OPEN WRITEUPS

1. sockheads - https://play.esea.net/teams/111717
Scouts: ed, Zheep
Soldiers: Digi, mausy
Demo: newspeak
Medic: Valkeri

This team so far looks really strong on paper. This team stands out from two valuable players in my book, Mausy and Newspeak. Mausy still retains his skills from his past seasons from what I have seen in pugs. Newspeak another player who has risen from the grave who kept their DM ability. Zheep put in a lot of work last season, while dealing with a shaky roster. Digi is another great addition to this team, he has the DM and playing with vets like these will just make him a better roamer. Valkeri, another seasoned player who has played on great teams as medic; placing 7th place with cafe monster in S17 Intermediate, and 2nd place with Seendio S18 Open.

2. wiener bros - https://play.esea.net/teams/109620
Scouts: Skag, Skeez
Soldiers: Shiki, Benroads
Demo: Glop
Medic: Peyote

When this roster is brought up, first people I notice are Shiki, Benroads, and Peyote. Shiki and Pey should seems like the best pocket-medic combo to me so far in the preseason. Shiki possesses the DM to do excellent in open, whilst Pey has the brains from playing several seasons on a number of teams with varying skills all the way up to Invite. Benroads was the best player from his old team, Wu Tang Club (post-kuesif) and has a lot to bring to the table. From what I see in logs skag and skeez, are looking like two upcoming scouts in this season of open, putting up big numbers against other teams in their league.

-. I will Dad! - https://play.esea.net/teams/91568
Scouts: ScruffMcgruff, Spades
Soldiers: tojo, jeff
Demo: smitty
Medic: Drake

I will Dad, has a pretty decent roster if I do say so myself. Scruff put in a lot of work when he was playing on Blue Elephant. With a better roster around him he will show his true potential. Spades, a newcomer to the 6s scene who played engie, much like Skag. Tojo and jeff are good soldiers for open and make a lot of plays for their team. Smitty can hold his own in open with his team revolving around him. Drake is another new face to the scene of ESEA, hope to see more from him.

-. What is this art - https://play.esea.net/teams/110474
Scouts: arty, indecency
Soldiers: yeremy, cat
Demo: ?
Medic: delete

Right of the bat, you see yeremy on this team, a player who played just about every class for the yomies. Arty has done a lot for guitar heroes in the DM department, this team should be more suited for him. Cat has shown that he has the skills, but will he has the dedication to stick it out through thick and thin. Indecency is new to the scout class but he knows his game. Delete is a new face to the scene and from looking at their stats pretty good at surviving at least, but still has a lot to learn.

-. Doom Room - https://play.esea.net/teams/110519
Scouts - Bunilla, Neeko
Pocket: Rave, Papi
Demo: Cereal
Medic: Radeon

Bunilla and Neeko have put up pretty good numbers so far in their scrims, hope to see more from them. Rave's back in the pocket seat again, he has the skills to do great things. Papi has good dm for open but still has a lot to learn. Cereal is a nice demo man to have in this season of open because there aren't that many out there, a good upcoming player. Radeon has played multiple seasons with very colorful personalities, glad to see him on a good team.

-. Goosey Squad - https://play.esea.net/teams/113784
Medic: sash
Pocket: chaaz
Roamer: Ghostac
Demoman: unff
Scouts: Olive & kaytee

This team is basically a blast from the past with Ghoastac. Sash was a top medic during his prime and same with unf on his respective class. Chaaz was on a top intermediate team, during his time in tf2 bringing a lot to the table. Ghostac came in 4th place in open last season on soldier, hope to see him carry that over to this season! Olive and Kaytee two people who haven't played this game in a long time. Kaytee was an invite scout in her prime, after a couple of weeks she should be back in shape in no time!

-. BLANC eSports - https://play.esea.net/teams/91584
Scout: Muse
Scout: Comanglia
Pocket: Crasian
Roamer: SpaceCadet
Demo: yuice
Medic: Tery

Blanc's scouts have a lot of stopping power and arsenal. Comanglia a renowned sniper in UGC is coming to ESEA, hope to see him destroy on upcoming maps where sniper dominates in! Crasian a player who has been on multiple teams finds a place where he can call home and do some destructive things with Tery on medic another player who can call this team home. SpaceCadet put in a lot of work on his previous teams, glad to see the old man still has it! Yuice is a new face to me, but with this team I am sure he can pull his on weight.

-. Elite Pwnage Squad - https://play.esea.net/teams/90765
scouts: glukkon, ?
soldiers: simple, ?
demo: dc
medic: gecks

This team has been together for a while now learning tf2 with each other, I like to see that in a team! Glukkon is a dm monster on scout and has a lot to bring to this team. Simple and gecks are a scary combo with very good synergy and with dc to add to them that just makes them even scarier! Not sure who the other scout/roamer is but I am sure they are a great fit to this team.

-. Puck Fat - https://play.esea.net/teams/113225
Medic - mikey p
Demo - nko
Pocket - Twitchy
Roamer - buschy
Scouts - luxor/flay

Looks like a cloud 9 remake to me, this team was pretty much a playoff team when they did play in open. With a new roster though, luxor and flay replacing the late slemtek scout combo. They won't be able to reproduce the numbers that those 2 greats did but they should be able to still put in work.

-. Party Hotline - https://play.esea.net/teams/112933
Medic: fishy-lin
Pocket: Deer
Demo: Rolling
Roamer: fight
Scout: Soapy
Scout: kier

This team has medic main written all over it. These medic mains are fraggers though, soapy is a really good scout and I expect a lot out of him in this season of open. Deer played with the famous delpo on pocket so I am sure that he will bring that to the table on pocket. Rolling is one of my favorite players in tf2 with his creativity on roamer, can't wait to see him on demo! Fishy-lin is a upcoming medic who is being taught by the famous goldfish, she should fit in nicely on this team and after a couple weeks be a top medic. Fight and kier have played this game for a couple seasons and fit in nicely with this bunch of medic mains.