Austria proved being a team full of surprises beating Scotland in week 2, but will they manage to take some points off Sweden to secure their ticket out of the group stage? Anything can happen when you have broesel and archy on the same team, however Sweden has aces like wltrs, Zebbosai and TviQ up their sleeve to make the Austrians work for their points.

• STV: tba

Having received default wins in their previous two matches due to their opponents’ inactivity, Team USA finally gets a chance to show their prowess against a strong opponent, the highlander star-studded lineup of Finland.

• STV: fakkelbrigade.eu:27100

The next Quarter Final will be a mix of German precision with Russian deathmatch. On the German side we will see many well-known players including Bash, stefan and Thy*, they’ll be up against recluse on sniper supported by one of the best Russian scouts, krol.

• STV: fakkelbrigade.eu:27101

Lineup Team  Germany

• Scout: Brego
• Soldier: kLar
• Pyro: ipz-
• Demoman: Thy*
• Heavy: Bash
• Engineer: Thun
• Medic: Homer J
• Sniper: stefan
• Spy: BigHomer

Lineup Team  Russia

• Scout:krol
• Soldier: irfx
• Pyro: vk
• Demoman: unHuman
• Heavy: rubikon
• Engineer: pala4
• Medic: D1egos
• Sniper: recluse
• Spy: zakery

In case you’ve missed the glorious TF2 Mixup Match #4 , the vods from the last map are now online. Check it out for some charity-driven TF2 celebrity goodness!

Signups for the American Rules Cup close tomorrow, Tuesday July 31 at 22:00 CEST, so don’t miss your chance to try out something new!

6v6 Nations Cup: Croatia vs. United States of America

United States of America couldn’t field enough players and had to forfeit the match.

6v6 Nations Cup: Latvia vs. Turkey

Latvia had a hard time in week 1 to field enough players and they had to default the match, Turkey did their best but lost their week 1 game as well. The team which will score 6 points in this game might still be able to stand a chance to fight for a playoff spot. The Latvian team is composed mostly of CIDO, a div1 team, while in the Turkish lineup we have veterans like ForzaEagLE and  fle.

• STV: fakkelbrigade.eu:27100

6v6 Nations Cup: Lithuania vs. Norway

Tonight we will have another game of Group E, between Lithuania and Norway. The Norwegian team has their part of Broder in the roster including all-star players like  Macisum and torden. Lithuania however is the homeland for Extremer, the Epsilon eSports demoman, fighting alongside with him we might see Ent1re or evokje.

• STV: fakkelbrigade.eu:271001

6v6 Nations Cup: Hungary vs. Spain

Tonight we will see a match between Spain, a home for players like Jan, sraam and HarryHook and Hungary whos most well-known players are Linus and Moreg. Spain has already won their first match, a win for them would ensure their way into playoff stage, however Hungary may come out with a big surprise and steal some points from the Spaniards.

6v6 Nations Cup: Egypt vs. Netherlands

The first week of the 6v6 Nations Cup wasn’t the luckiest for Egyptians, they had to default their game due to lack of players, hopefully we will see them this week fighting against Exfane and his Dutch team. The Egyptian team is mainly from KnG!: Elite Nile Gunners, a top div3 team, while Netherlands have well-known players in their roster like Qun and skeej.

NA vs EU: Leviathan Gaming vs Epsilon eSports

Tonight sees the second showmatch between Europe and North America! Last week we saw i46 qualifiers winners Classic Mixup beat TCM Gaming 2-1 in a bo3 match. This week we’re going to see ESEA LAN champions Leviathan Gaming play against ETF2L Season 12 winners Epsilon eSports. Last game raised over $2000 towards the LAN fund, and a similar donation total tonight will be a huge step towards seeing 2 American teams at i46. There is also the chance to win 2 Razor Deathadder mice by tuning in tonight. The match is being casted by Greg and cbear with Comedian on the stream at VanillaTV.

Lineup Team  Leviathan Gaming

• Scout: Cyzer
• Scout: Clockwork
• Soldier: Mackey
• Soldier: Tyrone
• Demoman: b4nny
• Medic: Shade

Lineup Team  Epsilon eSports

• Scout: Shintaz
• Scout: schocky
• Soldier: GeaR
• Soldier: KnoxXx
• Demoman: numlocked
• Medic: F2

While watching the exciting ESEA S11 Finals, we couldn’t help but think: what would happen if we were to thrust our european vanilla-loving turtles into a fierce saffron-flavored race to 5 caps?

Only one way to find out!

For this cup, we’ll attempt to emulate the North American 6v6 experience – ESEA map format, class limits and weapon bans. Or as close as we can get using configs, at least.

Map rules

• 1 map per match
• Each map is played in 2 rounds, 30 minutes each.
• First round is played with mp_winlimit 3, second round with mp_winlimit 0.
• A break of 10 minutes is allowed between rounds.
• The score is kept across rounds, and the first team to reach 5 total captures wins *
• If scores are tied after two rounds, an Overtime round is played.
• Overtime rules: timelimit 30, winlimit 1. First team to cap wins. If neither team caps in 30 minutes, restart round and continue until first cap.

* Since we are not using a client or server plugins, the score between rounds must be tracked manually by both teams.

If you think these rules are too complicated, you can read the more detailed explanation in [this thread]

For convenience, here are separate configs for each round:
[etf2l_nacup_round1.cfg]
[etf2l_nacup_round2.cfg]
[etf2l_nacup_overtime.cfg]

(the only difference between them is mp_winlimit)

Unlock rules

The full list of banned weapons can be found [here]
Any unlocks not on the list are allowed, unless they have been released during the funcup.

The whitelist for this cup may be found here:
[etf2l_nacup_blacklist.txt]

Special rules

Class limits: 1 Medic, 1 Demoman, 1 Heavy, 1 Engineer, 2 for other classes.

As with all funcups, 2 mercs allowed by default.

For everything else, standard ETF2L 6v6 rules apply.

Cup format and schedule

The cup will be single elimination with 7 days per match and will follow this schedule:

• Round of 8: August 1-7, map cp_badlands
• Semi-finals: August 8-14, map cp_granary
• Finals: August 15-21, map cp_snakewater

Signing up

As with previous funcups, it is also possible to enter this cup using a Fun Team, which can be setup in the normal way using the page found [here].

Signups will be open until this Tuesday, 22 CEST. Brackets and fixtures will be up by midnight.

What are you waiting for? Head on to the [signup] page!

Our last One Night Cup became a great success we did not only start earlier but also manage to play all games within given time deadline. Many thanks to all participants. Here are the winners, congratulations:

Higher Bracket

1.  dafuq
2.  9 men
3.  Not Only Rockets Love You
3.  ScS Gaming.fi

Lower Bracket

1.  GANZ N HORSYZ
2.  The Manissons
3.  ReLoaded
3.  Road Signs

Many thanks to DarkSlayer for creating such a good map for yesterday’s  cup.  It was an enjoyable adventure. Feel free to give some feedback for the map creator here.

Every week 3 game from the 6v6 Nations Cup Group Stage which isn’t scheduled by Sunday, July 29, will be given a default date on the primary default day of each respective group (if there is a schedule on that day, secondary default day will be used).

The Highlander Nations Cup is down to 8 teams and has entered Quarter Finals, the maps being Lakeside and Converge with Pro_Viaduct as the decider. The deadline for the Quarter Finals week is Tuesday, July 31(included).

As we have mentioned before TF2 Mix-up hosted their fourth Charity Showmatch and now we have a VOD from their second map, which was koth_lakeside. The showmatch featured internet celebrities, developers and TF2 pros, and raised a total of $9,664 for the Child’s Play charity!

The Toxic One Night Cup starts tonight and signups are now closed. The brackets can be found here

High tree here
Low tree here

If you did not make it into the brackets but still wish to play then please idle in #etf2l @ quakenet, when the cup is due to begin, as you may be able to replace teams that do not show up.

The schedule is as follows –

• 8:00pm – Ro16 Starts
• 8:45pm – Ro8 Starts
• 9:30pm – Ro4 Starts
• 10.15pm – Finals Start

Each round will be a bo1 on cp_toxic_b18_cup_fixed which can be found here. Please make sure you have downloaded the map before the Ro16 to ensure that matches are played on time!

The rules will be the same as the ETF2L Season 12 rules with the exception of a change in the merc rule – Each time can use 2 mercs by default and 3 if the opponents agree.

This one night cup is being casted by an ambitious caster  NigelWantsKFC at Nigel’s twitch channel 

The first match is going to be casted between  vier-red and  Not Only Rocket Loves You

Our first game of the night will be between Bulgaria and Luxembourg. Winner of this game will still stand a chance to fight for playoff stage. Although Bulgaria has some experienced players such as BaTMaN or Hohen, Luxembourg might come up with big surprise with their almost vintage lineup.

Next game tonight will be a second week 2 game from Group D of 6v6 Nations Cup. Both Belgium and WinFinland have won their week 1 games, which means the winner of this game will not only take a lead in their group but also have points to qualify into the playoff stage (with possible tiebreaker if anything). Finland have a lineup of strong premier division players including Season12 Runner-ups, Finnish trio from TCM Gaming. There are rumours on the street that Darn is replacing Mike in Team Infused, who knows! Belgium has some talented players on their side like Coco or Luzzu but they may lack the experience and high level game play when facing the Finns.

Our last game for tonight is another Group G game featuring both Euro2012 hosters, Poland and Ukraine, two eastern teams. Poland obviously must miss Nor, their beast from the east but having Gameton(JHWH) instead, they still stand a chance against Jorman and his Ukrainian players such as dm master kensiq. Winning this match Ukraine would guarantee themselves a playoff stage game. Hopefully Poland will do their best to stand and fight for the 6 precious points because they need them if they want to continue playing after group stage.

• STV: fakkelbrigade.eu:27100

Lineup Team  Poland

• Scout: Fassadin
• Scout: Mariano
• Soldier: nislem
• Soldier: Kazachu
• Demoman: Gameton
• Medic: natty

Lineup Team  Ukraine

• Scout: N/A
• Scout: N/A
• Soldier: N/A
• Soldier: N/A
• Demoman: N/A
• Medic: N/A