Rules updates

Recent events, such as the influx of third party betting sites to the TF2 scene, has lead the necessity of an updated ETF2L rulebook. Here are the new rules, effective immediately:

1.6 Committing or supporting fraud is strictly forbidden

Committing or supporting the act of fraud is strictly forbidden.

Different types of fraud include (but are not limited to):

– Playing a match to a completely or partially pre-determined result.
– Manipulating screenshots, chatlogs or match results.
– Impersonating players, ETF2L staff or contacts of the league (with malicious intent).
– Non-permitted acquisition of profits (e.g. selling spots on your roster, monetizing ETF2L specific content without our permission etc.).

Every case will be reviewed individually and penalties may vary based off of the severity of each offense.
Any decisions made will be at the discretion of the admin team and all circumstances are going to be taken into account.

1.7 Betting & Gambling policy

ETF2L holds no responsibility for risks connected with gambling or betting on third-party services.
This includes (but is not limited to) lost bets, overturned results or other events leading to the loss of valuables and/or profit.

Players caught betting on their own matches, taking bribes or having an incentive to tamper with the genuine result of a match in any way are subject to penalties such as league bans and potential bans on the third-party service site.
Naturally the usage of alternative accounts or other people as betting proxies is also forbidden, accomplices will face a penalty aswell.

1.8 Disruption of ETF2L and it’s services are strictly forbidden

Causing disruption to the ETF2L ( the ETF2L website, ETF2L matches or any other service run by ETF2L ) is strictly forbidden.
This includes (but is not limited to) intentionally connecting to an in-game server during an ongoing match, tampering with server settings to disrupt or create an advantage for a team, attacking a server with a Denial of Service attack, connecting to a team’s voice server during an ongoing match with the intention to cause disruption etc.

Every case will be reviewed individually and penalties may vary based off of the severity of each offense.
Any decisions made will be at the discretion of the admin team and all circumstances are going to be taken into account.

Staff changes

Netsky has after a period of inactivity re-joined the ETF2L staff for season 21. Welcome back!

Bans

These players have been caught with VAC bans affecting TF2, and will be banned from the league for one year:

• Moelijk
• hady
• Handy Smurf
• Leo
• Trolldier
• Maxime
• PinkPandaz
• Gamin With Kaammm
• Ze Medic
• voldi

As these players have not been caught cheating by our staff, their match results are not affected.

The following players have been caught cheating by our Anti-Cheat team. They will be banned from ETF2L for one year:

• Carbonated – Triggerbot
• -Numnutz- – Aimbot
• Noel – Aimbot
• TheLieingCake – Aimbot
• Ditzy – Triggerbot
• Moosicorn – ESP, triggerbot
• Mist – Aimbot
• Chochy – Aimbot
• Toko – Aimbot
• Wako – Aimbot

It’s that time guys… HIGHLANDER SHOWMATCH!!!

Join jakeowaty, Morphine and Jon on BlackOut TV from 20:00 CEST for an evening of great TF2 action from the first showmatch building up to the DeutschLAN Highlander event in mid-September, checkers vs. Stacked (& friends)!

DCS – While b33p will most likely have to use a few mercenaries to patch the Stacked roster, since their season has been over and they have not been playing for a while now, Tourettes Chessclub will compete with their LANroster checkers to give the community a glimpse at some of the glory the champs are going to bring to DeutschLAN. The seasoned premiership veterans Scissors, Khazul, quintosh and BreakfasT_Jr will show the “new kids on the block” Raptor and Nik the (premiership-) world in Germany. Sounds like an interesting mixture… only one question remains: who will be the guardians for those two at LAN?

Don’t forget to place your bets on Saloon.tf as 5 percent cut on this game will help fund the prizepool! Also, donations for the prize pool will be taken throughout the evening via imraising (100% to prize pool) so you can get a popup on stream with your message!

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We have a lot of news, a lot to talk about, so make sure to read the whole thing till the end! Put your reading glasses on, it is going to be a wall of text, sorry about that… (:

Signups

Before we dive into it, we want to remind everyone to sign up your team! We cannot make this happen if you don´t, so make sure to click here.
IMPORTANT: You can bindingly register and book the house by just paying 50% of the total (382.50€ if you do not arrive early on thursday) fee for your team. So if you know you will go, but you do not have all 9 people yet, you can still sign up and pay the rest later. Also, in case this was not clear yet, you can pay for all 9 players of your team at once. You do not have to pay per house, but per team. So in case you have not sorted out housing yet, that is not a problem! Please note, there will be no refund of the 50% for signing up in case the event happens. Make sure you can gather 9 gamers!
Signup deadline is 20th June! That might seem a little early, but the guys over at MTA have to make sure we can actually fill this event.

DeutschLAN sponsored by TF2Center.com Fundraiser

As we are approaching DeutschLAN sponsored by TF2Center.com in September with our signups already being open, we are hosting a fundraiser! Our DeutschLAN staffmembers are doing everything they can to make the event as epic as possible- now we are asking you for support! You cannot make it to the LAN because of work, school or other commitments? Worry not! You can contribute by donating! The funds raised by you, our community, will be used for a bigger pricepool, projects around the LAN (such as a documentary) and an overall even more enjoyable LAN-experience. Check out our indiegogo campaign to help and donate. Feel free to save it in your bookmarks and spread it around. The more the merrier!
Of course we would not ask for you money, if we could not provide anything in return…

Donator Perks

Gotta love them perks! In order to encourage you to help support the event, we want to return some of the favour to you guys. Everything is a give-and-take, so check out our list and see what the money is going towards and what it is in for yourself!

Our stretchgoals. If we can raise the amount of:

• 150€: HartzFartz will make a detailed beggars bazooka videoguide.
• 250€: we will begin working on in-game high quality medals to distribute to the winners, players and even supporters of this event
• 500€: we will be able to provide basic transport from and to the train station for players at LAN
• 1000€: we will produce a documentary about this LAN as well as 300€ will be allocated to providing frozen pizza for every participating team!
• 1500€: we are going all-out and make the finals an unforgettable experience for everyone involved. We’ll host an award ceremony with in game and real life awards!
• 2000€: or more, we will have a podium and seating for the crowd so that everyone can cheer for their favourite player in the finals.

Single donator perks. 

• 1€ donation: a shoutout during the showmatches, an early-access link to the documentary as soon as it is finished and an entry to a raffle for an unusual hat
• 5€ donation: a shoutout during the showmatches and LAN, an early-access link to the documentary as soon as it is finished, an entry to a raffle for an unusual hat and a postcard we will send from DeutschLAN signed by your favourite player attending the LAN!
• 10€ donation: in addition to the perks above, you can let your weapon be signed by a player of your choice @ LAN, you provide the weapon, we do the rest!
• 25€ donation: in addition to the perks above, you will receive an ingame medal for supporting the DeutschLAN sponsored by TF2Center.com! (provided we reach the 250€ stretchgoal)
• 30€ donation: in addition to the perks above, you can put your mark on the LAN by naming the house a team is staying in (as long as its not offensive).
• 50€ donation: in addition to the perks above (not including the housenaming), you will receive a custom made DeutschLAN commemorative T-Shirt! Make sure to provide your size! Shipping limited to Europe.
• 75€ donation: Upgrade the T-Shirt with your own personal (nick)name on it! Your T-Shirt also gets signed by your favourite Highlander videogamers @ LAN!
• 100€ donation: Always wanted to get your game casted professionally? Admirable will cast one season 9 game of your choice live on BlackOut TV (date has to be arranged with the crew). This perk includes Postcard, Medal, Shoutout, Raffle entry, a link to the Documentary and weapon signing

Got no cash, but still want to contribute nonetheless? We also accept item donations, especially unusual hats for the raffle and giftwraps for the weapon signings. Just add me ( DCS). Or just >>>click here<<< to donate!

Your To-Do-List:

• Sign up >>CLICK HERE<< BEFORE June 20th
• State how many teams/ persons are going to LAN
• Wire €382.50 (equals half the amount for 9 people) or the full amount to MTA
• Additionally, check out the fundraiser
• Spread the word!

Highlander showmatch-series!

We are excited to announce that the elite of the Highlander scene believes in our project and wants to help us make the fundraiser and the LAN an unforgettable experience for everyone! We will be hosting a series of showmatches to entertain our donators and promote the fundraiser. Every week for the next month at least two top-notch teams will battle it out live on stream, during which you can cheer for your favourite player and hopefully abuse the donate button as much as you like!

This week’s matchup:

Kicking things off this saturday, 30th May at 20:00 CEST will be Chessclub´s DeutschLAN squad vs Stacked (& friends).

While b33p will most likely have to use a few mercenaries to patch the Stacked roster, since their season has been over and they have not been playing for a while now, Tourettes Chessclub will compete with their LANroster checkers to give the community a glimpse at some of the glory the champs are going to bring to DeutschLAN. The seasoned premiership veterans Scissors, Khazul, quintosh and BreakfasT_Jr will show the “new kids on the block” Raptor and Nik the (premiership-) world in Germany. Sounds like an interesting mixture… only one question remains: who will be the guardians for those two at LAN?

Make sure to catch all the action this saturday over at our friends from BlackOut TV with Bulow, Morphine & Jon, who will provide us with an expert cast for what should be an entertaining evening of TF2 and place your bets on Saloon.tf as 5 percent cut on this game will help fund the prizepool.

This cannot get any better? Well, we beg to differ. We heard the US-boys will make an appearance on next week´s showmatch… If I were you, I would stay tuned for any updates about that one!

Your signups are needed, make it happen, everyone!

DeutschLAN is going Fully Charged Europe!

DeutschLAN sponsored by TF2Center.com staffmembers will join Admirable on Fully Charged Europe on 10th June. We will be answering all the open question you guys have live on stream, and maybe even break news to every viewer. Clean your schedule and tune in!

You did not know what DeutschLAN is?

Head over to our official forumtopic for all infos and updates. You are also welcome to let us know what you think!

This newspost got published just after this one. Please take your time and read it carefully!

ETF2L Game servers and Mumble shutting down

Our deal with Hypernia/Purepings has come to a fairly sudden end, as they have decided to shut down their sponsorship program. As a result of that our game servers and our mumble will shut down around May 29th 19:00CEST.

What alternatives are there?

Mumble

Fakkelbrigade Mumble

Address: fakkelbrigade.eu

Port: 64738

Password: thebrigade

Anyone can create a temporary channel by simply right clicking on Root followed by clicking “Add”.

In case you would like to request a permanent channel send a mail to: arie@fakkelbrigade.eu

Game servers

serveme.tf

For everyone still unfamilar with serveme.tf. serveme.tf offers booking game servers free of charge. You can specify the desired location and time frame and it will provide you with a connect string and rcon access. By donating you can get access to an even wider variety of servers and services.

In case you need a server in a specific location for an official and all the non-donator servers for that location are in use already, you may contact an admin to get a donator server.

We will NOT provide servers for pcws.

It is also NOT guaranteed that your desired location will be available after all.

Both of these teams lost out against top level teams last week, so those matches may have been an unfair assessment of where they belong. Now they face one another on the two final1 maps: cp_snakewater_final1 & cp_gullywash_final1. Danger Dogs did manage to claw some rounds off of The Last Resort while LEGO got smashed into their individual pieces by nerdRage.tf2. Hopefully Dr. Phil will give his team the counseling they need to get over their issues and bring the fight to the Doggies. But will his team handle sheepy dog's hand and scrab harassing the flank? Join the very British lineup from Caster of the Season runner up Sideshow, torrit debuting as a caster and Jon on camera duty at 21:15 CEST.