REMINDER TO ALL: Use cp_alloy_rc1c for all games (replacing cp_alloy_rc1b)

It’s time to start warming up for Highlander Season 10, starting with a good old fashioned Pre-Season Cup! Teams will be fighting it out on 3 brand spanking new (to ETF2L) maps and Blackout TV will be bringing you all the action. Join your host for the evening Samski with an assortment of co-casters and Jon on the camera to see how the new maps play in Highlander and of course laugh at the Sniper mains flailing hopelessly without their trusty ol’ Razorback.

An issue with cp_alloy_rc1b has been brought up to us and we got in contact with the mapmaker. She was able to fix the map, so make sure tomorrow you use cp_alloy_rc1c instead.

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.

The fixtures for the Highlander S10 Maptest Cup have now been set. You can see the tables here (prem here instead)!

As a reminder, the maps we’ll be playing (in order), will be:

1. cp_alloy_rc1c
2. pl_borneo
3. koth_coalplant_b7

Alloy and borneo are to be played as best-of-ones, meaning you’ll only get to push and defend on stopwatch once: please decide between yourselves who will start on which side. You may use any method you’d like to do so, but make sure you start on time: matches that don’t get results submitted by their schedule deadlines will be determined by coin flip.
Also, do make sure you verify the match’s results as fast as possible. If you have any problems before, during or after the match, come ask for help.

The whitelist to be used is available here.

There is one spot left for an Open team to compete: if you’d like to play, please contact the admin team on IRC

The Premiership games will be casted on BlackoutGamingTV, make sure you check them out!

Thanks once again to Wiethoofd for providing the prizes for the Premiership tier: 18 keys for the winner and 9 keys for the runner up.

Announcing Season 10  powered by Tt eSPORTS

After wrapping Season 9 powered by marketplace.tf up and crowning  Strong opinions as champions, we are happy to announce our next highlander Season. All the information regarding the coming Season can either be found in this newspost, or will be announced in the future!

Season 10 Fundraiser

We are pleased to announce ETF2L’s community crowdfunding system for Season 10. The purpose of this fundraiser is to allow members of the ETF2L community to contribute directly to the Season 10 prize pool and help make Season 10 the biggest yet!

The fundraiser will run throughout the season, with prizes finalised Sunday April 24th. 

100% of all donations raised will go towards the Season 10 prize pool, ETF2L will not keep any of the money.

Sign-up Process

Make sure to choose your desired tier when signing up. If you created a new team, feel free to apply for the tier you believe you deserve you should be in. To prove you are capable of the tier you applied for, we require you to submit screenshots of results from your recent practice matches or tournaments where you scored decent results against teams that play on the level you aim for. The quantity is not the most important factor in this case, it’s more of a helpful measure for us to figure out if your team will be able to keep up with the pace. There is no magical, minimum or maximum number of screenshots that you have to submit.

Sending links to logs on logs.tf or similar are fine if you include a short explanatory comment for each linked log, e.g. who your opponents are supposed to be and where they played last seaseon. We will not accept plain lists of logs without any comments!

If you want to be more specific about a tier you request, send an application to staff@etf2l.org(details listed below) with a suitable subject. Emails with subjects like “Hello”, “Hi” or anything else that cannot be identified as a team applying for a tier by mail may be ignored.

Additionally since it happens time and time again, you do not sign up by mail, you sign up on the site and apply by mail if you are a newly formed team playing in anything higher than Open.

Please note that the success of your request also strongly depends on the free slots in the tier you aim for. Established teams will be favoured over new teams or teams that request to jump a tier. The screenshots have to be uploaded to an online image storage service (for example, you can use imgur or Dropbox). Keep in mind that if you opt for a zipped archives with tons of pictures attached to an e-mail, your application will be ignored. Keep it clean.

Also helpful for us, but not a must however, is adding who the opposing team is in each screenshot (and maybe even the division they played in the last time). That makes it easier for us, because sometimes it can be quite hard (especially in the lower tiers) to figure out who the teams in the screenshots are.

If you are applying for Open (which is our entry division), you do not have to provide any proof that you are capable of playing at that level.

Please send your application to staff@etf2l.org. The tier assignment request has to include the following information in order to be considered. Incomplete applications will be ignored!

• Do not use HTML in your e-mail. If you want to add a link, just paste the link in the e-mail as you would enter it in your browser.
• Team name
• Team link on ETF2L.org
• Tier/Division you apply for
• Link to the online photo album
• Reasons why your team deserves to be placed in the tier you applied for (optional)

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As yesterday’s fixture determined neither of these two teams can make playoffs, no matter how many points they manage to get their hands on. So join us as we bid adieu to them in the penultimate fixture of the regular season. Both teams have taken maps of the 3rd and 4th seed,  once again a metric for how close this season has been. Add to that the fact that last week we saw Planet Express having a close game with Se7en on gullywash, but alas they were unable to take any points from it. Unexpected on the other hand had took another playoff team: Full Tilt to a golden cap on sunshine. So tune in with TurboTabs, kermit & DavidTheWin to find out how much really separates these two teams.