Thanks to TF2 superhero and event admin Beater there is a fantasy game for the i58 international 6v6 tournament this year!

The game is now live so sign up at http://fantasytf2.com/

This is a quick recap of fantasy goings on in the last 7 days. I'm trying to avoid spamming the group so a weekly summary apart from emergency incidents seems like a good idea for those who don't camp the forums.


There have been a few updates, I’ve added basic profile pages that should make managing all your teams a bit easier as the homepage is becoming horrifically cluttered, and should showcase your collection of pixel trophies. This can be reached through a profile link in the header, as well as other player’s profiles being viewable through owner links on team pages.

As part of the header update which tidies things up a bit, there’s also a revolutionary new feature

A logout button

I know, ground breaking stuff.


Fenneks new arrivals CondoM and dAGNER have been added to ETF2L for your selection pleasure.


The economy has been updated

ESEA

http://beta.fantasytf2.com/player/pricechanges/5

This week showstopper has been the fantasy investor’s favourite, his price increasing by $1500 as players interested in those Street Hoops points snaffle him up. Other big climbers include Rando, b4nny and Duwatna. Given this week’s result on Sunshine the former may have yet to reach his peak but at $33,000 is b4nny (and now Duwatna at $27,000) now becoming dangerously overpriced given froyotech’s shaky form?

Other players ascending the market (geddit?!) are Decimate and Bdonski, making less impressive but consistent advances. Ringo continues to be a popular pickup, and Purple Shirt the cafe monster roamer is now finding favour.

On the other side of the coin the froyo soldiers still aren’t catching the eye, their value depreciating faster than Lansky who some players who are still actively trading are inexplicably holding onto. He’s gone people! TheFragile and ninjanick are also yet to find many believers.

ETF2L

http://beta.fantasytf2.com/player/pricechanges/6

In Europe Tek and atomic continue to appreciate rapidly, both putting on the maximum $2000 rise in price. Will either of them hit their market peak before the end of the season? I’m not sure we have enough time. Dikker and Death are the other 4-25 players netting an increase, the underpriced squad presenting excellent returns, up to now anyway.

Some of that 4-25 money may find it’s way to Danger Dogs however after their upset win over Reason, currently only scrab and kr4tos are appreciating in value from that team.

Bizzarely DamnEasy has a price rise despite being cut.

Among those dropping in value it seems that despite a shock return quad believers have finally given up on getting any points out of the prodigal son. The rumour that Reason trio zoob, wltrs and skeej have been cut may have had something to do with their price drops, but Kaidus lost the most value of all of them so perhaps not. Josh and kingofsquirrels are the first players to drop under the $10,000 barrier, with kos setting the current low.

The market has more faith in Zebbosai’s announcement that he’s sticking to roamer that tftv’s casters, but not much as he only sheds a modest loss. Ryb also loses andother $500. Surely the demo on the best team in prem with the highest points per game must now be a bargain?


The weekly winners are in

ESEA Week 7

omochi’s team heyheyhey take 1st (0 players from froyo or Ascent)
Antecedent’s team Anthill take 2nd
Rys’s team aaa get 3rd

ETF2L Week 5

ATOMiC’s team mamki take 1st
Neon’s team juu get 2nd
kaptain’s team ye get 3rd (no player’s from his own team, Dogs’s medic, clearly throwing for killstreak kits)

I’m adding these players for prize distribution round about now

New weekly competitions

ESEA week 8 is open, create your team here:
http://beta.fantasytf2.com/PlayerTeam/Create?seasonid=5&name=&weekid=7

ETF2L Week 6 is open, create your team here:
http://beta.fantasytf2.com/PlayerTeam/Create?seasonid=6&name=&weekid=8

KnOxXx, Mike and Kiler4fun have been added to the ETF2L game. Although Kiler4fun is currently rostered with TLR as backup I think it’s generally accepted that he’ll be moving to Reason. If it doesn’t happen I’ll change his team to TLR.

The ESEA Week 7 and ETF2L Week 5 mini games are now open. Each competition has prizes, donated by Wiethoofd, consisting of profesional, specialised or vanilla kill streak kits for the top 3 teams.

Create your ESEA team here:
http://beta.fantasytf2.com/PlayerTeam/Create?seasonid=5&name=&weekid=5

Create your ETF2L team here:
http://beta.fantasytf2.com/PlayerTeam/Create?seasonid=6&name=&weekid=6

I've opened these up a couple of days before they will start counting points to maximise people's chances of creating their teams in time and avoid being caught out by early games.

The previous weeks (ESEA week 6 and ETF2L week 4) are still technically open to make a team, but they only have one day to run and there won't be any games so ignore them.

On the ESEA side of things showstopper is the fastest appreciating asset piling $1,500 on to his price, while b4nny's value continues to surge to $32,000. Other players being rapidly acquired include rando and Duwatna. Bargain basement scout ringo's value is moving up as well.

At the other end it seems there is some caution about acquiring serv0, while the return of blaze has still to capture the imagination of fantasy investors. Lansky of course has started to lose value. Other high priced players losing value are TheFragile, deadbolt, paragon and ninjanick.

ESEA changes can be seen here:
http://beta.fantasytf2.com/player/pricechanges/5

In ETF2L Tek continues to appreciate rapidly as his early season roamer pricing attracts investors in his pocket role, along with atomic after some impressive performances. In fact many 4-25 players are gaining fans. Hafficool's army of believers continues to swell helped by Reason having a late game last week, and at the bargain end of the scale DamnEasy has been considered good value.

Investors are fleeing kingofsquirrels whose price is dropping even faster than Quad who hasn't played a game. Skeej's value has also rapidly dropped and Hys is now surely entering the realms of being underpriced after TLR's and his personal showing this week. Zebbosai and tonythetiger are also losing value, fantasy players spooked by the impossibility of predicting who will play what class.

ETF2L changes can be seen here:
http://beta.fantasytf2.com/player/pricechanges/6

I'm still tinkering with the rules for this. I'm not entirely happy that there has generally been more price loss than gain, so things will probably have evolved a little more by next week.

Wiethoofd of tf2pickup.net / whitelist.tf has kindly donated some killstreak kits and keys, so from now on for the forseeable future the weekly games will have a prize! This will usually be a professional kit for first, a specialized kit for 2nd and one or more vanilla kits for 3rd, although depending on rarity, and Wiethoofd's largesse, this may change (say a more valuable specialized kit for first prize one week).

We've also got some keys for the longer seasonal prizes but I'm not sure how I'll distribute those yet, particularly seeing as it looks like Sideshow will be the main beneficiary.

Also sorry for the announcement spam, it happened in a hurry. I won't be making a habit of it.