2nd Cup Final – 4 Kings vs. Fracture

Biggest European Cup’s Final will take place tonight! Our partners QuadV.com will make a live Video-Stream with commentary. Their show will start at 20:40 CET (Schedule Link), Cup Final is supposed to start at 21:00 CET. Don’t miss the fight!

>>> QuadV Live Coverage (TV Channel 1) <<<

Gamemode: First team reaching 2 Map Wins won, drawn maps will count as draw

Map-Order:

cp_pro_granary

4 Kings [5:4] Fracture

cp_badlands

4 Kings [4:3] Fracture

OVERALL

4 Kings [2:0] Fracture

Line-Ups:

4 Kings: –

Fracture: AppZ, treigzak, mvp., appe, Agron, Chode

Road to the Final:

4 Kings (Seeding Position: 1st)

Round 1: vs. Quack Attack – cp_well 8:0 | cp_badlands 5:0

Round 2: vs. Friede seiner Asche – cp_badlands 11:0 | ctf_turbine 16:1

Round 3: vs. Animate – cp_pro_granary 8:0 | cp_well 6:0

Quarter-Final: vs. Weapons of the Rebelion – ctf_2fort 0:0 | ctf_turbine 4:3 | cp_badlands 5:2

Semi-Final: vs. sigh6 – cp_pro_granary 3:1 | cp_badlands 7:1

Fracture (Seeding Position: 7th)

Round 1: vs. Malevolent Monkees – cp_well 10:0 | cp_pro_granary 15:0

Round 2: vs. rats-clan – cp_granary 5:1 | ctf_turbine 13:1

Round 3: vs. Die Doppelnullen – Default Win

Quarter-Final: vs. The Last Resort – cp_pro_granary 5:0 | cp_dustbowl 7:6

Semi-Final: vs. Excello – cp_pro_granary 5:3 | cp_badlands 6:4

3rd Cup

3rd Cup Sign-Ups will open at 0.00 CET tonight. Registered teams’ contact persons will be able to sign up by one click (at Competition-Sign-Up-Page). You will need at least 2 contacts entered and 6 verified members with SteamID. Detailed information in next newspost.

Update: Sign-Ups are open now! You will have wait up to 24 hours until you are shown on the Cup Participants Page as admins check if every team has 2 contacts and 6 verified players entered. More on a Newspost later this day.

We had to set quite a lot Default Dates this Week again. We please everybody to get more active scheduling your games again.

Default Dates (can only be changed if both teams agree and have to be played 25.05. latest except for Wildcard games):

• Division 1 – Excello vs. Blood Pressure – Wednesday, 21.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 2a – exS vs. FsA – Wednesday, 21.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 2a – Knights vs. zt – Wednesday, 21.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 2b – plan-B vs. Team wL – Wednesday, 21.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 2b – GamerArea vs. Cruciamentum – Wednesday, 21.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 3c – Fluffy Diced vs. n2o – Wednesday, 21.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 4b – MM2 vs. GoT2 – Wednesday, 21.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 4c – Smaland vs. ouF – Wednesday, 21.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 4c – GoT3 vs. ask|cry – Wednesday, 21.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 4c – Kaizen vs. 961 – Wednesday, 21.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 5b – SouthPark vs. unbindAll – Wednesday, 21.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 5c – Titans vs. Tribunal Team – Wednesday, 21.05., 21:00 CET

If there are any problems regarding the date, please contact an admin.

2nd Cup Final

After the first date has been postponed, we got a new date for our big 2nd Cup Final: Coming Sunday, 18^th May 2008, 21:00 CET!

Cup Holders 4 Kings, which had some lineup changes lately, will meet the probably most improved team of the last weeks, Fracture.

Don’t miss the big Cup Final, we will have some coverage ready!

3rd Cup Sign-Up Period

As our current Cup is reaching his end with the final being played on Sunday, we are happy to announce our 3^rd Cup Sign-Up Period:

3^rd Cup Sign-Ups open: Monday, 19.05., 0:00 CET

3^rd Cup Sign-Ups ending: Wednesday, 28.05., 23:59 CET

Cup will be played without Seedings. Fixtures for every round will be done by a random draw.

Any European team is invited to join the Cup. You can find a How-To register your team at the site in our FAQ.

Season 2 Schedule

Still having some delay in the schedule, Week 6 is running, please contact your opponent as soon as possible if you haven’t done it yet and schedule your games. If you can’t find a date for this week, try to schedule the match for early next week.

All Week 6 Games are supposed to be scheduled by tonight, 23:59 CET.

We also had to enter some 0-0 results, probably check your results list if you forgot to add any results.

Demomen Limit Vote

After having some technical error in our last Cup Vote (which result won’t be counted as it wasn’t possible to vote 12 hours after the vote started) we are opening a general Demomen Limit vote after having some open discussion on it for weeks. Please take your chance to vote above.

Notice: Season 2 Demomen Limit probably won’t be changed during the running season.

New Admin, New Forum

We are glad to announce a new Admin in our Staff: Wlv, known as player in Division 1 Team The Last Resort. He will help us with fresh ideas in some upcoming projects of the future…

As we had quite a lot threads about released movies we decided to create a “Movie Forum“. Feel free to publish your work there like Division 2a Team LOL made it with their new Team-Movie “Inspiration“.

Default Dates

First of all, for people who haven’t noticed yet, our 2nd Cup Final has been postponed to next week. New date will be published here soon of course.

Beside that we have to mention sigh6 is dropping from Division 1. Not very funny but guess nothing we can do about it.

We also had to set some Default Dates on our current Schedule this Week. We please all teams to contact your Week 6 opponents already and start scheduling these games. Try to stick to the regular schedule as good as possible.

Week 5 Default Dates:

• Division 1 – 4 Kings vs. Blood Pressure – Monday, 12.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 2a – it’s a farm! vs. Zero Tolerance – Tuesday, 13.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 2a – FsA vs. Team Empire – Tuesday, 13.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 2b – jAgarna vs. TFPortal – Tuesday, 13.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 2b – plan-B vs. Cruciamentum – Tuesday, 13.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 3a – IDK vs. Veritas – Monday, 12.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 3a – hb0da vs. FakkelBrigade – Monday, 12.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 4b – Strikeforce vs. LoL – Sunday, 11.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 4b – bR vs. GoT2 – Sunday, 11.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 5a – AWOL vs. Team SdX’98 – Sunday, 11.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 5a – IsF vs. IS777 – IsF taking Wildcard
• Division 5b – Pul Kai vs. YES – Sunday, 11.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 5b – SouthPark vs. Czech tactiX TF2a – Sunday, 11.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 5c – MTF vs. Game Faqs X – Monday, 12.05., 21:00 CET

These dates can only be changed if both teams agree.

Sadly there are also a few games from Week 4 still not entered. Hopefully some just forgot to submit the scores.

We will make an exception and set another date for these, anyway these dates can’t be postponed. If no result is entered 24 hours after game was supposed to be played, we will enter a 0-0 for both maps.

• Division 1 – TLR vs. Excello – Wednesday, 14.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 2a – exS vs. Knights – Tuesday, 13.05., 21:00 CET
• Division 3a – hb0da vs. IDK – Tuesday, 13.05., 21:00 CET

Rules

On the rules side we add three new maps to our 3^rd-Party-Pool:

• If both teams picked the same map against each other, they can agree on changing it once to a 3^rd-Party-Map. Map can be chosen by Map Elimination Mode (1^st team on Fixtures Page is supposed to start) or just by arranging. 3^rd-Party-Mappool: cp_warpath, cp_labor, cp_redstone_b2, cp_science2, cp_stag, cp_granary (with gates), pl_goldrush

Cup Poll

Cup Pool is still open, take your vote at top of this vote and decide which Win System we will use in our upcoming 3^rd Cup! This Vote will close coming Sunday, 23:59 CET.

Due to some bug vote was closed for the last days, so we will let it stay open for some more days.

2^nd Cup Final

Cup Final is postponed due to member problems of 4 Kings.

This Thursday, 8^th May 2008, our big Cup Final will taken place with a live videostream from 20:50 CET on at QuadV.com. Our current Starting Cup-Titleholders 4 Kings are facing the probably most improved team of last weeks, Fracture, in the final of European’s biggest Team Fortress 2 Cup! Don’t miss the clash!

First team reaching 2 Map-Wins will be new ETF2L Cup Title-Holder; this will be the map order: cp_pro_granary – cp_badlands – ctf_turbine – cp_well – cp_gravelpit

4 Kings’ way to the Final:

Seeding Position: 1st

Round 1: vs. Quack Attack – cp_well 8:0 | cp_badlands 5:0

Round 2: vs. Friede seiner Asche – cp_badlands 11:0 | ctf_turbine 16:1

Round 3: vs. Animate – cp_pro_granary 8:0 | cp_well 6:0

Quarter-Final: vs. Weapons of the Rebelion – ctf_2fort 0:0 | ctf_turbine 4:3 | cp_badlands 5:2

Semi-Final: vs. sigh6 – cp_pro_granary 3:1 | cp_badlands 7:1

Fracture’s way to the Final:

Seeding Position: 7th

Round 1: vs. Malevolent Monkees – cp_well 10:0 | cp_pro_granary 15:0

Round 2: vs. rats-clan – cp_granary 5:1 | ctf_turbine 13:1

Round 3: vs. Die Doppelnullen – Default Win

Quarter-Final: vs. The Last Resort – cp_pro_granary 5:0 | cp_dustbowl 7:6

Semi-Final: vs. Excello – cp_pro_granary 5:3 | cp_badlands 6:4

Cup Gamemode Polls

Our 1^st Cup-Gamemode-Poll ended pretty close with total voters of 160. With having only 2 more votes we will stay with the Draw-Map-Count-System. But the next and probably most important poll is starting right away: The general Winning-System for our upcomming. You can choose between 1 Map only, a Classic Best of 3 or our current 2 Map Win System.

Season-Halftime

Nearing the Season-Halftime I have two general reminders for you:

• We included a Demo-Upload-Function a week ago and would like to see more people using it. Feel free uploading your PoV- our Source-TV-Demos of your ETF2L Matches!
• We recommend all team leaders to join our Steam Group for another communication system.

Our general league schedule after Week 4 officially ended last Sunday is pretty good except for Division 1 which feels like a fulltime-problem sometimes. We are happy about only 7 teams dropping so far (which are only 6 %), but with warm weather coming up we will probably have some more drops in the coming weeks.

It seems like some teams are working on a perfect streak in their 1^st ETF2L Season, good luck for the rest of the Season to hold your streaks:

• Division 2b – Holy Warriors of A…. – 18 points after 6 maps played
• Division 3a – dmg. – 18 points after 6 maps played
• Division 3b – veAre – 18 points after 6 maps played
• Division 4a – Totally Totalitarian – 18 points after 6 maps played
• Division 4c – eL Diablo’s Brigade – 24 points after 8 maps played
• Division 5a – Clones-Inc – 24 points after 8 maps played
• Division 5b – unbindAll – 18 points after 6 maps played
• Division 5c – MTF.Gaming – 24 points after 8 maps played
• Division 5c – Tribunal Team – 24 points after 8 maps played

IRC-Bot Clones

Thanks to QuakeNet ETF2L’s little brothers ETF2L2 and ETF2L3 are not online anymore. Looks like we have to live with a 20-Channel-Limit for the future (one spot is still free at the moment, just type /invite ETF2L #yourchan ).