Ben is fucking going.

Some sort of carpool will be arranged starting from Indianapolis and surrounding areas, through central Ohio and Pennsylvania. I will almost 100% be helping so be okay with showing up early and leaving late. Hit me up if interested.

To whom it may concern,

It is my great pleasure to have worked alongside Benjamin "Weeaboo Slayer" Roads for the better part of the last year of his TF2 career. As his medic and team captain, I got to see Mr. Roads improve upon his soldier game at varying levels of play. His intelligence, team spirit, undyingly positive attitude and utter disdain for European mappers impressed me throughout our time together.

If Mr. Roads were to have a fault, it would be his single-minded obsession with absolutely destroying all Weeaboos, furries, fuck bois and bronies on enemy teams. Ordinarily this would distract him from his normal duties as soldier, but seeing how those classifications fit neatly around roughly 90% of the TF2 community in some way, I trust that this will not be an issue in his play. Instead, see it as a positive note: he will be absolutely determined to wreck noobs.

Mr. Roads is a vibrant, cheerful young man who makes a great asset to any team. He is as good a roamer as he is a friend, and would love to sit in mumble at all hours of the night discussing the intricacies of absurdly well endowed breasts. It is with no small degree of confidence that I wholeheartedly recommend Mr. Roads for any team looking to be successful in the highly competitive mid to upper IM tier of play.

Regards
Dr. Shdwpuppet

we didnt cut him, he stopped showing up to scrims, matches and made no effort to communicate what was going on.

So. I guess it has not been really that big of a secret that Wu Tang Club (formerly hii open) has been struggling recently, and for the last year or so since I took over the team. I could sit here and cite how toxic ESEA has been all season with their inability to maintain a proper service. I could blame the revolving door of players that has come through our team since Universe took his vacation. I could say that mumble toxicity and poor teamwork doomed this team to fail.

But the reality is that none of those things really causes a team to die. Or maybe all of them do, and then some other factors. Everyone had their reasons for wanting (or not wanting) to part ways, but I don't think the specifics are really all that important. This is a personal post, and maybe it doesn't quite belong here, but I wanted to give my thanks to all of my team members, and to the community for a fun year.

Benroads: Thank you for stepping up and taking the pocket position, and filling it so well. For the first time in a long while I felt I had a pocket soldier that I could begin to synergize with.

Rastsy: Thank you for sticking with this, long after I think you had wanted to just bolt. Your dedication means the world to me and I am deeply, deeply sorry that this team could not give you the success you so desperately wanted in this game. You deserved better.

Pinkushin: Our late night inane conversations and theorycrafting was a bigger help on the sleepless nights where just talking to someone made all the difference in my life. You are a better friend, and a better man, than you will ever give yourself credit for. I hope that this team at least showed you some of that.

Freakin and Radium: We didn't play long together, but your flexibility, constantly great attitude and desire to have fun meant you were both excellent additions to the lineup. To you, I am sorry that the last 3 weeks couldn't have been a better utilization of your time.

Universe: Thank you for the team, thank you for picking me up in the first place, thank you for the roster and the good times and for being patient with me.

A year is and isn't a long time. It's only a small fragment of our lives, but in videogame talk it might as well be an eternity. Those who say that "its only a game" are deeply discounting the real aspect of competitive TF2. The people, the relationships we forge and break. I'm proud of these relationships, of this team. Not many teams could take three straight seasons of mediocrity and losses and still work together towards a common goal. Our wins were soaring reminders that there is talent buried in each of our 6 members. Our losses were devastating reminders of just how little we had improved as a group.

I fear that we will be seen as a failure, not necessarily in that pejorative sense (there must always be a bottom four), but instead in the sense that Faulkner used in a 1956 interview. "All of us failed to match our dream of perfection." He said "So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible." We failed with a certain grace and style that I hope was associated with our interactions with other teams. No swearing at each other, no yelling matches between the players. 6 friends, in a mumble, putting a slowly dying team to rest with a shred of dignity. We didn't have the strength to bring out the individual talent and soul so as to shine in our luminosity, and so the connections that held us together frayed. But we didn't snap, we didn't break. We could at least be that strong.

Calm your shit dude. I don't have time to sit around and wait for ESEA to fix their damn servers for 3 hours. It clearly said that the result wouldn't hold, we had a good, close, fun match on granary and it was way more satisfying than waiting for hours just to not get a real game in. I really don't know why you guys are salty about playing a 5-4, fast paced, intense match of granary instead of waiting around for what wasn't going to happen.

If you can program well, bidding for freelance jobs can bring in a bit of cash, writing is the same way but much more competitive.

I didn't care to verify one way or the other, I haven't really been in a place to continue mentoring her or anyone since then due to time constraints. Sorry you and the non-hackers among your crew had to get dragged into this, you guys were one of my better mentoring experiences.

:(((

I can also confirm this is PHLOGY. Dude. I am so fucking disappointed in you. I thought you had a ton of potential, your medic play was great, even after such a short period and I could see you being a really solid medic very quickly.

Why would you throw it away?

she told me that she had the new account to get away from her pocket who was being rapey sperglord level shitty. If there is something fucky going on with items, idk man.

Just really fucking disappointed.

You guys should collaborate or something. I told mana I was considering doing it, but I think what I will end up doing is writing the statistics portion of my articles when I have time/motivation and revisiting more involved writing once I am done with school in august.

Hurts but it's true. I also may not have time until playoffs come around, if I somehow find a chunk of 4 hours in my week I'll give it a shot.

If no one else, i will.

Unlikely at best

Dear god people I was bored at work and decided to just write about my favorite weapon. Not worth a whole thread.

bump again. We have a pocketman, just need a demo.