ETF2L are proud to announce the sponsorship by global PC component manufacturer Thermaltake.

Thermaltake’s dedication to delivering the perfect user experience for gamers makes them perfect partners for ETF2L. They share the same belief in the DIY concepts that have kept the European Team Fortress 2 competitive community strong for 20 seasons and will continue to sustain us for hopefully years to come.

Martin CanFo Pajenkamp – Marketing Manager Thermaltake & Tt eSPORTS

As former head admin of this league, ETF2L’s community and its hard working staff will always have a special place in my heart. Pushing the successful partnership with Tt eSPORTS to the next level and involve the umbrella brand Thermaltake is just the next logical step. You will see less hardware prizes for the regular ETF2L seasons (because, let’s be honest, any player who manages to win a season already owns a mouse and a headset) but in consultation with the ETF2L management, we found a good solution to expand the support for the world’s biggest league of the silliest cartoon video game. Thermaltake offers PC chassis for modders and water cooling enthusiasts and also the necessary power supplies and cooling accessory for your gaming PC.  Since 2009, its sub-brand Tt eSPORTS provides high quality gaming peripherals and we always strive to improve our products to deliver the best possible gaming experience.

Till  Sonny Black Harbauer – Head Administrator ETF2L

We are happy and excited to turn this already well established and flourishing partnership with our former Head Adminstrator CanFo into an even more successful relationship for both parties involved. This “new old” partnership will enable us to provide further support to the passions and ambitions that drive everyone involved in our community.

Season 8 moves into Week 4 and the strat-fest that is cp_gravelpit tonight, with the main event the clash between PremTech and Stacked.

PremTech proved themselves the undisputed masters of Gravelpit last season, taking down the big boys Highpander© and Tourettes Chessclub with apparent ease. They’ve been looking strong so far this Season, splitting the points with Highpander© last week despite using two mercs.

Stacked on the other hand have been struggling – thrashings from Fair Enough and Tourettes Chessclub leave them languishing just above the new boys in 6th. The usual roster issues seem to be plaguing them – seemingly losing both of their main Scouts and their Spy resulting in the hasty addition to the roster of ekkelund and Dimento.

PremTech seem firm favourites, with over 90% of bets on Saloon.tf going in their favour. b33p will be looking to Engineer himself an upset, though (I’m here all week, folks) – and cash out on all of your precious metal to boot.

Tune into BlackOut TV tonight at 20:45 CET to watch the action, with CeeJaey and Heavy Is GPS taking care of you for the evening.

Match Overview
PremTech vs Stacked
Week 4 (Premiership)
Sunday, April 19th 20:45 CEST

cp_gravelpit

1 - 0 (golden cap)

cp_gravelpit

1 - 0 (golden cap)

OVERALL
PremTech [4:2] Stacked

Season 20 powered by Tt eSPORTS – Wrap-up

The biggest season in terms of prize money and the first season to use the swiss tournament system finished almost two weeks ago and it is finally time to wrap up the jubilee season.              SUAVE formerly known as  Ubersexuals managed to defend their Season 19 title and secured themselves a grand total of 1.500€.

Once again thanks to all the contributors of our fundraiser, who raised over 3.000€ and therefore carried a substantial amount of our record prize pool of 4.080€.

The winning squad is comprised of:

• Mirelin (Medic)
• numlocked (Demoman)
• Mike (Soldier)
• KnOxXx (Soldier)
• smziii (Scout)
• Kiler4fun (Scout)

Ze Knutsson Rollerbladers earned 2nd place, winning €900 and  Se7en won 3rd place, securing €600.

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It has been close to 2 and a half year since we’ve been able to do so, but today we are wrapping up an Ultiduo Cup:

Rocket Dragons are our new ETF2L Ultiduo champions!

Mike and Mirelin can finally brag about being the beasts on baloo. They’re taking home a bunch of goodies provided by Tt eSPORTS tf2pickup.net whitelist.tf and serveme.tf

• 2 x Thermaltake Core V1 mini ITX chassis
• 2 x Professional Killstreak Kit
• 18 x Mann Co. Supply Crate Key
• 2 x 1 year of serveme.tf donator status

We now know what happens if a ship is sinking: the kaptain goes down with it. Together with his Raptor they came close to taking the title but eventually got baited by the masters. Nonetheless The Dutch-Austrian duo proved to be a formidable opponent. Presenting our runner ups:
Kaptain Baloo sponsored by fabricator.tf don’t go home empty handed. Our sponsors hooked them up with:

• 2 x Tt eSPORTS Talon Blu mouse
• 2 x Specialized Killstreak Kit
• 10 x Mann Co. Supply Crate Key
• 2 x 6 months of serveme.tf donator status

Both teams contending for third place fought well, but in the end it turns out the Cplayers from Toxic Foxes were the strongest. We’re sending cube and feeling home with some in-game goodies provided by Wiethoofd and Arie.

• 2 x Killstreak Kits
• 2 x 3 months of serveme.tf donator status

Shoutout to Timus the cat and his medic SynciNG who were the only team to take points off the champions.
Thanks to TeamFortressTV’s Sideshow, TurboTabs and  Sim for covering the event.

And thanks to all players who participated in the biggest Ultiduo cup to date.

See you at the next Ultiduo cup, which may or may not be hosted within the next 2.5 years 

Woooah-ee, the weather is getting warmer and the action is heating up on this Sunday evening as all 8 premiership teams are in action for Week 3 of the ETF2L Highlander Season 8 powered by Tt ESPORTS. Full fixtures below:

Fair Enough vs UKIP
PremTech vs  Unpoppable
Stacked vs  Tourettes Chessclub
Highpander© vs  WASP

Every game will starting at the same time, 21 CEST meaning only one game for Jon, sigafoo and CeeJaey to sink their teeth into over at BlackOut TV tonight. The most interesting of these matches looks to be Stacked versus Tourettes Chessclub with both teams starting the season with a map win and a map loss, sitting 3rd and 4th respectively.

For b33p and his boys, a comfortable 6-0 win over UKIP was followed by a disappointing 5-1 loss to Fair Enough. With that in mind, it looks like Mista was dropped from Engineer, allowing b33p to shuffle his team around. The Irishman has moved to Engineer, putting former DAROUTOUTOU Pyro DeGuN back….to Pyro. F2 reclaims his soldier spot from last season, though there are noticable gaps in the roster on the teampage, without a named Spy or Scout (albeit they still have NiCO god's hand and wltrs rostered) it will be a guessing game for us to know what Stacked‘s starting IX will be. Having been spotted trialing a number of people, those who get the nod for tonight’s fixture will be desperate to make a name for themselves in Highlander land, and what better way to do it than versus the current champions.

By contrast, Tourettes Chessclub led by the only Pyro main not to have tried to change his main this season, Scissors has balanced out potential roster problems quite will, with a number of solid players to fill each gap in the side. Despite losing 4-2 in Week 1 to Highpander©, the champions have come back with a routine win over Unpoppable. Now sitting in 3rd place, Tourettes Chessclub have a good chance to cement their challenge for the top seed again by dispatching a Stacked side carrying a few roster troubles.

On paper would you bet on the Tourettes Chessclub, but Stacked certainly have the players to pull off an upset like they have done in previous seasons, with the map being the new and improved pl_barnblitz_pro6, anything can happen if you’re willing to wager on it…(though saloon.tf won’t be taking any bets on it!). Remember to tune into BlackOut TV at 21 CEST to catch all the action, just seeing b33p on Engineer will be worth the entrance fee alone (it’s free to watch).

– Hildreth

Match Overview
Stacked vs Tourettes Chessclub
Week 3 (Premiership)
Sunday, April 12th 21:00 CEST

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0 - 1

pl_barnblitz_pro6

0 - 1

OVERALL
Stacked [0:6] Tourettes Chessclub