The first regular Week is official over. Their already were some positive and negative aspects; biggest negative aspects is about a lot teams dropping out in the last two days. Especially Division 3 will keep some open spots which can’t be replaced anymore.

We will probably do 2 very late replacements this evening and inform affected teams. No more replacements will be done from Thursday on, so we please all teams to keep alive ;-)

As we had quite a lot questions and issues during the last week aswell, we would like to remember all teams about some rules. Please always search for an answer for your question at our FAQ [Link] or Rules [Link] Page first. If you don’t find any help there, feel free to contact an admin by IRC, Forum or E-Mail.

Also don’t forget Week 2 Schedule Deadline is tomorrow, 23:59 CET. All matches who aren’t scheduled by this will get a League Default Date.

Rule Notes/Reminders

• Status screenshots

Please always make a status screenshot before a match starts or after a team swapped a player after map change. Remember without a status screenshot your opponent could use any players/fakers in a match up.

• Gravelpit screenshots

Many people upload a 0:0 scoreboard screenshot as gravelpit result which is no help to comprehend the entered score. Please always upload a screenshot of every round which shows the winner. (Example: [Link])

• Stopwatch Maps – Result possibilities

Please notice all Stopwatch Maps results are counted in played Rounds. Possible results for cp_dustbowl and pl_goldrush are just 1:0 or 0:1, cp_gravelpit can only end 2:0, 1:1 or 0:2. Please don’t submit any other result versions.

• Ringer Rules

Every team must field at least 5 players for a match. Your opponent can allow you up to 2 ringers if you don’t field a complete team. If your opponent’s team doesn’t agree on ringer you will have to play 5on6 or give away a Default Win/Loss.

• A map can be stopped earlier if one team reaches a lead difference of 8 points

We recommend stopping a map before the timelimit is over if one team reaches a lead of 8 more captures then their opponent. This is, however, by the discretion of the losing team.

• Map Overtime

A normal map overtime is counting to the additional timelimit. Both teams have to go on playing if a map goes into overtime.

After our first 3rd Cup Semi Final between Weapons of the Rebelion and the nowadays dead team Excello was quite epic, the second (epic) Semi Final between klan:fader, last Seasons’ Divison 3c Winner, will match Dead Cows Strike Back, current Division 3b Title Holder, this evening at 21:00 CET!

Our partner PwnageTV will have a live video stream with commentary up to cover this close match. Who will be Weapons of the Rebelion’s opponent in the final? Feel invited to sample the decision live. Take a free evening for a probably long Cup night and have fun watching!

Gamemode

• Winmode: 2 Map Wins, Maps ending in a draw count as draw
• Map Order: 1. ctf_turbine 2. cp_badlands 3. cp_pro_granary 4. cp_gravelpit 5. cp_dustbowl

Coverage

• Source TV (264 slots): server.red-snow.org:27021
• PwnageTV (show starting 21:00 CET): http://pwnage.tv/

Line-Ups

Dead Cows Strike Back [Team Profile]: Falling Away, Forsaken, Hunter, Mole, Saiboat, Youngblood

klan:fader [Team Profile]: fisk, hatE, Marja, Paver, Sauna, TNT

Way to Semi Final

Dead Cows Strike Back

• Round 1: vs. skwean! – 2:0 (cp_badlands 8:0 | cp_pro_granary 3:0)
• Round 2: vs. Knights – 2:1 (cp_gravelpit 2:0 | ctf_turbine 2:6 | cp_pro_granary 4:2)
• Round 3: vs. The Last Resort – 2:0 (cp_well 3:2 | cp_badlands 4:0)
• Round 4: vs. gBh – 2:0 (cp_pro_granary 7:2 | ctf_turbine 9:5)
• Quarter Final: vs. TFPortal.de – 2:0 (cp_well 5:3 | cp_gravelpit 2:0)

klan:fader

• Round 1: vs. extenSia! – 2:0 (cp_pro_granary 5:3 | cp_badlands 4:2)
• Round 2: vs. Team SdX’98 – 2:0 (cp_gravelpit 1:1 | ctf_turbine 11:5 | cp_pro_granary 8:1)
• Round 3: vs. Soldiers at Work – 2:1 (cp_well 4:1 | cp_badlands 2:4 | ctf_turbine 12:10)
• Round 4: vs. Friede seiner Asche – 2:0 (ctf_turbine 10:9 | cp_pro_granary 6:1)
• Quarter Final: vs. Zero Tolerance – 2:0 (cp_well 3:2 | cp_gravelpit 2:0)

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Match Overview

ctf_turbine

FADER [0:6] DCSB

cp_badlands

FADER [1:5] DCSB

OVERALL

FADER [0:2] DCSB

3rd Cup Final: Weapons of the Rebelion vs. Dead Cows Strike Back

After we had to say goodbye to some admins and our work increased a lot with the start of Season 3 we decided to have a new admin structure and a new admin search to recruit some fresh motivated admins to our crew.

New Admin Structure

Beside the daily work every admin is supposed to do (answering IRC requests, verifying results, etc.) there will be special fields which admins will take care of in the future.

Head Admins

DeNeusbeer + dAyKiLLeR

Site Admins

ST8 + weqo

Coverages

Mole + Wlv

Cheating & Co.

DrG + Wlv + searching for 1 more expert

Forum Moderation

Haunter + shifty + searching for 2 more moderators

1-Day-Cup-Organisation

searching for 2 orgas

Country Support

Germany: dAyKiLLeR + searching for 1 more
Russia: searching for 1 or 2 admins
United Kingdom: Mole, Wlv, shifty
France: searching for 1 admin
Sweden: weqo + searching for 1 more
Finland: searching for 1 or 2 admins
The Netherlands + Belgium: DeNeusbeer
Portugal: Haunter
Spain: DrG

Admin Search

If you are interested in joining our staff and are motivated to work in the biggest TF2 league worldwide please send an E-Mail to daykiller@etf2l.org with the following information:

• ETF2L account name
• Real name
• Age (minimum 18)
• Spoken languages (average English required!)
• Desired special field + your experience on it
• General admin experience
• Feel free to add any comments or questions if you have some

We will get back to you as soon as possible.

Week 1 Default Dates

We are happy most teams managed to schedule their matches and entered a date to our League Calendar. All unscheduled matches will get mentioned Default Dates if no other date is entered by tonight 23:59.

• Division 2a – r@ts vs. Vale – Sunday, 31^st August, 21:00 CET
• Division 2b – dmg. vs. plan-B – Sunday, 31^st August, 21:00 CET
• Division 2b – Care Bears vs. Team wL – Sunday, 31^st August, 21:00 CET
• Division 3b – FakkelBrigade vs. Immortals – Sunday, 31^st August, 21:00 CET
• Division 3b – FOG vs. Hadouken – Monday, 1^st September, 21:00 CET
• Division 4b – Dr3am Clan vs. OPS – Sunday, 31^st August, 21:00 CET

Replacements

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I would say there is no better start of this passage then showing the results of our „Fun Poll” about which team will fold first in Division 1. Obviously 97% of the community was wrong as Excello made it like ColdFusion in Season 1 and IDAC in Season 2 with dropping out at the start of Week 1.

But Excello sadly isn’t the only dropping issue; anyway most teams are replaced already. All affected Week 1 matches got a postponed Schedule and Match Deadline.

Schedule Deadline: 3^rd September, 23:59 CET

Match Deadline: 14^th September, 23:59 CET

Affected Matches:

• Division 1 – it’s a farm! vs. Ubersexuals (replacing Excello)
• Division 2b – wotr3 vs. Totally Totalitarian (replacing Ubersexuals)
• Division 3b – Prima Nocta vs. Czech tactiX TF2a (replacing Die Doppelnullen)
• Division 3c – Babylon sh.esports vs. Tribunal Team (replacing T.T)
• Division 4a – Gods of Egypt vs. Clan Crazy (replacing The Warlords)
• Division 4b – GC Red vs. The Smash Project (replacing Legion of Benelux)
• Division 4b – AWOL vs. Belgian combatants (replacing O’School)
• Division 5b – ALK vs. Klan Rekreacyjno Wypoczynkowy (replacing Romania Training Team)
• Division 5c – TWOL vs. Frag Test Dummies (replacing #db-gaming)

Open Spots (probably will have to stay open):

• Division 3c – Special Air Services (Week 1 opponent: IsF)
• Division 3d – ELEmentals (Week 1 opponent: Knifeback Mountaineers)

All Group Phase Matches are played and entered; the Group Phase Tables [Link] are updated and final. The Quarter Finals are now ready and up on the site [Link]. Please contact your opponents and schedule your matches.

Good Luck to all eight remaining National Teams!

Fixtures

Finland vs. Russia

Sweden vs. Germany

United Kingdom vs. France

Belgium vs. Norway

Dates & Details

• Quarter Finals Schedule Deadline: Wednesday, 3^rd September, 23:59 CET
• Quarter Finals Match Deadline: Wednesday, 10^th September, 23:59 CET

• Gamemode: Classic “Best of 3”; possible Overtime = Golden Cap
• Map Order: 1: cp_pro_granary, 2: ctf_turbine, 3: cp_badlands