February 2012

Full article here via Gamasutra This week, the professional e-Sports North American Star League (NASL) celebrates the Open Beta of Tribes: Ascend by airing the first exhibition matches for NASL Season 3. The first night of Tribes: Ascend streaming will be Wednesday 2/29 at 8pm PST / 11pm EST on www.nasl.tv. Night two will begin after Starcraft [...]

zfz was the first team to play in a T:A competitive scrim and the first to play in an international friendly. Tonight, we were also the first to play in a scrim to be shown in front of a live audience on the big screen. The match was with Area 51 in a tightly contested [...]

The VOD’s are up for the scrim with zfz and Hindsight. The final score was 3(4)-1 for zfz. Thanks to Hindsight, Onemoregame.tv, twitch.tv, and HiRez for making this happen. Intro and first map – Crossfire Second and third maps – Bella Omega, Drydock Fourth and fifth maps – Katabatic, ArxNovena

Spinfusor Podcast Episode 2 is now up over at spinfusor.org. This episode hosted by Arcadizz1e features zfz.RedSpider, idk’s Creature, and HiRezBart himself in a roundtable discussion on the current state of comp play.

02.24.2012 We played in a scrim with Tao with a win for zfz 3-1. The scrim was plagued with connection and latency issues on Tao’s side for the final two maps, as well as some confusion on the scrim format for the first map. ArxNovena remained relatively stable as the second map played on East [...]

Beginning today, 02.22.2012, zfz will begin streaming scrims through zfz’s Twitch.tv page. One of the features that makes this stream a bit more interesting is that there will be two first person streams side by side to get a more complete picture of what is going on. Tonight will feature zfz.Kev and zfz.Kudos. This system [...]

As of today, February 22nd, Tribes: Ascend now enters Open Beta. This is yet again another huge patch, the most noticeable change from closed to open is that a key is no longer needed to play the game. Major highlights include a new CTF map, Arena gametype, the infiltrator capping nerf, and the Beowulf movement [...]

Today marks a first for Tribes: Ascend. zfz will be playing with Team Hindsight in an international friendly. The Euro and US scenes have developed different strategies over the past months of competitive play, which makes this exhibition even more interesting. The game will be streamed live through Onemoregame.tv, with HiRezBart and SirScoots casting, and [...]

02.13.2012 We played Boss in a rematch. It was to be a Bo5 match, but due to time constraints for Boss was limited to Bo3. zfz took the win with a score of 2-1. ArxNovena – Boss 5, zfz 3   Drydock – zfz 5, Boss 3   Crossfire – zfz 5, Boss 1

HiRez quickly releases another patch, just a week after the major overhaul. The patch addresses a number of concerns and bugs, as well as some well thought out balance changes. The question on everyone’s mind still is, “Where is the Infiltrator nerf?” Link to direct release here. Major Highlights The Sentinel, Infiltrator, Technician and Raider [...]