Some interesting events are taking place during the day, feel invited to participate!

Freight-1-Day-Cup

The most promising Custom Map ever will have his first serious competition test today. Up to 16 teams will be able to participate in our 1-Day-Cup on cp_freight_b3. As little extra every team will have the right to vote for or against adding Freight to the Season 3 Map Pool.

Details

• Map: cp_freight_b3 [Map Info] [Forum Discussion]
• Slots: 16
• Gamemode: 1x 30 Minutes, Overtime = Golden Cap
• Cup Tree [Link]
• Sign Up Requirements: Minimum 6 members + 2 contact methods
• Participants vote after you’re done [Vote Topic]

>>> SIGN UP LINK <<<

Schedule

• 18:00-19:50 CET – Sign Up Phase
• 20:00 CET – Round 1
• 20:45 CET – Quarter Finals
• 21:30 CET – Semi Finals
• 22:15 CET – Final

Note: We please all participating teams‘ leader to idle in #etf2l @ QuakeNet for an easier communication.

19:30 CET – 3^rd Cup Semi Finals IRC Live Drawing

During our Freight Sign-Up Phase our last and shortest 3^rd Cup IRC Live Drawing will take place.

Only 4 out of 128 teams are left; our Starting Cup and 2^nd Cup Winners 4 Kings are out already. Surprisingly the4 teams are split in only two different Nationalities: UK and Sweden. Will we have a Swedish and a UK Semi Final? Will there be the possibility of an equal Nationality final?

Feel invited to participate in our IRC Live Drawing at 19:30 CET in our league channel #etf2l @ QuakeNet!

Dates & Details

• Participants: Dead Cows Strike Back, Excello, klan:fader, Weapons of the Rebelion
• Map-Order: 1. ctf_turbine 2. cp_badlands 3. cp_pro_granary 4. cp_gravelpit 5. cp_dustbowl
• Modus: 2 Map Wins to reach Final, Maps ending in a draw count as draw
• Schedule Deadline: Wednesday, 20^th August, 23:59 CET
• Match Deadline: Sunday, 31^st August, 23:59 CET

23:59 – Season 3 Sign-Ups closing

9 out of 10 days of our Season 3 Sign-Up Phase are over, almost 190 teams have signed up already. Tonight at 23:59 CET we will officially close our Sign-Ups and finish our Division seedings in the days after.

Your team still has the chance to get a spot in TF2’s biggest league worldwide. Any teams who have a playable ping on European servers are invited to sign up! Take your very last chance and grab one of the remaining spots!

>>> Season 3 Sign-Up Newspost <<<

The Season 3 Custom Map Poll [Link] is over and we have two winners which will be included to Season 3 Map Pool: ctf_mach4 (43%) and cp_labor (42%).

Due to the public whine we decided to split Season 3 Map Pool in two different spots. All regular played maps can be picked three times, unregular clanwar maps can only be picked once.

Season 3 Map Pool

Primary Map Pool – every map can be picked three times

• cp_badlands
• cp_gravelpit
• cp_pro_granary
• cp_well
• ctf_turbine

Secondary Map Pool – every map can be picked once

• cp_dustbowl
• cp_fastlane
• (cp_freight_b3)
• cp_labor
• ctf_2fort
• ctf_mach4
• ctf_well
• pl_goldrush

Note 1: Participants of Freight-1-Day-Cup [Link] will decide if cp_freight_b3a will be added to the Map Pool.

Note 2: Map Picks will start on 20^th August.

If your team is still interested in joining Season 3, Sign-Ups are open for 3 more days, grab one of the last spots (see “Sign-Up Newspost” [Link] for more details).

This is a last reminder our Nations Cup Group Phase Schedule Deadline is coming Wednesday.

Sadly many matches are still not scheduled:

• Group A – Week 1 – France vs. Netherlands
• Group A – Week 2 – Austria vs. France
• Group A – Week 3 – Austria vs. Finland
• Group A – Week 4 – Portugal vs. France
• Group A – Week 5 – Austria vs. Netherlands
• Group B – Week 3 – Ukraine vs. UK
• Group B – Week 4 – UK vs. Germany
• Group B – Week 5 – Czech Republic vs. UK
• Group C – Week 3 – Belgium vs. Latvia
• Group C – Week 4 – Latvia vs. Luxembourg
• Group C – Week 4 – Belgium vs. Russia
• Group C – Week 5 – Italy vs. Latvia
• Group C – Week 5 – Russia vs. Luxembourg
• Group D – Week 4 – Denmark vs. Israel
• Group D – Week 4 – Norway vs. Spain
• Group D – Week 5 – Israel vs. Spain
• Group D – Week 5 – Sweden vs. Norway

All matches who aren’t scheduled by the Deadline will get a Default Date which will be published on our League site on Thursday.

Note: All National Teams with less than two matches played by Monday, 18^th August, will be expelled from the Cup and receive Default Losses for all unplayed matches. Affected teams:

• Austria
• France
• UK
• Latvia

After last weeks‘ coverage of Sweden vs. Denmark, we are happy to announce another PwnageTV Top Match Coverage tonight:

Interrobang, Finland’s most promising team with top players like Moose or hymzi (“Best Player of Season 1”) will meet the Runner-Up of Season 2, Excello.

Coverage

Match and Coverage is starting at 21:00 CET.

PwnageTV Coverage: [VoD] *VoD now online*

Source TV: vi.tux.fi:27020

Line-Ups

Excello: fette, Glufse, lezek, Me, sommie, weqo

Interrobang: hymzi, Haza, humis, Moose, pripple, kyynel, snifz

Way to Quarter Final

Interrobang

• Round 1: vs. Keine halben Sachen – Default Win
• Round 2: vs. Sweden-online – 2:0 (cp_gravelpit 2:0 | ctf_turbine 21:1)
• Round 3: vs. veAre – 2:0 (cp_well 7:0 | cp_badlands 12:0)
• Round 4: vs. r@ts – 2:0 (ctf_turbine 7:5 | cp_pro_granary 5:4)

Excello

• Round 1: vs. Best Winning Army Reunited – Default Win
• Round 2: vs. Team wL – 2:0 (cp_gravelpit 1:1 | ctf_turbine 8:2 | cp_pro_granary 7:3)
• Round 3: vs. Team Empire – 2:1 (cp_well 0:1 | cp_badlands 4:0 | ctf_turbine 9:7)
• Round 4: vs. Clones-Inc – 2:0 (ctf_turbine 10:4 | cp_pro_granary 4:2)

Match Overview

cp_well

Excello [3:2] Interrobang

cp_gravelpit

Excello [1:1] Interrobang

ctf_2fort

Excello [4:2] Interrobang

OVERALL

Excello [2:0] Interrobang

After the big positive feedback on cp_freight_b3, a map made by Fishbus, Stealthy‘s Brother (Division 1 Player), we are announcing our Freight-1-Day-Cup.

Bored of playing granary, badlands and well all the time? Get your team ready and keep next Wednesday free! Up to 16 teams will be able to have some challenge on the most promising new map of the last weeks.

As little extra, every participating team will have the right to vote for or against adding cp_freight_b3 to Season 3 Map Pool. If more than 50% voting for it, the map will be added to the official Season 3 Map Pool.

Details

• Map: cp_freight_b3 [Map Info] [Forum Discussion]
• Slots: 16
• Gamemode: 1x 30 Minutes, Overtime = Golden Cap
• Sign Up Requirements: Minimum 6 members + 2 contact methods
• Every participating team has the right to vote for or against adding Freight to Season 3 Map Pool

Schedule

• Date: Wednesday, 13^th August 2008
• 18:00-19:50 CET – Sign Up Phase
• 20:00 CET – Round 1
• 20:45 CET – Quarter Finals
• 21:30 CET – Semi Finals
• 22:15 CET – Final