The Bureau

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[e][h]The Bureau
Team Information
Tag:
BMS
Location:
Team Captain:
Chronos
Sponsor:
WebHost4You
Total Earnings:
€200
Game Mode:
Links
ETF2L Team Page
Steam Group
Achievements
First Place ETF2L Season 9 (High Tier)UGC Season 15 Gold

Second Place UGC Season 18 Platinum

Third Place ETF2L Season 10 (Premiership Tier)
Third Place/Semifinalist(s) ETF2L Highlander Season 10
History
Created:
2014-04-24


The Bureau is a European Highlander team currently competing in ETF2L Premiership.

Team History

Origins

The Bureau was founded in 2014 for The Highlander Open. The original team name was "The Bureau of Military Science", however it was shortened to The Bureau as the military science bit made the team name sound a bit naff. However, the old tag "BMS" is still used occasionally.

The vast majority of Bureau players started playing during or after The Highlander Open.

Rise to Premiership

After The Highlander Open, The Bureau reformed to play ETF2L Season 7 in Division 5B, where Chronos gave up his role as demoman picking up the medi gun instead and remaining The Bureau's main caller ever since. The team had a shaky start to the season as a reform combined with having the hardest group left them in 5th place in the main season, many players were disheartened after this season and left which led Chronos to reform the team and Scrambled, the sub heavy at the time, to take a few players to begin The Agency which would later pass players like Apex, yahoo and Scrambled on to The Bureau.

The Bureau initially planned to use UGC Season 15 as a test season to trial new players. They lost the first game, which could be attributed to inexperience, as they were undefeated for the rest of the season, beating TC: Express rather convincingly in the final. At this point The Bureau were aiming to take a winning team to compete in the High Tier of ETF2L's Season 8.

The Bureau began Season 8 convincingly. But due to losing their main scout, demoman, heavy and sniper, who were all very important players to The Bureau, they were unable to make playoffs, leading them to reform the team for the next season.

After trialing several new players in the Experimental Highlander One-Night-Cup #7, which lead The Bureau to picking up ixy as scout, dd5f as soldier, kuli as demo and Afirax as sniper, the team's new roster was fairly completed for ETF2L's Season 9 High Tier. The Bureau's reform turned out to be incredibly dominant, dropping only a single map during the regular season and one map in the Grand Finals. Even though there were many internal issues with the team, especially revolving around the heavy spot, there were only few teams in High that were able to contest them. The Bureau strived for first place since the start and eventually won High securing direct promotion to ETF2L's Season 10 Premiership Tier.

Premiership

As newcomers The Bureau went in to Season 10 to try to solidify their position as a Premiership level team. Chronos, at the start of the season, said that the team should be aiming at least for playoffs and ideally for 3rd place. The team dropped points between week 3 and 5 that they were unhappy about. A few players had other commitments and the roster was forced to be changed in mid season. Scrambled, despite being removed from the team during Season 9, repraised his role as heavy replacing Simba and Scriptzon picked up the sniper rifle replacing BeS. Regardless, The Bureau were still able to compete and took points off of their remaining fixtures. After some controversy regarding points lost for warnings, The Bureau finished in 4th place nonetheless taking the last playoff spot. Beating Highpander in the first round of playoffs but losing to Strong Opinions in the Semi Final afterwards, The Bureau became 3rd overall.

The team is currently set to take on ETF2L's Season 11 with ambition to improve.

Rosters

Roster
Scout Wales Funs
Soldier Lithuania Just1s
Pyro Norway yahoo
Demoman Germany kuli
Heavy Scotland Scrambled
Engineer Finland Mattex
Medic United Kingdom Chronos
Sniper Portugal Scriptzon
Spy Finland miknando

ETF2L Season 10 (Premiership Tier)


Roster
Scout United Kingdom Zafus
Soldier Lithuania Just1s
Pyro Norway yahoo
Demoman Germany kuli
Heavy United Kingdom Simba
Engineer Finland Mattex
Medic United Kingdom Chronos
Sniper Italy BeS
Spy Finland miknando

UGC Season 18 (Platinum)


Roster
Scout Italy ixy
Soldier Germany dd5f
Pyro Norway yahoo
Demoman Germany kuli
Heavy Russia Catman
Engineer Wales RTC
Medic United Kingdom Chronos
Sniper Hungary Afirax
Spy Finland miknando

ETF2L Season 9 (High Tier)


Roster
Scout Wales Funs
Soldier Finland Miknando
Pyro Norway yahoo
Demoman Greece Apex
Heavy Finland Leif
Engineer Poland Doom
Medic United Kingdom Chronos
Sniper Czech Republic Ethan!
Spy Finland SoaD

ETF2L Season 8 (High Tier)


Roster
Scout United Kingdom Petersmileyface
Soldier Finland Miknando
Pyro Estonia samurai
Demoman Germany niak
Heavy Finland Leif
Engineer Poland Doom
Medic United Kingdom Chronos
Sniper Czech Republic Ethan!
Spy Finland SoaD

UGC Season 15 (Gold)


Roster
Scout Wales Funs
Soldier Japan Kuma
Pyro Slovakia dias
Demoman United Kingdom Falcon0408
Heavy Finland Pleya
Engineer Liechtenstein Telepathic Ryu
Medic United Kingdom Chronos
Sniper Czech Republic Ethan!
Spy United Kingdom Reinelk

ETF2L Season 7 (Division 5)


Roster
Scout United Kingdom ojwonder
Soldier United Kingdom Daven
Pyro Japan Kuma
Demoman United Kingdom Chronos
Heavy United Kingdom Otter
Engineer United Kingdom Magic Llama
Medic United Kingdom Piplup
Sniper Japan Yuta
Spy United Kingdom Reinelk

ETF2L Highlander Open