The Bus Crew aswell as Velocity eSports (EU) and Faint.Gaming (EU)

SVIFT

Ora Electro aswell

That makes 8 already
*Elektro

there are no professional tf2 teams.

team leaders should probably tell wolf as quickly as they can since if it ends up being more prem level teams than 8 there needs to be some sort of qualifier

The best team: team Fortress Two hahaha

Go to bed, son.

you're fired

So far we have

Having won every LAN even they have attended since i58, there's the North American superstar team Froyotech. They've had very strong showings on pretty much every single season they have played in ESEA and with four players of their main roster they're probably looking to extend this to the upcoming intercontinental LAN event. The only wildcard I can think of are Garbuglio and Cookiejake on roamer and medic respectively. Both have had a third place finishing on an intercontinental LAN before with the team EVL Gaming, now branded Ascent.NA. Although Garbuglio then joined Froyotech to compete in i61, his UK LAN debut had to be postponed by a year, as the team did not attend in 2017. Not sure what Cookiejake has been doing tbh. Will b4nny take the championship home as he did with i52 and i55 or will his peripherals get smashed like at i58? Will Habib be able to get his cocaine addies through customs? Stay tuned.

Froyotech
Scouts: b4nny & arekk12
Demoman: Habib
Roamer: Garbuglio
Pocket: Yomps
Cookiejake

The reigning champions for the past two years, Se7en. After Rewind II, where Se7en placed third after some last minute roster switch ups, some of the players of the dominant EU team decided to hang up their tees to make room for new players. We see more or less the same roster since week 5 (even though the week 2 match was yet to be played) of Season 29, where the absolute monster of a scout Thaigrr joined the roster and bumped AMS to his beloved pocket soldier role. Roamer Drack took a break from staring at the door as he is ready to broaden his horizons and made place for Adysky and Seeds made his prem debut on medic. With some information missing on what happened then, it seems that Stark62 has come home to his se7en to instigate his third retirement post. His role however is unknown as of yet, what is certain is that Seeds has been cut from the team to make room for the i58 and i61 champion. Will Kaidus and Starkie go in the books as the only players that took it home three times? Is stark62 actually going to Australia with his i63 winnings?

Se7en
Scouts: Thaigrr & Thalash(?)
Demoman: Kaidus
Roamer: Adysky
Pocket: AMS
Medic: Stark62(?)

Personally my favorite team, with absolute tank svmzi and the Walish nutter Funs (of Lowpander fame) on scouts this team looks NUTS. Having Smirre (known for his antics with ams) for their maincalling and being basically genetically engineered to play Demoman, this team seems to have all the traits of a topteam. Smirre has been playing in prem for quite a while, although he hasn't really been seen on any top teams until now. On soldiers we see roamer Chris, who placed second with Ascent.EU in season 29 and pocket Mikazn/Papi known for his time playing with medic
goon Condawg on Nunya and his brief stint with Lowpander, stepping in Uubrs rather awkwardly large boots, placing 2nd at Swelan after b4nny and his burgers stepped on the Euro teams present. I personally think Chris could come out of this LAN as one of the best roamers, as he has really good timings and very strong DM.

tldr: These guys can aim

Svift
Scouts: svmzi & Funs
Demoman: Smirre
Roamer: Chris (__)
Pocket: Mikazn (Papi)
Medic: Con "Got A Saw!!" dawg

With the only non-prem team in this list, Faint Gaming seems like a potential dark horse. Nonetheless having prem veterans like Sorex (known from playing with Lego for a looooooooooong ass time) and Alle, by all means the team should have signed up for the prem qualifiers. Possibly they refused to enter the qualifiers as Alle was banned at the start of the season for not uploading demos. The team has had a strong showing so far, bouncing on the competition in div1 with the semi-finals being played tonight.

We've all seen Alle play in the absolute top before, having a PERFECT season with se7en in etf2l season 26, not dropping a single map, and placing 2nd just before that at Rewind I and getting a 2nd place just before that with Thanks Nursey and 2nd with Full Tilt at i58 after smashing Froyotech 3rd only to afterwards continue to place 2nd with Svift at i61. I feel like I should mention Alle played the playoff games with Arctic Foxes in season 27, and placed first. All-in-all, Alle has placed first season in 26, 27 and 28 (if you count 27, it's kind of odd don't msg me). The team boasting TWO prem champions should count for something as well, having picked up Seeds as he was left afloat by Kaido.

Maybe a number theorist (math nerd) can tell me what the next number in the sequence should be:

2 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 1 - ?

Faint Gaming
Scouts: Sorex & Counou
Demoman: Alle
Roamer: Samski
Pocket: Amarok
Medic: Seeds

I don't really know what to say about The Bus Crew, other than that they have Alba on scout and i thoroughly enjoy watching him click heads. The main season played out sort of unfortunate for them, having to say goodbye to pocket PolygoN and scout botmode, and then only to see the Lego soldier combo dmoule and Josh step in only to say farewell to them a few weeks later. What I do know is that Yohn shouts a lot at LAN and this could just be what they need to frag the enemy gamers. Also having psychology major and healerman Marten on the team might be what Yohn needs to discuss his frustrations.

TBC
Scouts: Alba & Deox
Demoman: Yohn
Roamer: Tobs
Pocket: Poison
Medic: Marten

Demomen do a crazy amount of damage, which makes it a good thing this team has TWO! Boasting i58 champion Spudd on ... oh... Spudd is on pocket because of classlimits. The team struggled a fair bit in the main season, getting a total of 4 points and being knocked into relegation zone by the bus crew, but now that the irish has left TBC, there might be potential for the cake to come back into the faces of TBC at LAN. Especially with the addition of German soldier Rising this will be an interesting team to follow, or in the words of Starkie "Rising on roamer whos a BEAST."

Velocity
Scouts: crayon & ixy
Demoman: Nuze
Roamer: Rising
Pocket: spudd
Medic: honey

Ora Elektro had a decent-ish season, being just barely placed out of playoffs by The Bin Black, being 5 points short. Starring Eskimo and British players on the team.

Ora Elektro
Scouts: Scruff & Nevo
Demo: Eemes
Roamer: Azunis
Pocket: eskimo
Medic: Demos

I heard there's a potential Frenchies team going as well, but I'm not sure what lineup that would be.

This lan is going to be supercool, can't wait for it to start.

I would say as always

It's too hot for my brain to work, edited.

Ombrack
Corbac
Olgha
Raf
Elacour
Opti

Velocitys etf2l page lied to me.

-raf +rising

Thaigrr*

Well I can’t see an imidiate pattern from these numbers but if you take only LANs he got 2nd at Rewind 1, 2nd at I58, 2nd at I61, 2nd at SweLAN, 2nd at LANmark (Copenhagen Games) so pattern makes it look like he’s going to get 2nd :(

Also I like how in that write up Alle’s achievements are enough to barely mention sorex and not mention Samski and seeds at all.

am big alle fan

some other teams to consider are
professional disney fangirls,
yuka kinoshita fanclub aka weebs,
quaint gaming aka crunge
and there might be a maros/polygon/nasboi team in the works

Heared binblack +2 from bin gonna go (tho unconfirmed by anyone actually on the team) which puts us on more than enough teams for an interesting qualifier

That being said, i think essentials gonna take a first look at seeding this weekend, so if any team hasnt made their roster / invite bracket interest official somehow, nows the time

Se7en's roster in the context of this LAN is a very interesting beast. With the current situation of Stark on Medic I feel as if they are limiting themselves from their full potential given the amount that can Stark could do in a fragging role. I'd even go as far to say as to move Kaidus to Coach again, get adysky on Demoman which he has played plenty of in the past, have the Scouts and Soldiers decide which and bring in an experienced Medic player that would be fully comfortable with the position.

I'm sure of course they're definitely the best team in Europe and would have a real chance of doing well with their current plan but its kind of impossible to not think about how good Thalash, Thaigrr, AMS, Starkie and adysky would be able to do in their proper classes, especially while being guided under the wing of someone as experienced in this game as Kaidus (look at how i58 went down).

Isn't that plugin banned these days?

Is anything known about a qualifier so far?

yo wtf!

that was a pretty good writeup dude

I See CookieJake , But What Class Is He Playing ? He Is My Favorite Player ! : D

Medic