It’s every weeks‘ Default Date time again. Due to the amount of unscheduled matches this time, we won’t list all Fixtures up. All unscheduled matches without any match comments will get the following Default Date set: Monday, 13^th October, 21:00 CEST.

Every team still has some additional time till tonight 23:59 CEST to contact your opponent and schedule your own date.

Due to the match comments the following match-ups will get different Default Dates:

• Division 3b: CZech tactiX TF2A vs Hadouken – Wednesday, 15^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 4a: eXhale vs Gods of Egypt – Sunday, 12^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 5a: The Real Warriors vs Cookiemonstrs – Sunday, 12^th October, 20:00 CEST
• Division 5d: Dead Cows Strike Back vs I Gladiatori – Sunday, 12^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 5d: Electro Clan vs Digital X-Plosiv Revenge – Wednesday, 15^th October, 21:00 CEST

Please notice there are more unscheduled matches without any comments which ain’t listed. Check if your Week 7 Fixture is scheduled yet, if not, do it very soon.

Update

Unfortunately, we have seem to have put some default dates on the same day as clanbase scheduled this weeks default dates for their Fall Opencup. Because clanbase was a lot sooner with their default dates, we will move the default date of the affected matches to Sunday the 12^th October, 21:00 CEST

The following matches are affected:

• Division 1: K1ck eSports vs Ubersexuals
• Division 2a: Veritas vs mousetek
• Division 2b: Care Bears vs LOL Team

The Sign-Up Phase is over now and we could fill 64 slots. Please start contacting your opponents and schedule your Round 1 matches. All important information is summarized below.

Dates & Details

• Cup Tree: [Link]
• Complete Cup Rules: [Link]
• Winmode: Best of 3 Maps, each map played as Best of 11 Rounds
• Fixed Round 1 Maps: 1. Lumberyard 2. Granary (3. Badlands)
• Schedule Deadline: Sunday, 12^th October, 23:59 CEST
• Game Deadline: Sunday, 19^th October, 23:59 CEST

Also don’t forget about our open Public Polls on coming Cup competitions. All these polls will be closed Sunday, 23:59 CEST.

There are a lot Cups in the pipeline for you, time to give a little overview and information out:

Arena Cup #1

After the big success of the new released Gamemode Arena we are going to arrange some general Cups on it. After reducing the slots to 64 there are only 12 spots left. Interested in one of them? Be fast then, Sign Ups closing Sunday (tomorrow), 23:59 CEST!

Details

• Detailed Newspost: [Link]
• Sign-Ups closing: TONIGHT, 23:59 CEST
• SIGN UP LINK (don’t forget you will have to register an Arena team first)
• Accepted Teams: [Link] – 62/64 slots taken – only 2 spots left!

Fixed Maps

• Round 1 – 1. Lumberyard 2. Granary (3. Badlands)
• Round 2 – 1. Well 2. Ravine (3. Watchtower)
• Round 3 – 1. Badlands 2. Lumberyard (3. Well)

Highlander Cup

Cause of the big feedback on our Competition Request Forum we are happy to announce our first Highlander Cup. This Cup will be perfect for everybody who thinks some classes should be played more often, due to the 9on9 and Classlimit 1 Gamemode. Feel invited to note all dates down already, also it’s possible to register Highlander teams on the page by now!

Dates & Details

• Sign-Ups open: Sunday, 19th October, 19:00 CEST
• Sign-Ups closing: Sunday, 26th October, 23:59 CEST
• Round 1: Monday, 27th October till Wednesday, 5th November
• Slots: 8 (can be upped to 16)
• Gamemode: 9on9, Classlimit 1

4^th Cup

Also our regular Cup series is going into its next chapter: the 4^th Cup will have place for 128 teams again which will fight for the European Team Fortress 2 Cup Throne. Our Public Gamemode Polls are open by now; the community will decide again how this Cup will be played, so take your right to vote!

1on1 Cup

Last but not least we are also announcing a new 1on1 Cup. And of course you got the chance to decide which Class will be the focus on it. Vote below!

Week 6 Schedule Deadline is over and we are still missing a lot Fixtures which aren’t scheduled yet, all affected teams have additional time till tonight 23:59 CEST to agree on a different date,  otherwise the mentioned Default Dates will be entered:

• Division 2a: Resistansen vs Laukaus – Monday, 6^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 2a: Weapons of the rebelion 2 vs mousetek – Monday, 6^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 2b: dmg. vs n2o-gaming.de TF2 – Monday, 6^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 2b: Care Bears vs plan-B – Monday, 6^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 3c: International Special Force vs QuiD Multigaming – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 3c: Babylon sh.esports vs The Hampshire Heavies – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 3c: Blood Pressure vs Oh My God It Is – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 3d: Knifeback Mountaineers vs enixe – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 3d: Clones-Inc vs Virtual Troopers – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 3d: Fuckers Ad Astra vs starLike – Monday, 6^th October, 21:30 CEST
• Division 4a: eT vs SpecialAttack – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 4a: 9 Men vs Smart Move – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:30 CEST
• Division 4a: Gods of Egypt vs Necrotic United Brothers – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 4b: AWOL vs OPS – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 4c: Fakkel Brigade 2 vs TEAM SdX’08 – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 4d: Squad Killer 10 vs ReVival – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 4e: Immortals2 vs VenGeaNce – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 4e: Uberium vs verTonix – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 4f: sfire vs ppb – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 5a: imPerial vs MTF – BSD coop – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 5a: Distort Reality vs The Real Warriors – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 5b: Team Uprising vs Vendetta in each room – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 5b: Cable internet Clan vs Gaming Masters Z Squad – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 5c: Cockstars vs Core-13 – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 5d: Dead Cows Strike Back vs Sudden Realization – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 5d: Electro Clan vs I Gladiatori – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 5e: Underworld Preachers – Grow uP Gaming vs Xenomorphs – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:00 CEST
• Division 5f: cleveridiot 2 vs Pajaros de Barro – Sunday, 5^th October, 21:00 CEST

League Config Changes

We made two changes on our ETF2L League Config [Download] which are mentioned below:

• tv_chattimelimit 0 changed to 1
• sv_pausable 0 changed to 1

Arena Cup #1

After the success of our Watchtower-Arena-1-Day-Cup, we are happy to announce our Arena Cup #1 Sign-Ups will open tonight!

The cup will take place in the coming weeks (see below for Dates) on all known Arena maps and will be played with our Community rules 4on4, CL1, No Medics + Engineers. One last public poll will also decide which Winmode will be used in the upcoming Arena Cups. Take your right to vote below!

Besides we always want to remind all teams who played our Watchtower Cup to give their vote about the map on our Forum Poll [Link]. This poll will decide if the map gets added to the Map Pool or not.

Details

• Slots: 64
• Gamemode: Arena, 4on4, CL1, No Medics + Engineers
• Map-Pool: arena_badlands, arena_granary, arena_lumberyard, arena_ravine, arena_watchtower_b3, arena_well
• Map System: Fixed Maps
• Winmode: 2 Map Wins, Amount of Rounds decided by Public Poll below

Dates

• Sign-Ups *OPEN NOW*
  
• Sign-Ups closing: Sunday, 5th October, 23:59 CEST
• Round 1: Monday, 6th October till Wednesday, 15th October

Sign-Up Requirements

• At least 4 members entered
• At least 2 different contact methods entered
• SIGN UP LINK (don’t forget you will have to register an Arena team first)
• Accepted Teams: [Link] – 48 teams already signed!

New Pause Rule

After some internal discussion we agreed on adding the following Pause Rule:

1.6.15 Pause if players drop

If 1 player of a team drops from the server, the game may be paused at the end of the current round (or when both team’s intelligence is in their base on CTF maps) to allow the player to return. If 2 or more players drop, pausing instantly is allowed.

Pausing will be a maximum of 5 minutes, unless both teams agree to wait longer.

Note: This rule does not count for disconnects caused by players themselves.