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Epsilon eSports vs Skidmark Central

In theory, tonight’s game should be one of the closest we’ve seen so far, however  kaidus‘ lovable band of rejects have proven that they know how to drop points to even the most blunt toothed of bottom feeders, never mind twice-ETF2L-champions, Epsilon eSports. However, stranger stuff has happened and if  All Tied Up walk away with any points tonight it will be a huge upset.

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Crack Clan vs Last Man Standing

Starting off the week 5 matches for the Premiership are Team Infused and Last Man Standing. So tonight we will get our first dose of Viaduct Pro being played by the very top teams in Europe. The question is, which one of the two teams has figured out how to play this map.

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Season 15 Roster Lock and Wildcard Lock Reminders

As in previous seasons, the rosters of all teams signed up for Season 15 powered by BlackOut Gaming will be locked with the start of week 7. The last day to add new players to your roster is Saturday, June 15.

No exceptions will be made and the roster lock will be lifted when all Season 15 playoff matches will be played. Please take this information into consideration and add backup players to your roster if necessary.

Additionally, wildcards will be locked on Friday, June 21, on. All matches without a schedule will receive a new default date for the catch up week (Sunday, June 23, to Saturday, June 29). Any matches without result will be made void on Monday, July 1, at 00.00 CEST, after which the Premiership playoffs and tie breaker matches will be created.

Reconnect Exploit rule update

After discussing the resurfaced potential for abuse of the retry command, we have added an extra rule to General Rules:

6.6 Exploiting the retry command is not allowed

Reconnecting to the server to reset your respawn time and gain an unfair advantage is considered exploiting, and may be punished with a default loss for the map and a minor warning for the offending team.

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Overview

Having fought through the qualifying bracket, and then through the monthly final bracket, a huge congratulations to Spike who came out victorious in the finals and is now the proud owner of:

1x AVerMedia Live Gamer HD C985

But lets not forget the pixel trophies! These bad boys have be given to the top 4 in the finals bracket. The 4 qualifiers of each bracket will also receive a gold trophy! Here are the top 4 finishers from the final bracket:

• 1st: Spike
• 2nd: space ranger
• Joint 3rd: msh
• Joint 3rd: Mon

If you have any suggestions or feedback on anything from the map pool to the rules, please post your thoughts here!

Thank you to all those who took part in the cup, the admins that ran it, and finally a massive thank you to our sponsor AVermedia as without them, none of this would have been possible!

Next months edition of the AVerMedia MGE Monthly Cup is rumored to be for the demoman, so keep your eyes out for that!

Steam OpenID Login

Thanks to the valiant efforts of dave, ETF2L is now using Steam OpenID. You will now need a valid Steam account to register and log in. The new system offers several great advantages:

• Additional protection against spambots
• All newly registered players will automatically have their Steam ID added to their ETF2L profile
• No need to remember your ETF2L username or password

Steam OpenID logins are handled by Valve through the Steam Community website. ETF2L does not see or record your Steam login name, password or email.

Your Steam account is now your main and only method of accessing your ETF2L account. As such, we strongly recommend enabling Steam Guard, if you have not done so already.

Please make sure your ETF2L profile contains the Steam account you intend to use in the League. If your Steam ID has been entered incorrectly, you will not be able to login to your ETF2L account. If this is the case, please contact admins using the Support page.

sv_pure rule update

Since the Steam Pipe update for Team Fortress 2, it is no longer possible to modify the sv_pure variable unless it is part of the server’s starting parameters. We would like to remind you that sv_pure 2 is a requirement for all ETF2L matches. Without this variable, users would be able to use custom models, textures and sounds, which can be used to gain an unfair advantage.

To reflect this change, we have added a new rule to General Rules:

5.5 Servers must be started with “-sv_pure”

Match servers must have the parameter “-sv_pure” or “-sv_pure 2″ in the launch options to support the sv_pure setting. sv_pure must be set to 2 in all ETF2L competitions.

To check if your server allows the modification of sv_pure, you can enter “rcon sv_pure” in the console while on your server. If this value is set to 0, it is not activated. In this case, please contact your Game Server Provider and ask him to add “-sv_pure 2” to the starting parameters of your server.

Until your GSP implements this change, you can book one of the ETF2L servers provided by Hypernia for your officials.

Regarding the cl_interp Exploit

We would like to remind our players that using the known cl_interp exploit to glitch player hitboxes is both easy to detect and classified as cheating. Anyone who is caught using the exploit will face a one year ban from all ETF2L competitions.

Speaking of…

Bans

The following players have been spotted with a recent VAC ban affecting Team Fortress 2 and are now banned from the League for one year:

Mytag — VAC ban

FUCK OPENPLUGIN — VAC ban

bowie — VAC ban

As the players have not been caught cheating by our AC staff, their teams’ results will not be affected by their bans.

Any attempts to bypass a League ban will result in an even longer ban on all accounts associated with the player. Don’t do it.