We reached out to ETF2L admin Austin to talk about his team KNOPPERS

Could you describe your team ? Who's playing what... ?
My team is Wild_Piggie on medic, Kaper on pocket scout, proky on flank scout, Khalistan Zindabad jeven on roamer, ZYKAZ on pocket and myself on demoman. We've had a wild_middie journey coming into mid from a 2nd place low finish last season. Myself, jeven and Kaper stayed on the same roles while proky moved to scout allowing ZYKAZ to come in on pocket. In a need of a cool gamer to play the medic role, piggie ascended to mid.

Going into the final, what do you think are your strong points ? In term of playstyle, maps…
For the final; what can you not love about playing russian dm’ers :)

Going into the season, were you expecting to make it to the final ? If not, how far did you expect to go ?
Going into the season our best hopes were to make playoffs having just come from low, turns out all you need is one 15 year old to dm all day and a mega keen Jatt Punjabi Sikh for mid to get slammed

And what do you think about the opposing team ?
The opposing team has players with just as much experience as some of us but unlike myself, zykaz and piggie, they are mainclassing in mid :)

Any closing words/shoutouts ?
Austin : Shoutout have to go to MONKEY MODE, Kaper’s mother with “last minute” holidays, Hereford farm & Sainsburys.
jeven : shout out kn
Wild_piggie : Shoutout to mischka

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/LatenightEUMGE

I got too many adds for me to all play with them in one night, so I made this group to help people find other nerds that don't sleep.

Heyo, I'm looking for someone willing to fight me in MGE between 1AM and 5AM CEST on European servers (not russians unless you find one where I somehow get below 50 ping). I often feel the urge to play during those hours, but playing on the East Coast with 100 ping isn't top notch.

I'm just looking for someone to click on, if you wanna speak that's okay but not required. I play soldier but you don't have to. Also I have sub-1500 elo on at least 2 different servers so don't worry about getting owned.

Add me

uncool to try and make the fundraiser fail...

Please talk about me, i'll pay you

I lost a 1v1 on our last to a 8 hp solly who only used his melee, and I was a scout with full health

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

outrage click don't pay attention

I have more nerdstars bow down to me peasant

appalled by uberchain's last statement

Yeah, teams switching orgs is finnicky sometimes, soz.

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20 nuggets with curry, bbq and Chinese sauce
3 Bacen & egg mcmuffins

Is this some elaborate shitposting ?

Also regarding your main point, I believe that the "lack of motivation" has been refuted by a lot of Invite players, saying that they were also very motivated but the reason froyo is hard to beat is not only the fact that they are some of the best players in the world, but that they stay together for long periods of times and train consistently, whereas the rest of NA has had some issues with keeping the same team together from one season to the next. I don't blame them at all, it's a 10 year old game that is also a hobby, and obviously many of them are students/have other commitments.

Having a super team dominate a scene is not necessarily an issue, in Europe we've had Se7en winning every season for a little while too. I think the lack of consistent LANs is more of an issue for Invite, seeing how in EU people both keen up for them and often feel remotivated after them.