Snakewater

Gullywash

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

The Konkreet Cup ran mostly without problems yesterday so thanks to all participants. If you have not already, make sure to give feedback on the map here. Our congratulations go to the winners and runners up:

High Bracket
 Trying to get good
clanda
Forced Anal Penetration
 Minimoosegamer.eu

Low Bracket
Everyone Wants a Piece of Muffin
Five ants are more than four elephants!
Greatest gamers
Spade

Ban

Unfortunately, not everything went smoothly. Someone found it necessary to disturb a running official match. The following player is now banned from all ETF2L matches until the end of season 11:

• Rad – Interfering with a match – 3 month ban

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

Highlander

Signups are still open for the Experimental Highlander Cup #1. If you’re looking for a fun Thursday night and would like to contribute to the Season 2 map selection process, this is the place to be!

That’s all for now.

It’s cup time again! Tonight at 20:00 CET we will be giving people the chance to try another upcoming map. All rounds will be played on cp_konkreet, a map created by  Mark. Similar to the croissant cup, 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.

Konkreet can be downloaded here.

• Setup – Cups of 16, divided by skill levels
• Merc rules – 2 mercs allowed by default
• Brackets – High Low
• Map – cp_konkreet_b2

Experimental Highlander Cup #1

Highlander addicts might be twitching a little since Season 1 ended and Season 2 is still in the preparation stage. But there is nothing to fear now, because as part of our preparations for Season 2 we are proud to announce the first ever Experimental Highlander cup! This cup will focus on testing some new maps for Highlander, mainly maps that have been recommended to us in our feedback forum –  if you have any suggestions please feel free to comment in this thread.

Schedule & Map details

The date for the cup will be Thursday 9th February starting at 20.00 CET. The final will be a best of 3 maps, to be held on a different evening.  There will be a maximum 4 brackets of 16 teams, divided by skill, with options to extend or decrease the signup numbers. Do not hesitate to sign up as we will try our best to accommodate you!

• Round 1 – 20.00 CET – pl_barnblitz
• Round 2 – 20.45 CET – cp_foundry
• Round 3 – 21.30 CET – cp_upland

The maps for the final (to be held on a different evening) will be foundry and upland, with turbine_pro as the decider if necessary.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: if you cannot play on that evening at the times listed DO NOT sign up.

Unlocks

The following unlocks are not permitted:

• Set bonuses involving hats 
• The Enforcer
• Machina
• Bombinomicon
• Pomson 6000
• Philogistinator
• Spycicle

Please make sure the Bombinomicon and all other banned weapons are unequipped before the match starts. If you use one of these weapons, the other team may be awarded a default win. We are also still looking for feedback regarding unlocks for Highlander season 2, so please give us your opinion in the feedback thread.

Rules

• One merc is allowed by default and up to 3 mercs are allowed if the opposing team agrees.
• PL and A/D maps (e.g. Upland) = 1 round of Attack/Defence.
• 5CP maps = 30 minutes, first to 5.
• CTF maps = 1 Round of 20 minutes, first to 5 caps. In case of a tie, teams will play a Golden cap round with a 10 minute timelimit, if it still remains a tie (and to prevent stalemates) reset the config and timelimit.
• Heavy fist fights if you can’t decide who attacks/defends first.
• Maximum waiting time of 10 minutes. Teams not ready by then should ready up or suffer a default loss.
• Minimum of 8 players needed to start a match.

Please make sure you have the correct config enabled with the correct map settings. If you have any questions on anything please do not hesistate to ask for admin support.

Signups will be open NOW – remember to make sure your team has at least 9 players on the roster with each member’s Steam ID filled in correctly!

One Night Cup: Konkreet!

It’s cup time again! On Thursday 2nd February at 20:00 CET we will be giving people the chance to try another upcoming map. All rounds will be played on cp_konkreet, a map created by Mark. Similarly to the croissant cup 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.

Konkreet can be downloaded here.

• Setup – Cups of 16, divided by skill levels
• Merc rules – 2 mercs allowed by default
• Bracket draw – Wednesday 1st February at 19:30 CET in #etf2l
• Map – cp_konkreet_b2
• Sign-ups open – Now

The final tables

The  Season 11 tables are now final. Some teams told us they were dropping and we replaced them with teams from the waiting list. Check out your fixtures if you want to know if you are one of them.

Please start scheduling your matches right now! You can still join the waiting list here. There is a good chance that some teams will be dropping in the next two to three weeks and we will need replacement teams. All team leaders of teams that are replacing a dropped team from now on will receive an email reminding them.
We decided to move back week 1 by one week which gives you some more days to schedule your week 1 match. The first default dates will be set on Friday, January 27, so make sure to have your match scheduled by then. To not delay the season any further, there will be no catch-up week, so make sure to play all of your matches by Saturday, March 17 2012. You can, however, start playing right now, in “week 0”, if you are afraid that you will not manage to play all your matches until then.
This will not affect the playoff schedule, which stays as follows:

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

Rule changes

You can relax, the foundry rule is dead – cp_foundry will no longer be mandatory decider map for all playoffs. Instead, cp_freight_final1 will be cut for the playoffs which means that only five maps are left in the pool. Please use the map elimination system to pick two home maps and one decider.

The map pool for all playoff matches is:

• cp_badlands
• cp_granary
• cp_gullywash_final1
• cp_snakewater
• cp_gravelpit

Spike Himself is awesome

One of the rule changes we were trying to implement before the Season started was to let every match be wildcarded once by each team (in other words: both teams can wildcard a match, providing they still have a wildcard to spend). We were unsure if it would be implemented before Week 1, but Spike Himself managed to sort it out in time.

Each wildcard removes the schedule for a given match and gives teams the next 14 days, starting at the moment the wildcard was used, to reschedule. Default dates will still be set for wildcarded matches 7 days before the deadline is met. Make sure to hug Spike Himself if you meet him (but don’t add him on Steam like last time ¬.¬).