The next two votes are over, sniperlimit will be 2 like the limit for every other class (except medic) and friendly fire will be off. Outcome match rules: TFTrue used, Crits off, Mediclimit 1, Classlimit2.

Today we got new votes about possible maps in the mappool (beside gravel, granary, well, dustbowl & 2fort). There is a little game guide with download link for ctf_turbine @ this page, and a download page with comment discussion about cp_science_b3 here, and for cp_warpath here. If you think there shouldn’t be played any custom maps in the 1st Season just vote against adding any map. Mappool votes will end on Tuesday, 17:00CET.

Beside that I am sorry to tell we can’t upload the new rules page and the server.cfg today as the site owner only got internet on weekdays at the moment. They will be published on Monday as well as the dustbowl & gravelpit vote, which had to be postponed again, as we are still thinking about some different possibilities.

Still there are 5 fixtures of the ETF2L Starting Cup 1^st Round missing in the calendar. Please be sure to add them till coming Wednesday, if you have problems doing it or contacting your opponent, contact us.

Sign-Up Deadline will end coming Wednesday, on the 12.12. If your team wants to play in the ETF2L and have some competitive fun on their skill level, sign up very soon.

Now have fun voting:

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Hello people,

Much information is coming to you in this post, so we will start right through:

We are happy to almost reached 30 teams from 7 different countries (France, England, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Finland & Denmark). Still there is space for many more teams of course!

Remember: The deadline for the 1^st Season Sign-Up is coming closer. If your team wants to take part in the biggest European TF2 League sign up your team, there are only 7 days left to register for the 1^st ETF2L season. Also a special invite for teams from minority TF2 gaming countries like Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Portugal, Spain, Norway, Belgium or Romania. Get your mates together and sign!

The first votes are finished; sadly we couldn’t get clear results on the classlimit votes. But hell yeah, community is quite discordant at the moment. The Crit-Vote ended with 68% voters against crits; 54% of the voters decided for mediclimit 1. About general classlimits, 52% (71 people) voted for classlimit 2, 40% (55 people) voted for no classlimits.

As result of these votes the ETF2L 1^st Season & Starting Cup will be played with no Crits, Mediclimit 1 and Classlimit 2. Timelimit for well, granary and 2fort is 30 minutes. TFTrue needs to be installed on your server. Some explanation: We know many people voted for unlimited classlimits. Still we think, as over 50% voted for classlimit 2, we should give that system a chance. TF2 has very balanced classes so it’s normally not needed to play with more than 2 of one class. We will go with classlimit 2 for the 1^st Season and please those who voted for no classlimits to give it a chance. Sure there might be a new vote about the classlimits for the 2^nd season.

Notice: There is another vote about final sniperlimit in the end of this news (as the first outcome “unlimited” is not realizable anymore), beside a vote about friendly fire. The votes will be closed Saturday the 8^th, 12:00 CET. Votes about the score system on gravelpit & dustbowl, and a vote about custom maps in mappool will follow on the same day. And also the fixed rules will be updated on the “Rules Page”, including a server.cfg, on Saturday, so everything is fixed for the 1^st Round of our Starting Cup. Mentioning the Starting Cup,

That will be the fixed ETF2L Starting Cup Timetable:

1^st Round: 10.-16.12., maps: well+granary (decider: 2fort golden cap)

Quarter-Finals: 17.12.-6.1. (If possible! Otherwise as soon as possible), maps by elimination mode

Semi-Finals: 7.1.-13.1., maps by elimination mode

Final: 20.1.2008 around 21:00CET, maps by elimination mode, 2 mapwins

We hope it’s possible for all teams to fix a date for the Quarter Final between 17.12.07 and 06.01.08; anyway, we understand if a team can’t make it in this period. If that’s the case, try to do the game in the midweek after the 6^th.

Notice: There will be a live IRC drawing for every round. Dates and times will be announced on this site.

Elimination Mappick System:

The ETF2L Starting Cup mappool comprised well, granary, dustbowl, gravelpit, 2fort (5 maps). Maps will be picked from the Quarter Final on by the following way: 1^st team drawn starts with eliminating the first map. The 2^nd team eliminates a 2^nd map. 3 maps are left. 1^st team now decides their map from the last 3 maps. The 2^nd team can now choose their map from the last 2. These two maps will be played. The 3^rd map is the possible decider map.

Example:

Team A: “We eliminate dustbowl!” –> well, granary, gravelpit, 2fort

Team B: “Oh no, but ok, we eliminate 2fort!!” –> well, granary, gravelpit

Team A: “Hum, our map will be granary then…” –> well, gravelpit

Team B: “Okok, ours is gravelpit.” –> well (decider map if each team wins 1 map)

Notice: You are supposed to add the game date and fixed maps to the ETF2L calendar, by clicking on Calendar at the Dashboard. There you can add an “event”.

If you still want to mention any good custom maps which should be added to the mappool, have a look in our forum thread.

For any questions or problems regarding the Sign-Up, the Starting Cup, the 1^st season or anything else, feel invited to contact us by the comment function, the forum or by IRC @ QuakeNet, channel #etf2l .

We are also still in need of some more admins. If you are interested in helping, contact us.

Ok, that’s it; next news on Saturday!

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A new week started with the IRC Live Drawing in our channel #etf2l . First thanks to everyone who has taken part. As result of the drawing we got following 1^st Round fixtures:

FoF vs veil, Xeno-Project.tf2 vs The Last Resort, mamboswing vs simply iQ, United vs ColdFusion, 9Men vs 4Kings, charge vs Team Jobola, animus vs Herbs Army and Soldiers at Work vs last one alive lock the door. You can also see them at the cup page on our site. Notice: All rounds will be done by drawings, so it’s not a “tree”. The dates published on the cup site are wrong, there will be a winter break (detailed dates will be announced tomorrow).

Games are supposed to be played from 10.-16.12.! Be sure to contact your opponent to fix the game date. You have to add the fixed date to the calendar @ Dashboard -> Calendar so we can be sure all dates are fixed. If you have problems contacting your opponent contact one of the admins.

About Cup’s mappool; as we didn’t have the score system votes about gravelpit and dustbowl yet (they will probably start tomorrow!) 1^st round cup games have to be played on well and granary. If both teams win one map 2fort will be played as golden cap map, first cap wins. If anyhow 2fort is 0:0 after 30mins, team with bigger teamscore wins. From the Quarter-Final on, maps will be picked by elimination mode; but more info on that when it’s time. The total mappool of the Starting Cup is: gravelpit, dustbowl, well, 2fort, granary.

Tomorrow there will be one more newspost about ETF2L Season 1 progress and new votes about possible custom maps in the mappool, a friendly fire vote and the score system vote for gravelpit and dustbowl. We will also announce the result of the crit and classlimits votes.

Remember there are only 9 days left to sign your team for the first season. If you want to take part, register your team soon. That’s all for the moment, have a good night.

Edit: If you know any good custom maps which we should have a look at, please post them into the comments of this post. We already got some hints, but sure we are still open for more.

Edit2: Sorry, news will be online today (Wednesday), 20.00 CET latest.

Just a quick note that the forums are now live and can be accessed here: http://etf2l.q3f.org/forum . You will first need to sign up to the site before being able to post.

Also i’ve noticed a few clans have not submitted their member list correctly. Members must be entered 1 per line in the format “<steamid> <name>”. Please update your details before the cup commences if you are competing in the cup!

PS: The cup draw will take place tonight in our irc channel #etf2l on quakenet at 19:30CET

…is a pleasure for every project. First of all, I really want to thank everybody for all the positive feedback! Our statistic after the first 7 hours: 16 clans signed, ~100 people voted, ~1200 hits.

That’s already places us in the first and only “bad” news: All slots for the ETF2L Starting Cup are taken. We are very proud of having some of the best Europe clans in already. The nominees for the ETF2L Starting Cup Champion are: Clan United, ColdFusion, CurseD Clan, FoF, Team Jobola, The Last Resort, Xeno-Project.tf2, charge, mamboswing, veil, 9 Men, HerbsArmy (Red Squad), animus, last one alive lock the door, simply iQ and Soldiers at Work.

As we don’t have any results of the clans in our league yet, the first cup will be done with drawings. Any teams can meet each other in every round. For some thrill we will also do live drawings at our IRC channel #etf2l @ QuakeNet. Feel invited for the 1^st-Round-Draw next Monday, 3^rd December, at 19:30CET! The 1^st Round will suppose to be played in the week from 10^th till 16^th December.

Now we want you to remember that your team, of course, can still sign up for the 1^st ETF2L season, which will start in the week of 07.01.2008. Don’t forget signups will close on the 12^th December! Some people had problems registering their clan on the site. Some explanation: Only 1 (!) player has to register at our site. When you are logged in, click on “Dashboard”. There you will find a “Register Clan” button. Be sure you got all correct TF2 SteamID from your player. Add the members in the format: “0:1:3343541 TestDummy” (without the “). If you need any more help feel free to contact us by IRC or E-Mail. We will also add a forum to the page soon.

Already over 100 people voted about the loved or hated crits. As it looks like by now, crits will be disabled in the ETF2L. Do you agree with that or you would prefer playing with crits? Give us your opinion, you can still vote till Sunday night. After that the vote will be closed. Also the next votes will start tonight. There are _many_ different opinions about class restrictions so we really hope to get some rules everybody can live with. There will be three votes: Mediclimit, sniperlimit and about all other classes. You will have the possibility to choose between limit of 1, 2, 3 or unlimited. These votes will end on Monday the 3^rd, at 23:59CET. Notice: If a vote ends with two very close percentages, there will be a 2^nd final vote between these two top answers.

Beside that we are still discussing about a good scoring system for dustbowl and gravelpit, which are pretty unbalanced. We are open for good ideas, which will make these maps more competitive. We will probably have a vote about possible scoring systems next week.

We are also happy to already welcome a new addition to our organization team. Riemu, member of Herbs Army, joined us as admin. Hope you will have a nice time!

All I have to give you for now is the votes; remember you can only vote once:

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