.

https://play.esea.net/match/5162458

beaten by less than 10 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPGQEuw7Nxc

https://play.esea.net/match/12320030

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpDRCs78gqE

https://play.esea.net/match/1607844 / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMfLZ-cOvbI&t=1m15s

This match made the Equalizer get a re-vote on if it should be banned or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtw_7I5QfUQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw59YbPLyC8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Voe_rs2aE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpDRCs78gqE

Oh yeah I forgot a legendary one, this is a match that was a really good example of both how 6s players could be very adaptive in countering stuff AND also how unlocks could really fuck with the meta.

Tony Hawk Pro Skaters (later Check Six) vs Dynamic, ESEA Invite S8W2 on koth_viaduct

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

For those who don't want to watch the whole match/want to know what's special about it:

* The OG Battalion's Backup while filled up on damage taken not dealt was meta on KOTH and being ran all the time, so you're going to see lots of it and how teams utilized it.

* ducky goes Heavy to both better benefit from Backup but also try to shred the Backup'd enemy players since Heavy's DPS is so high.

* oov has the bright idea to go Sydney Sleeper which back then Battalion's Backup didn't mitigate minicrits, making the Sydney Sleeper an ideal counter to both it and ducky's Heavy.

* Bloodsire goes Sniper to counter oov at one point and gets outsniped by Sydney Sleeper multiple times.

Battalion's Backup got banned immediately after.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An2mNouBZZQ&ab_channel=teamfortress.tv

EDIT: link that includes first round, different casters: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/48537194

also https://www.twitch.tv/videos/47578714

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fo3iriSj9w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emCQnhD544g

How can anyone forget these memes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmV8eOw1gY8

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

TCM vs iM @i49

nuff said

https://youtu.be/kFfpE5foxD4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpDRCs78gqE

https://youtu.be/tMmtr8CuCPc

https://youtu.be/7Vexsq1FXKo?t=1h18m49s

The whole match is great though

ETF2L Season 19 W2

maincall.tf vs La Berrichonne de Châteauroux
Map 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjFP4YwbQcY
Map 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1FE8AUu2p4
Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skShe1dA7b0&;
The best game in the regular season, although LBC's week 1 game vs Ze knutsson rollerbladers came close 2nd

ETF2L Season 8 Playoffs
Mister/GamerZone vs Paroxysm
http://etf2l.org/matches/24505/

ETF2L Season 14
broder vs BFF
http://etf2l.org/matches/38537/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbhRHV4XkJw

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

idk how this hasn't been mentioned yet, this is the match that got me into tf2

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dunno if its been posted but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO-8skO6Ir0&t

I'm not sure how actually good the match was, but seasons and seasons ago I casted a Gravelpit match from an ESEA LAN with some early rendition of ascent and I want to say a pure team (though which one I can no longer remember) where the first team set an unbelievable time in the upper 1m50s range and then during the setup time I went on like an ass about how that time was essentially unbeatable and then wouldn't you know it the fuckers won by an additional 2-3 seconds or something.

It was just an insane game from a long time ago that I had a lot of fun casting/producing for so maybe nostalgia is muddying the waters.

Epsilon back then was the equivalent of original Froyotech with Clockwork and Lanksy, the dominant team by a wide margin with very little contest (Iirc 13 months without dropping a map). Broder put up an amazing fight over three maps in a Bo3 series in the GF.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkeJ1DpJeWE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0-45kKdEKg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saf6WUN_yrA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMEcCL5_Dy0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIAuwOSeI0c

I didn't see this posted, but season 15 esea grand finals produced two of the craziest games of tf2 I've ever seen. To say that it was a roller coaster of emotions honestly doesn't do the games enough justice.