tf2 wasnt played esea season 1

demos from back then don't work now as it was a different demo system

you would need to procure a copy of tf2 from that exact time frame (the old demo system broke on practically any update ever), and afaik the guy who was collecting old versions of tf2 for this purpose disappeared entirely.

best you're gonna get is the rare video

ie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKKEftq4-Vg

are those random crits in comp

#4 there was no way to disable random crits until february 28th, 2008

Lol didn't know that. My bad

btw this isn't exactly what you requested OP but here's an old cast of one of the more important ESEA matches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-fpRC7RrpQ

This is the match/week that got the Battalion's Backup banned in 6s, which was the first mid season ban of a not newly implemented item.

Features classic snow Viaduct and Sydney Sleeper Snipers (backup didn't counter minicrits back then).

lol, opened this up to hear "Great pop by harb, didn't even take any damage"

The game was simpler then...

That was the least enthusiastic YAOO ever

saam is gay :)

thx for rewording the second comment with less info

here's a rare vid from 2009 that involves the old ultra bullshit backstabs which you could on demand facestab AND footage of 6s testing out Payload

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8-kP01-iQM

here's another old vid, this time featuring gameplay from CEVO-P during the time where ESEA's first season of TF2 was just starting, also featuring original broken Force-A-Nature & Sandman gameplay when they were being tested, right before the Sandman made history as the first banned weapon in TF2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpRDwug3dJU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsjO52zvF4k

I think this was one of the first matches I ever watched, you can find the rest of the match on the channel