NA Rules Cup Wrap-up

After three weeks, the experimental cup where you could try out the american rulesets for maps and unlocks is over! Please let us know if you enjoyed it and give your feedback on map rules and unlock rules in the Idea Box. Your feedback will determine whether we should run more similar cups, and whether we should consider borrowing from the NA ruleset in future seasons. Also a huge shoutout to  Punchline for participating in an experimental cup. We need more premiership teams like them!

Highest Bracket

• Winner:  Punchline
• Runner-Up:  Inadequacy

High Bracket

• Winner:  Decadence
• Runner-Up:  2Strong4Everything

Highish Bracket

• Winner:  causeWEcan
• Runner-Up:  Infernal Gamerz eSports

Lowish Bracket

• Winner:  Team Colonslash: Reditio
• Runner-Up:  Azilum Gaming

Low Bracket

• Winner:  Trolling Bunnies BLUE
• Runner-Up:  The Manissons

Lowest Bracket

• Winner:  ReLoaded
• Runner-Up:  Optimistic Pessimists

Congratulations to all winners and runner ups!

As for ETF2L Season 13, keep an eye out for the big announcement coming later today!

Highlander Ladder Cast Tonight

Tonight,  NigelWantsKFC will be casting the Highlander Ladder match between Team-Awesome! and OverCharge.

A stream can be found here.

After a spectacular run through i46, the world’s best 6v6 teams Classic Mixup and Leviathan Gaming are about to face off in the i46 Grand Finals, which may be one of the best Team Fortress 2 matches you will ever see!

Tune into Multiplay’s official stream for the crown TF2 event, due to start any moment now!

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Post-final update: If you’ve enjoyed the Grand Finals, consider helping to pay back Salamancer, who footed the rest of the bill needed to get both NA teams to i46 – without him, this would not have been possible.

The biggest TF2 offline event of the year involving both American and European teams is in full swing, and if you couldn’t go there personally, VanillaTV will provide you with coverage of the best matches!

What they won’t tell you though is that our head admin at the scene, CanFo, made PYYYOUR drop uber. What a boss!

For all match fixtures and up-to-date information, head over to VanillaTV.

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Season 13 Signups

Season 13 signups are now open! You can now sign up your team on the competitions page.

>>>Signup<<<

Do not forget to choose your desired division when signing up. If you created a new team or feel you can jump a division, feel free to apply for the desired division anyway. To prove you are capable of the division you applied for, we require you to submit screenshots of recent practice wars or tournaments where you scored decent results against teams that play on the level you aim for. There is no magical number of screenshots you have to submit, just submit what you have.

Please note that the success of your request mainly depends on the free slots in the division you aim for. Established teams will be favoured over new teams, or teams that request to jump a division. The screenshots have to be uploaded to online image storage (for example you can use imgur or Dropbox), zipped archives with tons of pictures attached to an email will be ignored. Please send your application to staff@etf2l.org.

The division application has to include the following information in order to be considered. Incomplete applications will be ignored!

• Team name
• Team link on ETF2L.org
• Division you apply for
• Link to the online photo album
• Reasons why your team deserves to be placed in the division you applied for (optional)

Season 13 Prizes

As with the last two seasons, Tt eSPORTS is sponsoring our league once again!

More information on the cash prize we hinted at, as well as unlocks and rule changes, will be revealed in the coming week. Stay tuned!

Ban

For insulting nationality, taunting terrorism victims via offensive team names and ignoring admin warnings, on top of his previous offenses, Taimou has been banned for a year.

Update: ban extended due to alt accounts.

The Boneyard Productions Movie Competition has drawn to a close and now it is your turn to have a say.

The winner of the community vote will win a Tt eSPORTS Battle Dragon LAN bag and the admiration of the TF2 community.
Stay tuned to the BYPCOMP Thread the winners will be announced on Sunday before the Multiplay Insomnia46 LAN Finals.
Thanks to everyone who entered and a big thanks to Tt-eSPORTS for making it all possible.

The polls will close on Sunday, August 26 at 12:00 BST.

6v6 Nations Cup Quarter Finals: United States of America vs France

Match Overview
United States of America vs France
Quarter Final
Monday, August 20th 20:00 CEST

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3 - 1

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2 - 4

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5 - 4 (golden cap)

OVERALL
United States of America [6:3] France

This match was delayed by a day because France was lacking some players last week. However, this is not big deal as the next playweek is two weeks long to make room for everyone to play and view the biggest TF2 event to date, the Multiplay insomnia 46 LAN in Telford, England. Back to topic: France finally accepted the proposal for tonight and we are excited how this match turns out! This is another great match from saga: ‘Euros vs Yankees’ because both teams consist of top tier players from both sides of the pond. France has a big part from Premier Division Team punchLine in their lineup while the USA mates have names like enigma, harbleu and TLR on their side. The funny thing is that most of them will meet again at i46 on even grounds.
VanillaTV is casting this match, starting at 20:00 CEST.