Hello my friends on teamfortress.tv,
I have recently become aware that the ESEA news articles that I grew up reading and considered to be "lost media" are still up; at least some of them. When you go on the ESEA website and go to the old news archives, most of the old articles are actually not shown. I thought this meant that they were removed, since the ESEA website removed basically all ties to TF2 years ago.
IF, HOWEVER, you go to the search bar on the top right and search for "TF2", then go to advanced search and filter to "News", you can see a bunch of the old power ranking and prediction articles. (link: https://play.esea.net/search?query=tf2&index=content)
These appear to be unsorted, or sorted in some random order of relevance, so it's hard to see what exactly is there, but not everything that I remember to exist shows up in the results. I suspect this is because they aren't showing up in the TF2 search result, maybe they didn't have it in the article anywhere.
basically, I want to have a backup of these articles so they don't get lost, and organize them in a way that makes sense and allows tf2 Historians to go back and read up on them. I don't know what would be the best way to do this yet, and I also want to make sure that all the articles are accounted for (hopefully none have actually been deleted). I'm making this thread for any other boomers who might want to go back and read them.