Monday Night Madness #3 – cp_mainline_rc5

Monday Night Madness #3 will take place on Monday 26th April 2010. The signups will open on Sunday 25th April 2010 at 21:00CEST.

You can signup from 21:00CEST by clicking on me!

The map will be the latest version of cp_mainline_rc5
Download: Click here

MNM #3 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.

Because there are many important matches on tonight, the signups will kept open for longer, to ensure that everyone has a great chance to enter the cup!

And for anyone that is disappointed not to see their favourite map, there will be a map with a different twist next week ;)

See you tomorrow night for the cup! It starts at 20CEST.

The brackets will be drawn and posted in a longer welcome news post tomorrow, as per before.

Super sunday

Season 7 reaches its dramatic conclusion tonight with the Division 1 title race still wide open. Five-time and reigning champs Team Dignitas currently sit atop the division with 33 points, but I Don’t Know? on 30 points and TCM-Gaming on 29 points both have two maps to play tonight.

I Don’t Know? control their own destiny: two map wins tonight against FakkelBrigade guarantees them first place.

TCM will be hoping that FakkelBrigade manage to at least draw on Gorge, like they did versus Dignitas, which would mean that the door would be wide open for them to take first place by beating The Last Resort over two maps, which will be played at the same time as I Don’t Know?’s fixture.

If TCM only manage four points and I Don’t Know? just squeeze three out of FakkelBrigade, that’d set up a three way tie for first place between the teams and Dignitas.

ETF2L Radio #12

ETF2L Radio will be casting the action live from I Don’t Know? vs FakkelBrigade, with real-time updates from the TCM vs TLR fixture running at the same time. Make sure to join us as we celebrate the end of the season in style and crown the champion of Season 7.

We will also hopefully be providing a video stream, courtesy of Level Up TV, right here on the ETF2L homepage.

• Starting Sunday, April 25th at 20:50 CEST
• Hosted by Dave, Torden and JimmyBreeze
• SourceTV: fakkelbrigade.eu:27100
• Mumble cast: fakkelbrigade.eu / port 64740
• Join #etf2l.radio for shoutouts
• There will also be a German language stream switching between both games starting at 20:30 CEST from TFPortal.de

Spread the word

Torden has made a beautiful poster to celebrate the event, make sure you spam it on your local TF2 message board of choice!

Match Overview
Epsilon eSports vs FakkelBrigade
Week 7 (Division 1)
Sunday, April 25th 21:00 CEST
SourceTV: fakkelbrigade.eu:27100

cp_granary

3 - 1

cp_gorge

2 - 0

OVERALL
Epsilon eSports [6:0] FakkelBrigade

Match Overview
TCM Gaming vs Marco FTW
Week 8 (Division 1)
Sunday, April 25th 21:15 CEST
SourceTV: fakkelbrigade.eu:27102

cp_freight

5 - 0

cp_gorge

2 - 0

OVERALL
TCM Gaming [6:0] Marco FTW

Division 2B up for grabs

Rockit and Mister go head-to-head tomorrow night for the Division 2B title and rights to automatic Division 1 promotion in their final game of the season. Both teams share identical records – 8 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss for 25 points – and will have to work hard if they want to take the division title from the other team.

Following Mister’s stunning ESH performance last night (including a 5-0 Gullywash win against Broder and a 7-3 Granary finals victory against DIS’ BE), Rockit will be counting on their Division 1 pedigree players to carry them through.

Both teams will also be aware of third place infernal Gamers, who sit just three points behind them. Infernal Gamers have one game left against fourth place Blame.

follow the action live on ETF2L Radio

• Starting Thursday, April 22nd at 21:10 CEST
• Hosted by Dave, Pure and Stealthy
• SourceTV: fakkelbrigade.eu:27101
• Mumble cast: fakkelbrigade.eu / port 64740
• Join #etf2l.radio for shoutouts

Match Overview
Mister vs rockit
Week 9 (Division 2b)
Thursday, April 22nd 21:15 CEST

cp_badlands

2 - 3

cp_gravelpit

1 - 1

OVERALL
Mister [1:4] rockit

Winner and runner-up prizes

With the generous support of our friends SteelSeries, we’re very proud to announce our prizes for Season 7 Division 1:

1st place – 6 SteelSeries Siberia v2 RED

2nd place – 6 SteelSeries Kinzu

Four teams have a shot at winning the prizes:

• Five time and reigning ETF2L champs Team Dignitas (finished on 33 points)
• Last season’s runner-up Power Gaming (finished on 31 points)
• I Don’t Know? (2 maps left to play, can finish on 36 points)
• TCM-Gaming (4 maps left to play, can finish on 35 points)

ETF2L and SteelSeries wishes the best of luck to all the teams involved.

This evening we saw another succesful Monday Night Cup take place on cp_coldfront_rc2.

There were two brackets, a high bracket and a low bracket. Essentially this worked out to be a div3-5 bracket and a div6 low bracket, but it was still pretty fun and there were some very entertaining games.

High Bracket: Click here
Low Bracket: Click here

Congratulations to the winners of each bracket:

Low Bracket
Lethal-Zone Green
Team Slayers
Team 4 Friends
Foxhound

High Bracket
Knifeback Mountaineers
RageQuit Black
Cable Internet Clan
Hadouken

With regards to time-keeping, something which was an issue last week – I’m very pleased to say that the 29 teams who competed were excellent at both their time-keeping and also informing the Admin team of any delays. This was really great work from all of you, thankyou for understanding and for keeping us in touch with what was happening. By playing on time, you managed to ensure both cups were finished in one evening successfully.

Unfortunately, as you can see by “29 teams” in the previous paragraph, this does mean that there were 3 teams who did not compete in today’s tournament. For two of those teams, they are going to take spots 2 and 3 on the ‘no longer welcome’ list. These two teams managed to sign up to the cup on Sunday evening, and completely forget they were playing/drop out of the cup at the very start without speaking to an Admin or even giving us a chance to replace them. The third team, signed up by mistake and were gracious enough to let us know of this BEFORE the event, thus allowing us to replace them in the competition. Because of this, I’ve given them the benefit of the doubt for next week. The following two teams are banned from all future Monday Night Madness cups:

• Say Yes Sucker
• c64

If you can’t play in the cup for whatever reason, please for goodness sake, let an Admin know so that we can replace you with a team from the waiting list. We had 15 teams waiting for an open spot, and 2 of them could have actually played instead of you.

Anyway, it was an enjoyable cup to watch and there were some fantastic games. One of the highlights for me personally was seeing a very organised Knifeback Mountaineers side absolutely destroy Hadouken 7-2 in their Semi-Final. This was quite unexpected as many people had Hadouken down as hot favourites to win the cup tonight.

Please give your feedback to the maker of cp_coldfront_rc2 here.

Please give your general feedback on MNM #2 here.

See you next week! :)