Excello are happy to announce their fifth sponsored Team Fortress 2 tournament. The upcoming tournament is sponsored by the graphics chip manufacturer SPARKLE and the winner of the invitational tournament will receive six SPARKLE GTS 450 1024MB 128bit DDR5 One Slot graphics cards.

The signups for the open tournament, held on Monday, January 9, are open from now on until the check-in starts. The maximum slots are 64. If it becomes conceivable that there will not be significantly more than 32 signups, the slots will be reduced to 32. Keeping 64 slots means the first round starts with the recently added official new 5cp map cp_foundry. Reducing the slots to 32 means the first round will start with cp_granary, the second features cp_badlands and so on.

The list of the invited teams for the invitational bracket that will be played on Monday, January 16 is:

• 1 Epsilon eSports
• 2 Infused.Tt eSports
• 3 Crack Clan
• 4 Relic
• 5 CKRAS Gaming
• 6 broder
• 7 Team Yoyotech
• 8 Exotic

For any questions or remarks feel free to contact CanFo, Crasp, huhy or SonnyBlack on #excello.tf2 / quakenet or leave a comment on this post.

For more information please see the original newspost at excello.net or head over to VanillaTF2.org.

Reminders

• Bear in mind that all matches from the highlander season 1 have to be played until Sunday, January 8 (January 9 for US divisions)
• Remember to give your vote for the 6v6 Season 10! awards
• Sign up for the foundry one-night-cup on Thursday, January 5

Happy New Year!

A year ends and another begins! Last year TF2 allegedly died at least once – all we know is, we’re the biggest TF2 league in the world and all we did last year was get bigger. Happy New Year from everyone here at ETF2L, may 2012 be a good one for all of you!

Foundry Cup!

As most readers will probably know by now, cp_foundry is the latest map created by Valve for TF2. Some good things have been said of it, as well as more than a few requests to add it to next season’s map pool. Before we do that, we’d like to give it a proper test, in the form of a one-night cup! As usual, it’s open to 6v6 teams, however it is also possible to enter this cup using a Fun Team, which can be setup using this page. The draw for the cup will be held at 19:00 CET on Thursday, January 5th, with the cup itself starting at 20:00 CET.

• Setup – Cups of 16, divided by skill levels
• Merc rules – 2 mercs allowed by default
• Bracket draw – Thursday, January 5th at 19:00 CET in #etf2l (irc.quakenet.org)
• Map – cp_foundry
• Feedback Thread – Here
• Sign-ups open – Now

Highlander Deadline Reminder: The Deadline for all Highlander Season 1 matches is this Sunday, January 8th. Please make sure you have played all of your Highlander League matches by then, otherwise we will have to enter a null result.

Season 10! Awards!

Our first (but less important) order of business for 2012 is to conclude our fabulous Season 10! with the good old awards polls!

In an amazing Grand Final on December 15th, we saw  Epsilon eSports winning the ETF2L Premiership and bringing a spectacular close to the 10th ETF2L season. Securing the still prestigious 2nd and 3rd place, are newcomers to premiership,  Infused.Tt and  Crack Clan. Our congratulations to them, and all other season 10 winners. The season has been added to the Hall of Fame and all the precious pixel trophies have been handed out. Please make sure your team has the relevant trophy and take good care of it. If you feel there has been a mistake please contact an admin in IRC.

Road to Victory

• Maps Won: 14, Golden Caps Won: 1, Golden Caps Lost: 1, Maps Lost: 3.
• vs.  Team Dignitas – Badlands and Gullywash – 6:0
• vs.  CKRAS – Gravelpit and Gullywash – 3:3
• vs.  Infused.Tt – Gravelpit and Granary – 2:4
• vs.  Crack Clan – Granary and Obscure – 3:3
  
• vs.  Relic  – Badlands and Snakewater – 6:0
• vs.  equilibrium – Gullywash and Snakewater – 6:0
• Quarterfinal: vs.  Relic – Badlands and Granary – 6:0
• Semi-Final: vs.  Crack Clan – Badlands and Granary – 6:0
• Grand Final: vs.  Infused.Tt – Badlands, Snakewater and Gullywash – 7:2

Season 10 Award nominations

A step back can be a step forth! We return to the old-fashioned nomination system where every player can nominate his favourites in our nominations forum for the award polls which will start on January 1. The nominations will close on December 31 so make sure to nominate someone before celebrating New Year’s Eve.

The awards you can nominate for are listed below.

• Scout of the Season
• Soldier of the Season
• Demoman of the Season
• Medic of the Season
• Off-classer of the Season
• Most Valuable Player of the Season
• Best Premiership Debut of the Season
• Upcoming Talent of the Season
• Surprisingly Good Team of the Season
• Fairplay Award
• Frag Clip of the Season (Please only submit your own clip and only once!)

Full List of Season 10! Winners

ETF2L Season 10(!) with 360 signups and only 78 drops came to an satisfying end. The drop rate was about 21.67% which is the lowest since Season 7. (Disclaimer: These numbers to not take replaced teams into account). As foreseen by head admin  Crasp, this one was definitely one of the top 10 seasons ETF2L ever ran – if not the most competitive at least. Check out the full list of all division winners below.

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Season 10 Final!

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