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Good news people! TF2 Masters 2011 will go on!

The online tournament will kick start this weekend, which will lead up to the TF2 Masters Grand Finals at The Games Xpo 2011, Singapore (TGX'11) in September from the 9th to 11th. As 8 teams have shown their support for this event, every team will be rewarded with free Portal 2 games as token of appreciation from e-Club! All 8 teams have also been automatically qualified into the the LAN finals in September, and the online tournament's results will determine your seeding in the LAN playoffs.

Please be prepared to play 2 matches a week for the online tournament and read the official rules beforehand to avoid any misunderstandings.

To be eligible for the free hardcopies of Portal 2, teams must attend the TF2 Masters LAN event in September. Although we are very fortunate to have at least 8 teams participating, we do hope that the LAN event will be a fun and fulfilling event for everyone! So mark your calenders (and take your leaves) because $3500+ worth of prizes awaits you!

Please go to http://leaderboard.e-clubmalaysia.com/tournaments_tf2_masters.php for more information and TF2 Masters rules.

Important

Any problems/questions, it would be better to email them directly about anything. The people in charge might or might not visit this site to read your queries or write a ticket over at support.e-clubmalaysia.com.

Please do take note that Asiafortress.com is not an official medium of the TF2 Master's Cup run by e-Club malaysia and e-Sports Association Singapore and remains an independent site.

Seriously' date=' Is there really a fucking need to post this on the fucking news section?

 

Can't you dumbass(s) just say the lan event will be postpone due to some unforeseen events?

 

If you wonder this community is going down the shithole, this is one of the reasons why.

 

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Hey Ratsyc.. That is the part I was referring to... I don't think your reply was very professional as well.

 

The "Bastard" like all people might really be facing some real problems in life. He might have handle this wrongly but not all blame should be on him. Why should he be the one doing all the stuff when you guys claim you are the organisers.

 

Wait... Who claimed to be the organisers?? I think all Nata did was give advice on how to run a tournament and all the brackets and registration and server configs. What part of the blame should go to Nata? The part where he helped?

 

Benny is also quite poor thing... He was never involved in this shit until 1 day ago... LOL.. but his name keeps getting dragged in... I got trolled as well

 

Ratsyc, perhaps when you have the time we should all gather in mumble for a meeting and discuss about it (if anyone still interested to), because I suspect different sides have different stories. I am going to clarify the story with the LAN shop tomorrow as well as check if we can still hold a mini LAN there for whoever that is still interested

 

 

Many admins here are noob tf2 players.. Acel Spammah Benny all very noob what as admins, we

Monitor forums, attend meetings, set rules, organize events, delegate duties, write to other companies for sponships or other people to contribute etc... No real tf2 skills involved please signup to help our community

Uh I don't think Mas Selamat plays tf2 in his detention centre or browse our forums...

With the same argument, anyone could go to anyone's Facebook and post their profile pics on the forums for others to troll.. Do we want our forums to be like that? If these people have no interest in making the game and forums fun, then as friends (wtftheyhavefriends?) we should encourage them to gtfo and mind their own business instead of having fun on the expense of others

but we're not their parents, we just ban.

Sigh.

I'm happy that our community isn't that petty to finger point at the bastard that pulled out less than a week before the tournament. I was pissed and annoyed.

I'm puzzled why benny and nata got flamed. And of course, I'm even more curious as to why people want to post pictures of me to troll me.

If what benny did was such an "unprofessional" thing to do, then the "professional" reply should be "benny you should remove the chat log". The unprofessional thing to do is to start hurling insults around - which was what our admins and players did.

The irony is the people that did not sign up for the tournament made the most noise. If you wish to contribute to the community, I suggest a few things:

1. Volunteer as an admin. Admins from hcaz to acel to wish to madman to spammah... has all slowly gave up caring much because everything they do are always under appreciated. Why don't you try being an admin?

2. Sign up in LAN tournaments and events. Honestly I am not for admins that join asiafortress when they are not competitive players themselves. Perhaps we can let them be forum admins, that's about it. You need to be more involved in the community to really claim you are a stakeholder and that decisions made affects you directly.

3. Advice your friends not to troll or pour oil over fire or stir shit. I'm sure these trolls have problems in their real lives and they rather take it out anonymously to online people. Heck, we all have our own concerns in real life. I don't totally disagree with admins trolling back because that's the only form of communication the trolls are used to.

If people like hanny, solaris and the others are kind enough to drop me a PM and let me know how I might have offended them, I can offer explanation and even apologize if I had did something against them personally. One time offer only

Eh please give credit where you got the picture from. www.deadpris.com thanks for giving me more traffic

I'm not sure how I came into a target of trollers... but I'm sure it's got to do with helping to plan the tournament and contacting the LAN shop directly after some "individual" pull out of the tournament less than 1 week left to the tournament.

I don't know why benny and nata are getting flamed (or why the fuck I'm getting flamed) but the fact is someone organized a tournament and pulled out at the last minute and the admins of asiafortress are getting flamed.... LOL! I've been very quietly monitoring flames targetted at me, seriously, my conscious is clear so I'm sorry if I have hurt anyone's feelings or broken any little boys hearts to warrant such trolls on me

I think the rule is depending on the intention of the player.... For example if I'm suppose to Medic in pickup and I go full time pyro instead

Moreover, if you didn't piss anyone off playing those classes and no one reports you, then everything is fine

Uh... Many of us are working... Even for students, 27th June (Monday) is the 1st week of start of the term... so no one will be available on 29th weekday also...

If the organizers can't arrange it on a weekday, then I don't think we can have enough turn out for a LAN tournament even...

lol

Hi teal I dropped you a PM..

basically need to know when is the tournament held so we can arrange for players that are available to play.

any prizes?

looking for pro soldier that doesnt mind medic dropping a few ubers here n there

Madman thanks for your encouraging words

I believe that we all want to play this game with the intentions of having fun.. I hope after this tournament that things will sort itself out and we all can still be friends, or at least still be a good community

Wow I think you have matured alot if you even bother to apologise to us

As I have mentioned before.. if you feel you can help with the servers, you should contact the person being put in-charge of it... instead of declaring all that negative stuff in open forums. I suppose your intentions weren't bad, but some how it just became messy.

good to get things cleared up

 

Say' date=' why does me praising airshot for having some initiative in trying to make the server better making you angry and went on defending zach?

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Well...

to try fixing the server when no one gives a damn about it.

 

I apologize for being so haste in concluding that you guys were trying to praise airshot because zach wasn't "giving a damn" about the servers.

 

I guess there isn't really much to argue about.. We're all doing stuff for the good of the community yeah? Airshot you should just message zach if you can help restore the servers stability.. For example by contributing money to pay for better bandwidth or machines.

 

Actually I'm curious what does Airshot thinks the problem with Eclub servers is.. Was it something that u can fix with getting admin access? (this is a serious question)

 

 

Nothing happened to the server

 

I think you have said enough to show you know completely nothing about the e-club servers. Have you checked their bandwidth connections and physical connections for the past 2-3 years? If not... then... I think you're just saying all these for fun

I think I have dropped enough hints to what gone wrong with the e-club servers' date=' if any of you still insists or thinks that it was because "no one gave a shit" then........ LOL IGNTS (wow I haven't used that in years!)

[b']On "no one gives a damn"....[/b]

btw, if you remember clearly... e-club was the first few servers that offered to change cfg and maps and everything for the running of AFL (well duh since they're both run by the same guy)... so I'm not sure why you want to accuse Zach of not wanting to use the e-club servers for anything at all. Someone gave a damn about the server for past 2-3 years and played a HUGE part to Asia's TF2 scene aka ASIAFORTRESS........ *slaps forehead* Zach is the LAST guy anyone in this damn community to be accused of "not giving a damn".

Sorry if I'm getting a little defensive here... but I feel like waving at spammah and telling him "SEE I TOLD YOU NO ONE GIVES A SHIT WHAT PEOPLE DO FOR THE COMMUNITY" that kinda thing. and he would probably reply "I KNOW RIGHT"

btw spammah was the guy heading 1 or 2 of the AFL seasons, incase you forgot about him already.

Anyway' date=' back to his topic. he's reputation in the community might be bad but at least he has the initiative to try fixing the server when no one gives a damn about it. For that he at least gets a thumb up.

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Wow that seems like all of you already KNOW for a fact what happened to the servers.

 

It's not my place to give an explaination to what happened to eclub servers, but it was not a problem that anyone "external" could fix. Unless perhaps airshot wants to fly down to Singapore and go down to the data centre.

 

Ratsyc, too quick to pass judgement that "no one gives a damn about it"... because someone was running and maintaining the server voluntarily for the past few years.

Thanks row

9:32 PM - spammah - www.gaming420.com: you know what was funny?

9:32 PM - Priss: lol

9:32 PM - Priss: what

9:32 PM - spammah - www.gaming420.com: i was a bit concerned for ozr

9:32 PM - spammah - www.gaming420.com: since someone said he lived near where the tsuanmi hit

9:32 PM - spammah - www.gaming420.com: or sometihng

9:33 PM - spammah - www.gaming420.com: so i chceked his steam profile

9:33 PM - spammah - www.gaming420.com: and he was busy playing a fucknig scrim

9:33 PM - spammah - www.gaming420.com: i got a little annoyed lol

9:33 PM - spammah - www.gaming420.com: fkn ozr baka

9:33 PM - spammah - www.gaming420.com: playing a scrim while his country's going under!

9:34 PM - Priss: HAHAHHA

9:34 PM - Priss: but what else can u do when ur country goes under

9:34 PM - Priss: i think we just do what we do best

9:34 PM - Priss: GAME

9:34 PM - Priss: lol

9:34 PM - spammah - www.gaming420.com: i don't know man. hook up one last time with ur girlfriend?

9:34 PM - spammah - www.gaming420.com: bang your sister?

I'm sure all of us are saddened and shocked by what is happening in Japan now. Asiafortress sends our condolences to those who lost anyone or lost their entire lives in this catastrophic disaster. We are really concerned about all our hentai Japanese players that have been playing with us despite the differences in language. It's good to hear that most of our more prominent Japanese players in Asiafortress like ozr and dohash are safe and still playing TF2. Japan, is after all, a country that brought us many amazing anime, games, hentai, J-pop etc. Nippon banzai!

You can do your part to help in this effort by donating money...

ニュース等ですでに知っているとは思いますが、日本の東北地方にかけて大きな地震があり多大な被害がでています。Asiafortressでは被災者に対して深い哀悼の意を捧げるとともに、被災者のために義援金による支援をお願いしています。募金は以下のサイトから行うことができます。

Credit Card payment of $5, $10 or $25 from Singapore based company （シンガポール限定）

http://www.groupon.sg/deals/singapore/support-emergency-relief-efforts-in-japan-and-other-affected-areas-all-donations-will-be-given-to-the-red-cross/715829794

Singapore RedCross 日本赤十字社

Sms RedCross to 75772 to donate SG$50 to the Red Cross Japan Earthquake Appeal (only in Singapore)

Japanese RedCross

http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html

World Vision

http://donate.worldvision.org

Apple iTunes store

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple_opens_itunes_to_donations_for_japan_earthquake_victims/

American Redcross アメリカ赤十字 (you can select which disaster to donate to)

http://www.redcross.org/

Because I know very limited Japanese.. my translations of the above is:

okane kudasai! お金ください MONEY PLEASE!

So this Sin guy messaged me and tried to ask me about b4nny. Apparently he saw a video of b4nny (I think it was made by exhaust) on youtube and he wanted to use the clip to submit for "Moment of Glory". It was really strange because the dude barely speak much English... Anyway here it is:

Many of these points that you have pointed out are actually quite exclusive to NFR. I'm not trying to be disrespectful to NFR, but maybe I'll point out a few reasons why...

Also, it is off season at the moment, which means there are no concrete teams. Usually, for the past 1 year at least, teams will only start to form 1 month before the start of a major tournament. The rest of the time, we have "mix scrims" instead. So your experience is also partly true of a typical off-season Asia scene.

I've been involved in the Asian competitive scene for just a short while' date=' playing with NFR and nnta's friends and associates. During this period of time, I have encountered many differences between Asia's competitive scene in how the game is approached, how the community acts on the forums, in scrims and just about every aspect associated with playing with TF2.

 

I thought I might list a few and see what community feedback on the whys behind them.

 

- Teams will start scrims with only three players and wait for the rest to come on or field sluts.

 

[b']Not the teams that I have played with. There aren't really proper teams at the moment, so there aren't sluts. We are all sluts.[/b]

 

- Teams will gather in steam chat prior to playing, where as a captain will contact the players one on one to get into mumble/vent/ts3 in Australia.

 

So far, for the 2 years that I have played in Asia. Only during mix scrims do people gather in steam chat prior to playing. When I'm in a proper team during the Asiafortress season, I would notify members of scrims, or whoever the leader is, would.

 

- You are all extremely tolerant of late players/teams

 

I think NFR have quite the reputation of making people wait before scrims. HAHA. Seriously! Most of us don't mind because it is difficult to get teams to scrim these days! We don't have a choice! During AFL seasons, there would be average of at least 3 to 4 teams scrimming actively. Now... there are barely scrims on a daily basis.

 

- Most of you don't post on the forums, but lurk and aren't terribly vocal.

 

I agree!

 

- The community is centred around pugging, rather than scrimming and team play.

 

Again, that is just because it's off season. Most people that are schooling or working won't be able to commit 2 to 3 days a week for scrimming. Many players also play other games..

 

- Teams play with huge language barriers in their teams.

 

Again, NFR is known for their.. umm.. multi racial, multi lingual team for quite some time now. Most of the teams I've been in, everyone speaks at least basic English, albeit in different strange accents. There are also some teams that speak only Mandarin, Japanese, Korean etc.

 

- Very little thinking even in the top level of your teams, it seems to be heavily dependant on death matching.

 

Only probably... 3 or 4 teams in Asia have players that are serious about learning new strats, studying and trying out what works for their teams and what doesn't. As I mentioned above, there aren't many dedicated competitive TF2 players around anymore...

 

- Much friendlier attitude overall as a community

 

- Huge variation in pings due to routing and server location in your community, that isn't experienced anywhere else. Except europe, but isn't as bad as yours, due to it all being land connections.

 

I WANNA JOIN 6v6 AND HIGHLANDER!!!

Due to recent feedback of trolling / flaming incidents, we thought it would be best to lay down some ground rules for people to follow. We do appreciate that the users have to report trolls / flames so that moderators can take actions. If there are harmless trolls /spams / off-topic, we are willing to tolerate it so as long as there are no complaints.

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not only Jr... I receive that message from a few people... LOL all got hacked