Alright folks, here we go. Awhile ago, Torbull from ESEA came around and offered us some trial accounts to test out their system. It's very popular for CS, and they are expanding into TF2. Here at TF2F, we believe that anything that is good for the TF2 Community, is good for us. So, we want to help them, and they want to help us.
So here is what we're going to do. Tonight, Thursday, Dec 18th at the usual time (11:30 est give or take a few), we're going to do our late night a little differently. We're still going to come into vent, with our usual shenanigans and trash talking. However, we're going to get everyone signed up with a 1 month trial account over at ESEA, and we're going to play on their servers. The idea is, it will be a mixture of our regulars, and ESEA community members. Mix it up a little. The hope, is that our members will start using their system more often, and that we'll get some new blood so to speak coming to our pugs on a regular basis. Which is never a bad thing.
Now I realize this is going to be different than what everyone is used to. Their system likely won't be perfect yet for TF2. They realize this, and want our feedback from them to help make it better. We'd like to create a partnership here that is beneficial to both communties, so I'm hoping for a very good turnout tonight. Afterwards, we'll do our regular highlander/faillander our usual way, so the night won't be completly different than what everyone is used to.
We might see some unbalanced teams, not going to lie. Hopefully it won't be to one sided. All things they intend to tweak, so no worries.
All their asking from us, is that we give this a shot, and be open minded. Not to much to ask. Short notice? Yes, but's that never stopped us before. What I need from those interested, is for you to go their site, sign up, and post your user name here. Colin or Torbull from ESEA will than set up your account with the premium trial. You will have to dl the client. You also need to put your steam ID in your profile. I've already got myself all set up, doesn't take very long, very straight forward.
Where do you go to do all this? Right here. www.esportsea.com
This is of course open to everyone, and as I already said, I would love to see a great turnout. If this works out, which I'm sure it will, we'd like to make this a regular thing. Their will likely be a few bumps tonight, but as those of you who've been with us since we started our own pugs, that's to be expected. If you have any questions, or if I've missed posting some crucial informtion, let me know. You can do so here, contact me on Steam, or in ventirlo.
As a trial run for tonight, the guys from ESEA will be joining us in vent this afternoon at about 4pm est, for a pug at 4:30pm est. All they require from us is to have our ESEA usernames in our vent comments, and they'll set us up with everything we need. I realize many people will still be at work or school at that time, so we don't expect a great turnout, but hopefully we'll have enough to get at least one game going. For anyone who doesn't have our ventrilo info, simply contact me via steam, and I'll be happy to hand it out.
I look forward to seeing everyone there tonight, and some of you there this afternoon. Let's Get Er Done.
P.S. The ESEA guys will be available to listen to feedback and answer questions, so don't be shy, but be nice.