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The Newbie Mix Team Drive is back for Season 28 of ESEA

After a successful S27 NA 6v6 Newbie Mix Team Drive, creating 10 teams worth of players to enter the ESEA scene, there’s no way we wouldn’t come back for S28. We’re hoping to not only keep the barrier of entry low for people on the fence about joining ESEA, but facilitate more balanced matches for the entire league.

We had a pretty strong drive last season, and I have complete confidence that we can do it again, but the Newbie Admins can't do this alone. We need the help of as many people as possible. Here are some of the ways you can support us:

Mentors
Mentors will be put in charge of a single team. Team mentors will help their team get their roster sorted properly, guide the newbies through the ropes of paying/playing in ESEA properly, and do demo/map reviews with their team. Every team that signs up will be getting a mentor, and we would absolutely love to have a large pool of people to choose the best-of-the-best from, so please sign up. It shouldn't take more than 1-2 hours a week, and a team will love you for it.

Premium codes
While asking for last minute premium codes for substitutes on tf.tv is common at this point, we don’t believe it should be something our newbies should have to worry about. “Is an Invite player going to see my post? Should I add one?” People new to the competitive scene have a lot of other stuff they could focus on. With them being new to the whole process, it’d be a whole lot easier if we just had a pool of a dozen or more codes to pull from in our google doc throughout the season.

Monetary Donations
This is the less fun part. Some of the people that will play in the drive teams will be kids/young teenagers with no way to pay for ESEA. During S27, about $300 in donations were used to let multiple people be able to play, and an even bigger drive could require even more. Unfortunately, any newbies that can’t get paid for in some way will be unable to participate. If you want to help, you can donate here, and check our progress here.

If you would like to volunteer as a mentor, message Jarrett on tftv or steam with a link to your ESEA page, and your email (for google docs). If you have premium codes to share, wish to donate via non-paypal, or have any questions, feel to message Jarrett via tftv or steam. Questions from newbies should go into this thread. Even if you don't want to help out in any official capacity, spread the word as much as you can. Let's do something amazing for this game we all enjoy so much.

Thank you.

Our raffles have completed. Congrats to Mackey for winning the unusual, adostra for winning 1 game, kredible for winning 3 games, and messiah for winning 8 games.

If you needed an item signed, you have been contact either via steam or email already about getting in touch with the player. If there's an issue, let someone know.

That concludes our perk distribution, thanks everyone for supporting us!

Just so everyone's on the same page, starting today we're going to be going through donation perks and clarifying a couple of them so sit tight and we should get to everyone soon.

That also means if you haven't emailed us about the perks at all, you're running very low on time to receive them.

Shout out to moof for driving me from the airport on Thursday, letting me borrow blankets, and just being the best ever.
Shout out to all of SVIFT and Velocity for making those 2 teams feel like 1 giant one outside of tf2.
Shout out to the 20 something people that chilled at our airbnb Saturday night 'cause it didn't get trashed or anything.
Shout out to charis for being a donut (you had to be there, because he sure wasnt).
Shout out to glider for the emergency food run on Friday night after delays made me have to skip 2 meals.
Shout out to Big Chips for letting me hang with them on Sunday watching the early games.
Shout out to crate for paying our tables bill at Norms when she didn't need to.
Shout out to Kings Crew for being hype as fuck all LAN, talking to all y'all was a pleasure.
Shout out to all the people that asked me to sign random stuff.
Shout out to all the people I met that I didn't say get to say a proper goodbye to, everyone was chill as fuck.

DEPART: ESA or my airbnb .7ish miles (10 min walk)North of the venue
DESTINATION: Long Beach Airport
DATE/TIME: 10:30 am or earlier
CONTACT VIA: Most of svift or velocity can whatsapp me if you cant find me in person, otherwise discord Jarrett#1250, then steam, then tftv

$5 says its a spectrum issue, me Rikachu and moof are having issues recently too

The placement amounts don't add up to the prizepool btw

krypt uninstalled client, restarted his computer, and reinstalled to fix his client issue yesterday. might wanna try that

cmon arekk channel ur inner Brilliant Minds™

If you can't pay your fee I will pay for you

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Rewind last year was definitely the biggest TF2 LAN North America has ever had, and with Rewind 2 just around the corner, there's no way Velocity Esports would sit around and not try to attend. The opportunity to compete at a LAN setting against some of the best teams TF2 have to offer is definitely something you can't pass up.

Our roster for Rewind 2 and ESEA S27 is as follows:

- Elliot "bear" Tower

- Alex "Jarrett" Jarrett

- Chris "Kryptonite" Vitale

- Alex "showstopperk1ng" Idanjian

- Daniel "shamoo" Wallace

- Peter "Pete" Fasig

We hope our participation can only add to the competitiveness of the LAN, however, it will be difficult to get there without some help. We won't see our ESEA winnings for multiple months, and our sponsorship can only assist so much.

Help out via these methods:

https://streamlabs.com/pete___
https://scrap.tf/tip/pete___
https://teespring.com/velocitytf2

View our progress here.

Breakdown:
Flights x 6 - $2015
Accomodation - ~$1000
Total - ~$3015
Money we've already put forward - ~$2300

Donation Perks:

- $5 - Game raffle OR Item signing OR Unusual Raffle

- $10 - Game raffle, Item signing, Unusual Raffle

- $15 - Game raffle, Item signing, Unusual Raffle, Snapchat

- $20 - Game raffle, Item signing, Unusual Raffle, Snapchat, Recorded Demo Review

- $25 - Game Raffle, Item signing, Unusual Raffle, Snapchat, Live Demo Review

- $30 - Game raffle, Item signing, Unusual Raffle, Snapchat, Team Map/Demo Review

- $35 - Game raffle, Item signing, Unusual Raffle, Snapchat, Review Perk of your choice, Scrim Access

- $40+ - Everything in the $35 package with an additional raffle ticket of your choice per additional $5.

- If you're not interested in certain perks like Snapchat or Reviews then you can turn each $5 increment into more raffle tickets.

- Sticker purchases can receive the $5 perk tier

- Shirt purchases can receive the $10 perk tier

- Hoodie purchases can receive the $15 perk tier

TO RECEIVE DONATION PERKS, PLEASE EMAIL US AT velocityrewind2018@gmail.com WITH THE EMAIL YOU DONATED FROM/PROOF OF MERCHANDISE PURCHASE, AND ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THE PERKS ASK FOR (Steam information, Snapchat Username, ect). PERKS WILL BE WORKED OUT AFTER THE LAN.

Perks explained:

- Game Raffle - 1 ticket into a raffle for the following games; must include a form of Steam contact:

Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition
Elder Scrolls Online
Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition
Dead Rising 2
Don't Starve Together
Pillars of Eternity
Orwell
Bastion
Limbo
GRID
Toki Tori
Brutal Legend

- Item signing - 1 Item signed by the player of your choice; must include a form of Steam contact, the Item, and Gift Wrap.

- Unusual Raffle - 1 ticket into a raffle for a "Circling Peace Sign Hat With No Name"; must include a form of Steam contact.

- Snapchat - Access to the Velocity Snapchat we'll be using throughout the LAN; must include Snapchat Username.

- Recorded Demo Review - 1 Recorded Demo Review by the player of your choice; must include link to demo at some point.

- Live Demo Review - 1 30min Live Demo Review by the player of your choice; must include a form of Steam contact to schedule it.

- Team Map/Demo Review - 1 under 60min Map/Demo Review with you and your team; must include a form of Steam contact to schedule it.

- Scrim Access - Access to a night of Velocity scrims in our mumble; must include a form of Steam contact to schedule it.

Excess donations will be donated back into the prize pool/community. Thanks everyone for supporting us!

The teams are completed. Thank you to everyone who volunteered in some way, and those who were willing to volunteer. We now have 10 additional teams competing in ESEA S27.

TEAM 1
Coach: Slicerogue
Coach: Jaguarfiend
Medic: pyritefish
Demo: miaou
Pocket: glaistig
Roamer: zotoh
Scout: Snooder
Scout: Big Cash
Backup: Algori
Backup: bote

TEAM 2
Coach: arekk
Medic: addison
Demo: ianpowerson
Pocket: Tart
Roamer: tab
Scout: willow
Scout: connor
Backup: Dogo_

TEAM Frantic
Coach: smitty
Medic: Sharkitect
Demo: Zaboomafoo
Pocket: teddy
Roamer: TBD
Scout: Nehcro
Scout: Sheep

TEAM 4
Coach: neeko
Medic: catman1900
Demo: toastghost
Pocket: euclid
Roamer: ember
Scout: onfroi
Scout: josh
Backup: invertigo
Backup: ppaleun

TEAM 5
Coach: Tery_
Medic: Nodspine
Demo: Hysteresis
Pocket: Benjutsu
Roamer: snarfl
Scout: Light
Scout: doctorslappy
Backup: kots
Backup: Ass Blaster

TEAM 6
Coach: gollywobbler
Medic: Nano
Demo: Crazyy Cow
Pocket: keng
Roamer: Nick
Scout: Discord
Scout: koolaidalan
Backup: Rayne
Backup: Josh

TEAM 7
Coach: mikemat
Coach: monkeyjedi
Medic: 75 dpm
Demo: Munky
Pocket: aurochs
Roamer: A_Viking
Scout: Omi
Scout: Minister
Backup: Kalico
Backup: TroubledFlounder

TEAM 8
Coach: j4v
Medic: Viridis
Demo: Arcade
Pocket: badger
Roamer: DylanHops
Scout: CowMilkingMoth
Scout: SV Cadet
Backup: Sturgii
Backup: Ashurrr

TEAM 9
Coach: brulee
Coach: Unicorn Wizard
Medic: FuzzyCurtain
Demo: mctron
Pocket: tonyfergie
Roamer: tayyy
Scout: PsychoBandit
Scout: flueve
Backup: emii
Backup: Felix

TEAM 10
Coach: Phantom
Coach: Relfecto
Medic: _Ezra_
Demo: Verifying
Pocket: sayori
Roamer: Gaming Maniac
Scout: Ceracy
Scout: onion man
Backup: r1ce
Backup: buzzboy
Backup: InShine