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)

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

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

Playoff system

After a bit of delay, you can now see the season 3 promotional system on the division tables. [link]

If you end up in a spot marked green, you’ll get instantly promoted to a higher division next season. But if you end up in a red spot, you’ll have to play one division lower next season.

A new feature we have introduced this season is end-of-season playoffs. If your team ends the season on a spot marked blue, it’ll have to play a playoff match at the end of the season. The winners of the playoff match will get a place in the higher division for next season, while the loser has to go to the lower division. For example, the numbers 7 and 8 of division 1 will play the numbers 2 of division 2. The winners of those matches get a spot in division 1 for next season, the loser will have to go to division 2.

Most people will only have to play 1 playoff match, but due to divisions being unequal in size, there are 2 exceptions.

• The 4 numbers 3 of division 3 will have a preliminary playoff, the 2 winners of that will continue into the real division 2/3 playoff.
• In division 4, only the 2 best numbers 3 can continue to the playoffs. THis will be the ones with the most points.

This playoff system is to ensure that only the strongest tams go up a division and not have teams that are stronger go a division down in favor of a weaker team.

Nations Cup Playoffs

The group phase of the ETF2L Nations Cup is drawing to a close. There are only a few matches left, but those cannot influence who ends 1st or 2nd. Therefore, the playoff phase is near. We will get the playoff tree up in a few days, when all group phase matches have been finalized.

However, we can announce the maps that will be played in the playoff phase:

• Quarter Finals: 1: cp_pro_granary, 2: ctf_turbine, 3: cp_badlands
• Semi Finals: 1: cp_gravelpit, 2: cp_badlands, 3: cp_well
• Finals: 1: cp_badlands, 2: cp_well, 3: ctf_turbine, 4: cp_pro_granary, 5: cp_gravelpit

As a last note, don’t forget that the Quarter and Semi finals will be played as best of 3, but our Nations Cup Final will be played as best of 5! However, the finals will end after 5 maps played at most. If need be, there will be a 3rd round on gravelpit to decide the winner.