http://esportsyearbook.com/eyb201112.pdf
One of my friends dug up this on Google Books. Its an entire chapter on Comp TF2 at the time written by Hildreth (Henry Harris) in the eSports Yearbook 2011/12. It starts on Page 35 and its quite an interesting contrast of the scene when you compare it to now.
http://esportsyearbook.com/eyb201112.pdf
One of my friends dug up this on Google Books. Its an entire chapter on Comp TF2 at the time written by Hildreth (Henry Harris) in the eSports Yearbook 2011/12. It starts on Page 35 and its quite an interesting contrast of the scene when you compare it to now.
HildrethI look forward to doing it all over again next year with a huge LAN event in Amsterdam in planning...
Feels bad man
[quote=Hildreth][i]I look forward to doing it all over again next year with a huge LAN event in Amsterdam in planning...[/i] [/quote]
Feels bad man
TurboTabsHildrethI look forward to doing it all over again next year with a huge LAN event in Amsterdam in planning...
Feels bad man
Thanks Qun
[quote=TurboTabs][quote=Hildreth][i]I look forward to doing it all over again next year with a huge LAN event in Amsterdam in planning...[/i] [/quote]
Feels bad man[/quote]
Thanks Qun
DesonatorAn*
i'd hate to be a smartass but the 'h' in 'huge' is stressed when spoken and therefore you don't use 'an' before it.
[quote=Desonator]An*[/quote]
i'd hate to be a smartass but the 'h' in 'huge' is stressed when spoken and therefore you don't use 'an' before it.
Brolyi'd hate to be a smartass but the 'h' in 'huge' is stressed when spoken and therefore you don't use 'an' before it.
Think he means an* underdog story not an huge LAN
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I'd say the main difference for tf2 back then is that every e sport was small and crap, nowadays whatever we put up pales in comparison to other games and seems unimportant :-(
[quote=Broly]
i'd hate to be a smartass but the 'h' in 'huge' is stressed when spoken and therefore you don't use 'an' before it.[/quote]
Think he means an* underdog story not an huge LAN
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I'd say the main difference for tf2 back then is that every e sport was small and crap, nowadays whatever we put up pales in comparison to other games and seems unimportant :-(
Henry HarrisValve sponsored Highlander Community Challenge
wait what?
[quote=Henry Harris]Valve sponsored Highlander Community Challenge[/quote]
wait what?
hawkieldHenry HarrisValve sponsored Highlander Community Challenge
wait what?
Kids so young you don't remember when Medals were a new thing.
[quote=hawkield][quote=Henry Harris]Valve sponsored Highlander Community Challenge[/quote]
wait what?[/quote]
Kids so young you don't remember when Medals were a new thing.
"Der Kaiser of German Team Fortress 2, Marco, sensationally quit the game for Brink"
NotLikeThis
But man that brings back some memories.
"Der Kaiser of German Team Fortress 2, Marco, sensationally quit the game for Brink"
NotLikeThis
But man that brings back some memories.
hawkieldHenry HarrisValve sponsored Highlander Community Challenge
wait what?
A long time ago when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, some people thought Ruwin was a girl because they were gullible, Gotfrag was the home of NA competitive TF2, and everything was a meatshot 8) the concept of a Medal cosmetic didn't exist yet and Valve supported the ETF2L Highlander Challenge by giving people medals for playing in it for the first time.
It's pretty much solely responsible for that tournament having 800 teams & 10,000+ players, the largest tournament TF2 has ever had, and responsible for enticing a bunch of players into competitive play.
To this day I still do not understand why ESEA didn't immediately try to adopt this. There's clearly no restrictions that were hindering it from a monetary standpoint considering buy in LANs or donation funds get medals.
LPKane was the guy with the soft spot for TF2 and to me this just seems like the easiest business decision of all time, you pay someone a little bit of cash to make some models for some medals and then you're effectively advertising ESEA inside TF2. Literally every time one of your players kills someone or plays the game you're basically advertising you exist to players in-game. There are people who would pay up and play to get these medals, especially if they looked at all decent.
[quote=hawkield][quote=Henry Harris]Valve sponsored Highlander Community Challenge[/quote]
wait what?[/quote]
A long time ago when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, some people thought Ruwin was a girl because they were gullible, Gotfrag was the home of NA competitive TF2, and everything was a meatshot 8) the concept of a Medal cosmetic didn't exist yet and Valve supported the ETF2L Highlander Challenge by giving people medals for playing in it for the first time.
It's pretty much solely responsible for that tournament having 800 teams & 10,000+ players, the largest tournament TF2 has ever had, and responsible for enticing a bunch of players into competitive play.
To this day I still do not understand why ESEA didn't immediately try to adopt this. There's clearly no restrictions that were hindering it from a monetary standpoint considering buy in LANs or donation funds get medals.
LPKane was the guy with the soft spot for TF2 and to me this just seems like the easiest business decision of all time, you pay someone a little bit of cash to make some models for some medals and then you're effectively advertising ESEA inside TF2. Literally every time one of your players kills someone or plays the game you're basically advertising you exist to players in-game. There are people who would pay up and play to get these medals, especially if they looked at all decent.
Was this the only kind of valve sponsred thing comp tf2 has seen?
Was this the only kind of valve sponsred thing comp tf2 has seen?
syphWas this the only kind of valve sponsred thing comp tf2 has seen?
It really depends on your definitions here. If you only mean competitive events and only mean Valve as a corporate entity then AFAIK yes.
If you mean anything competitive oriented and/or just individuals from Valve then no. The former would include the joint Valve & High Level Competitive Player private beta which largely resulted in these two updates: August 13th, 2009 & September 15th, 2009 as well as helped push the GRU/Gunslinger/Quick-Fix to how they wound up being when they were introduced.
Also this was like 4-5+ years ago but I'm pretty sure an individual Valve employee donated to one of the LAN team funds, I might be misremembering on that though.
[quote=syph]Was this the only kind of valve sponsred thing comp tf2 has seen?[/quote]
It really depends on your definitions here. If you only mean competitive events and only mean Valve as a corporate entity then AFAIK yes.
If you mean anything competitive oriented and/or just individuals from Valve then no. The former would include the joint Valve & High Level Competitive Player private beta which largely resulted in these two updates: [url=https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/August_13,_2009_Patch]August 13th, 2009[/url] & [url=https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/September_15,_2009_Patch]September 15th, 2009[/url] as well as helped push the GRU/Gunslinger/Quick-Fix to how they wound up being when they were introduced.
Also this was like 4-5+ years ago but I'm pretty sure an individual Valve employee donated to one of the LAN team funds, I might be misremembering on that though.