Finally our Season summer break is over and we are ready to start the Season 3 Sign-Up Phase!

After the big success of Season 2 with 120 participating teams from over 20 different nationalities we are poised for the next chapter. Any teams of any skill level are invited to join world’s biggest TF2 league!

System Details

• Every team will get divided into Division based on their skill level as well as past results
• Every team will have to play 1 match/week during regular season
• Season will have 9 regular match weeks + 1 extra week for postponed matches + 1 playoff week
• Map Pool consists of all standard TF2 maps + 2 custom maps decided by a public poll [Link]
• Every team needs to do Map Picks for all matches before Season starts
• No fixed match days. Every match needs to be scheduled by contacting the opponent.
• Your team will have to be able to play on regular European match days (Sunday to Thursday, 20:00-22:00 CET)
• Any team from any country is invited to join, but all matches have to be played on European based servers.

Dates

• 03.08. – Sign Ups open
• 13.08. – Sign Ups Deadline
• 17.08. – Provisional Division Announcement, final check
• 20.08. – Final Division Announcement, Map Picks open
• 24.08. – Map Picks Deadline
• 25.08.-31.08. – Week 1
• 01.09.-07.09. – Week 2
• […]
• 20.10.-26.10. – Week 9 (last regular Week)

Sign Up Requirements

• Minimum of 6 players with correct Steam ID on your teams‘ roster. These players need only be accepted, they do not need to be verified.
• Minimum of 2 different contact methods entered
• Set your correct skill level. Please be honest on rating your own team, it will help us doing correct Division seedings.
  Note: All existing teams have to re-set their skill level if they have not done so already.

Sign Up Status

• Slots Taken: 190 – Waiting List: 1/10 (last update: 13/08/2008, 23:47 CET)
• Total Slot Limit: 200 – only 9 slots left!
  
• Confirmed participants: [Link]
• New teams will be added to the league when we reached 10 more teams on the Waiting List to build up a new Division!
• Deadline: Wednesday, 13^th August, 23:59 CET – Sign Ups closing TONIGHT! Take your last chance!
  

>>> SEASON 3 SIGN UP LINK <<<

Incomplete Sign-Ups:

• The Legendary RastaClan – no skill level entered
• Kalashnikov fans – no skill level entered
• Impulse – no skill level entered
• FunK-ControL – no skill level entered + at least 1 more contact method missing
• CZech tactiX TF2A – no skill level entered
• The Smash Project – no skill level entered

Tonight we have some fresh Nations‘ Cup action with PwnageTV Coverage for Group D match Sweden vs. Denmark!

Sweden will do their best for a smooth start in the tournament and want to gain their first 6 points. Denmark, being some kind of insider tip for this tourney, will need a good performance on teamplay to steal Sweden some points.

Coverage

Match and Coverage is starting at 21.00 CET.

PwnageTV Coverage: [Link]

Source TV (128 slots): 85.236.100.159:27215;password tv

Line-Ups

Sweden: bybben, glufse, lezek, ryb, sommie, weqo

Denmark: BeastyBear, F2, hammy, KillaloT, Ras, Silan

Match Overview

cp_well

Sweden [6:1] Denmark

cp_badlands

Sweden [6:0] Denmark

OVERALL

Sweden [6:0] Denmark

Sunday is near. Season 3 Sign-Ups are near. Here is some information about the requirements you will need to get a spot in ETF2L Season 3.

Season 3 – Sign-Up requirements

• Minimum of 6 players on roster
• Minimum of 2 different contact methods entered
• Correct Skill level set

We are starting with a slot limit of 120. When all 120 spots are filled, later signing teams will have to stay on Waiting List until we reach 10 more teams to build up a new Division.

Notice: Every team will be on the Waiting List first until an admin checked your application.

Season 3 Sign-Ups will open Sunday, 3^rd August, 19:00 CET.

Season 3 Custom Map Poll

After some internal discussion we decided to have all official Valve maps in our Season 3 Map Pool: cp_badlands, cp_dustbowl, cp_fastlane, cp_gravelpit, cp_pro_granary, cp_well, ctf_2fort, ctf_turbine, ctf_well, pl_goldrush

Beside these official maps, we want to give some new and good looking map the chance to get played. On our Custom Map Poll you are able to vote 6 different maps. The two maps with most votes will be included in our Season 3 Map Pool.

Notice: As our Season 3 Map System works by teams picking maps between each other, you will only have the maps you and your opponent’s picked.

Candidates

• cp_labor – [Map Info]
• cp_redstone_b2 – [Map Info]
• cp_science2 – [Map Info]
• cp_stag – [Map Info]
• cp_warpath2 – [Map Info]
• ctf_mach4 – [Map Info]

Poll Info

• You can vote for 2 maps!
• Top 2 voted maps go to Season 3 Map Pool
• Poll closing Sunday, 10^th August, 23:59 CET

After Valve’s last patch finally made the Kritzkrieg working on servers without crits, we decided to enable the weapon for all upcoming ETF2L tournaments. For a fair competition Kritzkrieg stays disabled for all 3rd Cup and Nations’ Cup Group Phase matches.

Rule change:

1.3.1 Medic Unlocks: Übersaw + Blutsauger allowed; Kritzkrieg disabled for 3rd Cup + Nations’ Cup Group Phase

It’s allowed to use Übersaw and Blutsauger. Using the Kritzkrieg is allowed in Season 3, Nations’ Cup Playoff Phase and all upcoming competitions. Kritzkrieg stays disabled at 3rd Cup + Nations’ Cup Group Phase.

3rd Cup – Quarter Finals

Beside everybody waiting for our Season 3 Sign-Ups which will start this Sunday (more information coming up soon), our running Cup is on its final stages. The Quarter Finals have been drawn yesterday on our IRC channel. Good Luck to all teams reaching the Semi-Finals.

Fixtures

• Dead Cows Strike Back vs. TFPortal.de
• Interrobang vs. Excello
• klan:fader vs. Zero Tolerance
• eL Diablo’s Brigade vs. Winner of Round 4 Match 4 Kings vs. Weapons of the Rebelion

Dates & Details

• Map Order: 1. cp_well 2. cp_gravelpit 3. ctf_2fort 4. cp_badlands 5. cp_dustbowl
• Schedule Deadline: Sunday, 3^rd August, 23:59 CET
• Game Deadline: Sunday, 10^th August, 23:59 CET

Nations’ Cup Group Phase Schedule

Our first Nations’ Cup is running smooth; still many matches ain’t scheduled/entered in our Calendar. We want to remember all team leaders the Schedule Deadline is the 6^th August, all matches which aren’t scheduled by then will get a Default Date. Especially teams who haven’t scheduled any matches yet should start contacting their opponents if they don’t want to get removed from the Cup.

Fun Cups – Round 3 Game Deadline

As some Round 3 matches are still missing we decided to set a Game Deadline for Sunday, 3^rd August. All affected team leaders have been mailed. Please play your matches soon or post a status on your Match Report Page.

Unplayed Round 3 Matches:

• Soldier 1on1 – pEx vs. Coinz
• Basketball 2on2 – reudiger Ralle und sahniger Sani vs. hazan joukkue
• Basketball 2on2 – Racoon.Bball vs. Dashing along them streets
• Basketball 2on2 – Tears oft he Dream Queen vs. Ur Mums Athletic
• Basketball 2on2 – Blood Pressure bBall vs. Massive Meat

New Rules Page

We had a general rewrite of our Rules-Page, please check it out [Link]. Separate subjects will get linked in the next days. Season 3 Rules will be published there later this week aswell.

We also worked on a new Events-Page where all announced League Dates are listed. [Link]

Kritzkreig – Banned

A recent TF2 update has enabled the Kritzkreig to enable firing critical shots when the server is set to crits disabled. We would just like to confirm that due to this change the Kritzkreig will now be banned from all current competitions until further notice.