Introducing Season Three of the League of Extraordinary Icrontians

Brian Ambrozy 6 Jan, 2013 at 5:27pm ET Article published in Gaming

The League of Extraordinary Icrontians is a scheduled, weekly TF2 game that brings in Icrontians young and old, new and grizzled, to our awesome Team Fortress 2 server for lulz, competition, smack talk, badges, and Good Times™

2013 represents our third year of League play. You don’t have to do anything to join the League other than to show up.

The server holds 24 slots and tends to fill up fast on League nights. “Make room for me” kick privileges are reserved for those who have contributed money to the server (i.e. those who hold the coveted Team Captain badge). If you don’t have the badge and the server is full, even if you have the {IC} tag you may get kicked to make room. No offense! The server costs a lot of money to run and many people have donated to keep it free for everybody.

Those who participated in Season Two can now request the badge for it.

Like we did last year, we’ll have an informal unofficial game tonight to brush the dust off and grease the wheels a bit. The official League games this season will be on Tuesday nights at 10pm EST. That puts the first official game this Tuesday, January 8th, at 10pm EST.

See you there!

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6 Jan 2013 ~ 5:38pm oni_dels YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS OUI OUI OUI FUCK YES!
6 Jan 2013 ~ 5:50pm PirateNinja I am extremely excited Thank you Icrontic + Brain Ambrazy + etc for making Tuesdays the best days.
6 Jan 2013 ~ 5:50pm oni_dels I love you LOEI, or in the language of my people: beer.
6 Jan 2013 ~ 6:05pm cola
6 Jan 2013 ~ 6:12pm Preacher Imma so happies. I even gets to kill and be killed by @oni_dels and all the Icrontians again! Threw some money at the server for Rex and me too, since it has been a while since we contributed to the hilarity and hi-jinx. What time tonight? 2200 EST?
6 Jan 2013 ~ 6:42pm Jokke I can make it 10pm est tonight...
6 Jan 2013 ~ 7:12pm oni_dels
Imma so happies. I even gets to kill and be killed by @oni_dels and all the Icrontians again! Threw some money at the server for Rex and me too, since it has been a while since we contributed to the hilarity and hi-jinx. What time tonight? 2200 EST?
Hehehe... yes 10pm tonight. also props for military time (known as french time around here...).

also want to contribute too, just waiting to get the credit card down a bit...
6 Jan 2013 ~ 7:42pm trooster89 Game on! God save us all from @Marshmellow
6 Jan 2013 ~ 8:35pm cola lol @ french time
6 Jan 2013 ~ 8:40pm oni_dels
lol @ french time
come to think of it, when i said
(known as french time around here...).
i'm not sure if "here" meant Canada or Internet...
6 Jan 2013 ~ 9:57pm Signal Tuesdays just got 20% cooler.
7 Jan 2013 ~ 12:08am bright Warm-up didn't go to well (cp) but we went to other places and had fun.
7 Jan 2013 ~ 12:10am Jokke Fun was had.
7 Jan 2013 ~ 12:18am oni_dels Brian. go to hell. next tuesday, i'll kill you. so much, you'll be dead. i'm a bit rusty atm, so i'll train a bit. but tuesday, tuesday is something else: i'll kill you dead.
7 Jan 2013 ~ 12:19am primesuspect
7 Jan 2013 ~ 12:20am cola BRIGHT *rageface*
7 Jan 2013 ~ 12:36am primesuspect
Brian. go to hell. next tuesday, i'll kill you. so much, you'll be dead. i'm a bit rusty atm, so i'll train a bit. but tuesday, tuesday is something else: i'll kill you dead.
7 Jan 2013 ~ 4:17am bright
BRIGHT *rageface*
I love it when you get angry with me.
7 Jan 2013 ~ 9:25am CB I was to understand there would be Hydro.

There was no Hydro
7 Jan 2013 ~ 11:33am _k
My new hat.
7 Jan 2013 ~ 11:37am cola
BRIGHT *rageface*
I love it when you get angry with me.
Don't worry, I'll cut out your heart so you won't be able to feel that love anymore

Tuesday's coming, got your coat?
7 Jan 2013 ~ 11:46am shwaip i'm going to make you all sad (by killing you). assuming i'm not driving laura to the airport. otherwise, i'm going to make you all sad by not being there.
7 Jan 2013 ~ 1:17pm GnomeQueen My body is ready.
7 Jan 2013 ~ 2:46pm midga
My body is ready.
/takei

I won't be there this week. Sonora has shitty hotel intertubes. I'll be lucky if I can Netflix...
7 Jan 2013 ~ 3:29pm Rexxar
7 Jan 2013 ~ 4:52pm bright
BRIGHT *rageface*
I love it when you get angry with me.
Don't worry, I'll cut out your heart so you won't be able to feel that love anymore

Tuesday's doming, got your coat?</blockquote>

I do. I'm happy you noticed my new Cut Throat Concierge; It makes me really warm. So when I kept seeing you huddling in a corner without a nice warm spy coat, I wanted to warm you up. The airblasting was to keep you from getting too hot.
7 Jan 2013 ~ 5:00pm cola
BRIGHT *rageface*
I love it when you get angry with me.
Don't worry, I'll cut out your heart so you won't be able to feel that love anymore

Tuesday's doming, got your coat?</blockquote>

I do. I'm happy you noticed my new Cut Throat Concierge; It makes me really warm. So when I kept seeing you huddling in a corner without a nice warm spy coat, I wanted to warm you up. The airblasting was to keep you from getting too hot.
I live in a giant bucket.
7 Jan 2013 ~ 5:16pm Signal Say, do you want to go see a movie?
7 Jan 2013 ~ 5:22pm cola
Say, do you want to go see a movie?
I'm feeling fat and sassy.
7 Jan 2013 ~ 6:57pm Tushon
8 Jan 2013 ~ 10:00am MAGIC
:/
8 Jan 2013 ~ 10:36am Jokke I fail to see what a menstruating cloud has to do with TF2.
8 Jan 2013 ~ 11:36am RyanFodder I think that's his anus.
8 Jan 2013 ~ 12:22pm PirateNinja His anus is bleeding.
8 Jan 2013 ~ 12:46pm Annes It's not a cloud that's menstruating?
8 Jan 2013 ~ 1:08pm malia
It's not a cloud that's menstruating?
Looks like a menstruating cloud to me...
8 Jan 2013 ~ 1:14pm Signal For the confused:
8 Jan 2013 ~ 1:20pm MAGIC Didn't help, still confused.
8 Jan 2013 ~ 1:39pm Tushon I think that's the point.
8 Jan 2013 ~ 2:20pm JBoogaloo I'm thinking once school quitets down in the next week or two I'll jump in on this. Free kills over this way!
8 Jan 2013 ~ 2:30pm Bandrik Oh lawd, the "rejected" videos.
8 Jan 2013 ~ 3:11pm primesuspect
8 Jan 2013 ~ 3:27pm cola
8 Jan 2013 ~ 4:41pm Tim I had a really good game of Halo 4 the other day in Big Team Battle. I went 22-0 in kills/deaths!

I started off with a sniper rifle, and carefully picked a spot up high near my base. I got some nice headshots until I ran out of bullets, then I went and jumped in a tank and killed a bunch more people, then when the tank caught on fire I bailed out before it blew up, picked up a gravity hammer, and smashed 4-5 more people! Then I hid in their base to hit anyone who came by until the game ended.

I came in #1 on my team, which doesn't happen often.

True story.
8 Jan 2013 ~ 4:50pm cola
I had a really good game of Halo 4 the other day in Big Team Battle. I went 22-0 in kills/deaths!

I started off with a sniper rifle, and carefully picked a spot up high near my base. I got some nice headshots until I ran out of bullets, then I went and jumped in a tank and killed a bunch more people, then when the tank caught on fire I bailed out before it blew up, picked up a gravity hammer, and smashed 4-5 more people! Then I hid in their base to hit anyone who came by until the game ended.

I came in #1 on my team, which doesn't happen often.

True story.
8 Jan 2013 ~ 5:52pm oni_dels
8 Jan 2013 ~ 6:23pm bright Less than 4 hours until I burn every last one of you.
8 Jan 2013 ~ 8:43pm Guppy Might not make it tonight. Waiting for my mom to get released from the hospital. The staff here seems to have some real communication problems.
8 Jan 2013 ~ 8:51pm Teramona
Brain Ambrazy
I legitimately thought I was having a stroke for a few seconds.
8 Jan 2013 ~ 9:16pm Bandrik
8 Jan 2013 ~ 9:30pm primesuspect FAIR WARNING: keep in mind that the server has only 24 slots, and that probably every {IC} player will want in tonight. We will definitely have more people that want/deserve to play than we will have slots. If you get no response to "please kick to make room", IT'S NOTHING PERSONAL. If all 24 slots are filled with 24 donating, active members, there's nothing we can do about it. Please just keep auto-join on and your turn will come!
8 Jan 2013 ~ 9:57pm oni_dels so i've been stuck on the "validating steam cache file" window for the past 20 mins, and since i wasn't gonna be online for long i guess i wont be able to show up tonight. sucks. balls. deeply.
8 Jan 2013 ~ 10:10pm pseudonym Looks like the hotel I'm based at this winter has Steam blocked....... WTF?!?!?!
8 Jan 2013 ~ 11:02pm trooster89 Good times
9 Jan 2013 ~ 1:07am Ilriyas
All aboard the Great Canadian Railway!

Hold up something ain't right

Also Robbin Poops and his Merry Shits was a fun little joke to end the night on!
9 Jan 2013 ~ 1:09am shwaip ez
9 Jan 2013 ~ 1:13am primesuspect Full server for two hours. LOEI is back
9 Jan 2013 ~ 8:10am MAGIC I need to start playing more. I feel inadequately hatted.
9 Jan 2013 ~ 9:03am Signal "Only available in Canada"
9 Jan 2013 ~ 9:15am CB THAT'S A BAGEL BITE!
9 Jan 2013 ~ 10:19am MAGIC In Merca, we don't like our pizza out a toaster.
9 Jan 2013 ~ 10:30am shwaip and only 3 meats? Amateur.
9 Jan 2013 ~ 10:34am Linc I unequipped my canteen because it shows up during prop hunt. Priorities.
9 Jan 2013 ~ 10:36am Linc Pro tip: Try joining at like 10:45, 11, or 11:15 if it's full at first. The first wave checks out around then and sometimes it doesn't fill back up. Kinda funny there's this mad waiting list at 10:15pm and then 6 open slots 30 minutes later.
9 Jan 2013 ~ 2:07pm Ilriyas You're supposed to cook em with a microwave, we aren't allowed cooking implements because some moron lit his room on fire so I use my computer vent.

Also NO A bagel bite is a pizza bagel, we have those as well...they're called pizza bagels
A Pizza pop is a mini panzarotti or calzone

One's a bagel one's a pastry ya'll are crazy.
9 Jan 2013 ~ 2:29pm JBoogaloo
"Only available in Canada"

O ya?

Well...

BEHOLD...THE HOT POCKET!!!

And they're apparently an excellent source of protein and calcium.
9 Jan 2013 ~ 2:36pm Ilriyas THAT ISN'T A PIZZA POP AT ALL! WHAT LIES ARE YOU TELLING!
9 Jan 2013 ~ 3:08pm MAGIC Pizza Hut Online
9 Jan 2013 ~ 3:35pm _k I asked a Canadian. He said you were crazy and has no idea what you are talking about Ilriyas. Then he apologized for being so harsh.
9 Jan 2013 ~ 5:46pm oni_dels also we use to have the hot pocket here a couple years ago. might still though i just don't eat this kind of crap XD.
and, why is this the frozen pizza tread now?
9 Jan 2013 ~ 5:48pm GnomeQueen And why in the world are they called pizza pops? That just makes me think of pizza flavored popsicles, which I think we can all agree is a terrible idea.
9 Jan 2013 ~ 6:32pm JBoogaloo
And why in the world are they called pizza pops? That just makes me think of pizza flavored popsicles, which I think we can all agree is a terrible idea.
I think you mean greatest idea, ever!
9 Jan 2013 ~ 7:55pm trooster89 Hot pocket: crispy on the outside, molten hot magma on the inside.
9 Jan 2013 ~ 8:13pm shwaip
Hot pocket: crispy on the outside, molten hot magma on the inside.
with small pockets of frozen as well.
9 Jan 2013 ~ 9:47pm JBoogaloo
Hot pocket: crispy on the outside, molten hot magma on the inside.
with small pockets of frozen as well.
Much like those delicious $.99 grocery store burritos. MMMMMMM...do they make those any more?
9 Jan 2013 ~ 11:37pm shwaip
Hot pocket: crispy on the outside, molten hot magma on the inside.
with small pockets of frozen as well.
Much like those delicious $.99 grocery store burritos. MMMMMMM...do they make those any more?
for those canadians who don't know what burritos are, think of them as taco pops.
9 Jan 2013 ~ 11:42pm Ilriyas Burritos are a thing here
9 Jan 2013 ~ 11:45pm Winfrey more proof that America only gives good things to Canada.
10 Jan 2013 ~ 12:21am PirateNinja Immediately I imagine a tortilla stuffed with poutine and maple syrup.
10 Jan 2013 ~ 12:22am shwaip
Immediately I imagine a tortilla stuffed with poutine and maple syrup.
exactly, a burrito.
10 Jan 2013 ~ 2:14am Jokke
more proof that America only gives good things to Canada.
The burrito is Mexican, is it not?
10 Jan 2013 ~ 2:16am primesuspect Vaguely. It's mostly American.
10 Jan 2013 ~ 2:37am Ilriyas It started in Mexico, now it's been absorbed by the various fast food empires.
10 Jan 2013 ~ 3:12am bright Fast food empires should absorb Tim Hortons. Seriously don't believe Timmies is fast-food, because it looked nice, tasted great, and I'm still breathing normally.
10 Jan 2013 ~ 3:31am Ilriyas Tim Hortons is fast food as far as I suppose you could say Canadian born and raised 'fast food' companies are.

Harvey's for example is labelled as a fast food restaurant but it's pretty much make your own burger, the patties aren't precooked, reheated, etc. they're made as you place your order, it takes longer but you're getting quality food.

Tim Hortons is sort of similar, coffee is thrown out if it's been sitting for around 15 minutes I believe and a fresh pot is made (This is corporate policy and as far as I'm concerned it's held true by the franchise owners) bagels and shite are already there but it's made as you ask for it and condiments like lettuce, tomato, etc. are prepared fresh.

Now if only they were open right now, I've got a craving only Tim Horton's coffee and a bacon breakfast bagel can fix. (Bloody rural town, back in Toronto they're open 24/7)

Also we're slowly making progress into the States soon enough everyone will be craving Timmies Timbits
10 Jan 2013 ~ 9:24am JBoogaloo I gotta say, when we were in Montreal last year the wife and I tried some Time Hortons coffee and she had some grilled sandwich. That place is pretty damn good compared to what we'd get anywhere else here in the states as far as convenience food goes. My only fear is that I won't be able to decide who gets my money for coffee any more, Dunkin Donuts or Timmies?
10 Jan 2013 ~ 9:42am CB We've got Tim Horton's in Southern Ohio now. Betsy likes their coffee. I think their coffee tastes like coffee, which is to say: terrible.

The burrito's that most American's are eating were invented in Arizona. Order a Burrito at an authentic Mexican restaurant, and you might be disappointed.

The most surprising thing to order at a Mexican Restaraunt, if you're used to 'fast' Mexican (Taco Bell) is a Chalupa. A Taco Bell chalupa is basically a taco with a deep fried puffy tortilla for a shell. A real chalupa is basically a corn cracker with bean-paste and lettuce atop.
10 Jan 2013 ~ 10:19am Ryder
10 Jan 2013 ~ 10:27am CB Blame Canada
10 Jan 2013 ~ 11:11am _k
10 Jan 2013 ~ 5:34pm oni_dels
more proof that America only gives good things to Canada.
The burrito is Mexican, is it not?

as much as the hamburger is German...
10 Jan 2013 ~ 6:46pm quake101 You guys crack me up.
10 Jan 2013 ~ 7:34pm quake101
10 Jan 2013 ~ 11:03pm _k
11 Jan 2013 ~ 12:49pm PirateNinja
11 Jan 2013 ~ 2:10pm Canti
Fixt
11 Jan 2013 ~ 2:34pm JBoogaloo $.99 derailing burrito is the best kind of burrito.
11 Jan 2013 ~ 4:51pm Ryder
11 Jan 2013 ~ 5:37pm cola
14 Jan 2013 ~ 10:24pm CrazyJoe
The most surprising thing to order at a Mexican Restaraunt, if you're used to 'fast' Mexican (Taco Bell) is a Chalupa. A Taco Bell chalupa is basically a taco with a deep fried puffy tortilla for a shell. A real chalupa is basically a corn cracker with bean-paste and lettuce atop.
Remember that time we went to the Mexican Restaurant and you ordered a Chalupa and when they brought it out you thought they brought out the wrong thing, because it wasn't like Taco Bell?