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Anyone interested in that Highlander Tournament mentioned recently on the TF2 blog?

From the TF2 blog:

ETF2L is gearing up for their Highlander Community Challenge. It's a fun tournament aimed at getting lots of people into some fun competitive matches. If you feel like you're crushing everyone in pubs, this'll be a great opportunity for you to find a new challenge. In addition, we're providing them with the ability to give out in-game medals to players who participate in the tournament.

Cons:

  • European servers (so bad pings)
  • European timezones (we are around 8 hours ahead)

Pros:

  • 14 player teams, 9 play at a time so there isn't pressure to be there for every game.
  • The times of the matches are organized between teams, potentially mitigating the timezone issue.
  • TF2 is fun.
  • Medals!

Sign ups will start sometime between the 15th and 22nd of April, just wondering if there was any r/tf2au interest.

Edit: Resubmitted in the general tf2 subreddit. Please post there if interested.

Posted Apr 10, 2010, 9:38 AM UTC · edited

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hernameisclaire•

I thought about it, but the two main reasons I'm not interested are:

  1. Those bad pings. Ill be 100 minimum, and If I'm capped no chance of playing.

  2. We are 8 hours ahead, and I'm assuming games would be on weeknights at around 7 european, so around 3 for us.

tl;dr bad ping, on too late

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Alexnader_•

Hey, if we can't get the 14 (It's not looking good) can you keep me and MortTehZombie in the list for the "reddit laggers" team?

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OperationalOP•

Done and done, see my edit for the link.

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mrmarcel•

Quite tempting.. they've got.. medals..

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MortTehZombie•

im in, if ya want me as solly scoot spy demo or engy only though i just realisedit would be on a monday, the only times i can make 3am is friday and saturday night (saturday and Sunday morning)

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OperationalOP•

There are no set times for matches, teams organise between themselves when to play and there is no way we'd go for early morning Monday matches.

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Alexnader_•

So how often would a game be played? Once a week? I'm sure it'd be possible to work out a time that suits both us and whatever team we're versing on a case by case basis. Besides if we play undermanned on a couple of matches who cares? We still get the participation medal and we'd still get to have a bunch of pseudo competitive games.

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OperationalOP•

Details are light at the moment, there will be another post on the tf2 blog about it at some point.

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MortTehZombie•

im still in but am sacrificing myself to play ENGINEER so others who are good at other classes can play other things, btw im a decent engineer

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TJ_FS•

I want to...

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Alexnader_•

I am interested. I want the free pixels on my models! I've checked and 7pm London will be 4 AM in Sydney, so I'm up for it. As for the lag well there's nothing to be done about it except play on some European servers and get used to it.

I'm good for Soldier, Scout, Pyro, Sniper or medic. Though really I can go as any class except heavy tbh.

*Source for the time http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=11&month=4&year=2010&hour=19&min=0&sec=0&p1=136

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OperationalOP•

Resubmitted in the general tf2 subreddit. Please post there if interested.

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