The Brackets for the Monday Night Madness One-Night Cup #6 featuring cp_collis_b5 have been generated.

High Bracket: Click here
Low Bracket: Click here

Please contact your first opponent in advance to make sure you can start without delay at 20:00 CEST on Monday!

All important facts about this cup are summarised in the MNM #6 Announcement Post.

There are still 3 teams on the waiting list. If you realize that your team will not have the time to play in the cup, please give us a shout in #etf2l so we can replace your team with one from the waiting list.

The finals will take place at 22:15 CEST

• Starting Monday, October 25th at 22:15 CEST
• HIGH Bracket Final SourceTV: 94.75.238.75:27020
• LOW Bracket Final SourceTV: 84.201.11.136:27020

After a five month break the official return of the Monday Night Madnesses will take place on Monday 25th October 2010.

You can signup on Saturday 23rd October from 20:00 CEST by clicking here!

Signups will close on Sunday 24th October at 21:00 CEST.

The featured map will be the just released new version of cp_collis_b5 by archy.
Download: Click here (Kudos to the schlachtfestchen.de community)

“Why should I give this map a try?” – you might ask. The answer is simple: A waterfall!
A small hint by the mapdesigner: Red light indicates doors are not secured!

MNM #6 will again feature 2 cups of 16 teams each, giving a total of 32 teams. There is always the possibility of making further sections of the cup if signups prove to be really popular, but please ensure that you only signup to play if you are actually going to take part and complete the cup.

Schedule:

First Round: 20:00 CEST
Quarter Final: 20:45 CEST
Semi Final: 21:30 CEST
Final: 22:15 CEST

Rules:

• Season 8 League Rules apply.
• One merc is allowed by default. In the interest of fairness he/she should be from the same or a lower division than your team.

IMPORTANT:

• If your cup match is starting more than 10 minutes after the scheduled round start time, you must inform an admin.
• When your match starts more than 10 minutes late, please reduce the map time to 15-25 minutes, depending on how long you have left before the next round starts. Bear in mind that if the map finishes in a draw, there will be a golden cap period to follow.
• If your match finishes in a draw, you must play a golden cap round to decide the winner. Please reset the config and play a 5 minute golden cap round. The first team to cap all five points in this round, wins. If neither team scores within 5 minutes, the team that holds the middle control point wins.
• Please contact your opponents in #etf2l on IRC, so ensure at least one of your team is in there at all times. If you have any problems with contacting your opponents, please talk to an admin.

See you Monday night in the cup! The cup starts at 20:00 CEST.

The brackets will be drawn live in IRC at Sunday evening and announced in another news post.

It’s a scary day when Pledge volunteers to cast a game, but you have to love his enthusiasm. Today, ETF2L Radio branches out and welcomes a game from the lower divisions in ESL, woohoo!

ESL Division 3B – Virtual Troopers vs Don’t Shoot The Medic

Maps: cp_granary & cp_obscure_final

Both teams have drawn their first game in their group, so tonight is a great chance for them to look for their first victory. Will Lassizci’s beard carry VTroopers home to victory or will DSTM, with their Irish hero Troot prove to be too strong for the Finns?

Follow the action live on ETF2L Radio

• Starting Thursday, October 14th at 21:00 CEST
• Hosted by Pledge,   D2M and David
• SourceTV: troopers.fi:27020
• Mumble cast: fakkelbrigade.eu:64740
• Join #etf2l.radio for shoutouts and fun

We will try to get the usual interviews after the game with the players involved, so if you have some questions for the players, feel free to ask them in the #etf2l.radio channel.

The game promises to be exciting, so settle back, grab a beer (or j2o if you’re Byte) and let’s have a good one!

– d2m

After lots of hard work over the past two days, we’re now able to release the seedings for Season 8. This means only one thing: please begin scheduling your Week 1 games!

View the Seedings!

We are hugely excited about the calibre of teams participating this Season, and countless hours have been spent working to try and ensure each Division is as competitive as possible. One of the outcomes of this has been a small restructuring of Division 3, but we are confident this will only enhance the Season. If you are unhappy with your placement, please feel free to contact an admin and remember to have relevant screenshots available, but currently as things stand, we will only be moving teams if a side drops within the first weeks of the Season.

Week 1 & 2 Schedule

• Week 1 Schedule Deadline: Sunday 17th 23:59 CEST
• Week 1 Start: Monday 18th 00:00CEST
• Week 1 Deadline: Sunday 24th 23:59CEST
• Week 2 Schedule Deadline: Sunday 24th 23:59CEST

Map Schedule

Here is the Map Schedule for the Season. As the turnaround period between Seedings and Week 1 has been relatively short, we thought we’d make things easy for everyone and start off with good ol’ Granlands!

Week 1: Granary & Badlands
Week 2: Granary & Gullywash
Week 3: Obscure & Gullywash
Week 4: Obscure & Gravel Pit
Week 5: Freight & Gravel Pit
Week 6: Freight & Badlands
Week 7: Freight & Gravel Pit
Week 8: Obscure & Gullywash
Week 9: Badlands & Granary

The SteelSeries Season 8 Showmatch

As previously announced, the Showmatch between Finland and  Sweden will now be taking place on Sunday 24th October. Stay tuned for more details.

Just a short one folks, the sign ups for ETF2L Season 8, powered by SteelSeries, close tonight at 11.59CEST! Do not miss out on what will be a fantastic competition, so get registered!

Sign Up Now!

SteelSeries ETF2L Season 8 Showmatch!

As the admin team begins the grueling task of seeding all the Season 8 teams, we are thrilled to announce that the rest of us can have some fun watching a fantastic show-match between  Finland and Sweden, two nations who have dominated the TF2 scene in the past and continue to field many of the very best players in the game!

Organised by legendary Team Dignitas Scout bybben, the game will be a Best of 5 map celebration of competitive TF2 as we look forward to all the brilliant games Season 8 will offer. Set to happen some time this week, we’ll post the details as soon as we know them, but we already have some things confirmed:

• Date: TBA
• Hosted by Dave,  JimmyBreeze and dunc
• SourceTV: TBA
• Mumble cast: fakkelbrigade.eu:64740
• Join #etf2l.radio for shoutouts

As usual, there will be full interviews after the game with the players, and we’ll also be accepting questions from the #etf2l.radio channel to give you a chance to speak directly to the stars! We’re also delighted to be able to say that, thanks to good ol’  Arie, we’re currently testing a system whereby we’ll be able to listen in to the voice comms of both teams, to get a taste of what exactly is going on in both Mumble’s!

Get ready, it’s going to be a good one!