Due to a Sign-Up bug on the site you can’t register new teams at the moment. We will fix that bug and inform you as soon as possible (sadly our site admin is on vacations this week).

The following team-leaders are affected:

• DoomWolf
• Miikka
• M4rcel
• Ital0zz0
• Dark

Bug is fixed, we please the affected team leaders to register their team again.

PS: Due to another bug new team’s members are accidently showing in the wrong team. Bug will be fixed very soon and your members will be added to correct team afterwards.

1st Cup Round

1^st Round is running very good, 9 matches have been played already, 7 more will be played tonight. Good Luck to all 14 teams (even if only 7 can win…)!

Results will be updated when game is played and entered:

The Legendary RastaClan vs. The Firefuckerz – well 10:0 | granary 10:1

Excello vs. Keine halben Sachen – granary 12:0 | badlands 10:0

rats-clan vs. Clan Des Damnes – well 5:1 | granary 9:1

jAgarna vs. GladiatoReS.QuaD – well 3:1 | granary 6:0

Holy Warriors of Allah vs. 9 Men – granary 6:2 | turbine 1:5 | well 7:0

total llamas vs. The Hans Moleman Connection – badlands 12:0 | well 6:0

simply iQ vs. Purveyors of Justice – granary 2:4 | well 4:0 | badlands 7:1

1st Cup Round – Default Dates and others…

Some matches couldn’t be scheduled yet, most problems are with teams which not using IRC. We set a Default Match Date for some matches. These dates can only be changed if both teams agree (but have to be played till 13.03., 23:59 CET). You should try to contact your opponent anyway to speak about Servers etc. – otherwise we recommend team leaders to meet in #etf2l @ QuakeNet at the Default Date. For problems contact an admin.

• (In progress: Clan Troopers vs. Drunk Dragons – Schedule as soon as possible)
• (In progress: Die Doppelnullen vs. Solo Fortress – Schedule as soon as possible)
• Prima Nocta vs. V.I.E.R. – Default Date: 12.03., 21:00 CET
• Weapons of the Rebellion vs. WANG DUO – Default Date: 13.03., 22:00 CET
• LOL Team vs. Headstompers – HS time to contact LOL till Monday 23:59 CET, otherwise Default Win to LOL
• Team Empire vs. Hijos del Kaos – Empire time to contact HK till Monday 23:59 CET, otherwise Default Win to HK
• Va Chier Merc vs. Team haZard (replacing lolz) – Schedule as soon as possible!

Season 1 ending

Tonight the last two Season 1 matches will take place. During the week syre won over Team Jobola in the Playoff Game for the Division 2b Title, gratulations to them.

Due to the many drops in Division 1 we decided to skip other Playoff Games. 1^st-3^rd Place from Division 3a & 3b will get promoted to Division 2 next Season, 1^st & 2^nd from Division 2a & 2b will get promoted to Division 1.

A big Season 1-ending Newspost will be published in the next days.

2^nd Cup – 1^st Round

Our 2^nd Cup started on Sunday evening with the only Norwegian ETF2L team Quack Attack challenging the probably best team in Europe at the moment, Four Kings. Our Cup & League titleholder could get a clear win over the newcomers (well 8:0 | badlands 5:0).

We are happy many games already scheduled and entered in the Calendar, but most of them are still missing. Please try to contact your 1^st Round Cup opponent as soon as possible. After game is scheduled one team leader has to enter the date in our Calendar. If you have problem contacting your opponent, please open a thread in our Challenge Forum.

—> All 1^st Round Games have to be scheduled and entered till coming Sunday, 9^th March.

—> All 1^st Round Games have to be played till next week’s Thursday, 13^th March.

Season 2 – Sign-Ups-Period

As we get more and more questions about it, here are the Season 2 Dates (can probably still change):

—> Season 1 ending: 18.03.2008

—> Season 2 Sign-Ups open: 19.03.2008

—> Season 2 Sign-Ups closing: 30.03.2008

—> Season 2 First Game Week: 07.04.2008

—> Season 2 Last (7^th) Game Week: 19.05.2008

We will start with 64 slots, and put the limit up after every eighth team on the Waiting List.

Of course you can register your team on the page any time so you will just have to click one button to join the 2^nd Season when Sign-Ups are open – have a look in the FAQ for instructions.

Season 1 – Last Game Week

Last normal League Week is running, two days ago Division 1 finally managed to finish all regular games. The final standing can be found at our Tables.

Division 3a and 3b will also finish soon, only a few matches left here. Beside Friede seiner Asche, who already unreachable for the 1^st Place in Division 3a, all other positions are still open. Good Luck for all teams who can still get a Relegation-Spot. Remember our Season 1 System can be found here.

Two matches are not scheduled yet. All teams still got time to schedule it by their selves till 23:59 CET, otherwise the mentioned Default Dates will be entered in the Calendar:

• Division 3a – Friede seiner Asche vs. klan:fader – Default Date: 10.03.2008, 21:00 CET
• Division 3a – clands vs. MIPC – Default Date 10.03.2008, 20:00 CET

New: Recruiting Feature

Of course we always are working on the site and try to improve it as best as we can. Yesterday we integrated a new Recruiting Feature: All team leaders can set the Recruiting Mode on their team pages and then will appear at the Recruiting List.

You will soon also be able to choose which skill level and classes you are recruiting.

Besides that, if you have any other Feature in mind which we should integrate on our League-Site, feel free to post in our Feedback Thread.

New: IRC Bot

Our hard-working Site-Admin ST8 also working on our own IRC-Bot named “ETF2L”.

Here are all current commands you can use:

• !results – Last 5 entered Results
• !fixtures – Next 5 upcoming Fixtures
• !info – League Page URL
• !contact – League-Admin E-Mail-Address

“ETF2L” will also highlight starting Matches with Source-TV-IP entered at the Calendar. More commands coming soon…

Updated: Server Config

After Valve included a Crit-Variable and Tournament-Mode in the last Team Fortress 2 Patch we updated our League and Cup Config. TFTrue is also not needed anymore.

—> Updated Server Config

Changed: Player Addition

We integrated a new Player-Addition-System, so from now on you can add new players or delete old ones at the Dashboard. After an admin verified it (normally done in between 24 hours) he is added to your roster automatically.

—> New Player Addition

New Rule: Taunt-Abuse forbidden.

Since the new Patch there is also some kind of new bug, where you are unhittable as Scout doing a “Taunt” in the air.

—> You are not allowed to abuse the “Taunt” during a fight to destroy the hit box.

The 2nd Cup Tree is now seeded and published; you can find all Fixtures on our Cup-Page. As mentioned before, due to the public vote these brackets have been done by seeding which means low skilled teams will meet a high skilled team in the 1^st Round. Just take it as a challenge. Feel free to sign up for our 2^nd Season (Sign-Ups starting Mid-March) where you will have the ability to play teams on your skill level only. The complete Seeding-List can be found here.

1^st Round Deadline will be the 13^th March. Again we please every team to read through our Rules and FAQ Page where you will find all important information for regular ETF2L games.

Notice: All 1^st Round Games have to be scheduled till 9^th March. The scheduled date has to be entered in our Calendar (see FAQ for further information).

For any problems or questions feel free to contact us on IRC or by E-Mail!

We also created a new Challenge-Forum. Please create a thread in this forum if you have problem contacting your Cup or League opponent (Example-Thread).

Division 2a managed to finish all their games last Tuesday, we congratulate
The Last Resort (formerly known as Phonetic) to finish on Top Position; they will get promoted to Division 1 in Season 2. Weapons of the Rebellion grabbed the 2^nd Spot and will have the possibility to get promoted in Division 1 by Playoffs.

Division 2b finished all games as well; anyhow syre and Team Jobola are tied in points for the 1^st Place after both winning 8 maps by only losing 2. Both teams will meet each other in a final playoff game for the 1^st Place next week!

Sadly again two Week 8 Fixtures of Division 3a couldn’t be scheduled:

• Kaizen vs. MIPC – Default Date: 06.03.2008, 20:30 CET
• Klan:fader vs. Team Empire – Default Date: 06.03.2008, 20:30 CET

Beside that Valve finally added some new variables and a Tournament-Mode to Team Fortress 2. As TFTrue is not needed to remove crits anymore, we will change our Rules and League Config. An update will be published in the coming days!

Happily we also have a new addition to our staff, shifty from TLR joined us some days ago. His fresh blood will help us to organize the 2^nd Cup and our upcoming 2^nd Season!

2^nd Cup-Sign-Ups closed last night; we were able to reach 64 teams from 19 different ‘nationalities’. We wish all participants good luck and much fun – which country will take the trophy home?

• Germany (12 teams): Die Doppelnullen, Friede seiner Asche, IsF, Keine halben Sachen, last one alive lock the door, rats-clan, simply iQ, Soldiers at Work, Team GamerArea, The Firefuckerz, The Hans Moleman Connection, Vendetta in each room
• ‘United Kingdom‘ (8 teams): Fluffy Diced, HeadStompers, Malevolent Monkees, Purveyors of Justice, Team Panache, The Last Resort, Totally Totalitarian, WANG DUO
• Finland (6 teams): Clan Troopers, Clan United, Neatmeat, Prima Nocta, Solo Fortress, Team Jobola
• ‘Europe‘ (6 teams): Drunk Dragons, Four Kings, Fracture, Pub Clan, Special Air Services, Weapons of the Rebelion
• Sweden (5 teams): Excello, hb0da, jAgarna, Smaland-online, syre
• Belgium (4 teams): Beteam, I Don’t Know?, Long Range Recce Patrol, The Legendary RastaClan
• France (4 teams): Clan Des Damnes, Holy Warriors of Allah, Leviktimes, Va Chier Mec!
• England (3 teams): 9 Men, CaptureCats, clanda
• Russia (3 teams): dmg., LOL Team, Team Empire
• Italy (2 teams): GladiatoReS.QuaD, jesus stole my bike
• Spain (2 teams): Fuckers Ad Astra, Hijos del Kaos
• ‘International‘ (2 teams): lolz, plan-B
• Austria (1 team): Robert Hartlauer Syndikat
• Czech Republic (1 team): Cavaliers
• Denmark (1 team): #clan-us
• Luxembourg (1 team): MTF.Gaming
• Norway (1 team): Quack Attack
• Poland (1 team): total llamas
• Ukraine (1 team): Sentence to Death

We please every team to read through our Rules and FAQ Page. For a smooth run of such a big cup we recommend as much team leaders as possible to idle in our IRC-channel #etf2l @ QuakeNet. Every team needs to have at least one contact (IRC, ICQ or E-Mail) and at least 6 members (with correct Steam ID) entered at their team site.

Cup-Team-Rosters will be locked Sunday 23:59 CET (all entries without Steam ID will be deleted; player additions only possible by admin, read FAQ for further info).

The following teams will have to change their details to participate (please do it as soon as possible!):

• #clan-us (3 people only)
• Clan Des Damnes (no Steam IDs)
• dmg. (no contact entered)
• Holy Warriors of Allah (no Steam IDs)
• jesus stole my bike (no Steam IDs)
• Quack Attack (no contact entered)
• rats-clan (no Steam IDs)
• Team Panache (4 people only)
• Totally Totalitarian (add other contact pls)

Seeding List and 1^st Round Fixtures will be published Saturday.