Season 3 Awards: Poll Phase

After our Nomination Phase ended last night, it’s time to start with the Public Poll Phase!

Thanks to all players who helped us with their nominations. Please notice we tried to make the nominations as neutral as possible. Player nominations are not based on skill only.

Due to the amount of polls we published them in a separate newspost. Follow the link or just scroll down. Have fun voting and good luck to all nominations!

Details

• [Public Polls]
• Deadline: Sunday, 14^th December, 18:30 CET
• Note: All winner of a player award will take part in the “Player of the Season”-Poll after.

4th Cup: Round 3 Fixtures

All Round 3 Fixtures were drawn at the IRC Live Drawing last Sunday. Again, there are some promising matches like the clash of both Division 1 teams 4 Kings vs. KomaCrew.

As there aren’t all Round 2 matches submitted yet, we can’t add the new fixtures to our system. Please have in mind all Round 2 matches have to be entered by Wednesday, 23:59 CET.

Details

• Round 2 – Final Deadline: Wednesday, 10^th December, 23:59 CET
• Round 3 – Schedule Deadline: Monday, 15^th December, 23:59 CET
• Round 3 – Match Deadline: Sunday, 21^st December, 23:59 CET
• Round 3 – Fixed Maps: 1. cp_freight_b3 2. cp_granary 3. cp_well
• **Update** Fixtures added: [link]

Fixtures

• Kevlar Bullets vs The Imperial
• Nervous.tf2 vs TFPortal.de
• Team CoolerMaster vs klan:fader
• eSrael vsUbersexuals
• Piggy Bankers vs The Conquers
• elected vs Team Druidz
• Oh My God It Is vs The MIPC Organization
• Crack Clan vs ReVival
• jAgarna vs FakkelBrigade
• ELEmentals vs Care Bears
• Weapons Of The Rebelion 2 vs I Gladiatori
• *B@D* vs Die Doppelnullen
• r@ts vs Knifeback Mountaineers
• OverGame e-Sports vs Crit Rocket
• All For One vs pancake
• KomaCrew vs 4 Kings

Finally we are able to announce the system for our Season 3 Awards.

Due to the amount of teams and players in last Season, we will use a new system to decide the nominations for some of our awards. At first, every registered user has the possibility to nominate players and teams in our Forum. After the phase is over, all votes will be counted and Top 3 nominations for each award will be added to the official public polls which will start on 8th December.

Overview

• Phase 1 – Nomination Phase: 3^rd to 7^th December
• Phase 2 – Poll Phase: 8^th to 14^th December
• [Nomination Thread]

4th cup round 2

The schedule deadline for the second round of our 4th cup has passed. We have to give out a few default dates to those who have not been able to schedule their match. These are the following:

• klan:fader vs Jeet Kune Do – Sunday 7th December 21:00
• The Conquers vs SpecialAttack – Saturday 6th December 21:00
• Forever-Gaming.TF2 vs The MIPC Organization – Sunday 7th December 21:00
• ReVival vs Team Fruit – Sunday 7th December 21:00
• dmg. vs Die Doppelnullen – Sunday 7th December 21:00
• MM2 Team vs pancake – Thursday 4th December 21:00
• Ubersexuals vs LOL Team – Monday 8th December 21:00

Arena Cup Semi Finals

It’s time for the semi finals already. Only 4 teams are left, who is going to end on top? Let’s find out!
Here are the details of this round:

• [Cup tree] – [Specific rules]
• Schedule deadline: Sunday 7th December
• Match deadline: Sunday 14th December
• Map order: 1. Ravine 2. Badlands (3. Watchtower)

Highlander Cup round 3

This round is the first time ever we might see a tc map on ETF2L. How will this turn out? Will it be a great success or a total disaster? We will know in a few weeks. Now, without further ado, the round 3 details:

• [Cup tree] – [Specific rules]
• Schedule deadline: Sunday 7th December
• Match deadline: Sunday 14th December
• Map order:1. cp_dustbowl 2. pl_badwater (3. tc_spectre)

Scout and demoman cup round 2

Sorry for the delay, but here are the final details on round 2 of these cups:

• [Scout Cup tree] – [Demoman Cup tree] – [Specific rules]
• Match deadline: Wednesday 10th December (no exceptions possible, any results not entered by the deadline will be entered by a coin flip)
• Map order: 1. arena_badlands 2. arena_ravine (3. arena_well)

Another week is over, so here is some information about our active competitions:

4^th Cup – Round 2 Fixtures

All Round 1 matches are entered and our second 4^th Cup IRC Live Drawing took place last Monday. The ETF2L IRC Bot was in a good mood and randomized some promising looking matches for Round 2 (Season 3 position in brackets):

Weapons of the Rebelion (Division 2b Winner) vs. Weapons of the Rebelion 2 (2^nd Division 4b)

Ubersexuals (1^st/2^nd Divison 1) vs. LOL Team (7^th Division 2b)

I Don’t Know? (4^th Division 2b) vs. Crack Clan (4^th Division 1)

dmg (3rd Division 2b) vs. Die Doppelnullen (6^th Division 1)

Details

• [Cup Tree] – [Round 2 Fixtures] – [Specific Rules]
• Schedule Deadline: Sunday, 30^th November, 23:59 CET
• Match Deadline: Sunday, 7^th December, 23:59 CET
• Winmode: Best of 3 Maps (with possible Overtime on every map), Fixed Maps
• Map-Order: 1. cp_well 2. ctf_turbine 3. cp_gravelpit

Season 3 – Playoffs

Except the Title Decider Match all Playoff Fixtures are running quite smooth. Most matches have been played, all others are scheduled and we only had to set one Default Date. After almost all decisions of Season 3 are made, we will also have a comeback of our Season Awards. More details about these in the next days…

• Division 2 Playoff: eLD vs. Totally Totalitarian – badlands 4:3, well 8:0
• Division 2 Playoff: Soldiers at Work vs. LOL Team – granary 1:5, badlands 2:4
• Division 2 Playoff: veAre vs. Clones-Inc – gravelpit 2:1, granary 1:4, turbine 4:2
• Division 2 Playoff: Veritas vs. Knifeback Mountaineers – 26^th November, 21:00 CET
• Division 2 Playoff: klan:fader vs. GotGame.lv – 3^rd December, 21:00 CET
• Division 3 Playoff: Clan Troopers vs. Crit Rocket – granary 1:4, badlands 2:6
• Division 3 Playoff: IsF vs. Immortals2 – turbine 3:2, badlands 3:1
• Division 3 Playoff: FsA vs. SpecialAttack – 30^th November, 21:00 CET (Default Date)
• Division 3 Playoff: starLike vs. chaotic community – granary 1:4, badlands 2:3
• Division 3 Playoff: Digital X-Plosiv vs. ouF Team – granary 1:6, turbine 7:10
• Division 4 Playoff: eT vs. Czech tactiX B – granary 3:2, gravelpit 2:0
• Division 4 Playoff: ScArYsUcKeR vs. KRW – granary 8:0, well 4:1
• Division 4 Playoff: Sk10 vs. All for One – granary 1:7, badlands 0:8
• Division 4 Playoff: CRW vs. Erdnuckels – well 5:1, granary 5:2
• Division 4 Playoff: Maximum vs. GoT2 – turbine 4:2, granary 2:3, well 2:3
• Division 4 Playoff: TWO vs. 9men – 27^th November, 21:00 CET
• Division 4 Playoff: diced:reloaded vs. I Gladiatori – Default Win for I Gladiatori

ETF2L Radio Website & Forum

Our recently started own ETF2L Radio is growing nicely and we are looking forward to increasing our level of coverage in ETF2L along with more QuadV and Gamefire casts in Season 4. Our two current casters AcidReniX and Beta are motivated to bring more coverage to the TF2 scene at a level as professional as possible.

With these improvments we now have an ETF2L Radio website page to provide easier access to casts and details, as well as a new forum section where you can further discuss the radio project.

Fun Cups – Deadlines and Default Dates

The 1^st Round of the Scout and Demoman 1on1 Cup and the 2^nd Round of our Highlander Cup ended last Sunday. Anyway, there are still some open matches of this Round with no information from a player. All affected players have time till tonight (Wednesday), 23:59 CET to post any comment on the Match Page or submit the result if the match was played.

On our Arena Cup #1 we had to set the following Default Dates for the Quarter Finals:

• Weapons of the Rebelion vs. Hadouken Arena – Sunday, 30^th November, 19:00 CET
• iSquirt vs. I Don’t Know – Sunday, 30^th November, 19:00 CET

Additionally, we have 1 default date for our Highlander cup 2nd round:

• Lama Raiders vs BLITZ  – Sunday 30th November, 19:00 CET