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Overview

With the conclusion of both qualifying brackets, 8 players have risen to the top and qualified for the Monthly Final!

The qualifiers from Bracket #1 are:

• achy
• space ranger
• Spike
• fe

The qualifiers from Bracket #2 are:

• Warden
• Coinz
• msh
• Mon

All 8 qualifying players have automatically been added to the competition. If you cannot play, please let an admin know as soon as possible!

The bracket has been drawn and is now live!

Monthly Final Bracket

Matches may be played before the scheduled time if both teams agree

Prizes, Schedule and Rules

Don’t forget you are fighting for

1x AVerMedia Live Gamer HD C985

Additionally and as usual, pixel trophies will also be handed out to the top 3 finishers of the monthly final. Every top 4 qualifier will also get a golden trophy for his bracket, no matter if they participate in the monthly final or not.

Reminder of the rules:

• Single elimination knockout tournament
• Only players who finished in a top 4 position in one of the two previous qualifiers get direct entry to this cup
• The matches are Bo5
• For all matches that require more than one map, the 1st map is set and then it is loser’s choice from the rest of the available map pool. No map can be played twice in the same round!

The Map Pool:

• MGE – Granary Middle
• MGE – Process Middle
• MGE – Snakewater Middle
• MGE – Badlands Middle
• MGE – Viaduct Middle
• MGE – Gullywash Middle
• MGE – Waste Middle

The Monthly Final schedule:

• 20:00 CET Wednesday – Ro8 Starts – First map: Process Middle
• 21:00 CET Wednesday – Ro4 Starts – First map: Gullywash Middle
• 22:00 CET Wednesday – Final & Consolation Final – First map: Badlands Middle

broder vs Epsilon eSports

We’re in for a treat tonight when last season’s finalists, broder and Epsilon eSports, face each other. broder got crushed in this same matchup in the regular season last time around and were considered massive underdogs going into the final. Against all odds, they pulled off something spectacular and almost clinched victory from Epsilon eSports‘s fingertips. Nevertheless Epsilon eSports managed to win the championship with victories on both of the maps being played tonight. Even if they did win, both maps were extremely close finishing with only a 1-cap difference, and so there is no reason to doubt that the match tonight will be a cracker.

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Staff Changes

Priorities change for everyone at some point and the time has come for several staff members to move on. We would like to thank them all for the time and effort they put into this league and wish they succeed in their future projects, be it in real life or in another game.

• phife
• DeusVox
• freshmeatt
• AeZ!
• Panromir

Our Anti-Cheat trial admins have proven to be hard working and devoted to catching cheaters, and we are happy to welcome them as full members of our Anti-Cheat staff.

• smziii
• quintosh

Crack Clan vs Vinland Incident

During their Week 3 Premiership match, The frenchy survived had requested to play with higher FOV enabled via a server plugin and Team Infused refused, as permitted by our rules. Unhappy with their decision, Darn from The frenchy survived insulted the other team in Finnish, but started the match regardless. However, it was clear from the get-go that Darn wasn’t up to playing and after 4 rounds he simply quit the the game, abruptly terminating a match that was being casted by both VanillaTV and TeamFortressTV, with more than 400 people watching.

Darn‘s behavior was highly disrespectful towards his opponents, the casters, the spectators and his own team. For insulting the other team with comments of a racially abusive nature and disrupting a live casted Premiership match, he receives a one-match ban, and The frenchy survived will be warned for flaming.

A Rule Change

Originally we had allowed teams to raise the FOV cap upon mutual agreement, but it is now clear how this exception can cause unnecessary confusion and conflict. As such, using server plugins to achieve a higher FOV is no longer allowed, regardless of whether both teams agree on its use.

Usage of server plugins to raise the FOV cap is now covered by General Rule 5.4 Unusual server settings may be considered cheating, and may result in the match result being refused and the teams involved receiving penalties.

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Overview and Reminders

Tonight is the 2nd qualifier for this months AVerMedia MGE Cup Monthly Finals, focusing on the scout and it’s time for the last 4 of the 8 qualifiers to be decided tonight!

The brackets are out now!

Here is a quick overview of the schedule:

• 19:30 CET – Brackets Posted
• 20:00 CET – Ro128 Starts – Badlands Middle
• 20:30 CET – Ro64 Starts – Waste Middle
• 21:00 CET – Ro32 Starts – Granary Middle
• 21:30 CET – Ro16 Starts – Snakewater Middle
• 22:00 CET – Ro8 Starts – Process Middle

Remember that cup matches may be played on any server running the latest version of the MGE mod and any version of the map mge_training_v8. The newest beta version of the map, mge_training_v8_beta4, can be found here.

Locally hosted and public servers are allowed. ETF2L will have a few servers dedicated for the cup, so feel free to ask to use one if you can’t find an alternative!

Remember to communicate with your opponents on the match page to help get in touch, if you can’t contact an opponent then let an admin know! All matches have to be played on the night and if a match is holding back the bracket, a coin will be flipped to decide the winner!

All other rules and details can be found on the hub page!

The following players have been found guilty of cheating by our AC team, and as such are now banned from all ETF2L competitions for 1 year:

• imdustin – Triggerbot
• Chiakii – Triggerbot

Valve has recently released a major update for VAC, adding detections for numerous cheats old and new, including some that have been considered “VAC safe” for years, resulting in a huge wave of VAC bans across all Source games.

The following players have been spotted with fresh VAC bans and are now banned from all ETF2L competitions for 1 year:

• Serotone
• Tetrix
• fraac
• misha YB`g
• cirno
• LG
• Jules

Though some of these players claim the bans were only for using OpenPlugin exclusively outside of ETF2L matches, whether to trust the legitimacy of these claims is left to our players. ETF2L enforces TF2 VAC bans regardless of their cause.

As these players have not been caught cheating by our AC team, the results of their Season 15 matches will not be affected.

In an earlier newspost, we have stated that we may ignore a VAC ban, if the user can present proof from Steam Support that his account was hijacked and used to cheat in TF2 shortly before the ban. Unfortunately, one of our users attempted to exploit this opportunity by presenting sloppily falsified “evidence” that he reported his hijack to Steam Support.

For attempting fraud, Neoxyde‘s ban has now been extended by an additional 1 year.

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.