Preview

Online leagues always have two very interesting and important moments – the playoffs to see who wins the season, but also the playoffs to determine the last participant in the Premiership. Tonight sees the start of the new ETF2L season by looking at the new teams who have a shot at playing with the big boys in the next eight weeks.  While some of these teams just recruited new players, others have been around for a long time. It’s a big mix of talent, teamwork, individual skill, communication and map specific tactics. Either way, tonight’s contestants AVENUE eSports , Pyro|Gen , logs.tf and The Potentials will do everything in their power to secure themselves that precious last spot in the Season 14 powered by Twitch Premiership! Find the tournament tree here and head over to VanillaTF2 for the full preview of tonight’s games by  Pledge.

Coverage

Watch live video from VanillaTV on www.twitch.tv

The entire night will be covered by VanillaTV, from the very first to the very last second. They will bring you all the action as it happens over at the VanillaTV stream over at our Season 14 head sponsor Twitch! The commentators  Pledge and  Skully will make sure that you miss absolutely nothing and they will keep you up to date with the all the scores, even if you tune in a little later. The stream will be live from 19.45 CET / 18.45 GMT / 11.45 PST / 14.45 EST onwards, so make sure you are in time, because tonight’s games are something you really don’t want to miss!
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Two playoff matches tonight

Tonight we have two Highlander playoff games happening at once – the last match of Secondary Playoffs semi-finals alongside the first match of the Premiership playoffs.

To begin with we have the semi-final of the secondary playoffs between  Legolas’ Wrath and Colony followed by the semi-final of the main Premiership playoffs featuring 2nd place  May Contain Nuts against  Parrot Gapers for a place in the grand final against  SNSD and a chance to win 1000 euros!

Secondary Playoffs: Legolas’ Wrath vs Colony

The first match tonight is already live, Colony v Legolas’ Wrath playing a best of three (one round per each Attack / Defend map) on Lakeside, Upward and Badwater as a potential decider.

Match Overview
le leglesslegolegolas xD vs colony
Semi-Final
Sunday, January 13th 20:00 CET

pl_upward

0 - 4

koth_lakeside_final

3 - 1

pl_badwater

4 - 0

OVERALL
le leglesslegolegolas xD [6:3] colony

You can catch the game NOW on SourceTV here:

• connect fakkelbrigade.eu:27030; password col

Premiership Playoffs: May Contain Nuts vs Parrot Gapers

The main event is due to kick off at 20:45 CET as May Contain Nuts look to book yet another encounter with SNSD and a chance to finally displace the undefeated champions of European Highlander. Standing in their way is the multi-talented Parrot Gapers, who may get the edge with the likes of Cookye playing on their side as they face off on Badwater, Upward and Gravelpit as a potential decider.

Match Overview
May Contain Nuts vs Parrot Gapers
Playoffs (Premier Division)
Sunday, January 13th 20:45 CET

pl_badwater

1 - 0

pl_upward

0 - 1

cp_gravelpit

0 - 1

OVERALL
May Contain Nuts [3:6] Parrot Gapers

You can watch this game at 20:45 CET on SourceTV here:

• connect 37.59.56.110:27045

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Provisional Divisions

Yes folks! It’s that time already. Whip out your monocles, magnifying glasses and fine-tooth combs and peruse the Provisional Divisions for ETF2L Season 14 powered by Twitch.  As the provisional tag suggests, these divisions may be subject to change between now and Monday.

>>>Provisional divisions<<<

If you are not happy with the division that your team has been placed in, please contact an admin in IRC as soon as possible. Keep in mind that much like during the signup process, you must provide evidence of your ability to perform at the level of the division you wish to enter. This means, at minimum, a screenshot album displaying performance of your team against other similar-skilled teams. These pictures can be taken from PCWs, scrims, cups, other leagues and so on.

The divisions will be finalized and divided into groups on Sunday night.

Premiership Qualifiers

By now you will have given in to the urge to look at the Provisional Divisions. There’s no shame in it. You are only human.  The superhuman amongst you may have noticed that everything is not settled in the Premier Division and Division 1. You should probably consider joining the rest of the superhumans on the ETF2L Admin Staff, but first allow me to elucidate.

Two spots were originally up for grabs in the Premier Division.  The first went to broder but the recipient of the second was not so clear cut.  So in the interests of fairness and bloody entertainment we will be pitting four Premiership hopefuls against each other in a Single Elimination best-of-three tournament taking place on Monday 14th January from 20:00CET onwards.

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Here it is – The promised and honest review of the AVerMedia Live Gamer HD C985 capture card by CUBE, that he won in a giveaway on ETF2L in November. Subscribe to his YouTube and Twitch channel for fragvideos and TF2 practice streams.

BBall Cup #5 powered by Tt eSPORTS

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Overview

BBall has a long history and it should be familiar to most of us. However since it has been a very long time since teams officially hit the court let me briefly remind you what this is all about. We have 2 Teams consisting of 2 Soldiers each facing each other on a Basketball court. The goal is, like in real basketball, to score points by getting the ball through the basketball hoop. Now as this is serious business, we don’t have, no, we don’t need a ball – we prefer to play with precious documents in a briefcase. If you are completely new to the subject and need further information, feel free take a look at the corresponding TF2 Wiki Page.

Prizes

Tt eSPORTS were kind enough to provide us with some of their gaming gear as prizes.

• 1st place – 2 x Keyboard  – Tt eSPORTS Knucker
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• 2nd place – 2 x In-Ears – Tt eSPORTS Isurus-Dub
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• 3rd place – 2 x Mouse Mat – 3rd Place – Tt eSPORTS Pyrrhus
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Setup

For the moment being, we will allow 192 teams to sign up, which will be seeded into 32 groups of 6 teams each. The first 2 teams of each group will advance to the playoff tree. However, if we notice an even bigger interest in this tournament, we might add more slots!

Processing results

Group stage:
This phase should be pretty straight forward. Like in the regular season, you play your map and submit the result (no golden cap, draws are possible). A correctly entered result is 3-0, 0-3 or 1-1.

Playoff stage:
Now we come to the “tricky” part. Since we are now in the elimination phase each map / round needs a winner. This means, if both teams are tied when the map timer reaches zero you will have to play another “best of 5 caps” golden cap round to determine the winner for this map.
While entering the result please upload the tied & additional screenshot of that round.

General schedule

• Sign ups are open NOW until January 16, head over to the competition page to enter the cup with your 2on2 team!

There will be no enforced weekly schedule for your games in the group phase, just make sure you have played all matches and entered the respective results before the group phase deadline! However we have added Default dates for your convenience, if you can’t play that day post it on the match page and try rescheduling.  During the group phase, unplayed matches will get a null result, while the almighty coin flip will decide for the playoff tree.

• Group phase: January 20 to February 10 2013, 23:59 CET
• Round of 64: February 13 to February 16 2013, 23:59 CET
• Round of 32: February 17 to February 19, 23:59 CET
• Round of 16: February 20 to February 23, 23:59 CET
• Round of 8: February 24 to March 2, 23:59 CET
• Quarter finals: March 3 to March 9, 23:59 CET
• Semi finals: March 10 to March 16, 23:59 CET
• Grand finals: March 17 to March 23, 23:59 CET

Map rules

• Map: ctf_ballin_sky
• Class limit: Only soldiers allowed
• Settings: Winlimit 25, timelimit 20
• Group stage: BO1  / Playoff stage: BO3
• Config: etf2l_bball.cfg

Unlocks

Stock soldier weapons + reskins (“The Original” is allowed) (Whitelist)

Special rules

Use every trick up your sleeve to win! Except shooting rockets at each other at map start.