Today is the official deadline for all regular Season 5 matches! About 1000 matches have already been submitted, still many important decisions will be made on the last day:

Who will become runner-up in Division 1? Which team will win Division 2a & 2b? The new TF2 news portal [Resupply.eu] published a nice overview about this last [ETF2L Super Sunday]. Go have a read!

Besides, the most important question was answered last Thursday: Team Dignitas profit from Team Coolermaster beating Team YoYoTech, the only team who still had a chance to tie up with Dignitas and win the ETF2L Season 5 title!

Congratulations for keeping up this amazing domination and gaining your 4th Season title & (another) six SteelSeries headsets!

Road to title

• Stats: 9 maps won, 2 maps drawn, 1 map loss – 28 points
• vs. FakkelBrigade – 6:0 (cp_gravelpit 2:0 | cp_freight 6:2| [Match Page])
• vs. Team YoYoTech – 3:3 (cp_granary 3:2 | ctf_turbine 6:12| [Match Page])
• vs. Team Coolermaster – 6:0 (cp_badlands 6:3 | cp_well 5:2 | [Match Page])
• vs. coolclan – 6:0 (cp_badlands 6:1 | ctf_turbine 6:5 | [Match Page])
• vs. Crack Clan – 6:0 (Default Win | [Match Page])
• vs. The Imperial – 2:2 (cp_gravelpit 1:1 | cp_badlands 4:4 | [Match Page])

Watch out for the next newspost if you are interested in the playoff phase, the season awards, all division winners, Season 6 dates & two new competition announcements!

Season 5: Last regular match week!

The summer has already arrived in most countries; people start to go and don’t stay at the computer all day. It’s about time to finish the 5^th regular season!

As announced earlier, the general match deadline for Season 5 week matches is upcoming Sunday, 12^th July, at 23:59 CEST. All results will have to be submitted by this date. Unplayed matches will be defaulted. No more wildcards can be taken from now on.

The playoff phase will be skipped except for position deciders if two teams are tied in points. These matches will take place from 13th till 22th July. Details about the upcoming Season Awards phase and official Season 6 dates will be published in the next days!

Dates

• General match deadline: Sunday, 12^th July, 23:59 CEST
• Position decider matches – Schedule Deadline: Thursday, 16^th July, 23:59 CEST
• Position decider matches – Match Deadline: Wednesday, 22 ^th July, 23:59 CEST

Soldier Turris 1on1 Cup & Pyro Paintball 3on3 Cup: Rule change & schedule

Due to more requests about changing the winmode of the Turris Cup we decided to add an additional timelimit of 30 which will take place from Round 3 onwards.

If no one reached 4 points after 30 minutes, the player with the higher score wins. If the match is tied after the timelimit is over, it will continue with a Golden Cap rule – next captured point decides the winner.

Please also have in mind both cups are running with a strict 1-week-rhythmus. A single round consists of 7 days and always ends on Wednesdays at 23:59 CEST. Contact your opponent early to ease scheduling. Best method to get in contact is adding a match comment and clicking the Challenge Box.

Dates

• Round 2 – Match Deadline: Wednesday, 8^th July, 23:59 CEST
• Round 3 – Match Deadline: Wednesday, 15^th July, 23:59 CEST
• Quarter Finals – Match Deadline: Wednesday, 22^th July, 23:59 CEST

The Community LAN: Winners

The Community LAN, first official TF2 community Meet & Greet, took place this weekend. 10 teams with players from all over Europe came together in Enschede. Beside some beer and BBQ, a tournament with a group phase and a playoff phase was played to decide the winner of the Silver & Golden TCL title.

After a lot good, thrilling matches rockit like NeXt took the Silver title home by beating FakkelBrigade; the Golden Tournament and a prize money of 1000 Euros was won by Team CoolerMaster who defeated YoYomix in the grand final. Congratulations!

All regarding group tables, cup trees and results can be found in our [Hall of Fame].

TFPortal: Relaunch with ETF2L features

On a last side note we would like to inform you our partner [TFPortal] had a relaunch and is back with a complete new design and more features including an ETF2L [match ticker], a [result ticker] and a [transfer ticker]. Have a visit!

The biggest TF2 duel cup in history will come to an end today. 380 players tried to gain the title “best European TF2 duel sold” and win the complete prize money of 50 €. Two months and almost 400 matches later only two are left to fight for all the fame and money: YoYoTech.Coinz, winner of our [1st Soldier 1on1 Cup] in August 2008, will meet [SpA]cheetah who is a complete surprise of the tournament.

Will cheetah really manage to continue his amazing win streak against one of the most known soldier in Europe or will Coinz make this another easy win for him and have fun with the money? The big final will take place today at 19:00 CEST.

Coverage

Source TV: 84.244.189.238:27022

Road to Final

YoYo.Coinz

• Round 1: vs.  Axik – 30:2
• Round 2: vs. sweiny – 30:2
• Round 3: vs.  gK_ – 30:5
• Round 4: vs.  [FB]cook – 30:22
• Round 5: vs.  Nutz – 30:7
• Quarter Final: vs.  illegal.hocz – 30:22
• Semi Final: vs. codcrille – 30:16

[SpA]cheetah

• Round 1: vs. wonder – 30:14
• Round 2: vs. nvc – Default Win
• Round 3: vs. RobbaZ – 30:15
• Round 4: vs. [4K^daf] – 30:23
• Round 5: vs. SfynX – 30:26
• Quarter Final: vs. eLD.Dreadi – 30:23
• Semi Final: vs. Dignitas\TeoK – 30:21

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Match Details

— Friday 26 June 2009 19:00 CEST —

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YoYoTech.Coinz [30:15] [SpA]cheetah

RIP Michael Jackson

The Sign-Up-Phase went quite amazing – both slot limits were reached in less than 18 hours. We are sorry for everyone who didn’t get a spot, but also we can’t expand the slots as many people will be on vacations shortly after the cups are supposed to end.

Due to the big request the gamemode for the Soldier 1on1 Cup is changed to “Best of 7” (first player reaching 4 points wins). Exception is a “K.O. streak” which will take place if one player wins the first three rounds. All rules are listed on the [Rules Page].

Please start to contact your Round 1 opponent; the match deadline is coming Tuesday. GL & HF to all players and teams!

Details

• Soldier 1on1 Cup (cp_turris): [Cup Tree] – [Specific Rules]
• Pyro 3on3 Paintball Cup: [Cup Tree] – [Specific Rules]
• Round 1 – Match Deadline: Tuesday, 30^th June, 23:59 CEST
• Round 2 – Match Deadline: Tuesday, 7^th July, 23:59 CEST

Soldier 1on1 and Pyro 3on3 Cup: Sign Up Phase

Alea iacta est! Polls are closed and over 550 players decided: the next two fun cups will be a Soldier 1on1 Cup on cp_turris_b3 and a Pyro 3on3 Paintball Cup on cp_pyropaintball.

Sign Ups for both cups will already open today, at 19:30 CEST. As there will be only 64 slots each, be sure to sign fast if you want a spot. Round 1 will start in the next days and schedule will keep to a strict 1-week-rhythmus. Both competitions will be finished before the summer period.

Sign-Up-Instructions

1. [Create a team]. Choose 1on1 or 3on3/4on4 as team type.
2. Add yourself to the 1on1 team or at least 3 players to your 3on3/4on4 team.
3. Enter at least two contact methods.
4. [SIGN UP!] – *UPDATE* Both cups full!
5. You will be automatically added on the Waiting List until an admin verified your submission.

Schedule

• strict 1-week-rhythmus
• Sign Up start: Sunday, 21^st June, 19:30 CEST
• Round 1 start: ~Tuesday, 23^rd June
• Final: ~22th July

Soldier 1on1: Details

• Map: [cp_turris_b3]
• Gamemode: Best of 10 rounds (first one reaching 6 points wins)

Pyro 3on3 Paintball: Details

• Map: [cp_pyropaintball]
• Gamemode: Best of 19 Rounds (first team reaching 10 points wins)
• Rules: Pyro only, Flaregun only

Phishing websites

As of late, a new phishing website has emerged. This particular website pretends to be the steamcommunity website, and it does a pretty good job at looking like that. Please make sure, that whenever you log in to the steam community or the steampowered website, the URL is correct and that your browser bar displays a lock icon on a green background saying “Valve Corporation”. If you can’t see the green lock, or are not on one of these 2 websites, never give out your steam login details.