Shacknews Forces Crush Valve Overlords in Fierce Team Fortress 2 Skirmish

Valve played their match on pwnage.tv you can go to the website and find it uploaded to the site in a day or 2 on the demo part " on demand " i think is the area. The 2 top teams ex and 20id merged to make a 12 man team to play valve 12 vs 12. Valve started using a uber hax so that the team would stand a chance and still lost. It was a demolish. ex - 20id came out with all scouts round one and just basically rolled right over them in under 2 minutes on granary. then played with them and went all spy's. lost that round. then went back to trying and ended u spawn camping with 8 demomen. valve needs to fix the game better for competition.
Class restrictions for classes
6v6 is best format. 8v8 and higher is just spam and hardly medic uber train rushes.
more MAPS is a huge problem
and medic needs more then just a weak needle gun.

http://pwnage.tv/

On Demand ( to watch live TF 2 streams ) has some High level teams playing the game for www.totalgamingleague.com and www.cevo.com both money / prize leagues . 6 v 6 class restrictions ( top teams to look for ex / 20id / hse a.k.a skullgaming / saget in tights aka sit / serious business aka sb aka Makeshift / dr. aka The Doctors ) find the video of any of these teams and you can see the game played at a how level and very strat oriented .

1 medic
1 neer
1 heavy
1 demoman
1spy
2 snipers
2 soldiers
2 scouts
2 pryo's are the restrictions

great commentary bcyde! I hope we'll see more from you!

no class should be " nerfed " that will hurt the game. If anything medic should have something added, new maps must be added and maybe make crits an option on / off so that leagues wont have to use class restrictions and heavies would actually be used more in matchs. The game is made more for fun in public servers, but what about the people who play it on a " high level " like in www.cevo.com where money is involved ? I heard you guys are playing 20/ex in a upcoming match " valve " that is. they are 2
cevo PROFESSIONAL teams, so if you think weapons should be nerfed cause of what happend in the shack match wait till you play a team that plays for money and not only do they play but they are the #1 and #2 team in the game at the moment. All Im trying to do is make sure you guys dont nerf weapons to the point where no one wants to play the game at a high level and then the game will die down and eventually only played on pubs and then eventually die. Look at F.e.a.r / Unreal tournament 3 / Enemy quakewars all games that high decent coverage, few tournys, then the creators shit all over the games with bad patchs or no worthy patchs and now the games are crap and no one plays them. Dont make the same mistake with tf2 please :) anyways enjoyed the article. ( unreal tournament 3 actually didnt make it off the ground because it was released in beta form )

Hopefully you guys get some advice from people who actually play the game at a high level, so that maybe more people will play and more tournaments will come start up because the competition will grow from it being a good " competition " game.. " competition updates from people who actually play the game at a high level = more competition teams = more tournaments = more money invested into the game " " updates for public server stars = less competition = less tournaments = no money = no new players but people leaving to play cod4 " :)

p.s I wrote this late and night and just threw it together as it came out of my head, did not try to make it a good argument or story ( haha ) just fast info. thanks peace.

Wow, the video made the Shackblog, sweet!

Honestly, I felt bad that the WeGame recorder wasn't picking up the sound, only my microphone so I improvised - that's probably why I'm hesitating to fill the deadspace.

For anybody who's interested, you can watch streaming versions of all eight matches (4 on granary, and 4 on well) underneath my WeGame profile:

http://www.wegame.com/user/sergeon/

The Granary maps is when I discovered the sound problem so initially you hear the distorted game sounds and me talking to my wife in the background on the phone...lol. I'm sure somebody with Fraps can make a nicer version with full sound and better quality video but this is nice because it is quick and easy to do.

The part on me about the rocket to the head... Oh man I was yelling into the mic "ABOVE... ABOOOVVVVEEE!!" Seriously watching this is so different from how busy VOIP was for the team.

somebody put this on digg lol.

Play against someone like NastyJack enough and nerfing demos sounds like a great idea. I would limit the number of stickies they get. 8 is too many if you ask me. 5 or 6 should be enough.

Wow. I'm afraid to play with the Shack now. The leaping, rocketeering soldier action is particularly brilliant to watch.

Great job Shack!

The blog is absolutely hilarious, and the commentary in the video is fucking awesome as well.

I want to see more shit like this.

"he who ubers last always wins, it's the classic, uh, the uh classic dynamic!"

The color commentary is fantastic, I love it

LOL at headline picture!

PS: You have two typos in my name lol (CptTrips)

Congratulations lads! That was an awesome read and watch.

NastyJack is my hero

very awesome. hold your heads high gentlemen! hold them high!

nice work guys ;)

How do I always miss out on these matches? Are these announced/scheduled at all? Can anybody be on the Shack team (assuming they're good)?

I always miss these :\

lol at the article tags

Haha, great writeup :)

sergeon: the uhhh deciding game to uhhhhh uhhh see who will win

good call there

There will be more battles - and more victories for SHACKNEWS!!!!