Epsilon vs Infused

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Freight

Highlander Experimental cup #1 winners plus prizes

Our first ever Highlander experimental cup has concluded with some great matches and feedback. We saw just over 40 teams fight it out in 3 skill brackets playing on pl_barnblitz, cp_foundry, ctf_turbine_pro_rc1 and cp_upland (created by  Mark). SNSD came from a map down to take the final of the highest bracket 2-1 and win 9 copies of DOTA 2 courtesy of gamersunited.net.au (big thanks again to them for sponsoring the competition). Full round-up of results below:

High Bracket
  SNSD
  Colony
ilita PoWeR
  turbopoop eSports

Mid Bracket
  GFM HIGHLANDER TEAM
  Free Fire!
  KOPRO multiGAYming
  Melkei Team OS

Low Bracket
  Gibs\’R\’Us
  The Lo-Fi High-Five Team
  After Dark
  Bulls17

Congratulations to all our winners and participants, watch this space for more news on Highlander Season 2 within the coming weeks and remember if you still have some feedback on the cup or for the preparation of Season 2 please share it with us on our forums in the relevant discussion topic.

Schedule your matches!

For some teams it has come as a surprise – as every season. If a match is not scheduled by Friday before the week start (which is on Sunday) admins will decide a default date. Save yourself and the admin staff some time and trouble and schedule the matches yourselves! Of course, you may still reschedule matches with a default date if both teams agree – but take care not to play later than the match deadline, which is Saturday. It is, however, still possible to play after the match deadline if both teams agree, of course, and you request an extension of the deadline at an admin on IRC. If you play after the match deadline and have not gotten an extension granted, both teams will get a minor warning.

The minor warnings for unplayed matches can be removed by an admin if the match has been played and a player of either team contacts an admin on IRC:

Remember that you are not allowed to use wildcards in week 7 (March 11 – March 17) and all matches have to be played until March 17 or will be nullified! To get an overview of the general ETF2L schedule, please use our calendar.

Team Fortress 2 on TV!

Team Fortress 2 and the ETF2L have been featured in the French television in a programme called “Skill”. The screening features the Grand Final of Season 10! between Infused eSports and Epsilon eSports, commentated by Pognon and Luzzu. The VOD should still be online for free for about two weeks, if you know French you should definitely check it out!

Season 11 Playoffs

Playoffs will be held between March 18th and March 31st. Write it down, cancel all other engagements, consider yourselves notified.

Premier Division Playoffs

• 4th vs 3rd: March 18th – March 24th
• Winner vs 2nd: March 25th – March 31st or sooner
• Winner vs 1st: April 1st – April 7th or sooner

VAC ban policy

Please be reminded of General Rule 6.5:

As of March 15, 2012, any player with a VAC ban on the Source engine will be banned for 1 year. Players with VAC bans that do not apply to Team Fortress 2 will not be affected. Players receiving VAC bans before March 15, 2012 will not be affected.

Ban

Sadly, we have to announce a ban again. Someone deemed it necessary to voice threats of physical violence during an official match accompanied with heavy insults. The player will be banned from all ETF2L competitions until the end of the Season 11 playoffs.

•  IV – Heavy insults, threats of violence – 45 days

Barnblitz

Foundry

Turbine

Staff Changes

Time goes by and people move on. This week, we say goodbye and thanks to zoob, and hello to irfx.

Season 11 Playoffs

Playoffs will be held between March 18th and March 31st. Write it down, cancel all other engagements, consider yourselves notified.

Premier Division Playoffs

• 4th vs 3rd: March 18th – March 24th
• Winner vs 2nd: March 25th – March 31st or sooner
• Winner vs 1st: April 1st – April 7th or sooner

Snakewater

Season 11 Playoffs

Playoffs will be held between March 18th and March 31st. Write it down, cancel all other engagements, consider yourselves notified.

Premier Division Playoffs

• 4th vs 3rd: March 18th – March 24th
• Winner vs 2nd: March 25th – March 31st or sooner
• Winner vs 1st: April 1st – April 7th or sooner

Despite some slight technical hitches and delays, we managed to hold our first ever experimental one-night cup for Highlander! We saw plenty of really close and superb matches on some unorthodox maps, which will hopefully translate into some constructive feedback for their creators. With 42 signups, we divided the teams into three brackets – Low, Mid and High – with Low and Mid having 16 teams each and High having 10 teams with 6 teams receiving byes for the first round.

The results of the first 3 rounds have left us with the following matchups:

High Bracket

SNSD v  Colony

Mid Bracket

  GFM Highlander team v  Free Fire

Low Bracket

  Gibs \’R\ Us’ v  The Low-Fi High-Five Team

Congratulations to those teams and thank you for everyone who took part tonight, please remember to give your feedback in this thread.

The maps for the Final are currently – cp_upland_rc2, cp_foundry and ctf_turbine_pro_rc1 as the decider map. The final will be played in a best of 3 maps format.

Due to the amount of default wins on pl_barnblitz, we will give teams the option to replace either cp_upland or cp_foundry with pl_barnblitz for the final providing both teams agree to swap one of these maps. The decider map (if required) will be ctf_turbine_pro_rc1. Please make sure you make a note of the maps you have decided  to play on the match page. Teams will have until Sunday 19th February to play their matches.

Season 11 Playoffs

Playoffs will be held between March 18th and March 31st. Write it down, cancel all other engagements, consider yourselves notified.

Premier Division Playoffs

• 4th vs 3rd: March 18th – March 24th
• Winner vs 2nd: March 25th – March 31st or sooner
• Winner vs 1st: April 1st – April 7th or sooner

Yet More Bans

The following players have been banned:

• Fix – Wallhack; Triggerbot – 1 year ban
• HaKo – Aimbot; nospread – 1 year ban
• Ghost7 – alt account of HaKo – 1 year ban

Just a quick message out there to any teams thinking of signing up for the Experimental Highlander cup #1 that the signups will officially close at 18.00 CET tomorrow (Thursday 9th February). If you still haven’t signed up you can do so HERE, we are about 2 signups short of having an ideal number for the cup, which means there may well be some byes for  some teams for the first round on the map pl_barnblitz.

With Highlander Season 1 champions  SNSD plus other Division 1 teams like  Colony and  turbopoop eSports, this will be a great chance to showcase yourself against some of the best Highlander teams around. Remember to download cp_upland before the cup starts. The bracket draw will commence at approximately 19.00 CET on irc, join Quakenet @ #etf2l – please ensure you have at least one representative from your team on #etf2l during the cup.