Ladies and gentlemen of the Team Fortress 2 Division,
We address you today at a moment that is perhaps all too familiar in divisional history. We stand at a crossroads where all of us should feel obligated to reflect and consider who we are and the things for which we stand. We need not emphasize the imperfections of our division. We need not harp on the failure of any member to uphold the values of eGO. We need only pause and reflect, so that we may, without partisanship, cooperate to continue restoring our divisional wellbeing and build upon the successes we have enjoyed in that process.
We are committed to trying new methods to bring you the most enjoyment. It is our task to perfect, to improve, to alter when necessary. However it goes, it goes forward at all times. 2012 has been a tumultuous year, but we are poised to bring new and long-term stability to the division. We can only serve as guides; the power of change rests with your collective voice. What follows is a review of the division throughout 2012, that you may weigh the events of the past and judge what are the best decisions to be made in the future.
At the start of 2012, our leadership roster consisted of Advisors Activate, Mobilize, SpidEY, Wilson!!, and vudu; Division Leaders CrazyWolf, Kevimaster, and Razor1; and Councillor Sloppie. After distinguishing himself as a foremost advocate of recruiting, Legit Waffle was elevated to the position of Advisor in March to oversee recruiting efforts on behalf of the division. This was the start of a flurry of activity at the top posts.
As April advanced, vudu decided he would be best able to serve in an advisory capacity for DOTA 2. Activate and Wilson, both heavily tasked as the EC and competitive team advisors, respectively, were given support when Noise and Caelestis rose up to join them. At the same time of Caelestis's promotion, Gypsy was promoted to oversee the Admin Trainers.
These events in April and early May were part of a much greater shuffle. Sloppie and Razor1 stepped down from their positions after many months. By mistake, it appeared that CrazyWolf, too, was departing from the division and so Spidey was advanced to fill the vacant DL positions. As the remaining DL, Kevimaster moved up to the position of Councillor for Team Fortress 2. By June, it was clear that one more DL was needed, and that honor was given to Wilson.
Unsteady progress was the mark of midsummer. When Activate and Noise departed to organize Reflex Gamers, the EC Program was left without an advisor. Caelestis, having been an EC for nine months, was charged with the ECs. In short order, he was succeeded as the competitive team advisor by Nik. After a hiatus of activity on the part of Legit Waffle, Wize was selected to be the new recruiting advisor. Similarly, Spidey came to be the new Councillor for TF2 as Kevimaster found himself increasingly burdened with obligations in the real world. This was capped off by Gypsy's quiet, gracious decision to step aside for a more permanent advisor of the ATs, SnowCanary, who received his promotion in August.
More changes came at the end of the summer. Following Nik's election to resign and the obvious space at the DL level when CrazyWolf resigned as well, plans were set in motion to fill these vacancies. In September, Kazoo was made Caelestis's co-advisor in the EC corner while PepperRabbit stepped up to become the new competitive team advisor, having previously made a name for himself as a de facto captain of one of the summer highlander teams. After Kazoo refused to stop talking about cats, Caelestis joined Wilson as a Division Leader, mostly to get away from discussing felines. This move was widely hailed for the decision to bring a degree of tone-deafness to the DL level where none had existed before.
At the end of 2011, the division had five servers: Egypt, Blackmesa, two forms of 2Fort, and the Events server. They had just been moved to a new box in the hope of improving performance. Unfortunately, the change in server IPs affected some servers more negatively than others. Blackmesa visibly suffered the most, with frequent complaints about lag and the slow response of many regulars to notice its change of location. At much the same time, Valve Maps returned and immediately went into the ascendant, thanks in large part to a dedicated base of players committed to filling it regularly.
One of the 2Fort servers was converted to a Foundry server to celebrate its release as the Christmas 2011 map. Although the change was originally intended to be temporary, Foundry became one of the division's biggest new draws. Despite naysayers arguing to the contrary, Foundry continues to be popular and has remained a mainstay among the servers.
On April 1, Leadership decided that Blackmesa's continual poor numbers were unsustainable and announced its immediate conversion to Dustbowl. This was a controversial move at the time, generating a great deal of debate about the division's focus and the decision-making of Leadership. Some initially received this news as an April Fool's Day joke. Despite the initial shock, Dustbowl, like Foundry, persists as a high-ranking server to this day. The loss of Blackmesa, however, was too great to ignore. To make up for its absence, the ECs took the initiative to dedicate a weekly event to it. Following a successful run of Blackmesa Night events throughout late spring and the early summer, a very generous donation was made to the effect of paying for a Blackmesa server for several months. Nonetheless, Blackmesa failed to pull in numbers yet again and was shut down in late June to clear the way for a Doomsday server.
Team Fortress 2, in contrast to its sister divisions, continued to expand substantially into the summer. The fact that the servers were all remaining full prompted Leadership to consult the division for its input on another server. After several rounds of voting, the community chose to expand its horizons with a Payload server.
As the addition of Payload allowed the summer to go out with a bang, autumn brought the scent of a new Halloween update. Since there was so much room on the server box that TF2 shares with DoD:S, a special Halloween server was added to the lineup, intended as a temporary server to run all the Halloween maps. It became readily apparent that Harvest was a continual draw, both in its event form on the Halloween server and in its vanilla form on Valve Maps. Following some deliberation in early November, the decision was made to establish this server more permanently as a Harvest server, to the delight of Market Gardening Soldiers everywhere.
The end of November marked another server transition. Doomsday, after enjoying an initial burst of popularity, slowly declined. Much like with Mesa that had preceded it, Doomsday was marred by complaints of lag. Furthermore, its novelty had worn off and was regarded as more of a chore to fill than a server to enjoy. Many ideas were offered to find a suitable successor. Ultimately, a plurality of the division chose to change the server to a rotation of Control Points maps. Although initially anemic, CP Rotation eventually took off and has since gained a stronger backing in the community.
Currently, the division boasts nine servers: 2Fort, Dustbowl, Foundry, Payload, Valve Maps, Harvest, CP Rotation, the Events server, and the League server. Almost all of the work involved in expanding the servers is that of dedicated members of the division, many of whom organized themselves under the banner of the Fast Fill Task Force. The FFTF plays an instrumental role still in initiating server fills, taking after the previous practice of "fast fills," in which leaders would call upon anyone around to rush a server and bring in some numbers. The FFTF shares a friendly non-rivalry with the Fast Camp Task Force, established to promote spawn camping not only as a strategy but as a way of life. Both the FFTF and the FCTF have respective achievements in eGO. Assuredly, when the Fast Ban Task Force organized by Idol gains a stronger foothold in the division, it, too, shall have an eGO achievement, presumably in the form of a ban.
The Event Coordinator Program continues to be at the forefront of adapting to maximize your merriment on a day-to-day basis. Several significant changes have been made to the Program since the beginning of the year and a number of major events have been hosted under the ECs' supervision.
On April 7, soldiers and demomen came together in the Basketball Tournament. Fifteen teams signed up to duke it out, scoring dunks at the cost of others' gibs. Despite many fouls (blowing people to smithereens) on the court, many people had a good time watching and listening to live shoutcasting of the matches. In the end, the top three teams were Selva Peluda, Combo Breakers, and Anything You Want.
Season 4 of the Summer League was hit from the start with setbacks of all sorts. A Valve update during the first week delayed the beginning of league play. Two weeks in, a number of active players and the EC Advisors departed, further pushing the league behind schedule. Determined to end the league before it ended them, the ECs pushed through the rest of the league on a rigorous timetable in the fall. Of the eight initial teams, Lotion and Entirely Irrelevant went on to square off in the climactic clash at the finals. Entirely Irrelevant emerged entirely victorious. They still receive the fawning admiration (indifference) of their peers, total bragging rights (no particular reason to gloat), and occasional calls from the White House (Caelestis occasionally calls them short).
To celebrate the 2012 Summer Olympics, the division held its own Olympic Games from August 5 to August 11. The week of events included boxing, fencing, high jump, long jump, triple jump, volleyball, basketball, archery, dodgeball, and soccer. The experience was a unique one, not before (or since, thankfully) seen in the division. After nerfing Wilcritson, the ECs got their game on and happily presented the bronze to VP-77, the silver to Foopace, and the gold to SnowCanary.
On September 22, the TF2 Free-4-All Tournament (codenamed The Biggest Freakin' Tournament Evar) went underway. This tournament, also a novel concept, pitted everyone against each other, yet cooperation was necessary in this war of all against all. Sponsored by eXtv and Edge Game Servers, the F4A Tournament drew in people from all corners of the TF2 community to compete for the grand prize: an Intel i7-2700K processor. Many of us remember where we were when Mangachu went Mangachu and SteveC took home the grand prize because, in the end, there could be only one.
In December, the 2nd 3v3 KOTH Christmas Tournament was held. Following cues from the division, several modifications were made to the layout of the tournament, including double elimination play. Teams of three traveled from rainy slopes of Sawmill to the alpine foothills of Viaduct, from the bottomless void of Nucleus to the sandy shore of Lakeside. The members of G's-Force pulled off a stunning upset and rose up from the losers' bracket to take it all, winning Steam games of their choice.
Apart from hosting tournaments, the ECs have been hard at work improving regular events. Mods and plugins continue to be added at their discretion. Experiments are made with new minigames and events. The most recent new thing, karaoke nights, features divisional talent (a term loosely used) in singing. As always, the ECs are open to suggestions for fresh and exciting ideas. For anyone who has not regularly come to events, below is a video demonstrating just a fraction of the merriment and hilarity regularly found by attending.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Q4B4g_zrc[/ame]
Under the tutelage of Wilson, the defunct competitive team for the Team Fortress 2 Division was revived. Following a season of organizing for competitions in the fall of 2011, the eGO TF2 sixes team broke out of nowhere to place as the Steel champions for the eighth season of the United Gaming Clan league. Veterans of that team formed the core of the new highlander team that followed up on their successes by going to the playoffs in the sixth season of the UGC highlander league. The team ended with a 7-4 record, having played exceptionally well for a bunch of scrubs that never practiced. The roster for the season consisted of Wilson, Caelestis, ShinobiSli, m3rryg0r0und, roamer, Wize, "Critpistol" Kevimaster, Shiznoe, Goz, Dead Tom, codo, Whisker Biscuit, Thereven, Gabe, RoflCopter, and Conrad.
The impressive performance in Season Six generated substantial interest in participation. In fact, there was so much eagerness among the division's more competitive players that it was necessary to create two highlander teams for the summer league. Additions to the rosters included PepperRabbit, Activate, Brandon, Deviant1, Ludicrous, Nik, SnowCanary, MarioMaster9664, Varil, VP-77, Crixus, Cold, Noblewarrior, and NightZero. The second team, generally managed by Caelestis, found de facto captains in Nik and PepperRabbit. Nik went on to succeed Caelestis as the second team's general manager. However, constant changes and withdrawals from the teams caused both teams to be shuffling everyday. By the end of the seventh season, the two teams were consolidated into one and concluded with a 5-3 season.
Prior to the eighth season, another change occurred in the front office. Nik stepped down and was succeeded by PepperRabbit as the competitive team advisor. The eighth season saw the addition of two new faces to the team: Goyan-Tanuki and N-Light. Following many scrims against one team that insisted on using platinum players and many arguments over whether it is a boat or a mall in the back of RED base on Upward, the team concluded the eighth season with a 5-3 record.
While these were the developments on the highlander front, the sixes team underwent radical roster changes. Kammy, Joe, Madoff, Clandestine, Wulfy, and Wilson went on to the E-Sports Entertainment Association sixes league, representing eGO. For the eleventh season of the ESEA sixes league, they split their record at 8 and 8 in open division. Building upon their strengths, the team improved considerably, finishing in third place in the twelfth season with a 16-7 record. Both the highlander and sixes teams continue to be acclaimed for their talented members, high degree of sportsmanship, and dedicated managers. Highlight videos of the teams' performances can be found below. We are not responsible for any bad background music Wilson incorporated into these videos.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh9ECaZg-Ao&feature=player_embedded[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW5nYuAGLDg&feature=player_embedded[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe4H3ocWvA4&feature=player_embedded[/ame]
2013 GOALS
With 2012 behind us, there are a few goals that we hope to achieve as a division for 2013:
These are modest goals upon which we can build as we see fit. If we attack our objectives with determination, we shall succeed, and we ought to succeed, for we are unequivocally dabes division. During the past year, the division has seen both great triumphs and troubling times. It cannot be denied that there have been disagreements between members and members, members and leaders, and even leaders and leaders - as there have been disagreements from the inception. We all realize that there have been some people whose task has been, in large part, to stir up dissension, to mismanage and to misuse their positions of trust, and to magnify normal, healthy disagreements so that they appear to be irreconcilable conflicts. However, the overall record in this respect is eloquent: the Team Fortress 2 Division, in every field, has had a good record of achievement in 2012. We stand poised to reach new heights in 2013 by working together for the common good. We have a great many issues to solve ahead of us and we must approach them with realism and dignity. This new year of 2013 can be the greatest year of achievement in divisional history. We, today, are making history, and hopefully it will be better history than ever before has been made. May we make this journey, this magnificent ascent, hand in hand.
We address you today at a moment that is perhaps all too familiar in divisional history. We stand at a crossroads where all of us should feel obligated to reflect and consider who we are and the things for which we stand. We need not emphasize the imperfections of our division. We need not harp on the failure of any member to uphold the values of eGO. We need only pause and reflect, so that we may, without partisanship, cooperate to continue restoring our divisional wellbeing and build upon the successes we have enjoyed in that process.
We are committed to trying new methods to bring you the most enjoyment. It is our task to perfect, to improve, to alter when necessary. However it goes, it goes forward at all times. 2012 has been a tumultuous year, but we are poised to bring new and long-term stability to the division. We can only serve as guides; the power of change rests with your collective voice. What follows is a review of the division throughout 2012, that you may weigh the events of the past and judge what are the best decisions to be made in the future.
At the start of 2012, our leadership roster consisted of Advisors Activate, Mobilize, SpidEY, Wilson!!, and vudu; Division Leaders CrazyWolf, Kevimaster, and Razor1; and Councillor Sloppie. After distinguishing himself as a foremost advocate of recruiting, Legit Waffle was elevated to the position of Advisor in March to oversee recruiting efforts on behalf of the division. This was the start of a flurry of activity at the top posts.
As April advanced, vudu decided he would be best able to serve in an advisory capacity for DOTA 2. Activate and Wilson, both heavily tasked as the EC and competitive team advisors, respectively, were given support when Noise and Caelestis rose up to join them. At the same time of Caelestis's promotion, Gypsy was promoted to oversee the Admin Trainers.
These events in April and early May were part of a much greater shuffle. Sloppie and Razor1 stepped down from their positions after many months. By mistake, it appeared that CrazyWolf, too, was departing from the division and so Spidey was advanced to fill the vacant DL positions. As the remaining DL, Kevimaster moved up to the position of Councillor for Team Fortress 2. By June, it was clear that one more DL was needed, and that honor was given to Wilson.
Unsteady progress was the mark of midsummer. When Activate and Noise departed to organize Reflex Gamers, the EC Program was left without an advisor. Caelestis, having been an EC for nine months, was charged with the ECs. In short order, he was succeeded as the competitive team advisor by Nik. After a hiatus of activity on the part of Legit Waffle, Wize was selected to be the new recruiting advisor. Similarly, Spidey came to be the new Councillor for TF2 as Kevimaster found himself increasingly burdened with obligations in the real world. This was capped off by Gypsy's quiet, gracious decision to step aside for a more permanent advisor of the ATs, SnowCanary, who received his promotion in August.
More changes came at the end of the summer. Following Nik's election to resign and the obvious space at the DL level when CrazyWolf resigned as well, plans were set in motion to fill these vacancies. In September, Kazoo was made Caelestis's co-advisor in the EC corner while PepperRabbit stepped up to become the new competitive team advisor, having previously made a name for himself as a de facto captain of one of the summer highlander teams. After Kazoo refused to stop talking about cats, Caelestis joined Wilson as a Division Leader, mostly to get away from discussing felines. This move was widely hailed for the decision to bring a degree of tone-deafness to the DL level where none had existed before.
At the end of 2011, the division had five servers: Egypt, Blackmesa, two forms of 2Fort, and the Events server. They had just been moved to a new box in the hope of improving performance. Unfortunately, the change in server IPs affected some servers more negatively than others. Blackmesa visibly suffered the most, with frequent complaints about lag and the slow response of many regulars to notice its change of location. At much the same time, Valve Maps returned and immediately went into the ascendant, thanks in large part to a dedicated base of players committed to filling it regularly.
One of the 2Fort servers was converted to a Foundry server to celebrate its release as the Christmas 2011 map. Although the change was originally intended to be temporary, Foundry became one of the division's biggest new draws. Despite naysayers arguing to the contrary, Foundry continues to be popular and has remained a mainstay among the servers.
On April 1, Leadership decided that Blackmesa's continual poor numbers were unsustainable and announced its immediate conversion to Dustbowl. This was a controversial move at the time, generating a great deal of debate about the division's focus and the decision-making of Leadership. Some initially received this news as an April Fool's Day joke. Despite the initial shock, Dustbowl, like Foundry, persists as a high-ranking server to this day. The loss of Blackmesa, however, was too great to ignore. To make up for its absence, the ECs took the initiative to dedicate a weekly event to it. Following a successful run of Blackmesa Night events throughout late spring and the early summer, a very generous donation was made to the effect of paying for a Blackmesa server for several months. Nonetheless, Blackmesa failed to pull in numbers yet again and was shut down in late June to clear the way for a Doomsday server.
Team Fortress 2, in contrast to its sister divisions, continued to expand substantially into the summer. The fact that the servers were all remaining full prompted Leadership to consult the division for its input on another server. After several rounds of voting, the community chose to expand its horizons with a Payload server.
As the addition of Payload allowed the summer to go out with a bang, autumn brought the scent of a new Halloween update. Since there was so much room on the server box that TF2 shares with DoD:S, a special Halloween server was added to the lineup, intended as a temporary server to run all the Halloween maps. It became readily apparent that Harvest was a continual draw, both in its event form on the Halloween server and in its vanilla form on Valve Maps. Following some deliberation in early November, the decision was made to establish this server more permanently as a Harvest server, to the delight of Market Gardening Soldiers everywhere.
The end of November marked another server transition. Doomsday, after enjoying an initial burst of popularity, slowly declined. Much like with Mesa that had preceded it, Doomsday was marred by complaints of lag. Furthermore, its novelty had worn off and was regarded as more of a chore to fill than a server to enjoy. Many ideas were offered to find a suitable successor. Ultimately, a plurality of the division chose to change the server to a rotation of Control Points maps. Although initially anemic, CP Rotation eventually took off and has since gained a stronger backing in the community.
Currently, the division boasts nine servers: 2Fort, Dustbowl, Foundry, Payload, Valve Maps, Harvest, CP Rotation, the Events server, and the League server. Almost all of the work involved in expanding the servers is that of dedicated members of the division, many of whom organized themselves under the banner of the Fast Fill Task Force. The FFTF plays an instrumental role still in initiating server fills, taking after the previous practice of "fast fills," in which leaders would call upon anyone around to rush a server and bring in some numbers. The FFTF shares a friendly non-rivalry with the Fast Camp Task Force, established to promote spawn camping not only as a strategy but as a way of life. Both the FFTF and the FCTF have respective achievements in eGO. Assuredly, when the Fast Ban Task Force organized by Idol gains a stronger foothold in the division, it, too, shall have an eGO achievement, presumably in the form of a ban.
The Event Coordinator Program continues to be at the forefront of adapting to maximize your merriment on a day-to-day basis. Several significant changes have been made to the Program since the beginning of the year and a number of major events have been hosted under the ECs' supervision.
On April 7, soldiers and demomen came together in the Basketball Tournament. Fifteen teams signed up to duke it out, scoring dunks at the cost of others' gibs. Despite many fouls (blowing people to smithereens) on the court, many people had a good time watching and listening to live shoutcasting of the matches. In the end, the top three teams were Selva Peluda, Combo Breakers, and Anything You Want.
Season 4 of the Summer League was hit from the start with setbacks of all sorts. A Valve update during the first week delayed the beginning of league play. Two weeks in, a number of active players and the EC Advisors departed, further pushing the league behind schedule. Determined to end the league before it ended them, the ECs pushed through the rest of the league on a rigorous timetable in the fall. Of the eight initial teams, Lotion and Entirely Irrelevant went on to square off in the climactic clash at the finals. Entirely Irrelevant emerged entirely victorious. They still receive the fawning admiration (indifference) of their peers, total bragging rights (no particular reason to gloat), and occasional calls from the White House (Caelestis occasionally calls them short).
To celebrate the 2012 Summer Olympics, the division held its own Olympic Games from August 5 to August 11. The week of events included boxing, fencing, high jump, long jump, triple jump, volleyball, basketball, archery, dodgeball, and soccer. The experience was a unique one, not before (or since, thankfully) seen in the division. After nerfing Wilcritson, the ECs got their game on and happily presented the bronze to VP-77, the silver to Foopace, and the gold to SnowCanary.
On September 22, the TF2 Free-4-All Tournament (codenamed The Biggest Freakin' Tournament Evar) went underway. This tournament, also a novel concept, pitted everyone against each other, yet cooperation was necessary in this war of all against all. Sponsored by eXtv and Edge Game Servers, the F4A Tournament drew in people from all corners of the TF2 community to compete for the grand prize: an Intel i7-2700K processor. Many of us remember where we were when Mangachu went Mangachu and SteveC took home the grand prize because, in the end, there could be only one.
In December, the 2nd 3v3 KOTH Christmas Tournament was held. Following cues from the division, several modifications were made to the layout of the tournament, including double elimination play. Teams of three traveled from rainy slopes of Sawmill to the alpine foothills of Viaduct, from the bottomless void of Nucleus to the sandy shore of Lakeside. The members of G's-Force pulled off a stunning upset and rose up from the losers' bracket to take it all, winning Steam games of their choice.
Apart from hosting tournaments, the ECs have been hard at work improving regular events. Mods and plugins continue to be added at their discretion. Experiments are made with new minigames and events. The most recent new thing, karaoke nights, features divisional talent (a term loosely used) in singing. As always, the ECs are open to suggestions for fresh and exciting ideas. For anyone who has not regularly come to events, below is a video demonstrating just a fraction of the merriment and hilarity regularly found by attending.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Q4B4g_zrc[/ame]
Under the tutelage of Wilson, the defunct competitive team for the Team Fortress 2 Division was revived. Following a season of organizing for competitions in the fall of 2011, the eGO TF2 sixes team broke out of nowhere to place as the Steel champions for the eighth season of the United Gaming Clan league. Veterans of that team formed the core of the new highlander team that followed up on their successes by going to the playoffs in the sixth season of the UGC highlander league. The team ended with a 7-4 record, having played exceptionally well for a bunch of scrubs that never practiced. The roster for the season consisted of Wilson, Caelestis, ShinobiSli, m3rryg0r0und, roamer, Wize, "Critpistol" Kevimaster, Shiznoe, Goz, Dead Tom, codo, Whisker Biscuit, Thereven, Gabe, RoflCopter, and Conrad.
The impressive performance in Season Six generated substantial interest in participation. In fact, there was so much eagerness among the division's more competitive players that it was necessary to create two highlander teams for the summer league. Additions to the rosters included PepperRabbit, Activate, Brandon, Deviant1, Ludicrous, Nik, SnowCanary, MarioMaster9664, Varil, VP-77, Crixus, Cold, Noblewarrior, and NightZero. The second team, generally managed by Caelestis, found de facto captains in Nik and PepperRabbit. Nik went on to succeed Caelestis as the second team's general manager. However, constant changes and withdrawals from the teams caused both teams to be shuffling everyday. By the end of the seventh season, the two teams were consolidated into one and concluded with a 5-3 season.
Prior to the eighth season, another change occurred in the front office. Nik stepped down and was succeeded by PepperRabbit as the competitive team advisor. The eighth season saw the addition of two new faces to the team: Goyan-Tanuki and N-Light. Following many scrims against one team that insisted on using platinum players and many arguments over whether it is a boat or a mall in the back of RED base on Upward, the team concluded the eighth season with a 5-3 record.
While these were the developments on the highlander front, the sixes team underwent radical roster changes. Kammy, Joe, Madoff, Clandestine, Wulfy, and Wilson went on to the E-Sports Entertainment Association sixes league, representing eGO. For the eleventh season of the ESEA sixes league, they split their record at 8 and 8 in open division. Building upon their strengths, the team improved considerably, finishing in third place in the twelfth season with a 16-7 record. Both the highlander and sixes teams continue to be acclaimed for their talented members, high degree of sportsmanship, and dedicated managers. Highlight videos of the teams' performances can be found below. We are not responsible for any bad background music Wilson incorporated into these videos.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh9ECaZg-Ao&feature=player_embedded[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW5nYuAGLDg&feature=player_embedded[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe4H3ocWvA4&feature=player_embedded[/ame]
2013 GOALS
With 2012 behind us, there are a few goals that we hope to achieve as a division for 2013:
- Get 75 recruits every month
- Get a thousand recruits for the year
- Optimize the efficiency of holding admin training sessions
- Maximize attendance at events
- Bring in more European members
- Bring all servers into the top 500
These are modest goals upon which we can build as we see fit. If we attack our objectives with determination, we shall succeed, and we ought to succeed, for we are unequivocally dabes division. During the past year, the division has seen both great triumphs and troubling times. It cannot be denied that there have been disagreements between members and members, members and leaders, and even leaders and leaders - as there have been disagreements from the inception. We all realize that there have been some people whose task has been, in large part, to stir up dissension, to mismanage and to misuse their positions of trust, and to magnify normal, healthy disagreements so that they appear to be irreconcilable conflicts. However, the overall record in this respect is eloquent: the Team Fortress 2 Division, in every field, has had a good record of achievement in 2012. We stand poised to reach new heights in 2013 by working together for the common good. We have a great many issues to solve ahead of us and we must approach them with realism and dignity. This new year of 2013 can be the greatest year of achievement in divisional history. We, today, are making history, and hopefully it will be better history than ever before has been made. May we make this journey, this magnificent ascent, hand in hand.
