Welcome everyone to the conclusion of the 26th season of ETF2L 6v6 for open, mid and, high. Premiership playoffs will be announced once the final games of the regular season have been played and will be updated to this post.

We hope you enjoyed the matches, and for the teams that made it through, congratulations.

All tiers will have playoffs, all playoff matches will be using the Map Elimination system. Note that all dates are estimates and teams are able to negotiate other days by scheduling with their opponents.

If you find yourself on the list of these teams expect an admin to add you and request your availability, if there is no information or insufficient information given we will have to decide your match dates for you. Keep in mind that we will try and accommodate both teams, but the match date may still vary from your provided days, if for example none of the days match with your opponent, but your opponent offered more days than you did. Deadlines listed for the matches are flexible and may be changed in certain situations if admins are contacted about allowing extensions on these.

High

For the High Tier we’re going with 6 teams in the playoffs with single elimination.

1. Hello Kitteh Ninjas!
   • 42 points
2. ==---==
   • 31 points
3. Dead eSports
   • 30 points
4. Deox fan club
   • 29 points
5. Loli Squad
   • 28 points
6. Animate
   • 25 points – 11.38 Tiebreaker Score
7. #Passion
   • 25 points – 8.28 Tiebreaker Score

Matches:

Quarter final matches will be played from 12th – 16th March.

Quarter Final 1: Dead eSports vs Animate
Quarter Final 2: Deox fan club vs Loli Squad

Hello Kitteh Ninjas! and ==---== will join the playoffs once these Quarter Finals have finished.

Semi Finals will be played from 19th – 24th March

Grand Finals will be played from 26th – 29th March

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With their position in playoffs very much in the balance, Arctic Foxes can’t afford to drop ANY points, especially against a team that’s only acquired 3 this season. It would be mightily disappointing to lose out on a top 4 at the hands of Crayon and co, so expect the big pocket feeling especially to be firing on all cylinders. This game is very significant in determining who gets playoffs this season, so Lowpander fans better hope for a 6/3 upset.

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Week 7 is already well underway, it’s about time we let you guys know how the playoffs will work this season! The post turned out to be a wall of text but we promise it is worth reading all of it!

The schedule for the Season 26 playoffs looks as follows:

Premiership Tier

The first four teams will qualify for a double elimination bracket:

• 1st round: 13th – 15th march
• UB final /LB semifinal: 16th – 19th march
• LB final: 20th – 24th march
• Final: 26th march*

The Grand Final will be played as a BO5 maps contest, with one map advantage for the upper seat (Upper Bracket finals winner will start leading 1-0). It is highly recommended to play the Final on the given date. Every other playoff match (in every division for that matter) will be played as a BO3).

High/Mid Tier

The first six teams will qualify for the High playoffs, the first eight teams for the Mid playoffs. High Tier seat 1 and 2 will receive a bye in the first round.
The bracket will be played as a single elimination, BO3 maps contest.

• 1st round: 12th – 16th march
• Semifinals: 19th – 24th march
• Final: 26th – 29th march

Open tier

The top sixteen teams will qualify for the open playoffs.
The bracket will be played as a single elimination, BO3 maps contest.

• Round of 16: 12th – 15th march
• Quarterfinals: 16th – 19th march
• Semifinals: 20th – 24th march
• Final: 26th – 29th march

For potential tiebreakers we will, as always, rank the teams according to their Sonneborn-Berger Score. Please note that your rank in the tables could differ from your actual placement, as our system does not automatically apply the tiebreaker. We will inform you in a separate newspost, what team made it in (or not) should there be a tie.

ETF2L goes Discord

We are happy to announce that the European Team Fortress 2 League now has its own Discord server! Click here or use the invite link below to join!
It can be used by anyone in order to discuss about the league and the games, to find 6v6 and Highlander scrims (!) or to simply hang out.
Our goal is to eventually replace our IRC support with this Discord. However, at this point of time we do not have a bot to automatically forward requests to the admins like we do on IRC. Thus, until further announcements, please keep using the IRC support for immediate queries.

We are looking for new sponsors!

As you may or may not know, our contract with Tt eSPORTS has expired. As a result of this, we cannot guarantee any prizepools going forward until we have found a or multiple replacement(s).
If you have contacts, ideas or suggestions in this matter, please do not hesitate to contact us! Details about how both ETF2L and our sponsors can benefit each other can be exemplified in a personal conversation.

Staff Changes

Last but not least: the window to apply as a league admin has closed. We will not review any further applications going forward. Should we decide to look for fresh blood once more, we will let you know in a newspost.
For now, though, our new trial admins are Ignis, Hildreth and Exze.

As new staffmembers are joining, we find ourselves saying goodbye to some of the “old” ones from time to time. Effective immediately, kKaltUu is resigning from his duties as a League Admin of ETF2L after 4 years. He asked us to forward this message to the community in his name:

Just a few days after the fourth anniversary of my ETF2L adminship it
is time for me to say goodbye. Over the years, the ETF2L has given me the opportunity to develop
myself while hosting some great events for the community.
There have been highs and lows, and I’ve met several life-long friends
along the way.
I would like to give special thanks to the following (ex)admins for
helping me throughout the years:
CanFo, Sonny Black, DCS, Permzilla, Aoshi, emb, JohnnyBambo, Lazybear and DeNeusbeer.
There are others I have forgotten to mention, I’m sure I’ll get flamed
for that soon. But now it is time for me to step down from these responsibilities and
let actual competent admins take over.
balancing studies and ETF2L became tougher for me to do, hence the
difficult decision to leave my post.
This community is really amazing and it is not hard to imagine myself
in due time helping with TF2 related projects. Hopefully, you have enjoyed the cups I have hosted and problems I might have solved. If not, I dare you to apply for admin and show me how it’s done.
kKaltUu

A huge game to determine who does and doesn’t get playoffs, featuring the new look Unexpected with fresh British imports spudd and Silentes, leaving Maros as the very lonely non-brit in the lineup. Will these previously high-achievers mesh quickly and frag hard? Or will the German squad continue to show their playoff credentials following a comfortable win over Lowpander last week? With the final week of the normal season about to commence, the whole season is about to be decided for these two teams.

Match Overview
Arctic Foxes vs Unexpected
Week 6 (Premiership)
Sunday, March 5th 21:15 CET

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2 - 1

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1 - 2

OVERALL
Arctic Foxes [3:3] Unexpected

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For those who haven’t noticed the groups and fixtures are out and about. In case you want to look at rescheduling your matches contact your opponents and see if you can work something out(do keep it within the result deadline). You can find the groups and fixtures right under the competitions tab in the menu. Due to our signup number being quite a bit higher then we anticipated and wanting to have as much teams as possible participate we’ll be adding an additional round to the playoff part of the competition in order to make the elimination stage work. The new full schedule is as follows.

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