When: Monday 17th May 2010
Time: 20CEST start.
Teams: 32, split into 2 cups
Signups open: Sunday 16th May 2010 @ 20CEST
Map: cp_yukon

Time for Yukon to have another chance to shine/fail – show us what you think of it.

Have a good day!

Division 1 Promotion Battle

After Broder and Rockit secured the automatic promotion spots, tonight plays host to the playoff game to decide the third team to be promoted to Division 1, SpecialAttack or Mister.

SpecialAttack had a strong performance this season, losing only one map to first place Broder. They were also the only team in their division to win a map against Broder, on cp_gorge. Should the game come to a third map tonight, their skill at cp_gorge will prove invaluable.

Mister lost two maps in the season, against first and third place Rockit and infernal Gamers. Perhaps crucially though, they beat SpecialAttack recently in the ETF2L 5th Cup. As an all Spanish team they’ll be hoping to make it to Division 1 to represent their country in a similar manner to TLR last season.

The game starts Tonight, May 13th at 21:15 CEST

SourceTV: pipino.n1ping.com:20004

Shoutcast: http://www.livestream.com/fpsitalia (Italian)

Match Overview
Fabulous vs Mister
Playoffs (Division 2a)
Thursday, May 13th 21:15 CEST
SourceTV: pipino.n1ping.com:20004

cp_gullywash

0 - 2

cp_obscure

2 - 7

OVERALL
Fabulous [0:6] Mister

After receiving your nominations on the forum for two weeks, we have added up the results and now present to you the following polls to decide –

• Medic of the Season
• Soldier of the Season
• Demoman of the Season
• Scout of the Season
• Sniper of the Season
• Upcoming Talent of the Season
• Fairplay Award (given to the team which displays the best sportsmanship)
• Best team of each Division

The categories are based on the five most popular nominations (excluding some cases with draws or less then 5 nominations). We have also included polls for the best team in each division from two to six. The polls will close next Wednesday, with the winners being announced shortly afterwards. Follow the link below to go to the Season 7 award polls.

Good luck to all candidates and congratulations on making it to the poll phase!

>>> Click here to vote <<<

Division 2 Promotion Battle Part 2

Tonight comes the second match to decide who gets promoted to Division 2. Last week Dimegioclub overcame their season 7 form to beat Eternity over two maps. Now it’s the turn of Fragmative against Ragequit Black for the remaining spot.

The five-sixths Bulgarian team Fragmative finished on equal points with two other teams at the top of Division 3B. After losing their pre-playoff match against Team Vertex, they managed to take the playoff spot from Only Rockets Love You in a match that went the distance over 3 maps. They’ll be hoping to win tonight to continue their amazing streak, having been promoted from Division 5 in season 5 and Division 4 in Season 6.

Ragequit Black also took the long road to get to these playoffs; in a division where just five points separated the top six teams they finished equal second with International Special Force before despatching them over 3 maps in the pre-playoff.

The game starts Tonight, May 11th at 21:00 CEST

SourceTV: pipino.n1ping.com:20004

Shoutcast: http://www.livestream.com/fpsitalia (Italian)

Match Overview
Fragmative vs HoverCrabs
Playoffs (Division 3b)
Tuesday, May 11th 21:00 CEST

cp_badlands

2 - 3

cp_gullywash

2 - 3

OVERALL
Fragmative [0:6] HoverCrabs

Having listened to a lot of feedback from players over the last couple of weeks, it seems that there are a large number of players who do not want a season that starts in 3-4 weeks time, and would much prefer to play after the summer holidays. We have listened to this feedback, and the three Head Admins had a chat last night about the various options that we have available.

One of the biggest problems we have is that if Season 8 was to start at the end of May/start of June, there would be quite a few teams who would not enter – including some of the top teams in Division 1 and Division 2, as well as various teams from Divisions 3-6. We don’t want to have a league that suffers because of a lack of entrants and equally we don’t want to run a season with fewer teams and then have all the teams who did not enter Season 8 come back for Season 9, expecting to put in the same divisions they finished in for Season 7. It would be a logistical nightmare and cause a lot of issues both for the Admin team and for the players themselves.

Four months is a long time to go without a full league season, we do appreciate this. Unfortunately there were major changes in the Admin team when Daykiller left, leaving Kop, D2M and RaCio in charge. We all had to spend some time learning how the league system worked behind the scenes, as well as fixing some of the issues from Season 6 and trying to make Season 7 one of the best seasons ever for ETF2L. I believe we achieved this, however there were still a number of mistakes and problems that we will be fixing for Season 8.

If Season 8 is postponed for a few more months, please don’t panic. We have a lot of ideas for Summer competitions including:

• 6th Cup
• ETF2L Champions League
• More MNM-style Fun Cups
• Nations Cup
• Summer League (This would not officially count towards promotion/relegation spots for Season 8. However the results can still be used to request being moving between divisions.)
• Top Secret Summer Fun Cup

Finally, for those of you who are new to competitive TF2 and realise that the majority of this post might not have concerned you too much, we’re also looking forward to the Highlander Community Challenge which will be held very soon.

We’d like to give you all an opportunity to comment further on the available dates. So please have your say in the poll below and add a comment as well if you can. We will read every comment on here and we hope that the poll will give us a good indication of when you would like to play.

Thanks for your time!