Hello everyone!

Ever since the first announcement here on this very website, the latest Vertex squad has been struggling to get their lineup sorted. Now, about two months and four days later, we believe we have the situation sorted out. Let me give you a quick update on the changes in our roster!

Over the past month, a total of four positions in the lineup have changed. Dusty and Pena are the only ones who have stayed at their respective classes, and ThePledge has decided to go back to his first love in tf2 : playing scout. Unfortunatly, Sigh had to focus on real life issues, and sparkLe 's playtime got reduced, which meant that we had two more places open in the squad. Sigh will still remain in the squad, but he told us that he might join a div 6 team as fulltime pyro soon. sparkle will be on the lookout to join another team at a division 2 level as scout. From this place, I'd like to thank them both for their team in my squad, and I wish them the very best

Our replacement for Sigh was found very quickly. wer , a very experienced soldier and excellent player, decided to join us. I'm hoping wer enjoys his time in the squad and I'm hoping we can improve rapidly with his help and experience.
At that moment, we had a stable lineup, but there were some annoyances considering Paging Dr Lupus, who played scout in our team, next to sparkle. After trialling other people for some time, we decided it was the best to replace him as well. We took in the famous D2M , well known as the man behind Team Vertex and the ETF2L Head Admin. I'd like to wish DrLupus the best of luck in the future, and I'd like to welcome d2m into our squad!

At that moment, about two weeks ago, the only thing we were looking for, was a stable medic. We were looking for a caller, as I was a caller-medic myself, and we believe we've found him after a week of trialling medics. Please give a round of applause for _Ben , an English medic who will be attending i40 with us as well. I believe he is the right medic for us and that we can achieve great results with this renewed lineup.

To summarise, the new Vertex - Stinson Edition lineup:

_Ben (medic)
Dusty (demoman)
Pena (soldier)
wer (soldier)
ThePledge (scout)
D2M (scout)

The7alfa (backup scout/sniper)
Comedian (backup scout)

Revan (inactive soldier)
Sigh (inactive soldier)

Once again, I'd like to welcome all the new people to the squad, and I hope we can improve rapidly over the summer months!

Sincerely,
Mr. Fuchs (thanks d2m!)

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There hasn't been a news post about Vertex2 in a while, here is for those who are interested how our ETF2L Season 7 went.

We had high hopes from the start that the season would go better than Season 6 was, so we started out with Plasters  Gubbins  Si^  Side Effect  Jaroi  Davidd. however Jaroi had already told us that he was going to leave Comp. TF2 for the time being; after winning our first 2 officials in ETF2L told us he didnt want to play anymore officials meaning that after the first couple of officials we were on the lookout for someone who could match Jaroi's game

However this proved tough as we were on a tight ETF2L schedule and when we didn't have luck finding someone, we decided to switch around classes to see if it could work out, then changing our minds when it didn't, meaning that we litterally had a recruitment post up on ETF2L every week.

We then had our first map loss on ETF2L, against Herbs Army on Turbine, when we had 5 players for 2 thirds of the game, and a merc.

We carried on looking for mercs, and rushed into too many recruitments of players who had a good trial but were not what we were really looking for - we needed to win our officials to keep up with the biggest rivals of our division - Aqeze, who had before our official a +16 Streak on the division and were looking to make it a +18 on us, as they were hot favourites to get the top spot.

2 days before our official we trialed a few demomen and came across Haroun who impressed us very much, as he could fit in with our playstyle briliantly, despite not having the experience other trials had.

When it came to the Aqeze game, we were all warmed up and ready, Plasters kindly agreed to merc for us; it was a tense start but we managed to beat them against the odds, so we are officially Division 3! Si^ played well, his survival skills baffled Aqeze and they were asking for his demos to help their medic improve.

But it's not over yet, we still need to beat Twisted on both maps to win our division by 1 point who although haven't done as well as Aqeze in division 4D, playing them on such a "luck based" map like Gravelpit, the result could go either way.

Soooo, that's how our season has gone, now the season has almost ended we can all settle down, give people some proper trials and prepare for Div 3 with a hopefully solid core 6!

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As you guys could read in D2M's latest newspost, Team Stinson has joined the Vertex community under the name Team Vertex - Stinson Edition. My name is ThePledge and as some of you might know me, I'd like to introduce me and my team and express our feelings this commitment we made.

8 months ago, in September 2009, I decided that, as a scout from mid+ and capable of playing division 1 at ETF2L, the TF2 community needs more top teams. My plan was to create a squad with 5-6 other players, and train them up from the mid- level they were, to a stable mid+ level. This basically means that I had to teach them about every class, communication, positioning and basic/advanced tactics. It also meant that we had to start in Division 4, as an outsider. Back then; Sigh , Comedian , Dusty and The7alfa were already playing under my lead. Not much later, Pena joined as well. Since that is still pretty much our lineup, it shows our stability and these players' dedication to improving and to TF2 in general.

After 3 months, we decided our medic's annoyances with Sigh were taking its toll, and we had to say goodbye to our first medic. As I needed a challenge myself, I changed from scout to medic, with the idea of my comms working better that way. Unfortunately, it left a huge gap in the scouts' departement, which still hasn't really been fixed. Ex-Vertex2 player Paging Dr Lupus is our latest addition, but he _might_ function as our general backup instead, as he is able to play all classes to a reasonable level.

We decided to join Vertex a couple of days ago, since we feel a connection with the Vertex1 team, and I've mixed around with Vertex2 and they are a bunch of friendly guys as well. We got to keep our tag and name, in some way, which was the most important thing for us. We feel delighted that we get to be a part of this community and we are confident that with our help, the Vertex community can even grow further and go up the ranks in the top divisions of TF2. Also, I might be of some use for the Vertex3 team to help them out at problems they might run into, since I've done that 7 months ago already

So far, Team Stinson has played 3 games in ETF2L Division 3A, of which 2 losses and 1 win. The week 1 loss was somewhat expected, as we had loads of roster problems, but the week 3 loss last week was a very tough one. Losing two maps in the last seconds against YES! Team, while playing them later in a PCW and rolling them completely on the same maps. It feels like the thing that happened to the main Vertex team against Fragmative last week. Guess we both have a lot to learn!

We'd all like to thank Team Vertex for giving us this oppurtunity. You guys are great and we are very happy to be a part of the community!

ThePledge

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