Catch-up Week and Wildcards

The Catch-Up Week for Season 4 begins this Sunday and the final deadline for all Season 4 results is next Sunday (April 28th). Any main Season matches without a result by April 29th will be nullified, with neither team receiving any points.

Playoffs and Tiebreakers will commence after the Catch-Up Week finishes. Groups with established ties will receive Tiebreaker fixtures earlier, as soon as the remaining matches can no longer affect the tied teams.

Teams can still use their wildcards up until this Friday, April 19th. Wildcards used during this Week will extend the results deadline by one week only – until the end of the Catch-Up Week. Any wildcarded matches without a default date will be issued one on Friday, and wildcards will be locked for the remainder of the Season.

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Overview and Reminders

Signups are closed, the brackets are out, and it’s time for the last 4 of the 8 qualifiers to be decided tonight! Here is a quick overview of the schedule:

• 20:00 CEST Ro128 Starts – Badlands Middle
• 20:30 CEST Ro64 Starts – Viaduct Middle
• 21:00 CEST Ro32 Starts – Granary Middle
• 21:30 CEST Ro16 Starts – Snakewater Middle
• 22:00 CEST 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!

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Parrot Gapers vs SNSD

Even though there are 3 matches happening tonight at the same time, this is the one we are probably all looking forward to the most. With how things have gone so far in this season,  PG vs  SNSD match could very well decide who goes into the Premiership playoffs as 1st seed and thus only having to play the Grand Finale. This match is a rematch of last season’s final and is expected by many to be this season’s final as well. That is just one of the reasons why you should all be staring intently at your computer screens tonight to see who has figured out how to beat the other.

 Parrot Gapers are currently listed second in the tables, tied with colony. Last season, they suffered a humiliating 3-0 loss on koth_lakeside against tonight’s opponent and they will be wanting to turn this around. Today, as usual, they will enter the stadium with their battle call “Gapers gonna gape” and are looking to give  SNSD a beating.

 SNSD on the other hand boast a completely unbeaten record (as per usual) in this season so far, not dropping a single point, which gives them a 4-point lead over their opponents. Winning tonight could potentially give them a very unassailable position on top of the league. Players on the opposing side will have to watch their heads as the Swedish supersniper TviQ is looking for those pixels to click on – and he very rarely misses.
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Now the main meat of the season and the play-off dessert are over, all that remains are the after-dinner mints and a much larger bill than you were expecting. The ETF2L Season awards have been around for as long as anyone can remember and there’s a reason why; people actually seem to take them seriously. Below are the nominations for every category:

Note: Best player of the season is substantially different than Carry of the season. CotS is team-dependant and the nominated player strongly influenced their standing, whereas player of the season is independent of team and is given to the most skilled player.

Every voter gets two votes for caster of the season and one vote for everything else.

Edit: For clarification, since there seems to be quite a few people confused about how the nominees for the Season 14 powered by Twitch awards have been decided. We did not randomly select whoever we deemed suitable for said awards or anything like that. In fact ETF2L was pretty much excluded in the whole nominee deciding process, all we did was relay the awards we wanted to Pirate Radio. They then chose a panel of 18 players, mainly from the Premier Division, to decide the nominees for each award. The top3 (and in some cases top4 in case of a tie between two or more players) then made it into the polls for the awards. You can watch the whole award show in the following video:

The polls will probably be open until there are clear winners for each award or until there are only very few votes per day rolling in or until the end of the Season 15 signups.

Upcoming Roster Lock

Highlander Rosters will be locked this Sunday, 23:59 CET. You will not be able to add any new players to your team until the end of Season 4 playoffs, so please make sure you are happy with your team’s roster before the lock is in place.

Additionally, please make sure your roster does not exceed 20 members. Any rosters with more than 20 members will be trimmed down to 20 by removing the most recently added players.

Bans

The following player has been found guilty of cheating and is now banned from all ETF2L competitions for one year:

MisterPixels – ESP/Aimbot

Season 4 matches involving this player have been changed to default loses, but may be replayed if both teams agree. Any matches of archived competitions will remain untouched.

In addition, one player (and his new alt) has been spotted with a recent VAC ban affecting Team Fortress 2, and is now banned from the League as well:

PliTy – VAC ban
NsX. – Second account of PliTy

As the player has not been caught cheating by our AC staff, his team’s results will not be affected by his ban.

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.