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

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1 - 0 (golden cap)

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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

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0 - 1

OVERALL
Stacked [0:6] Tourettes Chessclub

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After more than 500 matches in 2 nights, we are down to the final 8 ultiduo teams.
These 8 will hit arrows, airshots and try not to drop uber in order to win the prize pool that our beloved sponsors Tt eSPORTS, TF2Pickup and Serveme have provided for us.

The Quarter Finals will start on Sunday 12 April 19:00 CEST

View the knockout tree: ETF2L Ultiduo Cup #5 Powered by: Tt eSPORTS – Knockout Stage Tree

A quick oversight on the final teams and their path to the finals:

Match 1:

Kaptain Baloo sponsored by fabricator.tf vs SUGAR HILL GANG
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Thus far they have won ALL their matches 2-0. The TF2Pickup admin Raptor as Medic, together with his Soldier – kaptain will be taking on another high skilled team for the Quarter Finals. Who knows, maybe The Netherlands will finally have someone to be proud of in this league.
SUGAR HILL GANG This team is a duo with Zebbosai on medic. amppis will try to hit his patented “shoot feet, win game”-rockets to kill whoever is harassing his doctor. He’ll have to whip the swedish legend to a victory. They have jukebox on their roster!

Match 2:

Toxic Foxes vs What Do You Mean?
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For match 2 we’ll have the German Cplay duo Toxic Foxes facing a Latvian and a Russian.
Will cube and feeling prove that German efficiency is a requirement to reach the Semi Finals, or will the Clark and YanG "Пальмира" show us that it’s wiser to kill the soldier and ignoring the medic when you’re about to win the round?

Match 3:

J&S vs REVERS3
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Who knew we would ever see JackyLegs‘ name on the front page (not counting ban posts)? Well, here he is, deal with it.
Together with s0rex they are  J&S.
The Foreskings players are trying to best another Russian team. REVERS3 have some names that Highlander players will be familiar with. On medic will be the sniper main Jack, and on Soldier will be the Mon. We’ll see who will keep their winning streak, since both teams haven’t lost a single match this cup.

Match 4:

bball tWINs vs Rocket Dragons
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The odd ones. SynciNG shows you don’t have to play highlander or 6v6 in order to try hard in ultiduo. Together with a really strong soldier Timus the cat they have already outdone their expectations. Now they are up against arguably the best ultiduo team in the cup. Both teams haven’t lost a single round in the cup, so anything can happen.
However, Rocket Dragons has two of the Suavest players in TF2 History. We have the Latvian playboy known as Mirelin on the crossbow, and 4 times forumban champion Mike on the airshot. Some people say Mirelin drops as many ubers as he hits his crossbows, others would say Mike yw’r Draig, Mirelin yw’r Roced.

Coverage

TFTV will start covering the event from 20 CEST onwards.