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Team Fortress 2: CEVO Grand Finals Preview

By: Nick Pitts - Published April 13, 2009 at 5:17 PM UTC - Writer Archive
GotFrag's Nick Pitts takes a look at the two teams competing for all the marbles.
GotFrag.com - After quite a successful season 3, we have once again found ourselves at the CEVO Grand Finals for TF2. I believe it was said best by our favorite head of TF2 coverage, Everett "rk" Wells, after all the debate surrounding who actually is the defending champ, these two teams will dictate the answer tonight.

UPDATE: Pandemic is the CEVO-P Season 3 champion, romping compLexity in two straight maps.


Scoreboard1H2HOTF
compLexity25-7
compLexity-1-1
coL: Reptile, oPlaiD, REP, dummy, hubris, sycknesS
Pandemic: carnage, enigma, SoLIDSnaKE, glue, relic, Jaeger


I believe tonight, the favorite coming into the best-of-three finals is United States coL. They hit a few bumps throughout the season, but then again... who doesn't? They always seem to smoothly sail through the regular season, still claiming a top seed. Once playoffs hit, they are strictly business. These two teams met earlier in the upper bracket finals. Pandemic got put in their place, in a convincing [5-2] victory for coL, propelling them to the grand finals match. CompLexity's formula to success is pretty simple, teamwork. This team, since pure isn't playing tonight, has been together for quite some time. They all put in work and have found the winning recipe. Their cohesive play is practically unmatched. Reptile himself throws up usually around 60 frags if the match is long enough. A few teams can say they have a "top soldier" on the team, but in all honesty, only one can say they have the best soldier in the game, and that is coL. Dummy will need to be smart with his sticky traps along with hitting some nice pipes because Pandemic's scouts are going to be the real nuisance and problem in this match. Their aggressive pushes and smart, solid holds are a tough thing to get passed. Pandemic is about the only team I see that has a chance. This team has so many versatile players, but are they the unbeatable team many believe they are?

coL Roster

United States Samuel "oPlaiD" Lingle
Canada Adam "Reptile" Dopko
United States Dan "REP" Nunez
United States Tim "dummy" Olson
United States Eric "hubris" Dean
United States Ryan "sycknesS" Mitchell


The team with, in my opinion, the best scout combo in the game, United States Pandemic comes to the finals just after an nerve racking lower bracket finals against Dignitas. That game was what TF2 is all about, back and forth, coming down to the wire. I truly believe the better team won, making this finals the best is could be. I glorify coL's lineup a ton, but this lineup definitely has more than a chance tonight. Jaeger is one of my favorite soldiers to watch, and is going to have his work cut out for him when it comes to protecting his medic, along with relic. SolidSnake and the scouts will also need to work together. If carnage and enigma are on, which they usually are, they should have no problem handling and keeping an eye on sycknesS and oPliaD. If the scouts can be on the coL medic like glue, no pun intended, their chances of winning have grown exponentially. Carnage's aggressive play is needed tonight more than anything. Hopefully he remembers this is the CEVO Grand Finals, and not a mybrute tournament.

Pandemic Roster

United States Daniel "carnage" Sturdivant
United States Evan "GluE" Aschow
United States Kyle "relic" Mims
United States Manny "SoLIDSnaKE" Sy
United States Michael "Jaeger" Marcin
United States Carl "enigma" Yangsheng


Scoreboard1H2HOTF
compLexity25-7
compLexity-1-1
coL: Reptile, oPlaiD, REP, dummy, hubris, sycknesS
Pandemic: carnage, enigma, SoLIDSnaKE, glue, relic, Jaeger

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