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It looks as if Team Fortress 2 gamers give you a brand new sport each time I take my eyes off them. Remember that 6v6 frying pan only tournament? And The Beginning’s 5 jumping competition? Well, now we have now dodgeball.
The United Dodgeball League two day cup kicks off on September 22nd, when Pyros will begin scurrying round airblasting rockets at one another’s faces in 2v2 matches. If that wasn’t the identical weekend as EGX, I’d be certainly one of them.
Of course, jumping long predates TF2 and it seems individuals have been enjoying rocket dodgeball for years, however I solely discover out this stuff exist when somebody places on a match.
Here are the tournament details in full, and listed below are the main points in short: “Players will compete as pairs to volley an increasingly fast crit-rocket with the other team. Failing to return the volley results in death & a point for the opposing side.”
It’s a variant of TF2 dodgeball often known as speedball, which seems to be like this (I really like that TF2 dodgeball is established sufficient to have variants). Sorry it’s grainy, however there’s an actual dearth of high-quality dodgeball movies on the market:
The winners will get some loot crate keys, however that appears incidental. It’s ardour that drives dodgeballers, each to play and write staggeringly detailed guides.
I consider the strategies that information lays out primarily apply to plain outdated dodgeball quite than speedball, however they’re so good I can’t resist mentioning them anyway. There’s part of me that longs to grasp “orbiting the rocket”, to good my “dirty backshot upspike” and to observe dashing, circling and statuing. There’s an entire language right here, a complete world tucked away in customized TF2 servers. It’s sensible.
If you’re as enamoured with the entire thought as I’m, you’ve received until September 19th to discover a Pyro pal and sign up.
