The top 10 most popular players so far

Duwatna
Boink
Decimate
Clockwork
b4nny
sezco
miwo
rando
Shrugger
showstopper

Also I'm really blown away by the interest in this, I thought I'd get about 50 teams but there's over 350 so far.

This should be you right? Would you rather be Tommunist?

Should be good now, at least it appeared when it was supposed to :) Although no one played their scheduled match so it didn't matter.

You may be surprised, top medics should get a lot of points. I've run some simulations and classes are priced according to how they've done in the past so you tend to get scouts and medics being very strong but demos and soldiers are the poor relations, but not by much.

Yeah, you need to sell him and get someone else

Right now the first priority is stability, improving the current experience (particularly some aspects on mobile browsers) and improving the administrative areas, it's pretty rough and ready behind the scenes and I'll need to make it easier to work with.

On my roadmap I've got better (or any) steam friends integration and making your own friends leagues instead of all just being in the same big list. That might be the right venue for a paid entry competition with a prize pool as well.

Some kind of weekly competition is also on the radar, although whether it's multiple teams or just a weekly reset for your team I'm not sure. In fact I'm not sure where to go with multiple teams per person, I've thought maybe donator perk or something but that's very vague.

In terms of the team composition, when I look at Highlander I'll be trying to make the whole thing more configurable as it's currently very much fixed in a 6v6 lineup, then it should be easy for me to look at alternative selection options.

Further to Saam's post I've added the confirmed members of the Champagne and Cocaine roster

Yeah, that was a nice instant error wasn't it? I think I've fixed what caused it

The public beta is now available here:
http://beta.fantasytf2.com/

ESEA Season 19 is the first league and there's only about 17 hours to go before the first match from the time of this post so mosey on over and pick yourself a team.

There are some players not included yet, Champagne and Cocaine are still uncertain as far as I know and hawaii beach vacation needed to confirm players last I heard. I'll make any necessary updates as soon as I know what's going on there. A big thankyou to Alkaline for helping with the roster information.

There will almost certainly be bugs, you can report them here or in the steam group or message me direct and I will get on with fixing them.

The FAQ should answer most of your questions but just ask anything you're still puzzled about.

I'm close to producing an acceptable beta system.

http://i.imgur.com/nAGkEDp.png

But I need some help with the data. With ESEA Season 19 fast approaching I've got to add and price up players, and that means knowing who will play on what team as opposed to roster riding. For testing I've gone off who has paid but obviously that's almost nobody at the moment, so a little help would be more than simply useful.

These are the invite teams:
froyotech
cafe monster
The Five Dollar Club
hawaii beach vacation
eLevate TF2
Champagne and Cocaine
Rat Squad
Hate Being Sober
Street Hoops eSports

Any opinions on who you think are the best players in these teams would also be good. Also the Steam group is open for business http://steamcommunity.com/groups/fantasytf2

NA take 1st - 4th

Now we have a positive ESEA announcement I'm planning to run ESEA S19 as the first Fantasy season closely followed by ETF2L S21. I'm working hard to get a usable site in place and a few people have been helping me out with some simple testing so a beta is on the way... although not until we've got some confirmed team data to enter.

I'm pretty sure they'll have that covered. If it comes out in a way that renders existing stuff obsolete I might be able to write up some interesting stuff I've discovered in my researches tho, instead of having to keep it a secret.

It's probably more a form of insurance in case the eurozone takes the nuclear option and expels them, then they have the domestic legal framework (the only one they would actually need to seize assets within their borders) to act unilaterally in reprisal.

The new news stories look like an effort to spin negotiations in a way that discourages other left leaning movements in the EU, in reality having an established hardline but powerful figure in the background is extremely useful for a new set of negotiators. That his role is possibly changing doesn't necessarily mean anything other than a change in tactics. The analysts are guessing along with everyone else.

A default would be bad for Greece but would also wreak havoc across the Eurozone and the global economy in unpredictable ways, and fear of this as an overriding factor in the thinking of the IMF and the ECB is probably behind the increasing number of good cops softening rhetoric from both institutions recently.

The reality is that almost all public statements on the subject, particularly German and Greek, are designed for political consumption at home and have very little to do with the true state of negotiations. If I had to pick one side over the other as more transparent it would probably be the Greeks, but that's only because they are more openly idealogical.

The soundboard of your voice that you're being replaced with will win all future casting awards.

I didn't say it would be legal