Season 21 powered by Tt eSPORTS: Unlocks

The new items added for Season 21 include:

• Righteous Bison
• Equalizer
• Manmelter
• Powerjack
• Splendid Screen
• Claidheamh Mòr
• Eyelander
• Vaccinator

The whitelist can be found here: Season 21 whitelist

Edit: cp_granary_pro_b9 was just now released!

So we’ve seen what the top of prem has to offer. Now it’s time to take a look at the teams looking to compete with them. Three hopeful teams have stepped forth, but only one of them will attain the glory of a seat in ETF2L’s highest tier.

First out of the three are Revoluzion la metagame & Wonderland. Formed in the hopes of clenching a coveted Prem spot, these teams have everything to prove and nothing to lose, except a place in Prem… Revoluzion la metagame is a name that should sound familiar as a Premiership team of old. But these are new times and a vastly different team than last time around. Facing them will be Wonderland, with several players who were put to the test in High last season and some Prem experience on the roster, these players feel like there are bigger fish for them to fry.

Whoever prevails will have to deal with LEGO. With many Division1 victories to their name and a couple of stints in Prem to boot, LEGO is the team to beat. Hoping this Season will prove more fruitful than the last, it’s all on the line for this team.

Who will fight their way into the Premiership? Will the blocktower crumble? Tune in at 20 CET to find out

Season 21 powered by Tt eSPORTS: Provisional Tiers

The signup count for Season 21 powered by Tt eSPORTS is 238 teams (we had to remove a couple of teams because they did not have enough players). The tiers may still be subject to change, there is no guarantee for anyone except those teams who earned promotion or stayed comfortably in the middle of their tier.

<<< Provisional Tiers >>>

Season 21 powered by Tt eSPORTS: Premier Division Playoff Update

Due to a last minute signup we decided to extend the Premier Division Playoffs by another best-of-three series. The update schedule looks like this:

Thursday, May 14th; 20:00CET

Revoluzion la metagame vs Wonderland

Thursday, May 14th; 21:30CET

LEGO vs Winner of  Revoluzion la metagame vs Wonderland

Season 21 powered by Tt eSPORTS: Map Update

Keeping it short here. cp_granary is out, cp_granary_pro is in.

Season 21 powered by Tt eSPORTS: Unlocks

Following later today.

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Congratulations to those who emerged at the top of their tables! Knockout fixtures are now available.

>> Here! <<

We are now in Knockout stage. This means we are now playing Best of 3. It’s also single elimination which means if you lose your match, you are out. You have proven yourself in the group stage – now it’s time to put on the big boy pants and face the cream of the crop!

Schedule:

Friday, May 15^th – Knockout Stage (best of 3)

• Round 1 – 19:00 CEST
• Round 2 – 20:00 CEST
• Round 3 – 21:00 CEST

Saturday, May 16^th – Knockout Stage (best of 3)

• Round 4 – 19:00 CEST
• Round 5 – 20:00 CEST

Sunday, May 17^th – Knockout Stage (best of 3)

• Quarter Finals – 19:00 CEST
• Semi Finals – 20:00 CEST
• Third Place Tie Breaker – 21:00 CEST
• Grand Finals – 21:00 CEST

Coverage

The lads over at Teamfortress.tv will be covering the finals on Sunday, 17th of May. Tune in to watch the best scouts duel 1v1 and for a chance to win some goodies on the stream raffle!

A reminder of the rules:

• Make sure you have the right config and whitelist enabled.
• Check your fixtures every round.
• Be on time. You are allowed 15 minutes before the opponents can claim a default win.
• If anything happens during the match, contact an admin with your evidence.
• Knockout stage is a best of three. The first person to reach 20 frags or whoever has the highest number of frags when the time ends wins the match.
• Submit your results on time. We expect you to upload the status + scoreboard screenshots and scores 15 minutes before the next round at max.
• As usual, record your demos and create screenshots. The Anti-Cheat team might request them.
• Contact the admins if your team is dropping from the cup.
• Anyone caught intentionally abusing unintended functionality of the map (e.g. loading item presets) will be removed from the cup

You can contact the admins by following this link

Season 21 powered by Tt eSPORTS: Maps & Map Rotation

The polls are closed, the results are in. Let’s get right to it. We will not see cp_logjam in Season 21 again. Neither will we see cp_metalworks making a comeback. So the only question left to be answered is: Which cp_granary will it be? The answer is the original one. While we think it would not have hurt to try the pro version with all its little tweaks and fixes we can also see arguments for the original one, like not drifting even further away from the stock maps played on pubs for example.

This results in the following maps and map rotation:

• cp_badlands
• cp_granary
• cp_gullywash_final1
• cp_process_final
• cp_snakewater_final1
• koth_viaduct_pro7
• cp_sunshine_rc7

• Week 1: cp_badlands & cp_snakewater_final1
• Week 2: cp_snakewater_final1 & cp_gullywash_final1
• Week 3: cp_gullywash_final1 & koth_viaduct_pro7
• Week 4: koth_viaduct_pro7 & cp_process_final
• Week 5: cp_process_final & cp_sunshine_rc7
• Week 6: cp_sunshine_rc7 & cp_granary
• Week 7: cp_granary & cp_badlands

Edit: More about Unlocks hopefully tomorrow.

Season 21 powered by Tt eSPORTS: Premiership Playoffs

Nine teams signed up for the Premier Division, nine teams is one team too many. Therefore two of those nine teams them will have to play for the 8th spot in the Premier Division on:

Thursday, May 14th 21:15CET.

The two teams are  LEGO and Revoluzion la metagame.

Staff Update

The Germans are starting to lose some serious ground as JohnnyBambo decided to leave the staff as well to focus on his dissertation. We thank him for over two years of service and all the work he put in and wish him the best of luck in the future.

Recruiting 6s League Admins

JohnnyBambo leaving rips a gap in the already thin 6s admin department, which needs to be filled with one or maybe two new admins, as a result we are once again looking for volunteers to help run and maintain the league.

Among other things league admins take admin requests on IRC, deal with match conflicts, handle the setting of Default Dates and the verification of played matches. They also create and oversee cups.

With the change to the swiss system setting Default Dates does not create as much of a task as it used to do, since a notable portion of it is now automated. On the other hand dealing with match conflicts has become a task that has to be adressed in a more timely fashion. Additionally providing support during match times has grown in importance, therefore we cannot really employ admins who have team commitments every four to five times per week (especially but not limited to Thursdays). Same goes for creating and overseeing cups. It is always easier said than done, having the idea and setting up a cup is only a small part of actually running a cup. Being there when the cup is under way, providing match support, adressing conflicts, lending out servers, seeding further rounds, verifying finished matches and many more tasks have to be handled, while possibly over 100 matches are going on simultaneously, you may not be alone, but you will be part of it.

Also something we want to adress is our interest in self-managed admins, we will not take you by the hand and lead you through everything there is to do. YOU have to show interest, YOU have to ask what you can do, YOU have to prove you really want to be an admin. There are plenty of admins around almost all the time, who are happy to help you and show you the ropes, but at some point routines will have to be dealt with without someone telling you that they need to be done. At the same time, communicating with other admins is very imporant, to avoid certain tasks being done twice, conflicting results in decisions or even decisions overwriting previous ones.

If you are interested in supporting the administrative backbone for the league, you should also check out the details on the respective application page, this will tell you which information we need from you at the very least. With an emphasis on THE VERY LEAST. Additionally this general page may provide you with some more information.