TF2 Newbs (Team Fortress 2) Blog

The Jib&Koans Contest of Awesome feature the newly aquired Newb Points is complete.

The first place winner will recieve a TF2Newbs tshirt and a pick of one of Koans games second and third place also recieve a tshirt, as well as the top ranking admin.

This contest was a lot of fun, and it really changed the way the game was played. The purpose of this contest of course is to promote server #8 (which i’m sure you all see how badass it really is now..) and to promote team play which we’re all about.. and Gggly playing engy for an entire match unprompted shows me this contest was indeed a Huge Success!! Verry niice

Newb Points Final:
| 83314 | 3051 | you guys (Ggglygy) | First, Tshirt
| 82966 | 2882 | .S9 eekozoid {N} | Second, Tshirt/Grand Prize
| 85120 | 2473 | yaaawn {OSS} »AIDS« | Third, Tshirt
| 83370 | 2062 | {N} YOOOOOOOOOOU GUIZ |
| 83316 | 1847 | [N] NFreak | »AIDS« |
| 83447 | 1789 | i?» Li{N}k: 160/1000 TK’s — | Top Admin, Tshirt
| 83317 | 1697 | [N]{OSS} Andy <3 Ali | »AIDS« |
| 83161 | 1402 | {N}{OSS} Steven.S9 | »AIDS« |
| 91569 | 1163 | mikeyr22 |
| 82849 | 1063 | |N| Jib... ---[] |
| 82993 | 1033 | [N] Crouton Magillicutty |
| 86812 | 1021 | [N]Koben{OSS} |

Congrats to Ggglygy, Eekozoid, yaaawn, and Link for being badasses

So there you have it. Good thing the Ggglygy Contest Clause was in affect for this. Sec.4-Par.2 Clearly states that the grand winner of a previous contest cannot be the grand winner of a future contest.. Basically Gggly seems to find a way to win everytime. He doesn’t get the Grand Prize.. BUT, He still gets a tshirt, and he seems pretty pumped about that. Congrats to Eekozoid for winning the Grand Prize, he puts in a lot of work for #8 and his dedication showed during this contest. Glad to see the newcomer yaaawn finishing up in the ranks, he’s a well respected player on the server. And last but not least big ups to Link for taking the admin challenge, and coming out on top.

Big thanks to all of those who took part in this competition, and if you didn’t get your hands on some Newbs gear – don’t fret because this is the first of many of these to come.

This update by Jib, reminding you to stay classy San Diego

For information on the current contest see: http://www.tf2newbs.com/forum/index.php/topic,1915.0.html

Server #8 is 69.12.108.39:27015

Here are the current standings:

1. .S9 eekozoid {N}               
2. nø-pulse` Ggglygy [N]     
3. {N}{OSS} Alex Chilton (JF)     
4. yaaawn {OSS}                   
5. [N]{OSS} Andy <3 Ali | »AIDS«
6. [N] NFreak »AIDS«            
7. {N){OSS} Steven | »AIDS«       
8. [N] .S9 StrongBad36x           
9. [BnH] LeeTagger                
10. [N]Koben{OSS}                  
11. mikeyr22                   
12. {N} Scott Eats Bullets       
13. deprecated                   
14. i?» .S9|Amadeus {N}         
15. Marco                          
16. (JF)Verrah                     
17. [LPF] The Big Boss             
18. [N]{OSS}SniperDrew [SP] 
19. Riot ¤ Happy.Smiles
20. ejc

There is plenty of time left to win a prize.   Remember that points are awarded for different things!  Although the totals in HLstatsX are being used in the point totals, your actual ‘skill’ points are not significant so dying does _NOT_ hurt your points.  It is entirely possible to win this contest with a <1000 skill point total.  The majority of the points are awarded for events that signify  team work, map goals, and time spent on the server.  So get in there, get dirty, die a few hundred times grabbing that intel, or capping that point and make us proud.

So its November 3rd now, and after a little bit of fumbling around, I managed to get all the pictures of the pumpkin contest (also known as Jibs Contest Of Noiice) sent over to TheJib so he could judge.  As some of you may know we were offering up a single prize of a Steam Gift of Left 4 Dead to be awarded by Jib.  In order to qualify you had to submit a pumpkin, the more badass the better.  The REAL prize though was the never ending fame and glory of knowing that you participated, and that the world looked on in awe at how cool your tf2 pumpkin turned out. 

 And… The winners are:

1st prize: Left 4 Dead, 1 year reserved slot, trophy honorz – Crab Spy (in cross hairs)
`– NFreak

2nd prize: 15 steam bucks, 1 year reserved slot, trophy honorz – Painted Engy/Sentry Gun
`– Dingo (And her canadian bf)

Runner up: Honorz Icon, 1 year reserved slot:
Spy silouette *Nice work, you pulled this off well
`– Doomheit

Sticky bomb *Very original. Although not ‘carved’ you had to carve out the spikes to put them on there.
`– Koans (you can no longer say you never win anything)

Pyro face etched *quality. Very clean
`– Octo (hah, I managed to place!)

TF2 graffiti carving. *graffiti for the win. badass
`– Zepith

All who participated:
3 month reserved slot / honorz icon.

All in all, we had 21 entries, 20 were TF2 related (1 was portal related).

 Check out all the entries here:

http://www.tf2newbs.com/contests/2008-Team-Fortress-2-Pumpkin-Carving/Pumpkin_Contest_Entries/

You have been solicited to make a new TF2 Newbs logo.. I tempted you with everlasting fame, karma, and a reserved slot. This much I can give you.. But wait that’s not all folks! For the extensive participation, I’ll be awarding a special honorz icon to the top 3 entries!

How does this work? I’ll tell you. The anonymity of it all is pretty shot because you can just look at who posted the pics in the thread : ) so rather than making some funky number system to keep this from being a popularity contest.. We’ll just go on the honorz system. (HA.) No really. You guys seem to be pretty non partial and since all the people who posted stuff are badass as it is, it shouldn’t be a problem.

Check it out:
http://www.tf2newbs.com/forum/…

Jib…

This is a short post, just reminding everyone to get your pumpkin carved and submitted for the contest for a chance to win Left4Dead! Woo!   So far there have been 4 submissions in the competition, but I’ve been assured that there are more coming.  Remember that the contests closes Nov 2nd, so you MUST have your pumpkins sent in by then.    This contest is open to everyone, even if you have never played on the newbs servers.   Good luck everyone.

For additional details see: http://www.tf2newbs.com/contests/2008-Team-Fortress-2-Pumpkin-Carving/

-octo