Yes, you made it! We welcome all 120 teams (from over 20 different nationalities) and wish everybody much fun playing in European’s biggest (and coolest) Team Fortress 2 League!

The following teams managed to sign:

• Germany (21 teams): Die Doppelnullen, Die Philosoffen, Digital X-Plosiv, Erdnuckels, Friede seiner Asche, Game Control, Gods of Egypt, Herbs Army, Keine halben Sachen, last one alive lock the door, No Mercy, plan-B, rats-clan, skwean!, Soldiers at Work, Team GamerArea, TFPortal.de, The Firefuckerz, the Krauts, veAre, Vendetta in each room
• Russia (13 teams): chaotic community, Chthonians, CityNov, dmg., Dum Spiro Spero, Immortals, LOL Team, Russian Advanced Tactical Squads, Sang Royal, Team Empire, Tribunal Team, ULt1MmatEz Team, Yummy Elite Sausages
• United Kingdom (13 teams): Dead Cows Strike Back, Eejits, fight club united kingdom, Fluffy Diced, Gunners United, Info Seekers 777, Knights, Necrotic United Brothers, St*rs, Strikeforce, The Last Resort, Totally Totalitarian, unbindAll
• Europe (12 teams): 4 Kings, Animate, Drunk Dragons, Fracture, I Don’t Know?, Kaizen, Knife Mode, Special Air Services, The Hampshire Heavies, Weapons of the Rebelion, Weapons of the rebelion 2, Zero Tolerance
• Sweden (11 teams): 961, Excello, hb0da, In Die Anale Combo, jAgarna, klan:fader, Kompaniet, Smaland-online, starLike, syre, TEAM SdX’98
• Finland (8 teams): Blood Pressure, Clan Troopers, Clan United, Cruciamentum, Low Pressure, Prima Nocta, sigh6, Virtual Troopers
• France (6 teams): Clan Des Damnes, extenSia!, Holy Warriors of A…., Is a Slave, MM2 Team, ouF Team
• Italy (6 teams): Allied Serial Killers + Associazione CRY, GladiatoReS.QuaD, jesus stole my bike, n!Gage, QuiD Multigaming, Titans
• Belgium (4 teams): Beteam, Beteam line up 2, Long Range Recce Patrol, The Legendary RastaClan
• Netherlands (3 teams): FakkelBrigade, Insane Dutch Killers, Legion of Legends
• Spain (3 teams): back to Resupply, Fuckers Ad Astra, Republica Independiete del Flori
• Poland (3 teams): total llamas, total llamas bravo, forever gaming
• Benelux (3 teams): Gathering of Tweakers Team 1, Gathering of Tweakers Team 2, Gathering of Tweakers Team 3
• International (3 teams): Frag Test Dummies, Game Faqs X, the innocent
• England (2 teams): 9 Men, clanda
• Czech Republic (2 teams): Cavaliers, CZech tactiX TF2A
• Norway (2 teams): Pul Kai, Quack Attack
• Latvia (1 team): What the File
• Portugal (1 team): Team hazard
• Austria (1 team): Robert Hartlauer Syndikat
• Luxembourg (1 team): MTF.Gaming
• Denmark (1 team): Clones-Inc

Divisions published

Every team has been seeded in Divisions which can be found at our Tables.

We tried to make these as fair as possible, even if it’s hard at some points as many teams are unknown at the moment.

–> If your team is totally under- or overrated and should be placed two divisions up or down please contact an admin.

Rules-Page will be updated and Promotion System will be published on the upcoming days.

You can find your entire opponents at the Fixtures. You are also already able to start scheduling your matches. All Week 1 Fixtures will have to be scheduled and entered to our Calendar (read FAQ for How-To) until Wednesday, 9^th April, 23:59 CET.

We also opened some polls for a public prediction of Top-Division-Winners. Have a look at the end of this news.

Map-Picks

EDIT: Map-Picks are broken at some point for the moment. If you click on submit, and maps change back to Default, you are affected. We are working on it and try to fix as soon as possible.

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

Every team will have to pick their maps against all opponents in Season 2.

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 Sunday, 21:59 CET

2^nd Cup, Round 3

Remember all Round 3 Games have to be entered in our Calendar until tonight, 23:59 CET. We will publish Default Dates of Matches who haven’t been scheduled tonight at this place.

• 4 Kings (1.) vs. Animate (-) – scheduled: 02.04., 21:00 CET
• Weapons of the Rebelion (9.) vs. Team GamerArea (8.)
• Sigh6 (5.) vs. Holy Warriors of A… (28.)
• Clan Troopers (13.) vs. Excello (4.)
• syre (3.) vs. extenSia! (19.) – granary 2:4 | badlands 6:1 | turbine 13:11
  
• Last one alive lock the door (11.) vs. Clan United (6.) – scheduled: 06.04., 20:00 CET
• Fracture (7.) vs. Die Doppelnullen (26.) – scheduled: 02.04., 20:00 CET
• Plan-B (14.) vs. The Last Resort (2.)

IRC-Bot

As we already mentioned our IRC-Bot “ETF2L” reached channel limit of 20 very fast. Your invites can’t be accredited at the moment until someone wants to remove it from their channel.

ETF2L Season 2 Sign-Ups are closing Sunday night, 23:59 CET. If your team still wants to participate this will be your very last chance.

Have a look at top of our FAQ-Page for Sign-Up-Instructions.

Slots taken: 120 

Current Waiting List Status (regular updated): 2/10

• Erdnuckels
• Knife Mode
• (Blind Ranchers – at least 6 members with SteamID + contact missing)
• (Deus – at least 6 members with SteamID missing)

We also have several teams which are registered and fill all requirements but haven’t signed for Season 2. If your team feels like spontaneous joining, just follow this link.

• Neatmeat
• Kaizen
• The MIPC Organization
• Fragtastic
• The Old School Team
• Death Adder (contact missing)
• eT
• Leviktimes
• Purveyors of Justice
• Killers of the dark night (contact missing)
• Solo Fortress
• #clan-us
• WANG DUO
• Total llamas Bravo
• eXplosionC4 (contact missing)
• Die German Kartoffeln (contact missing)

Map-Picks will probably open on Tuesday. You will have time to pick your maps till 06.04., 22:00 CET.

General Team Site Update

Every team leader is now being able to add contacts (IRC, E-Mail, ICQ) to their team’s profile. We please every team to enter at least two different contacts to your team info. These will be needed for a smooth running of upcoming Season.

We also recommend again we prefer IRC as communication platform. One representative of every team should idle in our League-Channel #etf2l @ QuakeNet.

One representative of every team will also get Auto-Voice. Just message dAy\ (Q-Auth needed).

ETF2L IRC-Bot for your IRC channel

Our IRC-Bot is now open for every channel! Always be informed with newest Site Updates and Results!

How to get the ETF2L IRC-Bot to my channel?

1. You need to be opped in the channel.
2. Type /invite ETF2L #channame
3. After an admin confirmed the request, ETF2L will join your channel.
4. If you want to have ETF2L removed, just contact an op in #etf2l

All commands and features of our Bot can be found at FAQ-Page.

Update: Sadly channel limit (= 20) is reached already… we will see if we can do anything.

2^nd Cup – Round 3

After having a few Default Wins in Round 2, all Results are entered and Round 3 can start.

The following matches will take place (Seeding in brackets):

• 4 Kings (1.) vs. Animate (-) – scheduled: 02.04., 21:00 CET
• Weapons of the Rebelion (9.) vs. Team GamerArea (8.)
• Sigh6 (5.) vs. Holy Warriors of A… (28.)
• Clan Troopers (13.) vs. Excello (4.)
• syre (3.) vs. extenSia! (19.) – scheduled: 30.03., 21:30 CET
• Last one alive lock the door (11.) vs. Clan United (6.)
• Fracture (7.) vs. Die Doppelnullen (26.) – scheduled: 02.04., 20:00 CET
• Plan-B (14.) vs. The Last Resort (2.)

All Round 3 games have to be scheduled till 01.04., 23:59 CET.

All Round 3 games have to be played till 06.04., 23:59 CET

Season 2 Sign-Ups closing

We are very happy and proud about the big amount of teams who signed for our 2^nd Season already. At the moment we have 95 teams signed for Season 2 (overview) and 133 teams registered on our site in total.

Due to this big number of teams we need to change our plans a bit: All Divisions will have a size of 10 teams, which will make the Season two weeks longer then announced before. You can find the new timetable on our Rules page.
We also please every team again to read through our Rules and FAQ Page and visit our League Site regular to always be informed. Please also inform us if your team is dropping out of the League at any time.

Beside that we have 5 more direct spots for Season 2, first come first serve. After reaching 100 teams on Sign-Ups, we will wait for 10 more teams on the Waiting List before confirming any more applications.

All Sign-Up information can be find in the Newspost below.

Some teams signed without reaching all requirements, your application can’t be confirmed (regular updated):

• Blind Ranchers – at least 6 members with SteamID + contact missing
• Deus – at least 6 members with SteamID missing
• Erdnuckels – at least 6 members with SteamID missing

Update:

110 slots taken. If we reach 10 more teams on the Waiting List, they will get added to the League aswell.

Waiting List Status: 0/10

We also want to remember all Season 1 teams you are not signed automatically. The following Season 1 teams haven’t signed yet:

• Clanda
• Fragtastic
• Kaizen
• Neatmeat
• The MIPC Organization
• TosT

If you still want to play Season 2 please sign up very soon.

Season 2 Sign-Ups will close on 30.03., 23:59 CET.

Division will be published and Map-Picks will open a few days later.

2^nd Cup – Round 2 ending

With a little Easter adjustment Round 2 is ending in two days. We please all teams to schedule their Round 3 games as soon as possible.

All Round 3 games have to be scheduled till 01.04., 23:59 CET.

All Round 3 games have to be played till 06.04., 23:59 CET.

You can find all information about the tree and fixtures on our Cup-Page.

Update: ETF2L-Bot for your IRC chan!

From now on your team is able to invite our IRC-Bot “ETF2L” to your channel! “ETF2L” announces Newsposts and verified Results; it also highlights starting SourceTV Games.

Do you want “ETF2L” in your channel? Just contact ST8 or dAy on IRC!

Season 1 – Player Awards

First of all, give credit where credit is due: Big Congratulations to our Season 1 Award Winner!

• Most Surprising Team: jAgarna
• Player of the Season: hymzi

They will be added to our Hall of Fame soon!

Season 2 – Sign-Ups open!

Yep, time is on! Our Season 2 Sign-Ups just opened!

We invite every European based team to join! Take your chance and play in European’s Biggest TF2 League!

Notice: Every Season 1 Team will also have to sign up! You are not signed automatically!

All important details:

• Gamemode: 6on6, Mediclimit 1, Classlimit 2
• 1 League Game (including 2 maps) per Week, free Schedule
• Teams pick maps against every opponent before Season starts.
• Teams will get seeded in Divisions by skill – you will only play against teams on your skill level!
• Slots: 64 at start – can be upped to 72, 80, 88…
• League Sign-Ups will close on 30.03., 23:59 CET.
• We recommend all team leaders to idle in our IRC channel #etf2l and visit our League Page regularly to keep informed.

How do I sign up my team for Season 2?

Register your team on our site:

1. As team leader you will have to create an account on our site here.
2. After you are logged in, you can easily register your team at the Dashboard. Here is an example for a fill-in-form.
3. Once your team is registered at our site, it will be shown on our Teams-List.
4. You can now add your team members on the Player-Additions-Site. Here is an example for a fill-in-form.

Sign your team up for Season 2:

1. Your team needs to have 6 members with correct Steam ID entered
2. Your team needs to have a contact (IRC and/or E-Mail, ICQ) entered
3. Read our Rules.
4. You can now join Season 2 here!
5. After an admin has verified your application (normally done in-between 12 hours), your team will be shown on the League-Participants-Site.

For problems/questions/etc. feel free to contact us! See FAQ for contact info.

The following applications can’t be confirmed at the moment:

• Titans – at least 6 members with SteamID missing
• Blind Ranchers – at least 6 members with SteamID + contact missing
• Immortals – wrong SteamIDs + contact missing
• Deus – at least 6 members with SteamID missing
• wotr² – at least 4 more members with SteamID missing

2nd Cup – Round 2 Schedule

Some Round 2 Games haven’t been scheduled yet:

• 4 Kings vs. Friede seiner Asche
• Prima Nocta vs. Holy Warriors of A… – Default Date: 25.03., 21:00 CET
• Team Empire vs. Excello – Default Date: 26.03., 21:00 CET
• syre vs. Team Panache
• clanda vs. Va Chier Merc!
• it’s a farm! vs. IsF – Default Date: 27.03., 21:00 CET

We extended the period a bit so teams have no problems to play the matches due to Easter.

–> All Round 2 Games have to be scheduled and entered in our Calendar till 20.03., 23:59 CET.

–> All Round 2 Games have to be played till 27.03., 23:59 CET

Map-Votes

So here we go with our Map-Votes; beside two votes about the more or less loved maps cp_dustbowl and ctf_2fort, we also have a possible addition of two new maps: cp_redstone_b1 (Downloadlink) and cp_labor (Downloadlink). Feel free to have a look and take your right to vote.

2^nd Cup – Round 2 starting

29 out of 32 Round 1 Games already played, 2 more games will be played tonight. The 2^nd Round is officially starting tomorrow. Here is an overview about all matches:

• 4 Kings vs. Friede seiner Asche
• Animate vs. The Legendary Rasta Clan – scheduled: 18.03., 20:30 CET
• Weapons of the Rebelion vs. Total llamas – scheduled: 18.03., 21:00 CET
• LOL Team vs. GamerArea – scheduled: 23.03., 20:45 CET
• sigh6 (a.k.a. Team Jobola) vs. Neatmeat – well 3:0 | badlands 6:1
• Prima Nocta vs. Holy Warriors of Allah
• Clan Troopers vs. simply IQ
• Team Empire vs. Excello
• Syre vs. Team Panache
• Clanda vs. Va Chier Merc!
• It’s a farm! vs. IsF
• jAgarna vs. Clan United – scheduled: 17.03., 20:30 CET
• Fracture vs. rats-clan – scheduled: 16.03., 22:00 CET
• Die Doppelnullen vs. ClanONE
• Plan-B vs. I Don’t Know? – scheduled: 17.03., 21:30 CET
  
• Soldiers at Work vs. The Last Resort – scheduled: 19.03., 21:00 CET
  

All Round 2 Games have to be scheduled and entered in our Calendar till 19.03., 23:59 CET.

All Round 2 Games have to be played till 24.03., 23:59 CET (if your team has problems to make that cause of Eastern, please contact us)

Season 2 – Looking for new Custom Maps

Progress on our 2^nd Season going on, at the moment we are again looking out for some new custom maps for our Map-Pool. Do you have any map in mind which we should add to our Map-Pool in Season 2? Feel free to post them in the comments.

Beside that we can already tell you every team will have a contact (IRC/ICQ/E-Mail) and 6 members with SteamID entered for participating in our 2^nd Season.

Season 2 Sign-Ups starting next Wednesday.

Season 1 – …finished & archived

Yep, well, that’s it – Season 1 is finished and can now be found in our Hall of Fame.

Thanks for all participating teams; all in all our 1^st Season was a success even due of some team-drops during the Season. 126 games have been played (excluding 8 given Default Wins). Only two teams managed not losing any map: syre and IsF – special congratulations to that!

Now we are proud to announce all Season 1 Winners:

Season 1 Title Champion: 4 Kings

Runner-Up: Kompaniet

Division 2a Champion: The Last Resort

Division 2b Champion: syre

Division 3a Champion: Friede seiner Asche

Division 3b Champion: Prima Nocta

Division 4 Champion: total llamas

 

The following Division changes will take place for Season 2 (only active teams mentioned):

Promoted to Division 1: The Last Resort, syre, Team Jobola, Weapons of the Rebelion

Promoted to Division 2: Friede seiner Asche, Prima Nocta, Soldiers at Work, plan-B, jAgarna, Team Empire

Promoted to Division 3: total llamas, IsF, hb0da, Long Range Recce Patrol

Relegated to Division 4: Kaizen, Slackerz, The MIPC Organization, Fragtastic

Season 1 – Awards!

Last but not least we decided to make two little Award-Votings.

The “Most Surprising Team-Award“: Four more or less underestimated teams which managed to finish on one of the top spots in Season 1 are nominated:

• Friede seiner Asche

1^st Position @ Division 3a

12 maps won, 1 map drawn, 1 map lost

• jAgarna

3^rd Position @ Division 3b

9 maps won, 2 maps drawn, 3 maps lost

• Team Jobola

2^nd Position @ Division 2b

8 maps won, 2 maps drawn, 2 map lost

• The Last Resort (a.k.a. Phonetic)

1^st Position @ Division 2a

7 maps won, 2 maps drawn, 1 map lost

Vote below!

The “Player of the Season-Award” is supposed to be a distinction for great performances during a whole Season for a team. These nominations are not done by “highest skill”, but for the work of a player helping his team to reach a good position. For some footage we tried to get a demo from every nominated player.

• Biermann – Class: Medic

Team: Kompaniet – 2^nd Position @ Division 1

Demo: Week 2 – Kompaniet vs. Team CoolerMaster – gravelpit

• Bob – Class: Medic

Friede seiner Asche – 1^st Position @ Division 3a

Demo: Week 7 – Friede seiner Asche vs. Kaizen – gravelpit

• Glufse – Class: Scout

Team: Syre – 1^st Position @ Division 2b

Demo: <coming soon>

• H4wk – Class: Medic

Team: Clan United – 3^rd Position @ Division 1

Demo: Week 1 – Clan United vs. TLR.Tagan – granary

• hymzi – Class: Demoman

Team: 4 Kings – 1^st Position @ Division 1

Demo: Week 6 – 4 Kings vs. Kompaniet – granary

• virq – Class: Heavy

Team: total llamas – 1^st Position @ Division 4

Demo: Week 1 – total llamas vs. Chthonians – granary (playing Medic ;) )

• W!nny – Class: Soldier

Team: 4 Kings – 1^st Position @ Division 1

Demo: Semi-Final (Starting Cup) – 4 Kings vs. fof² – 2fort

Vote below!

Votes will close on Tuesday, 17th March, 23:59 CET.