Today we are happy to introduce our new partner Club 3D and the details of our partnership to the ETF2L community. Club 3D will provide 6 Radeon HD 7850 royalKing graphics cards as prizes for the winner of our 15th 6v6 Season, starting in early May. Additionally, one lucky member of our community will get his hands on such a card a bit sooner in a contest accompanying tomorrow’s Grand Final of ETF2L Season 14 powered by Twitch.

The Radeon HD 7850 royalKing comes with an AMD HD 7850 GPU and 1 GB DDR5 memory. Thanks to the Club 3D CoolStream cooling system and the powerful overclocking software, it is possible to get even more performance out of the GPU. Additionally, the card supports PCI Express 3.0, AMD Eyefinity 2.0, AMD CrossFireX, AMD HD3D and has two HDMI ports supporting Ultra HD resolutions up to 4096×3112 pixel as well as an additional DVI port for multi monitor support. If the card is unused for a while, the ZeroCore Power technology will reduce the used power from 15W to about 3W in idle mode.
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Admirable: All good things must come to an end, and so it is with this ETF2L Season 14 powered by Twitch Premiership Playoffs interview series. We have been working our way up through the seedings from four to one, under the steady hand of everyone’s favourite Potatohead Ambassador. Joining me for one last attempt at making competitive Team Fortress 2 barely interesting is the man, the legend, the Season 13 Soldier of the Season – it’s Epsilon eSport’s Mike.

Mike: Yo.

A: Mike I remember when you were just a young boy from Wales with a unicycle…

M: I still am!

A: …and a dream of being the best damn soldier in the world. Now you’re here being interviewed by your idol: Admirable. This must truly be a high point in your gaming career.

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Banner by  accless, logo by  MoZz

First of all, we want to apologise to the teams that signed up but weren’t given a chance to play. We encountered some technical difficulties with regards to the seeding. We had reserved some time for preparations but everything took longer than anticipated. For the next TC cup and cups on ETF2L in general, we will make sure we have sorted out the seedings at least one day before the cup starts and that we aren’t understaffed during the cup.

We also received a lot of complaints from teams about being in the wrong bracket. Our news posts had this covered by the “admin discretion” rule. For what it’s worth, the general rule of thumb we used was something along the lines of “if a team has a player with division 3 or higher match history in a recent season, they go to the higher bracket”. We also want to emphasise again that this cup was initially intended to focus only teams in division 4 and below. The only reason we later introduced a higher bracket was because the community had requested it. Had we not done this, the teams that were moved to the higher bracket would not have been allowed to play at all.

Fortunately, there is also good news. The cup went relatively well for the teams that did get to play. Most of the games were played on time and managed to keep to the schedule. The following teams have made it to the round of 8 of the prize winning lower bracket:

• Bring the funk
• euroslayers
• Ministry of BS
• BigBluntGaming
• The Manissons
• Team Awesome!
• K5 “eSports”
• Get This Done

These teams will continue their progression in the lower bracket Thursday 4 April from 20.00 CEST onwards.

We’d like to remind the finalists that the cup finals will be held on Sunday 7 April, 20.00 CEST, with the ETF2L Premiership finals being scheduled for tomorrow (more on that later!). If you are in the finals after tomorrow, and you cannot play sunday, please contact an admin! Bear in mind also that there will be a playoff match for the semi-final losers to determine the third place.

Meanwhile, the marginally smaller High bracket has already seen the finals played, where Fenneks eSports have fallen victim to vier // red. The pixel trophies will be handed out when both brackets are wrapped up.

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Premier Division: colony vs Parrot Gapers

Tonight will see Parrot Gapers take on Highlander veterans  colony on the classic Highlander map Badwater. This is a complete rematch of Season 3’s encounter between these two teams, where colony came out victors 6-0. However that was Parrot Gapers first game from last season, and they have improved considerably since then. Perhaps this match will showcase how this group of 6v6 players has adapted to high level Highlander?

 Parrot Gapers have already played a game this season against  27, winning gravelpit on a golden cap, a very messy afair thanks to Gubbins “doing a Hildreth” and not showing up! Hopefully he will be making an appearance tonight.

 colony will be very familar with this map, having played it many many times, they will have to use this to their advantage to beat the Gapers’ strong DM. They’ll be relying on Highlander heavyweight zoob to make some big plays, as he always does. Tonight will also see the debut of two non-Scandinavian players in Phunk! on sniper, and kKaltUu on heavy. We’ll have to see how these foreign influences affect them.

Match Overview
colony vs Parrot Gapers
Week 3 (Premier Division)
Wednesday, April 3rd 21:15 CEST

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1 - 2 (golden cap)

pl_badwater

1 - 2 (golden cap)

OVERALL
colony [2:4] Parrot Gapers

This is going to be casted on BlackOut TV by the ‘Cast Whisperer’ Hildreth and jakeowaty with Jon on the stream. Be sure to tune in!

STV: connect fakkelbrigade.eu:27020; password tv

Premier Division: DAROUTOUTOU vs Legolas’ Wrath

A choice of games for you tonight, with the Frenchies taking on  Legolas’ Wrath, also on Badwater. This is a rematch of the Secondary Playoffs Final from Season 3, where we saw Legolas’ Wrath win in a match that went to the 3rd map! In that match, Legolas’ Wrath won Badwater, we’ll have to see if the French team can redeem themselves tonight and claim 6 points!

One player which spectators will have their eye on for sure is broder’s Flippy on Sniper, he seems to be one of  DAROUTOUTOU’s key players. His form will be essential to the outcome of this fixture. On the other side of the fixture skeej tells me that  Legolas’ Wrath will have permanent classes this season, maybe we’ll see an improvement from them this season, they’ll be aiming for the Playoffs for sure!

Match Overview
DAROUTOUTOU vs le leglesslegolegolas xD
Week 3 (Premier Division)
Wednesday, April 3rd 21:00 CEST

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2 - 0

pl_badwater

2 - 0

OVERALL
DAROUTOUTOU [6:0] le leglesslegolegolas xD

STV: connect turtle.dmci.hva.nl:27230; password tv

TEAM COLONSLASH CUP #1: CUP DAY!
That’s right folks, the cup is going live! Signups are officialy closed and both high and low brackets will be published here by 19:50 CEST.

{High | Low}

You better prepare yourself for some proper games, because more than 64 teams signed up for this cup! If your team can no longer participate in the cup, please contact an admin here to remove your team as soon as possible. Contact your opponents as soon as the brackets are available – if your opponents cannot play, they may be replaced with a team from the waiting list.

CASTING

Thanks to VanillaTV, some of our bracket games tonight will be casted (in addition to the finals in Thursday). Tune in tonight and listen to ThePledge and Skully on mic, with AnimaL on stream.

Please be aware that the schedule has slightly changed, as the amount of teams that signed up is larger than we had anticipated:

Tuesday 20:00 CEST – Round of 64 Starts
Tuesday 20:45 CEST – Round of 32 Starts
Tuesday 21:30  CEST – Round of 16 Starts

This also moves some games to thursday:

Thursday 20:00 CEST – Round of 8 Starts
Thursday 20:45 CEST – Round of 4 Starts
Thursday 21:30 CEST– Finals
Good luck and have fun!