Zoob

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[e][h]Soldiericon.png Zoob
Player Information
Name:
Zoob
Country:
Status:
Years Active:
2009 - Present
Team:
Role:
Nicknames:
The Finnish Wizard
Links
teamfortress.tv User Page ETF2L Player Page
Steam Profile Twitter
Achievements
First Place ETF2L Highlander Season 6Wireplay 9v9 Season 11TeamFortress.TV Highlander Invitational #2

Second Place ETF2L Highlander Season 5ETF2L Highlander Season 8ETF2L Highlander Community Challenge6v6 Season 11
Third Place ETF2L 6v6 Season 20

Title icon.png Soldier of the Season
First Place ETF2L 6v6 Season 22: Premiership Playoffs
Third Place/Semifinalist(s) ETF2L 6v6 Season 20: Premiership
History
2010 - 2011
2012 - 2014
2014 - 2015
2015 - Present
2010 - 2013
2013 - Present

Zoob is a Finnish Soldier main, playing 6v6 and Highlander for multiple seasons in the ETF2L Premiership. He is also the creator of popular website, logs.tf and has represented the Finnish national Highlander team during every Nations cup. Zoob remains one of the most influential people in the competitive TF2 scene, his website logs.tf is the most popular website in the game for recording individual and team player statistics. As of September 2015, logs.tf has had over 1 million matches played and over 130,000 unique players.

Beginnings

Zoob first entered competitive TF2 by playing with Highlander team Colony in the ETF2L Highlander Community Challenge with his team eventually came runners-up to SNSD. After the tournament, Zoob was part of Team Yoyotech who were originally known as Spam Effect and helped the team climb all the way up to the ETF2L Premiership before being cut from the roster. In the meantime Zoob continued to play Highlander and helped Colony avoid relegation on multiple occasions.

Resurgence

Zoob was quiet in the scene for about a year before joining Division 2 roster Lowpander known back then as Furbo Pandas, together with his Colony teammate Furbo. After 4 seasons Zoob helped Lowpander get promoted to the ETF2L Premiership before securing their Premiership status again with 2 consecutive 7th placed finishes in Season 16 and Season 18. In this time Zoob was constantly praised as one of the stronger players in the team, gaining a reputation for himself as a worthy Premiership level soldier. The next season, Lowpander folded and Zoob started backing up for a few teams before gaining a spot on the newly former Reason Gaming, led by legendary Demoman, Kaidus. With Reason, Zoob managed to finish in the top 3 for the first time during Season 20, though his team were disappointed not to have won the title. During Season 21, ahead of knowledge that Zoob could not attend the upcoming Insomnia55 event, Zoob left the team and started backing up for Danger Dogs.

Highlander success

After Colony died at the end of Season 4, Zoob joined the new European team Highpander, led by 6v6 teammate Hildreth. Together with Highpander, Zoob managed to come in the top 3 every season from Season 5 to Season 8, including a Gold medal finish during Season 6. Zoob was also voted soldier of the season during that season, topping off a successful season. With Highpander he has also won other competitions including one night cups and Wireplay.


Trivia

  • Zoob's steam profile contains no fewer than 22 instances where he finished 2nd, either in a competition with his team or with an individual award. It is because of this he had previously adopted the tagline "Forever 2nd" in his profile.
  • Zoob was at one point a Master level Protos player in Starcraft 2.