Yesterday the 4th Round’s Fixtures of our 4th Cup has been drawn by our IRC Bot. The last 16 out of 128 teams have been splitted into the following Fixtures:

Care Bears vs.  pancake

Nervous.tf2 vs.  Oh My God It Is

jAgarna vs.  Team Druidz

Piggy Bankers vs.  The Imperial

Team CoolerMaster vs.  r@ts

Weapons Of The Rebelion 2 vs.  Die Doppelnullen

Crack Clan vs.  Ubersexuals

OverGame e-Sports vs.  4 Kings

Details

• [Fixtures Page] – [Specific Rules]
• Fixed Maps: 1. cp_gravelpit 2. cp_fastlane 3. ctf_turbine
• Schedule Deadline: Sunday, 4th January, 23:59 CET
• Match Deadline: Sunday, 11th January, 23:59 CET
• Quarter Final – IRC Live Drawing: Sunday, 11th January, 19:30 CET

Also we would like to announce the Season 4 Provisional Divisions will be published tomorrow. Every team will have a few days time to request to play in another Division if your team was seeded wrong in your view. Be sure to check our page in the next days to check your teams’ seeding.

First of all, honour to whom honour is due: big congratulations to ryb from 4 Kings who gained the title “Player of the Season”. Grats also to bybben for reaching the 2^nd and dunc for reaching the 3^rd place in our poll!

After Season 3 is like accomplished now, we are looking forward to Season 4. After the amazing Sign-Up-Phase with over 250 registered teams in less than 7 days, we would like to wish all teams a Merry Christmas and much fun in our upcoming Season:

• European (41 teams): -Dead.Face-, 4 Kings, 69ER Gaming Community, Anonymous Gamers, Barbecue team, BLITZ, Casey Ryback Wannabes, eL Diablo’s Brigade, enixe, equilibrium, fragMative, Fun Until Someone Loses an Eye, Ghostbusters, Guru Gaming, Hampshire Heavies 2nd Team, I Don’t Know?, IceWind, Imperox Esports, International Special Force, Kevlar Bullets, MM2 Team, Monkey Gamers, More Brains, Nervous.tf2, Ninth Gaming, northwave.gaming, plan-B.retired, Rock, Paper, Scissors, SpecialAttack, Team Druidz, Team Fruit, Team[X]treme, The Hampshire Heavies, The Imperial, They Kick Ass, Totally Totalitarian, Ubersexuals, unbindAll, weapons of the rebellion, Weapons Of The Rebelion 2, Yurop Extrim
• Germany (35 teams): Ansammlung Laestiger Krieger, C.S.L Reloaded, cause we can, Clan-Germany, Die Doppelnullen, Die Philosoffen, Digital X-Plosiv, Disturbed Gamers, elected, Erdnuckels, Explicit-Content!, Game Control | Red, Gods of Egypt, guinneX, Hobbygam0r, Keine halben Sachen, KomaCrew, M4Pw, plan-B, r@ts, Racoon, ScArYsUcKeR, Soldiers at Work, Special farmer´s medicine, Special Marine Soldiers, Special Marine Soldiers 2, Team-Xplosion, Terror Without Order, Terror Without Order 2, TFPortal.de, Unterwasserpyromanen, veAre.black, veAre.green, veAre.silver, Vendetta in each room
• Russia (33 teams): 40 degrees, AuToBoTs, chaotic community, Cryoemia, Dark Force, Dekrowning, Distort Reality, dmg., dmg-2, Electro Clan, FBM, Final Team, Final Team 2, Genesis TeaM, hypercube, Immortals2, it, Last Man Standing, LOL Team, loveninjas, Lulz Team, Nameless TF2 Squad, Old Quake School, Quick Brown Fox, Revenge, Saint Piterzburg, se7en, Team Slayers, TFB, Who Dares Wins, Yummy Elite Sausages, [BloodMeat], [dT]
• United Kingdom (21 teams): Back off Bitch!, boX?1, CantFitMyN, Clan Crazy, clanda, DCSB Red Team, Dead Cows Strike Back, diced: Reloaded, epic-clan, epic2, fight club united kingdom, Gaming Masters Falcons Squad, HellJumpers, Knifeback Mountaineers, Mafia, Necrotic United Brothers, Pure, Special Air Services, Team CoolerMaster, the Exponential Pwnage eXperience, Whats in the boX? 2
• France (19 teams): #RofL, *B@D*, Bande2oufs, BEC Team, clickNplay, ColorZ, Fonce t’as L’uber pov’ Bite!, IPBP, Lapinou Team, Les Douze Salopards, ouF Team, pancake, paradox, ptt., redline, S4Y-Multigaming, Timmy And The Fratellis, warrior of legend, XCalibur
• Sweden (12 teams): decapitate the exicutioners, eXhale, eXhale 2, Forever-Gaming.TF2, Gurka*, hb0da, jAgarna, Känner IngenTing, klan:fader, starLike, TEAM SdX’08, TEAM SdX’98
• Finland (10 teams): Blood Pressure, c0ck, Care Bears, Clan Troopers, Crack Clan, cvx, Gypsy Xylophone Gang, Piggy Bankers, The MIPC Organization, Virtual Troopers
• CzechRepublic (9 teams): Cavaliers BLUE, Cavaliers RED, Czech tactiX TF2 B squad, CZech tactiX TF2A, Ethanol Monkeys, imperial, imPerial team 2, Pixel Warriors, Team Defiance
• Italy (9 teams): Allied Serial Killers + Associazione CRY, eXplosion C4, GoV, GoV Blu, I Gladiatori, Impact, QuiD Multigaming 2, Smart Move, Titans
• Spain (8 teams): Brigada SoS, failure as Gamers <3, Freedom Fighters, Iron Sharks, knock0ut, OverGame e-Sports, Pajaros de Barro, PeK e-sports
• International (5 teams): Fake, Nervous Energy, Shut Up and Play, Team Ratchet, Urban TerroristZ
• Hungary (6 teams): .point Guards, Argo, Cel-Shaded Army, Crit Rocket, Extreme Duo, Rogues in TF2
• Latvia (5 teams): bmp, GotGame.lv nonamerz, Old boys, ppb, Royal Dynasty
• Poland (5 teams): FPS-Arena Team, Panacea, Rejected, Semper Fidelis, total llamas
• Ukraine (4 teams): Chancy Team, Drunk Cowboys, Oh My God It Is, ReVival
• Benelux (4 teams): Gathering of Tweakers Team 1, Gathering of Tweakers Team 2, Gathering of Tweakers Team 3, Black hawk down 1
• England (3 teams): 9 Men, Cable internet Clan, Maximum^2
• Luxembourg (3 teams): MTF.Gaming, MTF.Gaming 2, QpiK Gaming
• Norway (3 teams): Brigaden, Pul Kai, Red Brigade
• Portugal (3 teams): Never-Ending Twilight, The Conquers, Veni, vidi, Dormivi
• Austria (2 teams): HerbsArmy, Robert Hartlauer Syndikat
• Belgium (2 teams): powerseed!, Squad Killer 10
• The Netherlands (2 teams): FakkelBrigade, Fakkel Brigade 2
• Turkey (2 teams): Smash Project RED Squad, The Smash Project
• Belarus (1 team): RabbidS
• Bulgaria (1 team): Redemption
• Israel (1 team): eSrael
• Scotland (1 team): Red Eyed Jedis

Season 4: Waiting List

Your team didn’t get one of the 250 spots but still want to participate in Season 4? Feel free to join our Waiting List and grab a spot if one of the signed up teams is folding. If you don’t miss any Sign-Up Requirement, an admin will contact you when a suiting spot is free.

Requirements

• Minimum of 6 players with correct Steam ID on your teams’ roster.
• Minimum of 2 different contact methods entered
• Set your correct skill level. Please be honest on rating your own team, it will help us doing correct Division seedings.

>>> SIGN UP LINK <<<

Rules

We have revised our rules for season 4. Please be accquainted with our current ruleset, found here. [Link]

The most notable changes are:

• The maximum amout of default losses before you will be dropped has been decreased from 3 to 2. (rule 2.9)
• A dropped team will now have all its results removed if it has played less than 75% if all matches in its division. (not counting matches against dropped teams)
• The turning-up for a match delay time has been altered. It is now 15 minutes after a match has been started, and 10 minutes after the first map ended for the second map to start. (Rule 1.6.5)
• We had a small adeddum to our rules against scripts, which is the following: “For any scripts not mentioned here, you can use as general rule of thumb: anything that allows you to do something that would be impossible without that script is forbidden. When in doubt, the admins decide on the legality of the script.” (Rule 1.4.8)
• Updated warning system. (Rule 2.12) Warnings can now cost you points. The points are deducted on a per-season basis. Warnings from season 3 will not cost you points in season 4. An overview of the system:
  

  General system

  • 3 minor warnings = 1 major warning
  • 1 major warning = deduction of 1 point
  • 3 major warnings = additional deduction of 3 points
  • 5 major warnings = expulsion from the league

  Minor warnings

  • Wrong / missing screenshot (can be reverted if screenshots uploaded afterwards)
  • Unplayed match after match deadline
  • Use of non-english language (Note: You are allowed to use your foreign language if both teams are from the same country.)
  • Not being able to provide a requested Demo (1st time)
  • Flaming (1st time)
  • Not showing up for a match (+ Default Loss for this match)
  • Entering a date into the Calendar without opponents approval (1st time)

  Major warnings

  • Using of an unauthorized player
  • Any attempts of fraud
  • Not being able to provide a requested Demo (after 1st time)
  • Flaming (after 1st time)
  • Entering a date into the Calendar without opponents approval (after 1st time)
  • Cheating (+ reduction of possible extra points and banning of the player involved, depandant on the situation)

Season 4 – Division 6

Because of the huge amount of teams interested in participating in the ETF2L, we have yet again vastly expanded the amount of participants. For the most people, everything will stay the same. But to be able to play host to 60 more teams, we will add a 6th division. Out of the many options we had to place all these teams, we found this to be the best.
The emphasis of this 6th division will be teams who just play to have a good time, and don’t take everything all too seriously. You should see this as a place for the brand new teams, who are only just starting out, and for any other group of friends playing for the fun of the game.

Do you think this is what you seek? Please let us know, and we’ll secure a place for you in our 6th division. You can contact us through IRC or by email, or just leave a post in the thread we created for this (only accessible by team leaders): [Link]

Season 4 – Slot Limit

After the Sign-Up Phase started last Sunday, we are proud already 240 teams registered for our upcoming Season. But also due to this amazing number we decided to set a slot limit of 250. If your team misses to reach one of the last spots, you will still be able to sign for our Waiting List and replace a dropping team later.

Sign Up Details

• Slots taken: 250/250 – all slots taken! New signups will stay on the waiting list for now.
• Requirements: correct skill level entered, at least 6 members registered, at least 2 different contact methods entered
• [Sign Up Link] – Note: You have to be leader of a registered 6on6 team.
• Note: Every signed up team will automatically join the Waiting List first until an admin has verified it.
• [Confirmed Sign-Ups]

Season 4 Dates

• Map Pick Phase: 5^th till 8^th January 2009
• Week 1 start: Monday, 12^th January 2009
• Week 9 (last regular week): Monday, 9^th March 2009

Arena Cup #1 & Highlander Cup: Final Rounds

In October we gave two new Gamemodes a try: Highlander and Arena. Almost two months and many close matches later, both Fun Cups are near their end:

In the Highlander Cup, the first Semi-Final is already played and FakkelBrigade managed to win against the top favorite Finnish All-Star team Dashing along them streets. Now they are awaiting the result of the second Semi-Final which will be played between tf2world.ru and Second to Last.

The Arena Cup #1 is even one step ahead. In the big final the stable Division 2 team of  klan:fader will meet the most surprising team of this Cup, Hadouken. The big final will be played in a Best-of-3 on well, granary and lumberyard. Of course we will inform you about the date when it’s fixed and try to get some coverage ready.

4^th Cup & 1on1 Cups: Christmas Break

Due to the upcoming holidays we decided to expand the current Rounds of our 4^th Cup and both 1on1 Cups. See below for exact dates and deadlines.

4^th Cup

• Round 3: Schedule Deadline – Sunday, 21^st December, 23:59 CET
• Round 3: Match Deadline – Sunday, 28^th December, 23:59 CET
• Round 4: IRC Live Drawing – Sunday, 28^th December, 19:30 CET

Scout & Demoman 1on1 Cup

• Round 3: Schedule Deadline – Sunday, 21^st December, 23:59 CET (Note: If there is only reaction of one player at the Match Page, this player will get a Default Win)
• Round 3: Match Deadline – Sunday, 28^th December, 23:59 CET

Season 4: Sign Up Phase

Finally, our Season 4 Sign Up Phase is starting today! From 19:00 CET on next Season’s Sign-Ups will be open for 14 days. In between we will inform you about upcoming changes which will take effect in the new season.

Our regular season is the best way for teams of any skill levels to have competitive fun against equal opponents. All signed teams will be divided into divisions of 10 teams, sorted by their entered skill level or previous season results.

We will start with 180 open slots. When these are filled, all later signed teams will stay on our waiting list until there are 10 more complete sign ups again. Sign soon and save your team a spot in the biggest TF2 league worldwide!

Sign Up Details

• Sign Ups open: Sunday, 14^th December, 19:00 CET
• Sign Ups end: Sunday, 28^th December 2008, 23:59 CET
• Slots taken: 180/180. New teams will be admitted when we have 10 eligible teams in the waiting list.
• Requirements: correct skill level entered, at least 6 members registered, at least 2 different contact methods entered
• [Sign Up Link] – Note: You have to be leader of a registered 6on6 team.
• Note: Every signed up team will autmotically join the Waiting List first until an admin has verified it.

Season 4 Dates

• Sign-Ups close: Sunday, 28^th December 2008, 23:59 CET
• Map Pick Phase: 5^th till 8^th January 2009
• Week 1 start: Monday, 12^th January 2009
• Week 9 (last regular week): Monday, 9^th March 2009

Season 3: Awards

The first Season 3 Awards Poll Phase is over, big congratulations to all players and teams who managed to win an award!

• Medic of the Season: dunc (Ubersexuals)
• Soldier of the Season: appe (Ubersexuals)
• Scout of the Season: bybben (4 Kings)
• Demoman of the Season: ryb (4 Kings)
• Heavy of the Season: Sommie (Ubersexuals)
• Fairplay Award: Cable internet Clan (Division 5b)
• Most Surprising Team: Team Druidz (Division 2a)
• German Team of the Season: Die Doppelnullen (Division 1)
• Russian Team of the Season: dmg (Division 2b)
• Nordic Team of the Season: Crack Clan (Division 1)

All winner of a Player Award are nominated for the Player of the Season Award. Vote now! Poll will close next Sunday.

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