Nations‘ Cup

Our Nations‘ Cup Group Phase started, the first games are played and some more are already scheduled. In the first Group C games both top seeded teams proved their ranking with two clear wins. Belgium won over Italy (cp_badlands 10:0 | cp_well 5:1) and Russia showed their strength vs. Latvia (cp_badlands 10:0 | cp_well 4:1) – Source TV Demos of both maps can be found in our Demo Section [Link].

Tonight the first meeting between two highskilled National Teams will take place in Group A. Finland will meet France on ctf_turbine and cp_gravelpit and try to earn the first group points! Feel free to spectate the match (starting 21:00 CET) at a 128-slot-Source TV: 85.236.100.159:27215;password tv

We please all National Teams to contact their opponents and schedule your Group Phase Matches. Please contact us if you have problems reaching an opponent so we can sort out inactive teams.

Fun Cups

Almost all Round 2 matches are played; here is a little overview of our current Fun Cup Competitions:

In our Soldier 1on1 Cup we have another Quarter Final ready to play: necr0cannibal from Blood Pressure will meet cube of Veritas. In the first Quarter Final weqo managed to defeat appe (35:18 + 35:22 – [Match Page] and is now awaiting his Semi-Final opponent.

Beside that we still have our admin Wlv from The Last Resort, AioR from Team wL and Coinz from Weapons of the Rebelion in the tourney making their way through the tree. Some big matches will come up there soon.

On the basket court we got one Quarter Final Fixture ready: Polish National Team Players Vice & mac will meet reformed Fracture buddies treigzak & mvp. Beside these two, we find some more Fracture people in the Tree aswell: kentt, together with miikka, is meeting the Blood Pressure buddies necr0cannibal & Punpu. And last but not least also appe and his team “Fractured Allstars” made their way to the Quarter Finals.

Please contact your Round 3 opponents soon and play your games.

Also remember the Winmode is changing by the Round you are playing. You can find all Fun Cup Winlimits at our FAQ [Link].

3^rd Cup

Also our 3^rd Cup is going on pretty smooth, all Round 4 Matches are scheduled and three Quarter Final Participants are known already: Dead Cows Strike Back, klan:fader and TFPortal.de.

Who will join up? One of the big Top Matches will be played tonight with Excello meeting Clones-Inc. Interested in spectating this game (starting 21:00 CET)? Join the Source TV: 81.19.219.106:27115

Also we are having another IRC Live Drawing for 3rd Cup Quarter Finals coming up next Monday, 28th July, at 19:30 CET in our QuakeNet Channel #etf2l – feel invited to take part as visitor!

Nations‘ Cup Group Phase starting!

After our IRC Live Drawing was done successfully with over 300 people participating in our channel #etf2l @ QuakeNet, the Groups are set and our Nations’ Cup Group Phase is ready to start!

Nations’ Cup Group Phase – Details

• Group Standings: [Link]
• Fixtures: [Link]
• Games don’t have to be played in any specific order.
• Every National Team will have to play at least one game until Sunday, 27^th July, 23:59 CET
• We please every team to speak about Servers by scheduling a game. Please try to enter a Source TV IP for your matches.
• Group Phase Games Deadline: Sunday, 17^th August 2008, 23:59 CET

Of course we will also organize some special coverage for Top Matches. If you want more information and news about our Nations’ Cup, feel free to visit the Cadred.org Coverage [Link].

3^rd Cup – Round 4

Beside the Nations’ Cup Group Phase also the 4th Round of our 3^rd Cup has been drawn.

Our current league and cup title holders 4 Kings will meet Division 1 team Weapons of the Rebelion. The Runner-Up of Season 2, Excello will have a big fight against Danish team Clones-Inc. Parallel to this Top Match, most of both team’s members will have another big fight in the Nations’ Cup Group Phase Game Sweden vs. Denmark.

Fixtures

• back to Resupply vs. Zero Tolerance
• DCSB Red Team vs. gBh
• eL Diablo’s Brigade vs. dmg.
• Excello vs. Clones-Inc
• TFPortal.de vs. Herbs Army
• Friede seiner Asche vs. klan:fader
• 4 Kings vs. Weapons of the Rebelion
• r@ts vs. Interrobang

Dates & Details

• Map-Order: 1. ctf_turbine 2. cp_pro_granary (3. cp_dustbowl 4. cp_badlands 5. ctf_2fort)
• Schedule Deadline: Sunday, 20^th July 2008, 23:59 CET
• Game Deadline: Sunday, 27^th July 2008, 23:59 CET

Soldier 1on1 & Basketball 2on2 Status

We are happy our both Fun Cups running quite smooth and most matches are fun playing.

In our Soldier 1on1 Cup one Quarter Final Fixture is already up with weqo, ETF2L admin from the start and Demoman of Division 1 Team Excello, meeting his team mate appe, who recently won the Soldier of the Season Award.

Anyway some Round 2 Games haven’t be played yet which should be done soon; please contact your opponent or write a notice on your games’ Match Page if you can’t reach him.

Unplayed Round 2 Games

• Soldier 1on1 – HausRatte vs. pEx
• Basketball 2on2 – Dashing along them streets vs. Hampshire Heavies
• Basketball 2on2 – Bitch be Quiet vs. Fractured Allstars
• Basketball 2on2 – Massive Meat vs. BasketBill

Also I would like to mention a new TF2 Duel Map called dm_hans2. Creator bpf from it’s a farm! included some special ETF2L advertisement [Screen].

Season 2 – Player of the Season

The last poll is over, over 100 people took part in the poll and voted for their Player of the Season. In the end Byte from Weapons of the Rebelion won the title with 36% of all votes! Congratulations!

Player of the Season Poll Result

• 1^st Place: Byte, Demoman, Weapons of the Rebelion (36%, 39 Votes)
• 2^nd Place: Bybben, Scout, Excello/4 Kings (31%, 33 Votes)
• 3^rd Place: Appe, Soldier, Fracture/Excello (18%, 19 Votes)
• 4^th Place: Agron, Medic, Fracture/Cruciamentum (9%, 10 Votes)
• 5^th Place: Sommie, Heavy, Excello (6%, 7 Votes)

As we have announced in our last newspost already, we will have some big action coming up tonight!

19:00 CET – Nations’ Cup IRC Live Drawing

The start will do our big public Nations’ Cup IRC Live Drawing which will decide all Groups for our upcoming main tournament.

All National Teams have been put on Pots from 1-5 divided by skill level. One team of each Pot will get drawn into one Group.

*UPDATE: Nations’ Cup Groups*

• Group A: Finland, France, Portugal, Netherlands, Austria
• Group B: United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, CzechRepublic, Ukraine
• Group C: Russia, Belgium, Latvia, Italy, Luxembourg or Turkey
• Group D: Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Israel, Norway

Feel invited to attend in our channel #etf2l @ QuakeNet!

19:30 CET – 3^rd Cup Round 4 IRC Live Drawing

Right after the Nations’ Cup Drawing is finished, we will go on with our 3^rd Cup Round 4 IRC Live Drawing. The remaining 16 teams out of 128 will get to know their next opponents. There are going to be some nice match-ups for sure!

Round 4 – Dates & Details

• Map-Order: 1. ctf_turbine 2. cp_pro_granary (3. cp_dustbowl 4. cp_badlands 5. ctf_2fort)
• Schedule Deadline: Sunday, 20^th July 2008, 23:59 CET
• Game Deadline: Sunday, 27^th July 2008, 23:59 CET

*UPDATE: Round 4 Fixtures*

• back to Resupply vs. Zero Tolerance
• DCSB Red Team vs. gBh
• eL Diablo’s Briage vs. dmg.
• Excello vs. Clones-Inc
• TFPortal.de vs. Herbs Army
• Friede seiner Asche vs. klan:fader
• 4 Kings vs. wotr1 or wotr3
• r@ts vs. Interrobang

20:00 CET – Fastlane-1-Day-Cup

When the Drawings are finished, we will go on with our first 1-Day-Cup introducing the new released map cp_fastlane! If your team is up for some fresh action and has nothing scheduled for tonight yet, feel free to take part and sign-up!

Details

• Gamemode: cp_fastlane, Timelimit 30, Map Overtime: Golden Cap
• Slots: 16
• Sign-Ups: OPEN: [Link] (Notice: You will need at least 6 members and 2 contacts entered)
• Sign-Ups closing: 19:50 CET

*UPDATE: Results*

Cup Tree: [Link]

Congratulations to our Fastlane-1-Day-Cup Winner: Interrobang!

Nations‘ Cup starting!

After our Sign-Ups closed last night, we are able to announce the official start of the 1st ETF2L Nations‘ Cup!

We are counting 22 registered National Teams for the moment, but unfortunately Romania didn’t manage to fix their roster yet. Their team captain is contacted and got time till Monday, 23:59 CET, to fix their roster, otherwise Romania will not be able to participate in the Cup.

Nations’ Cup – Pre-Round

Before starting our Group Phase with 4 groups a 5 teams, we will have a Pre-Round between smaller TF2 countries who will fight each other for a Group Phase spot.

Pre-Round Fixtures

• Hungary vs. Austria – Thursday, 10th July, 20:00 CET
• Luxembourg vs. Turkey – Monday, 14th July, 20:00 CET

Pre-Round – Dates & Details

• Gamemode: Best of 3, Map Overtime: Golden Cap
• Maps: 1. cp_pro_granary, 2. cp_well, 3. cp_badlands
• Schedule Deadline: Thursday, 10^th July, 23:59 CET
• Game Deadline: Monday, 14^th July, 23:59 CET

Nations’ Cup – Group Phase

As we have announced before, a Live IRC Drawing will decide our Nations’ Cup Groups. All National Teams have been put on Pots from 1-5 divided by skill level. One team of each Pot will get drawn into one Group.

Group Phase Drawing Pots

• Pot 1: Finland, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom
• Pot 2: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany
• Pot 3: Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Spain
• Pot 4: CzechRepublic, Israel, Italy, Netherlands
• Pot 5: Norway, Ukraine, Luxembourg or Turkey, Hungary or Austria

Due this competition is taking place in summer we decided for some liberal Schedule Rules for the Group Phase. Every National Team has 4 weeks to play their 4 Group Phase Games. The order a team plays their matches doesn’t matter, anyway every National Team will have to play at least 1 game in the first two weeks to show some activity. We will also probably set a general Schedule Deadline later.

Group Phase start – Dates & Details

• Live IRC Drawing (#etf2l @ QuakeNet): Sunday, 13^th July, at 19:00 CET
• Group Phase start: Tuesday, 15^th July, 0:00 CET
• Group Phase Playtime: 15.07.-12.08. (4 weeks for 4 games)
• Notice: At least one game has to be played after first two weeks.

Group Phase – Maps

• Week 1: cp_well, cp_badlands
• Week 2: ctf_turbine, cp_pro_granary
• Week 3: cp_gravelpit, cp_well
• Week 4: cp_pro_granary, cp_badlands
• Week 5: ctf_turbine, cp_gravelpit

Fastlane-1-Day-Cup on Sunday, 13^th July!

Your team wants some different fresh TF2 action? Your team wants to try out some new tactics for a good looking new map? Then sign up for our Fastlane-1-Day-Cup!

Our first 1-Day-Cup will introduce Valve’s new official added map “cp_fastlane” and takes place on coming Sunday, 13^th July. The Cup will be open for every registered 6on6 team with at least 6 members entered on the roster.

Fastlane-1-Day-Cup – Dates & Details

• Date: Sunday, 13^th July 2008
• Slots: 16
• Gamemode: cp_fastlane, Timelimit 30, Map Overtime: Golden Cap
• Sign-Up Phase: 17:30-19:50 CET
• Cup Phase: 20:00-23:00 CET

3^rd Cup – Round 3 Schedule Deadline

Most Round 3 Games sadly aren’t scheduled yet. If no other date is entered in the Calendar by Monday, 23:59 CET, the Default Date will be entered.

Round 3 Default Date: Sunday, 13^th July, 21:00 CET

Unscheduled Matches:

• Team Empire vs. Excello
• Cavaliers vs. dmg.
• Herbs Army vs. Oh My God It Is
• Elitedorfkiller vs. gBh
• Zero Tolerance vs. Cruciamentum
• Back to Resupply vs. MTF.Gaming
• Wotr3 vs. wotr1
• 4 Kings vs. FOG
• Cleveridiot vs. FsA
• Totally Totalitarian vs. Clones-Inc
• Clan Troopers vs. TFPortal.de

Also don’t forget about our Round 4 Live IRC Drawing on Sunday, 13^th July, at 19:30 CET.

Season 2 Awards

We congratulate all Season 2 Award Winner:

• Demoman of the Season: Byte (Weapons of the Rebelion)
• Heavy of the Season: Sommie (Excello)
• Medic of the Season: Agron (Fracture/Cruciamentum)
• Scout of the Season: Bybben (Excello/4 Kings)
• Soldier of the Season: Appe (Fracture/Excello)
• Best English Team: Weapons of the Rebelion
• Best German Team: last one alive lock the door
• Best Russian Team: dmg.
• Best Scandinavian Team: Excello
• Dominating Award: Clones-Inc
• Fairplay Award: Quack Attack
• Most Surprising Team: FOG

All Player Award Winner are nominated for a final “Player of the Season” Award. Take your right to vote!

Site Update

As some might have noticed already we had a bigger site update and are happy to announce some new Features:

1. Generated Match Pages

Every fixed Feature has a generated Match Page from now on which can be used to schedule a game or comment it. You will also find all submitted Media of a game summarized.

2. New Roles: Deputy, War Arranger

Beside the main “Team Leaders” we have added two complete new Roles:

• Leader – Team Captain, Functions: Edit Team, Submit Results, Add Fixtures to Calendar
• Deputy – Co-Leader, Functions: Edit Team, Submit Results, Add Fixtures to Calendar
• War Arranger – Functions: Add Fixtures to Calendar

Every Leader may change the team rights any time and give roles to other members.

3. Demo Function for Fun Cups

You are now able to upload Fun Cup Demos to our site. Feel free to upload some thrilling Basketball 2on2 or Soldier 1on1 Match Demos.

Nations‘ Cup – Sign-Ups closing

After Romania, Ukraine and Hungary signed up recently, we got 23 National Teams ready to play the biggest Nations’ Cup in TF2 history.

Nations’ Cup Sign-Ups are closing this Saturday, 5^th July, at 23:59 CET.

All rosters will be closed and the Pre-Round Fixtures between smaller countries who will face each other for a Group Stage spot will be announced. A big Live IRC Drawing for our Nations’ Cup Group Phase will take place on Sunday, 13^th July, at 19:00 CET.

More Nations’ Cup information will be announced on Sunday.

Important Dates

• Sign-Ups closing: Saturday, 5^th July, at 23:59 CET
• Pre-Round (between small gaming countries): 7^th-13^th July
• Live IRC Drawing for Group Phase: Sunday, 13^th July, at 19:00 CET

Fun Cups – Round 1 finishing, Round 2 starting

We are happy most people were enjoying their first played Fun Cup Game. If your Round 2 Fixture is up already, please start contacting your opponent and play your game.

Round 2 Gamemodes

• Soldier 1on1 Cup: duel_duel2, Best of 3, Fraglimit 25
• Basketball 2on2 Cup: Best of 3, Winlimit 15 + Timelimit 20

All unplayed Round 1 Games got an open Challenge by now. If you are affected please have a look in our Challenge Forum. [Link]

3^rd Cup – Round 3 starting

After our IRC Live Drawing taking place last night and all Round 2 games are played, we official start Round 3. Fixtures are up and viewable now. [Link] Please start contacting your opponents and schedule your games.

Quite a lot Top Matches were being drawn: 4 out of 6 remaining UK teams have to fight each other; Dead Cows Strike Back will try beating Division 1 Team The Last Resort – the little team of Weapons of the Rebelion 3 will have to play against their big brother Weapons of the Rebelion 1.

Beside these we will have a match between Division 4a Champion Totally Totalitarian and Division 5a Champion Clones-Inc. Our Cup-Holders 4 Kings will meet Division 4b Champion and last remaining Latvian team FOG.

Dates & Details

• Map Order: 1. cp_badlands 2. cp_well 3. ctf_turbine 4. ctf_2fort 5. cp_dustbowl
• Round 3 – Schedule Deadline: Sunday, 6^th July 2008, 23:59 CET
• Round 3 – Game Deadline: Sunday, 13^th July 2008, 23:59 CET
• Round 4 – Live IRC Drawing: Sunday, 13^th July 2008, 19:30 CET

Season 2 Awards – Public Polls closing

Our Season 2 Season Awards Polls are closing tonight, 23:59 CET!

Some polls like “Heavy of the Season” are still very close! Take your right to vote and decide which performance should be gained with a Season Award.

>>> Season 2 Awards <<<