Tonight we will see the conclusion of the third edition of the TF2 TV Teamgasm. This experimental edition with a lot of new maps has been played mainly exactly three weeks ago, but due to some issues from both finalists, it has been delayed until today. Let’s recap all the events from three weeks ago, and have a preview on the final that will be played at 20.30 CET tonight between Team Menace and Vier\Red!
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No League TF2 Teamgasm #3 Final
TIME
Wednesday February 23rd
20:30 cet
14:30 est (na)
06:30 est (aus)
CASTED BY
SOURCETV
Who will win this match?
Team Menace (72%, 57 Votes)
Vier // Red (27%, 21 Votes)
Tie (1%, 1 Votes)
cp_snakewater5-0 cp_gullywash5-0
Sixteen teams from the division 2 and 3 area started on turbine_pro as the first map of this experimental cup. The map has somewhat found its place in competitive TF2 right now, with WirePlay week 2 and 3 featuring this exact map. No real upsets were found in this round, as the Best of Three format is designed to let the best teams on this map pull through.
The second round featured cp_snakewater, which is definitely more of an unknown map than Turbine. The map is largely being accepted by the competitive scene though, in both North America and Europe. As a lot of the teams pointed out after this round, they can see snakewater making an appearance in ETF2L Season 9 in March! Some surprises occurred in this round of 8, with Vier\Red taking down Xen Team and cGDF taking out Knights.
The semi finals featured cp_bazillion, a map made by Gullywash creator Arnold, and this map definitely did not get the response he was hoping for. A lot of random banter throughout the semi finals showed the, from their point of view, randomness of the map. In the end, Team Menace managed to beat Team Fruit and cGDF managed to beat Vier\red, with which both reached the final of the third edition of the TF2 TV Teamgasm.
Unfortunately though, cGDF folded in between the final and the play day for the bracket stage of the tournament. We decided to replace them with Vier\Red, the loser of their semi final. Both teams will duke it out tonight at 20.30 CET on the maps gullywash, snakewater and turbine_pro as a possible decider. Your casters for tonight will be Pledge and naMu, who is sitting happily at home instead of on his way to a LAN event!
I hope to see you all tonight for some crazy action between two strong teams from ETF2L’s Division 2.
- Patrick “ThePledge” Fuchs
Originally published on VanillaTV (vanillatf2.org) on 2011-02-23 by comedian.
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.