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Admirable & django join dd+5abs
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April 27, 2016

Following their meteoric rise at the end of Season 23, which saw them qualify for playoffs in 3rd but lose out to Publiclir to finish 4th, dd+5abs have made significant changes to their roster. After cutting their previous medic Honey Badger and losing their pocket qnx and their scout ixy, dd+5abs have now found replacements to complete their roster. Veteran player Admirable and rising talent django have joined the team on medic and scout respectively, adding experience and fragging power to their line-up.

dd+5abs languished at the bottom of the table for the majority of Season 23 Premiership, until victories over Infused, LEGO, and Foreskings propelled them to a playoff spot. The addition of feeling, Admirable, and django to the roster is a large shuffle for the team, who have struggled in the off-season so far with disappointing results in both of the DreamHack Summer Qualifiers, only winning a single map.

Admirable with his game face on (picture by Getawhale) Admirable with his game face on (picture by Getawhale)

Admirable is a player perhaps known best for his casting and behind-the-scenes work, but has a wealth of experience gathered from years of playing in Premiership. He was last seen playing medic for coolclan in Season 19 Premiership, surrounded by upcoming players struggling to play at a low Premiership level. Whilst Admirable is not known for his exceptional gameplay as medic, his experience and motivational qualities within a team environment can provide much when his ubers cannot.

Admirable spoke to us about why he has come out from the shadows to join this team:

Honestly I still love this game even eight and half years later. Every offseason I look at the ETF2L recruitment section and theorise what sort of fantasy team I could put together, I even trialled (unsuccessfully) for Planet Express last season. Perhaps this season in particular appealed to me because I see so many up and coming players, but an obvious lack of grizzled veterans.

Watching dd+5 abs make it to the playoffs was an incredible story last season, but beyond that the team already composed of exciting players that I have followed for some time. It feels like every season for the last two years Tomas has talked to me about playing together, but it never happened until now. I've got time to invest in competing at present, so I was more than happy to try out when asked.

I think I can bring a lot of experience and offer some insights to the team. It has been a year and half since I competed seriously in 6v6, so I've got a lot of work to do shaking off the rust, but my natural strengths lie in being a good communicator and a good teammate. That seems to have been enough to get my foot in the door, now I just have to actually get good at medic!

When I do actually compete I give it my all and I think this roster is equally keen. Qualifying for DreamHack Summer and making ETF2L Playoffs would be the two obvious goals to strive for in the immediate future, but my personal motivation is to see how good I can get individually and see what I can bring out of the team. Hopefully a name change for starters… smh.

His newest partner in crime, django, is a player with no prior history in Premiership or indeed in many teams. Whilst his abilities on scout have been noticed by top players such as fellow Icelandic citizen Hafficool, he has never had a stable team in which to prove his worth. His potential on scout is yet to be fully tapped, but appears to possess a reasonable level of raw fragging ability. This will be his time to prove himself.

shappie gave us the team's thoughts on these roster moves:

Well, we have gone with Admirable because from the trialists we had, we enjoyed playing with him the most. Before we started trialling Admirable, we had in mind trialling CondoM, but LEGO reformed and he came back to LEGO. We also have trialled pablo, raptor and cube. We kinda enjoyed playing with pablo, but after his first trial, he decided that he is not keen enough to play seriuos tf2 again. Raptor, was good, and he is great young talented player, but some of us, thought that old man Admirable is better than young talent. We picked him because he was giving us the advices and telling the conclusion, what went wrong, and on which places we should improve to reach better results. The gamesense and calls that he brings in team are awesome, and the best part, that he is great buddies with feeling!

After the season ended, we had no plans in looking for a new scout, because we were happy with our current lineup and didn't wanted to change anything. But after several weeks off season, ixy decided to leave us because he wanted to focus on his school, and we all understood the reason, and wished him best of luck! Then we got stressed that we are going to be able to find same good scout as ixy. But then, feeling offered us to try django, same, young talented scout, just from Iceland. After several trials, we were impressed with his keenness and the results that he brought us, so we decided to keep him, and finally finalize our roster, so we have all 6 players and we finally can begin practising properly and reaching our new targets.

We are not hoping to win any play-offs or anything, but in our plans we have, to be between top 5 best european teams in prem. Also, we think, that this roster is strong enough to repeat the same madness like last season and guaranntte our selfs a play offs spot. But this season, we will have two new strong prem teams, which are Bagser Five and Top5 rocket,who are also talented people and we are looking forward giving them a great games!

The roster for dd+5abs is now complete, with:

  • Scout: django
  • Scout: Sjoeberg
  • Roamer: dd5f
  • Pocket: feeling
  • Demoman: shappie
  • Medic: Admirable
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#1
30 Frags +

http://i.imgur.com/UMJh8rm.jpg?1

http://i.imgur.com/UMJh8rm.jpg?1
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#2
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http://i.imgur.com/DFYcm2k.gif

[img]http://i.imgur.com/DFYcm2k.gif[/img]
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#3
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Admirable hype!

[url=https://youtu.be/UItqkgid-zQ]Admirable hype![/url]
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#4
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Django who?

Django who?
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#5
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SideshowWhilst Admirable is not known for his exceptional gameplay as medic, his experience and motivational qualities within a team environment can provide much when his ubers cannot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UItqkgid-zQ

[quote=Sideshow]Whilst Admirable is not known for his exceptional gameplay as medic, his experience and motivational qualities within a team environment can provide much when his ubers cannot.[/quote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UItqkgid-zQ
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#6
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POTATO PLAYS

POTATO PLAYS
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#7
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Also this https://youtu.be/VEZ2WHj85Yg

Also this https://youtu.be/VEZ2WHj85Yg
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#8
64 Frags +

Couldn't get caster of the season so is going for the second easiest award.

Couldn't get caster of the season so is going for the second easiest award.
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#9
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ADMIRABLE FINALLY FOUND A TEAM

ADMIRABLE FINALLY FOUND A TEAM
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#10
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x

x
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#11
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oh you sexy potato

oh you sexy potato
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Twitch Prime
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Firewho did they pick up on scout ?

site says django but im pretty sure thats not a player

[quote=Fire]who did they pick up on scout ?[/quote]
site says django but im pretty sure thats not a player
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#13
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sad to hear the team couldn't fill their vacant scout spot and will be playing every official with 5 players in the server

sad to hear the team couldn't fill their vacant scout spot and will be playing every official with 5 players in the server
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#14
4 Frags +

DjanGOD

DjanGOD
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#15
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mustardoverlordsad to hear the team couldn't fill their vacant scout spot and will be playing every official with 5 players in the server

What are you talking about?

[quote=mustardoverlord]sad to hear the team couldn't fill their vacant scout spot and will be playing every official with 5 players in the server[/quote]
What are you talking about?
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#16
14 Frags +

Grizzled veterans coming back to conquer Europe once again

Grizzled veterans coming back to conquer Europe once again
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#17
56 Frags +

Hi, I'm django *ceases to exist*

Hi, I'm django *ceases to exist*
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#18
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Ketchup-flavored potato chips? you people are disgusting

Ketchup-flavored potato chips? you people are disgusting
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#19
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"not known for his exceptional gameplay as medic"

My two highlander medic of the season awards beg to differ ( ° ͜ʖ͡°)

"not known for his exceptional gameplay as medic"

My two highlander medic of the season awards beg to differ ( ° ͜ʖ͡°)
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#20
16 Frags +

lolhl

lolhl
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Whilst Admirable is not known for his exceptional gameplay as medic, his experience and motivational qualities within a team environment can provide much when his ubers cannot.

hahaha well done sideshow xD

Just wait until YOU change teams and Admirable writes the news D:

[quote]Whilst Admirable is not known for his exceptional gameplay as medic, his experience and motivational qualities within a team environment can provide much when his ubers cannot.[/quote]

hahaha well done sideshow xD

Just wait until YOU change teams and Admirable writes the news D:
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DuMmTmFirewho did they pick up on scout ?site says django but im pretty sure thats not a player

Django is a very talented player, first played with him when he subbed for Astt with HKN a few seasons back, was very capable, I figured he'd hit the same heights eventually but now he has got his chance, good luck to him.

[quote=DuMmTm][quote=Fire]who did they pick up on scout ?[/quote]
site says django but im pretty sure thats not a player[/quote]

Django is a very talented player, first played with him when he subbed for Astt with HKN a few seasons back, was very capable, I figured he'd hit the same heights eventually but now he has got his chance, good luck to him.
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Also I will be controversial but I don't think old man Ads is the right man for the team, my gut feeling (as an outsider looking in) is they replaced Honey for atmosphere reasons and they were encouraged by Ads performance in pcws because he is known to be positive and fun to play with whilst Honey is more of a competitor prone to a bit of rage.

I think Ads lax practice schedule will catch up with him, experience counts for little when you don't play the game very often, I should know. Sorry mate.

Also I will be controversial but I don't think old man Ads is the right man for the team, my gut feeling (as an outsider looking in) is they replaced Honey for atmosphere reasons and they were encouraged by Ads performance in pcws because he is known to be positive and fun to play with whilst Honey is more of a competitor prone to a bit of rage.

I think Ads lax practice schedule will catch up with him, experience counts for little when you don't play the game very often, I should know. Sorry mate.
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Hildreth
I think Ads lax practice schedule will catch up with him, experience counts for little when you don't play the game very often, I should know. Sorry mate.

I think the last dhs qualifier showed that experience can outvalue dm or "playing the game a lot"

[quote=Hildreth]

I think Ads lax practice schedule will catch up with him, experience counts for little when you don't play the game very often, I should know. Sorry mate.[/quote]

I think the last dhs qualifier showed that experience can outvalue dm or "playing the game a lot"
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#25
24 Frags +
smziHildreth
I think Ads lax practice schedule will catch up with him, experience counts for little when you don't play the game very often, I should know. Sorry mate.

I think the last dhs qualifier showed that experience can outvalue dm or "playing the game a lot"

I don't think that the team filled with the best talent in tf2 and 2 seasons of experience as the #1 team in eu coming back to win a cup is exactly the experience that hildreth is talking about here

[quote=smzi][quote=Hildreth]

I think Ads lax practice schedule will catch up with him, experience counts for little when you don't play the game very often, I should know. Sorry mate.[/quote]

I think the last dhs qualifier showed that experience can outvalue dm or "playing the game a lot"[/quote]
I don't think that the team filled with the best talent in tf2 and 2 seasons of experience as the #1 team in eu coming back to win a cup is exactly the [i]experience[/i] that hildreth is talking about here
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huds.tf
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Admirableexceptional gameplayAdmirablehighlander
[quote=Admirable]exceptional gameplay[/quote]
[quote=Admirable]highlander[/quote]
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#27
39 Frags +

Most of Iceland in prem now

Most of Iceland in prem now
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#28
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can i have a high res copy of this photo framed please?

can i have a high res copy of this photo framed please?
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CondoMsmziHildreth
I think Ads lax practice schedule will catch up with him, experience counts for little when you don't play the game very often, I should know. Sorry mate.

I think the last dhs qualifier showed that experience can outvalue dm or "playing the game a lot"
I don't think that the team filled with the best talent in tf2 and 2 seasons of experience as the #1 team in eu coming back to win a cup is exactly the experience that hildreth is talking about here

People shouldn't forget that Admirable played top prem aswell

[quote=CondoM][quote=smzi][quote=Hildreth]

I think Ads lax practice schedule will catch up with him, experience counts for little when you don't play the game very often, I should know. Sorry mate.[/quote]

I think the last dhs qualifier showed that experience can outvalue dm or "playing the game a lot"[/quote]
I don't think that the team filled with the best talent in tf2 and 2 seasons of experience as the #1 team in eu coming back to win a cup is exactly the [i]experience[/i] that hildreth is talking about here[/quote]

People shouldn't forget that Admirable played top prem aswell
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smziHildreth
I think Ads lax practice schedule will catch up with him, experience counts for little when you don't play the game very often, I should know. Sorry mate.

I think the last dhs qualifier showed that experience can outvalue dm or "playing the game a lot"

Do it over a season then I'll be impressed. You need to be consistent in your practise over a season or you'll get worse/team won't hit the heights you want. For dd5f they came 4th last season, so anything less than top 3 will go down as a bad season, I don't see Ads being consistent over the season -

But perhaps I am only typing this to motivate him to prove me wrong?

[quote=smzi][quote=Hildreth]

I think Ads lax practice schedule will catch up with him, experience counts for little when you don't play the game very often, I should know. Sorry mate.[/quote]

I think the last dhs qualifier showed that experience can outvalue dm or "playing the game a lot"[/quote]

Do it over a season then I'll be impressed. You need to be consistent in your practise over a season or you'll get worse/team won't hit the heights you want. For dd5f they came 4th last season, so anything less than top 3 will go down as a bad season, I don't see Ads being consistent over the season -

But perhaps I am only typing this to motivate him to prove me wrong?
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