breaking a sweat for sweet league points

It’s been a tough maiden season for RAGE.MULTIGAMING, but they managed to win a hard-earned 4 points against Crack Clan last night. Make sure you check out Galant’s highlight reel of the game below, which includes game-saving clutch medicing from the man himself and some serious last minute lemmings on Badlands CP1.

Those 4 points didn’t come easy:

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_2Tyrz6WGY

Match Overview
International Secret Intelligence Servic vs Team Infused
Week 9 (Division 2b)
Sunday, April 18th 21:10 CEST
SourceTV: connect 87.98.179.132:20008; password crackwhore

cp_badlands

3 - 3

cp_gravelpit

2 - 0

OVERALL
International Secret Intelligence Servic [4:1] Team Infused

Welcome to Monday Night Madness #2

Welcome to the second edition of the Monday Night Madness cups, this time featuring cp_coldfront_rc2.

The cup is a one-night cup, and will start Monday 19th April 2010 at 20:00CEST.

We will be looking to include 32 teams spread across 2 brackets in this cup, high and low.  If considerably more than 32 teams sign-up, it may be possible to add in a third bracket. We’ll see how it goes.

Map: cp_coldfront_rc2 (Download here)
High Bracket: Click here
Low Bracket: Click here
Round1: 20CEST
Quarter Final: 20:45CEST
Semi Final: 21:30CEST
Final: 22:15CEST

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.

VERY IMPORTANT: As you have no doubt seen and realised if you have participated in or followed previous cups, accurate timekeeping is very important. There are a number of rules with regards to time-keeping that you should be aware of and please try your best to follow:

• 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 in this round, wins. If neither team caps within 5 minutes, the team that holds cp3 at the end of the 5 minute period wins.

These changes should stop any problems occuring from teams forgetting about the time and playing a very long golden cap round. The most important thing to remember is that the Admins are here to help you with your questions or problems and if you run late for whatever reason, talking to us will give us the opportunity to help you solve that problem.

Signups open NOW – Click here

Season 7 – Last Week Reminder!

This is the last week for Season 7 matches to be played in. ALL matches must be played and the results entered on the ETF2L website by 23:59CEST on Sunday 25th April 2010.

Any results that are not entered or the matches left unplayed will be set to 0-0 after 23:59CEST next Sunday.

Please play your games and good luck! :)

FakkelBrigade vs eMazing gaming

Keeping up our fantastic record of giving you more than 24 hours notice of our casts, ETF2L Radio is proud to announce that we’ll be covering what looks set to be an awesome game between FakkelBrigade, currently 5th in Division 1 of Season 7, and eMazing Gaming, Champions of ESEA-Open Season 5.

Cadred has a full preview up of the game, including interviews, so check it out here.

Returning after a busy schedule of games to cast this beast will be the infamous Byte, accompanied by Dave, with our special guest Torden!

The game will be brilliant, so support the EU scene and flame those Yanks by getting on STV at Sunday, 21 CEST. We look forward to seeing you there!

• Starting Sunday, April 18th at 20:50 CEST
• SourceTV: fakkelbrigade.eu:27100
• Mumble cast: fakkelbrigade.eu / port 64740
• Join #etf2l.radio for shoutouts!

Monday Night Madness #1 Roundup

Sorry for the delay with the round-up of MNM #1 – cp_prolane_rc3.

A fun evening was had by the majority of teams last Monday night, with only a couple of mishaps causing some issues. Almost all of the feedback received on the cup was great and it’s certainly possible that we will feature the map in some competitions in the future.

The winners of the Low Cup were Team Slayers

The winners of the High Cup were I Don’t Know?

Congratulations to both teams, although the High final was marred by one of the semi-finals finishing very late and thus both teams getting disqualified for not informing the admin team of the status of the game.

Please ensure that you give map feedback here, so that the creator of the map  Spence can listen to your thoughts and make any improvements necessary.

Following some issues in the first cup there are a couple of teams banned for forthcoming Monday Night Madness cups:

• Infernal Gamers – Banned permanently – for leaving after one round and calling the map ‘shit’. This was not in the spirit of the cup, and you are no longer welcome to compete in any further MNM cups.
• Insane Dutch Killers – Banned for 1 cup – poor timekeeping and not informing admins of a long delay in their semi-final.
• Stripclub – Banned for 1 cup – poor timekeeping and not informing admins of a long delay in their semi-final

For the record, both Insane Dutch Killers and Stripclub are full of players with fantastic attitudes, but I have to be very strict with time-keeping otherwise these cups will end up pointless with finals never getting played.

In future cups, if there is any delay of more than 10 minutes, you must inform an admin. I will make this very clear in the sign-up post for the next cup. The only extremely important rule in these cups is time – since it’s all in one night, and effectively played in around 3 hours.

Monday Night Madness #2 – cp_coldfront

Monday Night Madness #2 will take place on Monday 19th April 2010. The signups will open on Sunday 18th April 2010 at 20:00CEST – please look out for the longer sign-up and welcome post on Sunday for more details.

The map will be the latest pro version of cp_coldfront. Note: ‘pro’ is the version without the falling snow effects.

MNM #2 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.

Thanks for reading and I look forward to throwing snowballs at you on cp_coldfront next Monday :)

it’s getting hot in here

The league tables are getting super complicated. Let’s break it down:

Team Dignitas

Current record: 14 maps played, 9-2-3, 29 points

Maps remaining: 2 (Granary and Gorge vs TCM)

Best possible finish: 1st on 35 points

Dignitas need the full 6 points tonight from TCM if they realistically want to defend their ETF2L crown. Of course, we all know that they’re more than capable of winning on Granary. But how have they done on new maps? Their only lost points of the season, apart from a loss on Gravel Pit (vs idk?), come from new maps: a loss on Gullywash (vs PwR), a loss on Obscure (vs idk?) and a pair of draws on Gullywash (vs www) and Gorge (vs FB).

TCM-Gaming

Current record: 10 maps played, 7-1-2, 22 points

Maps remaining: 6 (Granary and Gorge vs Dignitas, Freight and Gorge vs The Last Resort, Badlands and Gravel Pit vs FakkelBrigade)

Best possible finish: 1st on 40 points

If TCM lose 2 maps against Dignitas tonight but win their remaining 4 maps, they would finish on 34 points, 1 point behind Dignitas.

I Don’t Know?

Current record: 12 maps played, 8-0-4, 24 points

Maps remaining: 4 (Freight and Gorge vs FakkelBrigade, Badlands and Gravel Pit vs bE)

Best possible finish: 1st on 36 points

Despite FB’s draw on Gorge yesterday versus Dignitas, idk? shouldn’t be too worried: not only do they boast a 2-0 Gravel Pit at Dignitas’s expense, they also have an excellent grasp of Gorge compared to the other top teams.

Power Gaming

Current record: 12 maps played, 7-0-5, 21 points

Maps remaining: 4 (Granary and Gorge vs bE, Badlands and Gravel Pit vs idk? Frog)

Best possible finish: 1st on 33 points

While Power should be fairly confident in winning the full 12 points available to them – assuming they avoid emo disasters – their destiny isn’t entirely in their own hands. With 33 points, Power would ideally want Dignitas to take 3 points from TCM tonight, then for TCM to take no more than 7 out of a possible 12 points from FB and TLR, and idk? to take no more than 8 out of a possible 12 points against FB and bE.

If that hypothetical actually happened, Power would win the league on 33 points, and Dignitas, idk? and TCM would be in a three-way tie for 2nd place on 32 points each.

Although highly unlikely, it’s still mathematically possible for FakkelBrigade or what women want to win Division 1.

ETF2L radio tonight

We’ll know a lot more about how the division will play out after tonight. Join us live on ETF2L Radio this evening as we take you through tonight’s action in one of the headline games of the season: the reigning ETF2L champions Team Dignitas versus TCM-Gaming.

• Hosted by Dave, Swarley and Exfane
• Starting Thursday, April 15th at 21.15 CEST
• SourceTV: fakkelbrigade.eu:27100
• Mumble cast: fakkelbrigade.eu / port 64740
• Join #etf2l.radio for shoutouts!
• For the German fans, this match will also be covered by  TFPortal TV [Link]
• There’s also a German language Mumble cast from MyTF.de hosted by bpf, pbL and flix at this Mumble: 78.46.240.157 / port 10954

Match Overview
TCM Gaming vs Relic
Week 7 (Division 1)
Thursday, April 15th 21:15 CEST
SourceTV: fakkelbrigade.eu:27100

cp_granary

2 - 2

cp_gorge

0 - 2

OVERALL
TCM Gaming [1:4] Relic