Our Highlander Cup and Arena Cup #1 are finished and also the Scout & Demoman 1on1 Cup are at their final stages – time for some new, fresh Fun Cups! After the big request in the Competition Request Forum [Link] we decided on arranging another Basketball 2on2 Cup for sure. Due to different opinions on which map and classes should be played, we opened two polls about these issues. Also all other important facts for this Cup are listed below.

Beside this upcoming Basketball Cup, there will be another 3 (!) new Fun Cups which will be arranged by us in the next weeks. Everyone has the chance to vote for his 3 favorite options in our public poll below. The top voted Cup will already start in 2 weeks together with the Bball-Cup!

Basketball 2on2 Cup

Details

• Slots: 64 or 128
• Gamemode: 2on2 (specific match rules will be announced soon)
• Map: ctf_bball2 [Map Details] OR ctf_pro_bball [Map Details] -> vote below!
• Class Restrictions: Sold + Demo OR Soldiers only -> vote below!

Dates

• Sign-Ups open: Sunday, 25^th January, 20:00 CET
• Sign-Ups close: Sunday, 1^st February, 23:59 CET (or earlier when all spots are filled)
• Round 1: Monday, 2^nd February till Sunday, 15^th February

Sign-Up Details

• Requirements: At least two players registered + at least two different contact methods entered
• Note: You will have to register a separate 2on2 team first. [Register Team Link]

• [Sign Up Link] (will open Sunday, 25^th January, 20:00 CET)

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All polls will be closed on Wednesday night.

4th cup quarter finals

Our live IRC drawing of the 4th cup was last sunday. We had to wait for all matches to finish before we could enter the quarter finals into the system. Now we have done so. There are only 8 teams left, where we started with 128. THis is where it starts to get interesting. Here are the quarter finalists:

• pancake vs Nervous.tf2
• jAgarna vs The Imperial
• Die Doppelnullen vs Team CoolerMaster
• Crack Clan vs 4 Kings

Details:

• [Fixtures page] – [Cup Rules]
• Fixed maps: 1. cp_badlands 2. cp_well 3. cp_freight_b3
• Schedule Deadline: Sunday, 18th January, 23:59 CET
• Match Deadline: Sunday, 25th January, 23:59 CET
• Semi Finals – IRC Live Drawing: Sunday, 25th January, 19:30 CET

Highlander cup

Our highlander cup finished last sunday with a victory for Second to Last. They won the finals from  FakkelBrigade in 2 maps, pl_goldrush and pl_badwater. We would like to congratulate Second to Last on their win, and hereby award them this nice pixely cup image: 

The cup has bee archived, archives can be found here: [Link]

Deleted matchcomment/calendar entries

Because of me being stupid i managed to delete all matchcomments, as well as scheduled matches for a few divisions. The divisions affected are: Division 1, Division 3b and Division 4c. As this concerns only a few matches, none of whch were played, i’m sure this won’t be a major problem. Please re-enter the matches lost from the calendar. We apologize for this, and promise it won’t happen again.

Division changes

We changed quite a few teams in several divisions over the last few days due to teams dropping. Please check your division if any new team popped up. All teams who have a week 1 match against one of these replaced teams will receive a notice in a matchcomment and hopefully by email as well if your leader checks his inbox.

Tonight’s ETF2L Action & Coverages

19.30 CET – 4th Cup: Quarter Finals – IRC Live Drawing

We will have the next IRC Live Drawing in our IRC league channel #etf2l @ QuakeNet. As there are up to six Division 1 teams we will surely have some big clash ups in the next Cup Round. But who will meet who? Don’t miss the IRC Live Drawing, tonight @ 19.30 CET!

19.45 CET – ETF2L Radio Special + Highlander Cup Final Coverage: Second to Last vs. FakkelBrigade

Right after the Live Drawing is finished, our new caster Akill will start with a special issue of our ETF2L Radio. After some briefing about the current situation and activites in the TF2 scene, he will cast the big Highlander Cup Final between FakkelBrigade and Second to Last – who will gain the first ETF2L Highlander Cup title? We will know tonight!

[ETF2L Radio Link] – [Match Page] – [Cup Tree]

21.15 CET – PwnageTV Top Match Coverage: Die Doppelnullen vs. wotr2

No, that’s not enough! At 21.15 CET our old new partner PwnageTV will cast the probably most promising match of the 4^th Round of our 4^th Cup. The “German Team of the Season”-Award winner Die Doppelnullen will meet one of the most improved teams of the last weeks: Weapons of the Rebelion 2. Which team of these will make it to the Quarter Finals? This will be decided tonight in a Best of 3 on gravelpit, fastlane and turbine!

[PwnageTV Link] – [Match Page] – [Cup Tree]

Season 4 start

We would like to give you another reminder our new Season 4 is officially starting today! We please all teams to contact your week 1 opponent now and fix a date with them! You have 7 days to get in contact and schedule your match.

Note: If you talk to your opponent by steam, IRC or ICQ we recommend you to make a screenshot of the chat or save the log.

Note 2: Sure you can also already contact other Week opponents and schedule your matches for this Season. Please be sure you stick to our announced Schedule (for exact dates look at our Events Page [Link]).

Also our Season 4 Waiting List is still open; if your team hasn’t managed to get a spot in Season 4 feel free to join our Waiting List. If a team is dropping out which suits to your teams’ skill level we will contact and replace you. [Waiting List Sign-Up]

Season 4: Prediction Polls

Like at the start of every Season we also created prediction polls for our three top Divisions. Who will win the Season 4 Title? Who will gain the 1^st place in a 2^nd Division and will automatically get promoted to Division 1 in Season 5? Vote below!

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Season 4: Map Stats

Last but not least some statistics about our recently closed Map Pick Phase. Which maps have been picked how often in which Division? Have a look:

Overall

516 24.7% cp_granary
506 24.2% cp_badlands
289 13.8% cp_well
225 10.8% ctf_turbine
197 9.4% cp_gravelpit
156 7.5% cp_fastlane
51 2.4% cp_freight_b3
41 2.0% cp_dustbowl
28 1.3% pl_goldrush
27 1.3% pl_badwater
20 1.0% ctf_2fort
15 0.7% cp_labor
13 0.6% ctf_mach4
4 0.2% ctf_well

Total 2088

Division 1

26 28.9% cp_granary
21 23.3% cp_badlands
14 15.6% ctf_turbine
8 8.9% cp_well
7 7.8% cp_gravelpit
3 3.3% pl_badwater
3 3.3% cp_freight_b3
2 2.2% cp_dustbowl
2 2.2% cp_labor
2 2.2% pl_goldrush
1 1.1% ctf_2fort
1 1.1% cp_fastlane

Total 90

Division 2

44 27.2% cp_granary
39 24.1% cp_badlands
21 13.0% cp_well
20 12.3% ctf_turbine
19 11.7% cp_fastlane
8 4.9% cp_gravelpit
5 3.1% cp_freight_b3
1 0.6% pl_goldrush
1 0.6% cp_dustbowl
1 0.6% ctf_well
1 0.6% ctf_2fort
1 0.6% ctf_mach4
1 0.6% pl_badwater

Total 162

Division 3

104 28.9% cp_granary
91 25.3% cp_badlands
47 13.1% cp_well
36 10.0% ctf_turbine
32 8.9% cp_gravelpit
23 6.4% cp_fastlane
10 2.8% cp_freight_b3
4 1.1% ctf_2fort
3 0.8% cp_dustbowl
3 0.8% ctf_mach4
3 0.8% pl_badwater
2 0.6% cp_labor
2 0.6% pl_goldrush

Total 360

Division 4

139 27.6% cp_badlands
121 24.0% cp_granary
67 13.3% cp_well
58 11.5% ctf_turbine
45 8.9% cp_gravelpit
28 5.6% cp_fastlane
15 3.0% cp_freight_b3
9 1.8% cp_dustbowl
6 1.2% pl_goldrush
5 1.0% cp_labor
5 1.0% ctf_2fort
4 0.8% ctf_mach4
2 0.4% pl_badwater

Total 504

Division 5

129 26.1% cp_granary
113 22.8% cp_badlands
72 14.5% cp_well
55 11.1% ctf_turbine
46 9.3% cp_fastlane
44 8.9% cp_gravelpit
8 1.6% cp_freight_b3
8 1.6% cp_dustbowl
6 1.2% pl_badwater
5 1.0% pl_goldrush
4 0.8% cp_labor
4 0.8% ctf_2fort
1 0.2% ctf_mach4

Total 495

Division 6

103 21.6% cp_badlands
92 19.3% cp_granary
74 15.5% cp_well
61 12.8% cp_gravelpit
42 8.8% ctf_turbine
39 8.2% cp_fastlane
18 3.8% cp_dustbowl
12 2.5% pl_goldrush
12 2.5% pl_badwater
10 2.1% cp_freight_b3
5 1.0% ctf_2fort
4 0.8% ctf_mach4
3 0.6% ctf_well
2 0.4% cp_labor

Total 477

Season 4 schedule

The start of the season is near. This season, we have made some small adjustments on our schedule/play deadlines. The system will be operating as follows:

Monday week 1: week 1 start
Sunday week 1: week 1 schedule deadline
Monday week 2: week 2 start
Sunday week 2: week 1 match deadline, week 2 schedule deadline
Monday week 3: week 3 start
Sunday week 3: week 2 match deadline, week 3 schedule deadline.
etc…

All of these dates will be entered in our calendar, you can find a list under the Events tab there, and they will appear on the calendar applet on our front page the date they are due.  Events page: [Link]

If two teams do not schedule the game by the schedule deadline, a default date will be set by the admins. This date will be in the week after the schedule deadline. However, if one team makes an effort to schedule, and the other does not, we will usually listen to the suggestion of the more active team, and set the default date for the date they suggested, if any. The match comments play a key role in this process. Before we set default dates, we will look at the comments posted for every unscheduled match. If we don’t see anything there, we will choose a default date at random. (this will be mostly Sundays though).

Map picks

Map picks have been closed. The teams who did not choose their maps, have been assigned a set of maps by the admins. Also, the map choices are now public. You can see them at every matchpage, and an overview at the fixtures page. [Link]

Cheaters

As a last note: we unfortunately had to ban some cheaters from the ETF2L once again. Here’s a list:

• Sonofpi3 – SteamID: 0:1:16671536 – [Link]
  Reason: aimbot
• Agge – SteamID: 0:0:15474411 – [Link]
  Reason: wallhack
• Nike – SteamID: 0:0:17552183 – [Link]
  Reason: wallhack

All 3 of these players will recieve a 1 year ban.

It is time to end several tournaments here at the ETF2L. We would like to congratulate everyone who won, and thank everyone else who participated. We enjoyed it, i hope you did aswell. The following competitions have ended:

Season 3

Season 3 of our main event, the ETF2L league officially started the 25th of august, and it was a long one. The last match has been played last sunday, 18 weeks later. It took some time, but we have got ourselves a winning team.  Ubersexuals beat  Team CoolerMaster 2 maps to 1 in the final match. At its height, the match had near 700 spectators on sourceTV, which is an amazing number. The season is now put away in our archives. If you feel the need to look back on your past matches, you can find it here [Link].

Congratulations to our Season 3 champions Ubersexuals!

Arena cup #1

The final of our arena cup was played between  arena:fader and  Hadouken arena. Hadouken managed to win the match, after losing the first map to fader. Congratulations to Hadouken for winning this cup! A full overfiew of this tournament can be found in our archives [Link]

TFTrue 1 day cup

You might recognize the winners of this one. It’s the Ubersexuals. They won this tryout of the new server plugin called TFTrue, for which we congratulate them.  An archived version of this cup can be found here: [Link]

There has been a lot of discussion about whether or not to use this plugin in all official matches to eliminate random damage. The outcome of this discussion is yet unknown. For a full overview of what this plugin does, and the discussion that surrounds it, have a look in this forum thread: [Link]

Season 4 map picks

A reminder: you have just over 2 days to pick your maps for season 4. Please don’t forget to do so. Map picks close coming thursday at 23:59 CET.  You can find the map selection page here: [Link]