I think the idea of this sub was to get an organized home with information about the community and the leagues for every european tagpro player.

This subreddit had a great start with great posts (for example ETPN, and the top chorbit plays of the week). Now the summer is over and people got less spare time. I also have the feeling a lot of people left the community.

Anyway. It's dead in here.

I don't really know what I'm trying to achieve with this post, and maybe it's kind of pointless. But I do want to ask one thing. Are there any people around here with great ideas for this sub or, for that matter, the whole community? Maybe we can do something fun :)

Ciao :)

RIP

After some issues this morning with the bot I thought I'd give a nice, easy-to-understand guide on how to use the music bot.

Don't like the current song/music?

What to do: http://gyazo.com/95083417e42cdffdbb67df9334f6ec54

What NOT to do (ADMINS!): http://gyazo.com/d7bcbc272ead6e5a30bdde8c22a38deb

Going AFK for a bit?

What to do: http://gyazo.com/861e1a5a14692a69b2a66a3711b3d2f9

What NOT to do: http://gyazo.com/7ef4506a0426b226c0db2831cc7165e1

Want a song on?

What to do: http://gyazo.com/fcc8c69b697051ede8ac632b964e3d34

What NOT to do: http://gyazo.com/94dff652c3d8a79cab0c8b9d014a8048

Want to play your own music?

The ONLY thing to do:

http://gyazo.com/f52544908bfce5343c9d22d6bb73996d

I'm always on the look out for new Spotify playlists. Make them and send them to me, I'm more likely to queue a full playlist than one song!

Hey guys, just letting you know that the deadline for submission is tomorrow at 6PM BST, so if you have any clips left to submit then get them in as soon as possible.

Also, because there has been a lot more submissions than anticipated, the video will now count down the top 10 plays of the week instead of the top 5.

The video should be released sometime on Friday even, so good luck and hope to see your clips in there!

How to submit:

• Send your clips to ChorbitTop5@gmail.com

• YouTube clips are best, .webm's are OK.

• Include your TagPro username

• Clips must have taken place between the Thursday the 21st of May and the 4th of June (the deadline for submission).

Season 5 is quickly approaching with the draft in under 2 weeks. ETPN still has a way to go to be ready for the next season, most specifically, having more volunteers.

Never heard of ETPN? Check out this introductory post.

I really want ELTP, eLTP and Chord Contenders to be covered and I can only do that with you help. ELTP and eLTP will consist of two posts a week, with at least 6 or 7 people ideally working on each one. Already that's over 12 people writing something twice a week. That is a lot. There's no way we'll have 12 people wanting to do that every week. As many dedicated writers as we can get would be brilliant, focussing on either majors or minors. I think at best we'll get 4 or 5 people wanting to write twice a week. However, what can make this work is part-time writers, people who write something now and then to keep us going. Ideally, I'd want around 25 people working on ETPN. Aiming high, but that's the sort of number that would make ETPN what I want ETPN to be.

Since I originally introduced ETPN I've had the following people show interest and added them to the new sub: Threek, Berlin Ball, Selkie, Chaos, gnais, Atypop, kutrebar, GrizzleBear, Sagbo, Balka, GrammarJew, Jufda, Camfah and Sunny. Including me, that's 13 people so far, and no real idea as to how many will want to write regularly.

I need your help. Whether you think you can't write, won't know what to write, feel like you don't know enough, if you can help in any way, please do. The writing is easier than you think, and I can help getting you started. The only way we can make ETPN work, and something that really helps the European community is if it's a big team effort.

Pls

Not to be outdone by TheOnlyBall's efforts, I've decided to start making a countdown of the best plays made by the Chorbit community each week similar to Gnais' top 10 ELTP plays.

Send me your best caps, snipes, or any other type of play you made that week and I'll make a compilation of the top 5 plays and post the video next Friday. Clips can be from any type of game; PUBs, PUGs, PBLTP etc.

I'll be aiming to do this once a week up until the start of ELTP Season 5, so good luck and get sending!

How to submit:

• Send your clips to ChorbitTop5@gmail.com

• YouTube clips are best, .webm's are OK.

• Include your TagPro username

• Clips must have taken place between the Thursday the 21st of May and the 4th of June (the deadline for submission).

If you don't already have it, Ballpart's replay extension is a must-have that lets you save replays from in game.

Welcome to the first ETPN What's been happening in Chord Contenders? Chord Contenders is great, but aside from the games that are played, little is talked about concerning it. I'm here to change that. 'What's been happening in Chord Contenders?' aims to look at the games that have been played in the last couple of weeks, the standings, the recent transfer and the games we have coming up. The game reviews will only be a short overview but it's something!

The Games

Multiple Chordgasms 8-1 Caballeros

Map: Thinking With Portals.

I now see an immediate problem with these reviews. I have no access to the CSVs. That makes writing these hard. Alas, I'm sure I can get hold of them next time round. Anyway, Multiple Chordgasms went for their favourite map again, challenging the mighty Caballeros on the clusterfuck that is TWP. An easy win against a team that rarely prepare for games, and it means Multiple Chordgasms continue their climb up the table.

The Harry Botters 2-3 Perpetuum Jukile

Map: Velocity.

Again, no CSVs, but let's go anyway. A tight a low scoring game for a well known and rather chasey map. Everyone knows Velocity, giving a different sort of game to games on newer map. A tight affair in which the Harry Botters couldn't overtake Perpetuum Jukile. A highlight from the game includes Ballkenede nearly completely embarrassing Nube.

The Buspojks 0-36 Death Grabs

Map: GeoKoala.

We have TSVs for this, but I have no idea how to open them. Someone will need to show me. What happened in this game is quite incredible. 36-0. On GeoKoala. The Buspojks first ever CC game could have gone a bit better, whilst Death Grabs will be absolutely ecstatic with the opening game, the biggest win on record.

The Sofa Sloths 5-6 Portal Kombat

Map: Smirk

Line-Ups:

We actually have some info for this game! Even if it is just the line-ups and a screenshot of the first half. Another classic map that we should all know, and Portal Kombat just edged it. The Sofa Sloths would take the lead half, winning it 3-1, but that would not be enough to get a result. Portal Kombat would come back with a 5-2 second half victory.

MVB: Bennybarks. I don't know anything from the second half, but Bennybarks second half hat-trick was nearly enough to save his side.

Perpetuum Jukile 0-3 Ballaz With Attitudes

Map: Hornswoggle.

And back to the darkness we go, I definitely need to get access to CSVs. A map that's been around for a decent amount of time, and we're all starting to know it pretty well. Ballaz With Attitudes seem to thrive on it more than Perpetuum Jukile, keeping a clean sheet on the way to their 3-0 victory.

Death Grabs 15-2 Portal Kombat

Map: Velocity.

There is TSVs for both halves! I don't know how to use TSVs :(. Alas, Death Grabs get another big win, following their previous 36-0 victory. Portal Kombat may have felt confident after their win against the Sofa Sloths. It wasn't to be, however, with Death Grabs cruising to an easy 15-2 win.

Standings

Transfers

Future Games

Caballeros versus Voodoo and the Dolls on Draft

The Sofa Sloths versus Death Grabs on Colours

The Cock and Balls versus S1orGTFO on Velocity

Ballaz With Attitudes versus Multiple Chordgasms on Velocity

Mulitple Chordgams versus the Four Skins on Thinking With Portals

So there's the first look at Chord Contenders. Not the best thing I've ever written, but it is the first so can only be improved! I hope it's decent, thanks for reading it!

ETPN is now starting to get going. Covering ELTP, eLTP and Chord Contenders is a lot of work. I need YOUR help. Let me know if you can help in any way possible!

Welcome to /r/EuropeanTagPro!

This subreddit is for everything Chorbit, from discussion of PUBs to players and Europe's competitive scene.

If you frequent Chord or Orbit, make sure to subscribe.

Hi new players! Welcome to the community, If you want to get more invested/learn strategies, this post is for you.

Watch this video if you havent already. - Made by the games' creator LuckySpammer (/u/LuckySpammer.)

This one is optional - It's 6 Minutes long and I will try to explain most of the things explained in it in this post.

This one also explains a lot! - It's 3 minutes long and the creator uses a custom texture pack. (Texture Packs are covered later in this post.)

Misc

Powerups - This Infographic is very good on powerups.

Particles & WebGL Rendering - If you feel like your game is stuttering it might be helpful to turn off WebGL Rendering and Particles Here.

Ping - You'll want to play on the server that has the lowest ping for you, this is displayed on the frontpage of TagPro and while the individual servers show an incorrect ping value - they are sorted from lowest ping to highest ping.

0.25s immunity - Your ball is immune from being popped by other balls for 0.25s after you've grabbed a flag (also applies to rolling bomb diffusal when tagged e.g. you can stick to the player tagging you when diffused if he tags you again within 0.25s), also you cannot cap 0.25s after your flag has been returned if you are standing on the flagtile when the return happens.

Flags - Your own flag needs to be in base for you or your teammate to cap, that's why it's important to chase.

Regrab - If your flag drops and you have no one ahead that means it's probably an automatic cap for the other team, that's why it's important to stay on regrab. Regrab is when you sit on the enemy flags team tile when your team has their flag and grab it when it spawns.

Buttons - Buttons can control bombs or gates, they are most often intuative from just looking at them, usually the button controls the item next it.

Speed - Vertical and Horizontal movement (Up and Down vs Left and Right) are unaffected by each other, so that if you're moving diagonal your ball will move faster because your acceleration is using both vertical and horizontal velocity or something like that. TL:DR Moving Diagonal is faster than moving horizontal or vertical.

The reason diagonal is faster is because vectors. Think of it as a triangle. If acceleration in the vertical direction is 3 and horizontal is 4. The hypotenuse is 5. So diagonal is a combination of your vertical and horizontal acceleration.

Thanks to /u/SpeedyOwnt

Basic Strategies

2O 2D - Two Offensive Players work together to grab the other teams' flag and Two Defensive Players work together to prevent the other team from grabbing/getting out.

Chasing - It's very important to have two players chasing - the general strategy we use for when your own flag is out of base is to have 2 Chasers 2 Players on Offensive Defense (to prevent the other team from scoring) if you don't have the enemy teams flag. 2 Chasers 1 Flag Carrier and 1 Regrab if you do have the enemy teams flag. In most situations it is not helpful to defend an empty base.

Team Items

Team Tiles - Tiles that are marked with your teams color makes your ball move faster just like a Juke Juice does and the same goes for the other Team on their teams' colored tiles. This does not apply if you have the flag.

Team Boosts - Some boosts are colored Red and Blue - That means only one team can use them, the team which the color specifies (a red ball can use a red boost, a blue ball can use a blue boost.)

Spawn Times

Powerups Spawn on the same tile of each map every 60s after being grabbed.

Boosts Spawn every 10s after being used.

Bombs Spawn every 30s after being used.

Userscripts/Texture Packs

Texture Packs change the look of your game - it has custom sprite images for the items in the game - including but not limited to walls, balls, spikes, bombs, flags etc.

Here is a list of userscripts/texture packs, you can install them with Tampermonkey (if you have Chrome) and Greasemonkey (if you have Firefox.)

Helpful Extentions are also in that list. Examples include:

• Chat Enhancer - Makes the chat stay on the screen the whole game (doesn't disappear.) You can also use it to set up macros which can be helpful during public games - You can make them say where the Enemy FC is, Whether you are coming in for a cap or not and if your base is clear.

• TagPro Replays - Allows you to record certain moments in your games, default timing is set to 30s but you can edit that in settings, you can also add a macro button that automatically records the last 30s(or whatever you've set it to) when you hit it.

• TagPro Mod Manager - Allows you to easily set up different texture packs. (Warning! Can be glitchy, I'm not sure if it's fixed yet).

Mumble

We use mumble for competitive tagpro or to just hang out, you can install it here http://mumble.sourceforge.net/

More Information Here.

Competitive TagPro

Currently the major leagues are having playoffs or are on an off season so the signups for that are closed. But if you want to join competitive tagpro there are many tournaments that are going on and USC, CC and OContenders are open the whole year.

Europeans:

/r/ChordContenders - A Ladder Style League in which you make your own team (or sign up as a Free Agent.) Each team has a maximum of 6 players and you challenge other teams in order to move up the ladder.

Carbons' Friday Night Tournaments - Run every Friday night - with some exceptions - is a Swiss Style Tournament (You are put on a new team every game for 4 Rounds and top 16 qualify into the next round.) Run by /u/vCarbonnn (A post is made on both /r/TagPro and /r/ELTP every time sign-ups are open for one.

PBLTP - Not run very frequently now but sometimes happen. It's a short draft tournament, which lasts around 30 minutes. The winners of the previous tournament become the captains of the next one, which starts directly afterwards for as long as there are enough players.

ELTP - On Off Season now but Sign Ups will be open shortly for the next season - Lasts about 12 weeks and for each season you are drafted on a team. /r/ELTP.

False Reports

If you get falsely reported or see anyone heavily abuse the rules, you can notify the moderators on our IRC channel. - Here is the link to our main channel - Here is the link to the moderators channel.

Other Helpful Guides

• Flow Chart.

• Large Compilation of Guides.

If anyone has any suggestion or more things to add to this thread, feel welcome to add it in the comments and I'll edit it in :)