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Happy 10th Anniversary!

biowill — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 01:11:16 +0000

August 20th 2013, 10 years ago, Van and I finalised merging NW and FV to make vvv and enter UGC season 11. We went 5-5, including 3 forfeit wins (#forfeittofinals) and 2 forfeit losses (#forfeitthefinals).

That marked the start of a 4 year journey to eventually achieve our grand success of 2nd in Steel S22 (a loss that still stings to this day).

We represented a really consistent and foundational part of that golden age of TF2 comp in Aus, and looking back we fostered some players who went on to define the scene in the region - be it with Obla and Fozz as ozfortress admins or Hyper, Zoid and Obla (again) dominating Highlander for most of the decade in RedPandas. As for the rest of us, we formed a tight knit group that had tons of fun together, win or lose, for several years.

While the team was mostly focused around TF2 we also had a regular stack for Dota, a Destiny clan for a few years, and the odd mess around with Age of Empires, Jackbox or whatever strange indie game we could coerce everyone into buying.

From the very beginning the team was built around groups of friends coming together - starting from me and Dante in Christchurch combining with Van and Fozz in Adelaide. This grew over our early years to cover every part of Australia and New Zealand and saw some pretty great interstate/international meetups - the first one when Van came to Queenstown for my 18th in 2014, and the most recent one when the Dota boys came together in Melbourne for PAX earlier this year.

I know that since our glory days people have largely moved on from TF2, high school suddenly giving way to university and the real world. But I hope that everyone will always look back on this time favourably and also always be down to get a beer with your former teammates when your paths cross anywhere in the world.

Since the summer update in August a few of us have been jumping on the game again for some classic pubstacks - I encourage anyone who wants to relive the golden days to reinstall for a bit of good dumb fun.

Thanks for reading these silly sentimental words - miss you all and wish you every success in where your path has taken you since our days as a team.

- biowill

#believvve

Destiny 2 Clan

biowill — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 22:16:07 +0000

For those of you who are so inclined to give Destiny 2 a go, come join the party[www.bungie.net]! The game is pretty fun, looking forward to wasting a lot of time with it.

I assume those who have been playing prior to the F2P update already have clans but you are welcome nonetheless!

Miss y'all <3

playa of the week

biowill — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 22:02:50 +0000

for top fragging, 10 med picks and 1 med telefrag

gl fozz bae

biowill — Tue, 10 May 2016 10:13:32 +0000

Good luck to Fozzlm and 5whales in the open semifinal tonight!

Never 4get

biowill — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 01:51:19 +0000

Van's player history

-Scout for Players of Destruction late 2011. Dustbowl clan that wented to get into 6's
-Created Familiar Void a month later. Played spy, sniper and then was pushed onto Heavy (blame Zoid).
-Joined Sap as sub heavy for less than 24 hours
-Was recruited into Night's Watch as core Heavy where I persued total power control of the clan. Slowly started moving the old FV memebers into the clan so we could overthrow Biowill and Dante.
-Decided to merge Nights Watch with the remaning FV memebers who weren't in NW (i.e. Fozzlm) to create VoidWatch.
-Still need to move a few more FV members into Voidwatch to the point it is completely FV, but we have Biowill organising matches.
-Left comp to do something else (not sure what that is yet)

Saved here for posterity

S19 Tentative Roster

biowill — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 09:18:19 +0000

Just to keep everyone abreast of my current thinking -

Scout: Bready / Seal lord / Meoh
Soldier: Nex
Pyro: Blitzen
Demo: Dante / Donkey
Heavy: bio / Ch0c / Vanclash
Engie: Trips / Decyne
Medic: Fozzlm
Sniper: Neophyte / Nobunaga
Spy: Ether / Pluto

Season 18

biowill — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 00:21:02 +0000

In light of the season's early start and Fozz's continued laptop issues, I'm making the call that voidwatch will not be entering Season 18. It's not a decision I like to make but realistically we won't be able to find a stable core roster between now and January 11th. As per usual with seasons we miss, I invite you to find other teams to play with for the season if you want, and remind you that vvv will be happy to have you back come S19 c:

final push

biowill — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 02:14:42 +0000

Hi team,

So those of you who have confirmed for tonight are
Blitzen
Bready
Macmac
Neophyte
Trips
Nex
Nobunaga
Donkey
Zoid

I need you all to be absolutely on time and in the right space tonight. Blitz is in charge and I expect he will want to run a strats sesh on the map as it's a new one. Please be available for at least 45 minutes pre match time.

Download the map here: http://tf2maps.net/resources/cp_vanguard.862/download?version=1066

Good luck guys. It's been a rough end of season but I personally think a successful season overall. Thanks for all your hard work and looking forward to going back to voidwatch for early next year.

litigator of the week

biowill — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 13:46:24 +0000

for fighting on the most honourable battlefield: the battlefield of THE LAW

playa(s) of the week

biowill — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 10:39:35 +0000

Honestly I want to give this out to all of you who made it to monday's game. With two captains magically struck down by the cruel hand of fate, putting together a team and turning up was the best we could have asked for. Up at the level of competition we want to be at, there should be no forfeits.

The standabove for this week goes out to the lad who fought over not just roster adversity but physical adversity playing (and actually carrying) with a broken collarbone. godspeed you beautiful soldier