Season 2 – Week 2

We had to replace two more teams, AWOL jumped in @ Division 5a, SouthPark joined Division 5b. All teams should be active and contactable now.

Week 2 already started yesterday, so we please everyone who haven’t contact their opponent yet to do it and schedule a date.

All Week 2 Games have to be scheduled and entered to the Calendar till Wednesday, 23:59 CET.

All Week 2 Games have to be played till Sunday, 23:59 CET.

If you have problems to contact your team, open a thread in our Challenge Forum.

2^nd Cup – Quarter Finals

Our 2^nd Cup, the biggest European TF2 Cup in history, is reaching its final rounds.

With Excello dropping we sadly have one Default Win, in the other three matches 6 Division 1-Teams will face each other and try to claim a spot in the Semi-Finals.

Here is the timetable, watch out for Source TV IPs:

• syre vs. Clan United – Tuesday, 20:00 CET
• The Last Resort vs. Fracture – Wednesday, 21:00 CET
• 4 Kings vs. Weapons of the Rebelion – Thursday, 20:00 CET
• sigh6 vs. Excello – Default Win for sigh6

General

Map-Picks are closed now; all map choices can be found on our Fixtures-Page.

We want you to remember you will need at least 3 screenshots to submit a game. There is no problem if you miss one screen from time to time, but it should stay as an exception.

Last but not least a little advice for our German speaking visitors: Our partner site myTeamFortress.de is starting a weekly TF2 video-show. The 1^st show will be broadcasted upcoming Thursday, 19.00 CET. All information can be found here.

Map-Picks

As many teams still haven’t picked their maps, we postpone the Deadline to tomorrow, 14:59 CET. If you don’t pick your maps in time we will have to set Default Maps.

Map-Pick instructions can be found here.

Here is a list of all teams who haven’t picked their maps yet, contact your team leader and remember him about it:

• Rats-clan
• Prima Nocta
• Team Empire
• Zero Tolerance
• Animate
• Holy Warriors of A….
• Cruciamentum
• I Don’t Know?
• Is a Slave
• FakkelBrigade
• Beteam
• veAre
• clanda
• Fluffy Diced
• Herbs Army
• Insane Dutch Killers
• jesus stole my bike
• Fuckers Ad Astra
• Totally Totalitarian
• n!Gage
• Dum Spiro Spero
• Gathering of Tweakers Team 2
• Kaizen
• Smaland-online
• The Firefuckerz
• ouF Team
• Gathering of Tweakers Team 3
• Game Control
• CityNov
• unbindAll
• MTF.Gaming
• ULt1MmatEz Team
• Erdnuckels

Default Dates

We have two unscheduled matches this week.

• Division 1 – sigh6 vs. wotr – Default Date Monday, 14.04., 21:00 CET
• Division 2a – extenSia! vs. Team Empire – extenSia! taking wildcard

Beside that we got 2 Special Default Dates this Week, as one team is not reachable at the moment and will probably be removed.

• Vendetta in each room vs. Info Seekers 777 – Default Date Wednesday, 16.04., 21:00 CET
• Drunk Dragons vs. Yummy Elite Sausages – Default Date Wednesday, 16.04., 21:00 CET

V.I.E.R. and Drunk Dragons are supposed to contact dAy soon or we will have to replace your teams.

If your team is still interested in getting a late spot in Season 2, feel free to join our Waiting List. See FAQ for instructions.

Week 1 Matches

A few Week 1 games still not scheduled, please try your best to contact your opponent and/or open a thread in our Challenge Forum. Games which are not scheduled by Wednesday 23:59 CET League will set Default Dates (or replace inactive teams).

• Division 1 – sigh6 vs. Weapons of the Rebelion
• Division 2a – extenSia! vs. Team Empire
• Division 2b – plan-B vs. TFPortal.de
• Division 5a – Vendetta in each room vs. Info Seekers 777 – Challenge Thread
• Division 5b – Drunk Dragons vs. Yummy Elite Sausages – Challenge Thread

Edit: Due to the drop of Excello in Division 1 we had to make some changes again…

We please these 6 teams to schedule your match as soon as possible, please try to play them since next Wednesday:

• Division 1 – Kompaniet vs. Blood Pressure
• Division 2a – it’s a farm vs. Knights
• Division 3b – Knifeback Mountaineers vs. veAre – Challenge Thread

Hint for all Division 1 teams: Stay alive, Season 1 is over.

StopWatch-Mode on gravelpit

After the public whine of the last days we had a neutral admin discussion and decided to add the „StopWatch”-Mode for cp_gravelpit aswell (even if it’s a bit late):

• cp_gravelpit: StopWatch Mode has to be used in case of both teams managing to capture all 6 points. Always make a screenshot of the remaining time after last point is captured or after time went down and upload these (4 screens!) instead of the final scoreboard screenshot. Every attack+defense round counts separately (If Team A wins 1^st Round and Team B wins 2^nd Round the map is drawn).

Notice: As our system only takes 1 screenshot/map, we please you to contact an admin if you played gravelpit so he can check the screens (system will be upgraded in the next days).

More admins, more fun

After DeNeusbeer joined us some days ago we got another last addition to our team, Padde joins the staff and will help you out on any kind of issues. Welcome to the staff!

Map-Picks

After returning from his vacations, ST8 managed to fix the Map-Pick-Bug and also the Calendar bug (where it shown the wrong games at some points).

Map-Picks are now open and can be found at this link.

Every team will have to pick their maps against Week 2-9 opponents. (see last Newspost for Week 1 Map-System)

Map-Pick Rules:

• Official Map-Pool: cp_well, cp_granary, cp_dustbowl, cp_gravelpit, ctf_2fort, ctf_turbine and cp_badlands
• Every map can be picked 3 times at most
• You can edit your picks as often as you want till Map-Picks are closed
• Map-Picks won’t be published before they are closed
• Map-Picks close coming Friday, 23:59 CET

Division 1 Map-Picks closed yesterday already, they can be found here (will be published at Fixtures Page when all Map-Picks closed).

Week 1 Games

We are happy most of the matches already scheduled and entered in our Calendar, yesterday first games have been played already.

Remember all Week 1 Games have to be scheduled and entered in our Calendar till Wednesday, 23:59 CET.

If you didn’t manage to reach your opponent by now please open a thread in our Challenge Forum.

Of course you can also already start scheduling Week 2 games for next week.

Recruiting Forum

Beside our site-included Recruiting Feature we also added a Recruiting Forum which can be found here.

Feel free to open threads if your team is searching for members or if you are searching for a team.

2^nd Cup – Quarter Finals

Tonight and tomorrow last Round 3 games will be played, after that our Quarter Finals will take place (seeding in brackets).

4 Kings (1.) vs. Weapons of the Rebelion (9.)

sigh6 (5.) vs. Excello (4.) – Default Win for sigh6

syre (3.) vs. Clan United (6.)

Fracture (7.) vs. The Last Resort (2.)

All Quarter Finals have to be scheduled and entered in our Calendar till coming Thursday, 23:59 CET.

All Quarter Finals have to be played till 16.03., 23:59 CET.

Rule Changes

We had an update on our Server Config. Please also update your server with the new one (cl_interp command still in discuss).

Beside that we are adding another rule about unplayable-server-issues:

• A player who is having ping problems on a specific server have to prove their bad routing by a traceroute screenshot if other team asks for it.

New Admin

We are happy to announce another addition to our staff, welcome DeNeusbeer from Gathering of Tweakers!

We are still searching for more admins, feel free to contact us if you are interested (requirements can be found at last Newspost).

Week 1 Maps

As mentioned in the last Newspost already, our Map-Pick Feature is quite broken at the moment cause of an old Team-Limit on the site. The probably only person who can fix the issue, ST8, is on vacations (hope you have fun! :P) this week. We have to deal with the maps on another way on Week 1, as all Divisions apart from Division 1 are affected.

That’s the way maps will be chosen for Week 1:

• We set two default maps for Week 1: cp_granary + cp_well
• If both team leaders agree, maps can be changed: Then every team has the choice to pick one map (1^st Team on Fixtures-Page is supposed to start).
• Map-Picks for all other Game-Weeks will be done when the bug is fixed (probably coming Monday).
• Exception for Division 1: As these Map-Picks work, all Division 1 Teams are supposed to submit their complete Map-Picks till coming Sunday, 22:00 CET.

If you have any questions, please use our Comment-Function or contact us on IRC.

Season 2 Week 1 starting!

First of all, as we got many questions about it, there is no “skill-level-difference” between the single Divisions (a,b,c) at one Level. For example, every Division 3 team will be able to get promoted to Division 2 in the end of the season. The general Season 2 System can be found at this link.

We also had some late changes in Division 3 and 4, all Divisions are set now. We will only replace drop teams from now on.

Edit: We had some more little changes on different Divisions, watch out if your opponent might have changed.

Some general things about the regular Season:

• Every team has to play 1 league game every week
• Every team needs to schedule their games by contacting your every week’s opponent. See below for instructions.
• If you don’t manage to reach your opponent’s team leader after 2-3 days, please open a thread at our Challenge-Forum (Have a look at our Example-Thread).
• If you have other problems, questions or issues contact us by writing !admin in our IRC channel.

When are the games supposed to be played?

• Week 1 Period: 06.04.-13.04.
• Week 2 Period: 13.04.-20.04.
• Week 3 Period: 20.04.-27.04.
• […]
• Games will have to get scheduled and entered to the Calendar until Wednesday 23:59 CET of commencing week or league will set a Default Date.

How do I schedule a game?

1. You can find your opponents on our Fixtures-Page.
2. By clicking on your opponent’s team name, you will find their contact information.
3. Contact your opponent (we recommend to use IRC) and schedule your game. Be sure you talk about all relevant aspects:
   a) Date
   b) Time
   c) Server
   e) Who will add schedule to the Calendar?
4. After the game is scheduled, one team leader has to add it to the Calendar at this link. Choose the correct game and enter correct Date and Time (in CET).
5. Scheduled game should now be entered at the Calendar. Please check correct Date and Time.

How do I play a game and submit the result?

1. We recommend contact the opponent’s team leader some hours or a day before game is supposed to be played and check, if all is fine.
2. Trade the Server-IP before the match is supposed to start and meet on the match server.
3. When all players connected to the server, team leaders will have to do a status screenshot. Type “status” in console and screen it.
4. Start to play the game. Make a scoreboard screenshot in the end of every map (see dustbowl exception below).
5. After the game is finished, you can submit the result at the Dashboard (you will have to upload all 3 screenshots).
6. An admin will check the screenshots and result as soon as possible. After the result is verified, it will be shown at Fixtures Page and points will be added at the Tables.

Season 2 Rule-Changes

From today on the following rule changes will take place. We please every team leader to read and understand our complete Rules-Page.

• cp_dustbowl: StopWatch Mode has to be used in case of both teams managing to capture all 6 points. Always make a screenshot of the remaining time after last point is captured and upload this instead of final scoreboard screenshot.

• cp_gravelpit, cp_dustbowl: If both teams can’t agree on who is starting to attack/defend, a melee round can be played in the beginning. Winner of melee round can decide if they want to attack or defense first.
• If both teams pick the same map against each other, they can agree on changing it once to a 3^rd-Party-Map. Map has to be chosen by Map Elimination Mode; 1^st team on Fixtures Page is supposed to start. 3^rd-Party-Mappool: cp_warpath, cp_labor, cp_redstone_b2, cp_science2
• 2^nd Cup: A map ending drawn is counting as drawn map (no golden cap or overtime except normal Map-Overtime if intelligence is on the run or point gets captured at 0:00).

Still want a spot? Season 2 Waiting List

Your team missed the Sign-Up Deadline of Season 2 and still would like to participate? Join the Waiting List and get a spot if other teams drop!

Interested? Have a look at the Top of our FAQ-Page!

Want to help out? We are searching for admins!

We are very happy of announcing Mole, team admin of Dead Cows Strike Back, joined our staff! Big welcome to him!

Cause of the big amount of teams in Season 2 we are still in need of people who would like to help a project with big potential to keep on growing and improving.

Our requirements:

• At least 18 years old
• Acceptable English
• Friendly
• Some free time
• IRC-Using
• Any nationality (Russian-, French-, Finnish-, Italian- or Spanish-speaking people are very welcome)

If you are interested and comply with our requirements, feel free to contact dAy at our IRC-Channel #etf2l @ QuakeNet.