Players who transitioned from TF2

Planning to do a video on this soon, but since there are so many players who made the change I have likely forgotten some notable names from my jotted list. Since the best method of finding answers online is to make false assertions and then be corrected, I'd like to plonk down this mess of names as the definitive list of top TF2 players (note the distinction, they must be in some sense top TF2 players) who made the shift to Overwatch, successfully or not. Please do feel free to add names which I've inevitably forgotten.

North america:
EnVyUs - HarryHook, Taimou (cocco played way back but not at the top level)
Fnatic - (custa I think played in aus way back but not at the top) Hafficool
LG Evil - train - man is incredible at rick rolling, like honestly god tier, rob420, Jake aka sneakypolarbear, Voll, super, Avast
LG Loyal - Hidan ex: Tseini (Finland, Method?)
Cloud9 - ryb (assuming he gets the spot)
FaZe - ShaDowBurn, Forsak3n, MikeyA
NRG - dummy, numlocked, Seagull, Harbleu, oPlaiD - ex: milo, enigma, clockwork, indust
Splyce - PYYYOUR, ex: ninjanick, shrugger, papasmurf, cozen
Denial - squid (now called jolson)
Renegades - Mangachu, manOFsnow used to stream tf2 but never played at a high level
H2K which folded had highlander players, notably m4risa, gf of Harbleu & Kresnik who now plays for Selfless

Europe:
Misfits - Zebbosai, TviQ (ryb and zebbo played together on Impulse 11 w/ vonethil and iddqd)
Rogue - KnOxXx, NiCO
NiP - zappis, hymzi (before my time: mafu, kyynel) ex: hocz
Dignitas - evokje
Russians - Anak, Kensi, Rubikon, Nesh, (Arty played at a low level I believe), Dikker,
Frenchies - DeGuN (ex-melty), baud (ex-bonjour), Tek (ex-G2, Aera, PENTA), (k3 coach), Flippy (ex-PENTA)
?: kr4tos (Danger Dogs, Creation eSports with ryb/zebbo, Graviton Surge (former misfits lineup before getting cut for Zaprey), LDLC (before they cut him for Clown), NWA (to replace evokje and veineless before team folded), Team Germany, trialled for C9)
?: Byte, who tried to move over but found maincalling very difficult when balanced with doing his job.

Australia:
Tempo Storm AU - yuki, termo
Tainted Minds - snowblind

Asia: (was never a top region in TF2 so know very little)
NGA - RLE, Fury, Hysteria (all used to play in Cute Beast, a top Chinese team)
LW Red - Pine (used to play at the top of the Asian scene and hit mad shots), creep coach ex: starky
LW Blue - janus
AF.Blue - coach TaiRong

Brazil:
dudu, Krepsker, Neil, krk, Alemão and Liko. They are all former TF2 players.
Also, the other team in the finals (WS) has 2 former TF2 players (pearly and pizzalover), the team that came out third in this championship is all TF2 (tyger, prod, wings, ole, fast and snow, powah), mostly players from MONSTER, and the fourth team has 4 TF2 players I guess (kodo, nosf, honorato and Leo).

Wait is ryb not confirmed on cloud9 yet?

Surefour has ~460 hours in tf2, so it might count as well.
J3sus from Renegades.
MESR from Liquid

blakku [#3]

Surefour has ~460 hours in tf2, so it might count as well.
J3sus from Renegades.
MESR from Liquid

I think this thread is about people who played at a "high level". MESR for sure, but J3sus played only highlander, and Surefour's 460 hours is nothing in TF2

waiting for angry HL nerds to come at me xD

I think this thread is about people who played at a "high level".

manOFsnow used to stream tf2 but never played at a high level

Astt plays I think? http://www.gosugamers.net/overwatch/teams/19885-void-child Also Tonmas, Sami + Snappe.

Dennia too http://www.gosugamers.net/overwatch/teams/20547-boda-socken

I believe Vani tried to but not sure where he ended up. He was on a few teams that formed and disbanded, along with Dennia but I don't know anymore than that. He might be on the SOLAR team? http://www.gosugamers.net/overwatch/teams/19613-solar "v2ni".

Carnifex has a team I think as well, not sure how good. http://www.gosugamers.net/overwatch/teams/20849-faggotini

You forgot FL0W3R for KR.

I think that's all I'm aware of.

Fl0w3r / nanohana from asiafortress

proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bNG4rfzMYY

ELektrikBill [#2]

Wait is ryb not confirmed on cloud9 yet?

these notes are copied from a list I made right back in beta, so they're all over the place in terms of team names or stuff I've written. Ofc he's confirmed yes :D

mesr + Vani + astt + tonmas + carnifex + dennia YA GOOD & idk how I forgot fl0w3r, yeah.

Did J3sus play at a high level in HL? Willing to give that a pass if it was actually in a prem team for quite a while, I think it's relevant for Kresnik for example.

If high hl counts you can have Sami in that list then as well. He was roque on ETF2L and played for HePPa div1/prem hl as well as div2/3 6s. http://etf2l.org/forum/user/2314/

i saw lalli playing something recently dont really remember what team doee

I believe syckness played in the early days of TF2.
Edit: It is in his twitter bio, https://twitter.com/sycknessss?lang=en

Mundi [#10]

i saw lalli playing something recently dont really remember what team doee

Yeah Lalli plays forgot that. http://www.gosugamers.net/overwatch/teams/20766-alfa-squad I know cheri from that team is pretty good and they have a solid winrate so could be an up and coming team.

Also the GaleForce guys of Muma and Boink. Also Hooey (Lewis) of Tempo Storm NA (Reference: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/overwatch/Tempo_Storm/Tempo_Storm_NA)

I don't know if this counts but because you said successfully or not I'll include it: Duwatna was on Street Hoops teams for several of the Gosu weeklies directly after release. I think bl4nk was also on that roster, but he later made it onto an iteration of Gale Force (http://wiki.teamliquid.net/overwatch/Gale_Force_eSports) so he is more likely to count. Flame played on Splyce for a short time, too.

Mundi [#10]

i saw lalli playing something recently dont really remember what team doee

Played on PENTA with his twin brother akke (known as jamal in TF2 - was top HL heavy)

P.S. Sorry I edit your post by mistake Mundi :E

Admirable [#15]

Played on PENTA with his twin brother akke (known as jamal in TF2 - was top HL heavy)

P.S. Sorry I edit your post by mistake Mundi :E

He is in Alfa Squad nowdays with B1gG00se , Perttu and Talisman.

Admirable [#15]

Played on PENTA with his twin brother akke (known as jamal in TF2 - was top HL heavy)

P.S. Sorry I edit your post by mistake Mundi :E

I didn't realise akke was Jamal! Akke, Lalli and Cheri have had multiple teams together since the release of OW IIRC.

EnVyUs - HarryHook, Taimou (cocco played way back but not at the top level) +cocco (known as codcrille) did play on some decent teams like broder and coolclan, but maybe before they made top division
LG Loyal - Hidan ex: Tseini (Finland, Method?) +Mineral
NRG - dummy, numlocked, Seagull, Harbleu, oPlaiD - ex: milo, enigma, clockwork, indust +pierow
Splyce - PYYYOUR, ex: ninjanick, shrugger, papasmurf, cozen +sycknesS +flame
Europe:
Misfits - Zebbosai, TviQ (ryb and zebbo played together on Impulse 11 w/ vonethil and iddqd)
Rogue - KnOxXx, NiCO +Mitsy as Manager
NiP - zappis, hymzi (before my time: mafu, kyynel) ex: hocz +punpu (during SG-1 era)

Australia:
Tempo Storm AU - yuki, termo
Tainted Minds - snowblind
p sure there are a bunch more Aussies that compete in OzFortress

Notes in bold

SKYTRiXSHA [#16]

He is in Alfa Squad nowdays with B1gG00se , Perttu and Talisman.

Talisman and Kryma from SkitLITE played TF2 also, maybe some others?

Do they count? They're high/mid hl players? I mean if they do there was also Dragonce and Julletin too.

NiP - zappis, hymzi (before my time: mafu, kyynel) ex: hocz +punpu (during SG-1 era)

+Rebeli

Admirable [#19]

Talisman and Kryma from SkitLITE played TF2 also, maybe some others?

Everyone in skitlite played TF2 afaik

Also schocky played for G2 in beta!

Mint from Northern Gaming Blue was a god tier Highlander Engineer too :>

+carnage

+quad

+Pharoah
+Pescanova
+longás
+lork
+Minstrel
+pie_hero
+Redzzzz
+AMS
+TheFragile

ster and Muselk also played at World Cup

Admirable [#27]

+Pharoah
+Pescanova
+longás
+lork
+Minstrel
+pie_hero
+Redzzzz
+AMS
+TheFragile

ster and Muselk also played at World Cup

+Admirable
+Sideshow

admirable is spamming this thread hoping to get the legendary fifth star. luckily he's chasing his tail. it doesn't exist.

-harsha

+flame
invite player who played on splyce and is now an analyst

Don't forget about me. I used to play in open and now I'm plat :^)

Isn't Moursi pretty good? Don't know if he's on a team though.

Sideshow [#8]

these notes are copied from a list I made right back in beta, so they're all over the place in terms of team names or stuff I've written. Ofc he's confirmed yes :D

mesr + Vani + astt + tonmas + carnifex + dennia YA GOOD & idk how I forgot fl0w3r, yeah.

Did J3sus play at a high level in HL? Willing to give that a pass if it was actually in a prem team for quite a while, I think it's relevant for Kresnik for example.

Jesus was mid plat... idk if you consider that to be high level. Also Lui who tried out for Liquid and played on a couple other teams was a mid plat player too.

really? i thought j3sus was one of the best snipers in plat

"he was like mid-plat"
-spaceghostscoffee, just now

You mentioned squid on Denial, what about zza? Pretty sure that's the same guy that was nasty at kz and played with LondonCalling and co. in TF2.

+CHAiRuSeR

Tomu [#20]

Do they count? They're high/mid hl players? I mean if they do there was also Dragonce and Julletin too.

I played high 6s twice in a decent team, but rest are hl players

+Link and Adrenaline (ExAequo with Carnifex)

+alfa

Asian players:
NGA Titan: RLE, Hysteria, Fury (Cute Beast members, one of China's top former TF2 team)
LW Red: Pine (beast sniper and scout) ex: starky (He's back playing TF2 again)
LW Blue: Janus (one of the best medic in Korea), Flower (BEAST sniper and scout once again)
AF.Blue: Tairong
Unestablished Juniors (this team competed in the Full Circle Summer Series also filled with SEA TF2 players): Teejay (mad lad and scout)
will add more if I remember tbh

Admirable [#23]

Also schocky played for G2 in beta!

As did Bash i think, didn't they port the entire Epsilon TF2 team over to begin with?

San Alex played on team portugal at the world cup, dunno what team he is on now if any.

Though I don't think he ever played high level

h3x was on WC squad for turkey, i think high was the highest he played

Redzzz too on World Cup for Russia, dunno if he still plays now (Edit: Ads got this one already)

fraac [#33]

Isn't Moursi pretty good? Don't know if he's on a team though.

Top 500 but I don't think he has a team? Played a few scrims with him + weebs from TF2 + cheridormi before he found his current team. They weren't really serious, just something to pass the time.

Can we make new thread with title of : Players who transitioned from TF2 and are trash

Tomu [#44]

Top 500 but I don't think he has a team? Played a few scrims with him + weebs from TF2 + cheridormi before he found his current team. They weren't really serious, just something to pass the time.

moursi cant play weekends so he cant play for teams, last i knew

Denial has zZa as well
silkthread just a backup for LG Evil but played tf2 in high intermediate for a while.

Aus scene:
Plot1: yuki, Solus(coach/analyst for plot1, used to play for maddogz) and Soundwaves (never really played in a team, just pugs)
Monopoly Club: Signed, again afaik never really played in a team just pugs
MA. Lakas: Nectar, termo and myself
Masterminds: Render
thinking: chiller, nomey

Lots of other tf2 players playing at a high level between teams or just not committed atm.

I played top level tf2 most notably for EG and team dynamic though I'm just a rando gm player in overwatch and not on a team.

+GunroX for Russians (Ukraine)

+HarryHook from Spain is playing in EnvyUS, he played prem a couple times, mained scout
http://etf2l.org/forum/user/9085/
+PescaNova from Spain, hes in GGifs.tv, mained soldier and played a few seasons in prem
http://etf2l.org/forum/user/6328/
longas too from spain, main scout, not sure about his team tho or if he stopped

stratovarius has bounced around on some ow teams I believe, goes by vexel now

https://play.esea.net/users/vexel