Coffee Clock have two maps where they’re given a pretty big advantage against the North Americans, who can only ban one of them. Sunshine is immediately banned, as Theory of Knowledge have had the bulk of their recent success there. Given that Coffee Clock represents a bunch of players who have capably rivalled Jasmine in the past, and that Jasmine have twice come fourth at international LANs, it’s probably fair to say that Theory of Knowledge shouldn’t expect to win this. Here’s another unorthodox pairing – the ESEA-Intermediate champions versus the (disputed) best team in Australia. That means Faint win in two maps, but I think we can say Svift did a pretty decent job against the Europeans overall. Despite 30% of the match taking place with Faint stuck on their last, Svift can’t win a round. Discounting the first round, they appear to match Faint’s strength blow for blow, but their downfall is in their struggles to put bodies on Faint’s last. It’s fairly safe to say that Svift probably deserved better that a 3-0 loss on Badlands.
In the end, the mids turn out to be about evenly split between the two teams. Gullywash is fast-paced, and Faint show a clear edge throughout, but Svift AS are able to make some impact of their own by taking a couple of clean rounds to make the final scoreline 6-2 in Faint’s favour. We’ll open on Gullywash, a global staple picked by Faint, and then move on to Badlands, a map that these days I think is a little more favoured in the Asia/Oceania region that it is west of there. The map familiarity figures for these two teams mirror eachother surprisingly closely. Here, one of Asia’s best teams faces off against Europe’s fourth-best.
Still, through things like the overlap that exists between the Asian and Australian scenes, this ranking model does have its own ideas about how the region stacks up.
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Their full roster, and their recent run of results, paint a portrait of a team that could easily belong in Invite.Īsia is probably the hardest TF2-playing region to judge against the others, given the lack of an Asian presence at any international LANs in recent times or, indeed, any prominent international presence at AFLAN. The TF2Metrics rankings hold him to be the world’s 77th-best player. Several of their players have Invite experience, with Stock, for example, being a much celebrated demoman who played with Kings Crew last season. Their final match of the season was a victory over Dunk Masters in three maps. Rounding off today’s quartet are the reigning champions from ESEA-Intermediate. They’re sure to be Xiao’s chief rivals in the new AsiaFortress season, that is if they don’t prove to in fact be the hunted rather than the hunters. Joining him are such names as hsr and Fwishy, who played with the victorious Xiao last season (and have ozfortress backgrounds in Right Wing Death Squad), as well as Banana and Ry4n who have also been prominent in AsiaFortress. He’s also played in ozfortress very recently with Pineapple Towers who came third in Premier. Teejay is perhaps the anchor of the team. Svift’s latest overseas venture has landed them in Asia, with a roster that boasts a number of big names in the region’s TF2 scene. As a top-four team in Europe, they have every right to expect to be in this virtual tournament’s top 16.
Another player swap was Matthes arriving to replace Rising, who can’t attend Copenhagen. This iteration of the team is a continuation of Svift from Season 31, with Alba stepping down to be replaced by Counou between seasons. This team came fourth overall in ETF2L Prem last season, in which they competed very capably with the other four top teams. Make no mistake, though – Coffee Clock represent a band of players who have a long history of making Jasmine Tea sweat. Jasmine aren’t participating in the outgoing season, leaving Coffee Clock primed to inherit the ozfortress crown. DogeĬoffee Clock are a team comprised of many of the players who for a long time have been Australia’s chief resistance against the Jasmine Tea dynasty.
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