Yeeeha! Division 4 managed to finish all their games exemplary Sunday evening. All remaining 7 teams played their 6 games, the final outcome can be found at our Tables of course. We have to congratulate the only Polish team in Season 1: total llamas managed to get the Division 4-Title with 10 map wins out of 12 played maps. Great performance! They will run up to Division 3 in Season 2 together with the 2^nd Place IsF, 3^rd Place hb0da and 4^th Place Long Range Recce Patrol!

Our 2^nd Cup Sign-Ups running very well, with already 49 teams from 16 different countries registered, this cup will surely be the biggest European TF2 cup in the young game’s history. All teams who haven’t signed up yet, take your chance, 15 possible spots are still available – registering is very easy, all important details can be found here. 2^nd Cup Sign-Ups will close this Wednesday, at 23:59 CET.

The ETF2L Staff is searching for new admins! If you are interested in helping on an improving project this is your chance! Your job will generally contain discussions about possible ideas and problems and in helping out if there are questions of any kind. We are looking forward to your helping hands! Feel invited to contact me (dAy) at our QuakeNet-Channel #etf2l or by E-Mail (staff@etf2l.org).

I worked out an updated System-Page with a good Season 1-Relegation-System-Overview. As every division will only have 8 teams in Season 2, the 9^th position in Div 1, 3a and 3b will be removed. (If Season 2 runs smooth we will think about 10 teams/division for Season 3.) Due to the many drops in Division 1 both 2^nd Places of Division 2 will have two chances to claim a Division 1 spot. For any questions feel free to ask.

While Division 1, 2a and 2b will finally end coming Sunday, Division 3a and 3b going on for 2 more weeks, we please every team to schedule their Week 8 match as soon as possible. Scheduled date have to be entered till Wednesday, 23:59 CET or we will set a default date.

• Division 3a – FsA vs. clanda
• Division 3a – MIPC vs. Kaizen
• Division 3a – fader vs. Team Empire
• Division 3b – Prima Nocta vs. Fragtastic!

Two fixtures couldn’t be scheduled, so we had to set default dates. Cause of the busy timeplan of fof² and Kompaniet the game was set one day after normal deadline.

• Division 1 – Week 7 – fof² vs. Kompaniet – Default Date: 03.03., 21:00 CET
• Division 3a – Week 6 – MIPC vs. FsA – Default Date: 28.02., 21:00 CET

First of all our 2nd Cup Sign-Ups running smoothly, at the moment we have 36 teams registered for it. 26 possible spots are still available, feel free to join in. Sign-Ups-Deadline is next Wednesday, 23:59 CET.

Week 7, which was supposed to be the last week for Division 1, 2a, 2b and 4 is running. Cause of the general delay due to the full timetable of some teams, we will add one more week for postponed games. Some games are not even scheduled yet, again I please everyone to get in contact with your opponent or tell us if you can’t.

The following games have to be scheduled till coming Sunday, 23:59 CET:

• Division 1 – fof² vs. Kompaniet
• Division 2a – Team GamerArea vs. Phonetic
• Division 2b – Pub Clan vs. Neatmeat
• Division 2b – Fracture vs. 5 Quinas
• Division 2b – Team Jobola vs. Pub Clan (from Week 6…)
• Division 3a – FsA vs. Kaizen
• Division 3a – FsA vs. MIPC (from Week 6…)
• Division 3b – Prima Nocta vs. 9 Men (from Week 6…)

Notice: All these games have to be played until 02.03., 23:59 CET.

As further information (guess I already mentioned it before), Season 2 Sign-Ups will start in Mid-March; the season itself will start in April. If you have any kind of ideas or suggestions feel free to post them in our Feedback-Thread.

And last but not least, we took the whole league budget for buying a new own domain! Our new domain is http://www.etf2l.org – forget about the old one :)

After a more or less thrilling Starting Cup Final, Four Kings managed to win their second ETF2L Title during three days after winning over Team CoolerMaster (granary 9:1, well 3:0). Congratulations to you again guys!

2nd Cup Sign-Ups are now open! Here are all important details to it:

Gamemode – 6on6, Mediclimit 1, Playerlimit 2, Crits off, Best of 3 (maps by Elimination Mode), Fixtures by Seedings

Mappool – cp_dustbowl, cp_well, cp_granary, cp_gravelpit, cp_badlands, ctf_2fort, ctf_turbine

Timeline – 1^st + 2^nd Round = ~10 days, after that 1 Round = 1 Week

Slots – 32 (Double Elimination) or 64 (Single Elimination – if we reach them)

Timetable:

27.02., 23:59 CET – Sign-Ups close

02.03.-13.03. – Round 1

14.03.-24.03. – Round 2

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How do I sign up my team?

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. When you signed up your team on our page, you can easily join the 2^nd cup here.

4. If you signed up correctly your team will be shown at the Cup-Participants-Page.

Well yeah, they made it! After beating their probably hardest opponent Kompaniet last week, Four Kings managed to get another 2-Map-Win vs. fof² yesterday evening. With 19 points and only 1 map loss after all games played, Four Kings managed to win the ETF2L Season 1 Title! Congratulations!

Four Kings way to the Title:

10.01.2008 – Four Kings vs. IDAC

granary 6:3 – 2fort 2:3

23.01.2008 – Four Kings vs. Clan United

well 8:0 – dustbowl 6:6

13.02.2008 – Four Kings vs. Kompaniet

well 4:2 – granary 6:1

18.02.2008 – Four Kings vs. fof²

well 4:3 – turbine 3:1

But that’s not the end for Four Kings in the 1^st-Season-Period: Tomorrow our fresh Season 1 winners will have the chance to make it a perfect Season for them. They are meeting Team CoolerMaster, who has nothing to lose in their last game before folding, in our big Starting Cup Final!

QuadV will cast the Final on their videostream QuadV TV 1 from 20:45 CET till 23:00 CET. Deman and Kee_Ring will comment our first Final live! You will find the detailed program entry here. Have fun watching!

Right after the Final is played, we will open our 2^nd Cup Sign-Ups. Public votes decided the cup will be played with normal rules and mappool (cp_badlands is officially added, see below for more info). Cup will be played with a Seeding-List and possible Double Elimination (if we can reach 64 participants, we will have to play with Single Elimination Mode otherwise the cup would take ages). Cup will be played in a Best-of-3, maps will be picked by Elimination Mode (see end of our Rules page for explanation). Remember you can always register your team on our League Site, read our FAQ for detailed information.

2^nd Cup Timetable:

20.02., ~23.00 CET – Sign-Ups open

27.02., 23:59 CET – Sign-Ups close

02.03.-13.03. – Round 1

14.03.-24.03. – Round 2

Notice: After the first two rounds you will have one week for every round.

Our regular Season 1 is still going on, Division 1, 2a, 2b and 4 are in their official last Game Week; some games will be postponed to next week due to general stress problems in some teams.

We had a little system change as we are focusing on an 8-team-limit for every Division in Season 2; we will probably have one more relegated team in Division 3a and 3b. An updated Playoff System will be published in the next days.

As mentioned before, cp_badlands is now officially added to our mappool for the 2^nd Cup and our Season 2. Anyway, we had to add a rule about the buggy ground in the middle and beside that two other additions (the Rules Page will be updated very soon):

• cp_badlands: You are not allowed to enter the buggy area under the ground.
• Any kind of massive Duck-Spam-Scripts will be forbidden from now.
• cp_well: You are allowed to jump on the trains in the middle during the Setup Time. It’s forbidden to jump over on the opponent’s side during Setup Time.

Sadly two teams did not manage to schedule their games, so league had to decide a default date:

Week 6 – Division 2b – Pub Clan vs. Team Jobola – Default Match Date: 25.02., 21:00 CET.

All other teams don’t forget to schedule your Week 7 Fixtures.

The probably biggest Season 1 match is over, Four Kings.Intel managed to get a clear 2-Map-Win between the by then unbeaten team Kompaniet. Have a look at the match site for scores and screenshots. The coverage was a success with having over 150 people following the match by SourceTV and/or the English commentary by myTF.de!

Don’t forget next Wednesday will be the next big ETF2L event with a big quadV-Shoutcast for the Starting Cup Final between Four Kings, current leader of Division 1, and TeamCoolerMaster who will play their very last game.

Beside that Division 2a, 2b and 4 are ending officially in the end of next week, Division 2a already found the very 1^st Division Champion with Phonetic, who managed to not lose any single map in 4 games. All congratulations to them; they will get promoted to Division 1 in Season 2.

Division 2b will probably find his winner in syre, who managed to reach 32 points in this season and are having a free last week. Only Team Jobola could still reach them if they are winning their last 2 games completely. Division 4 is pretty undecided yet; the first four teams still have all chances to win their division with having some games left.

This week we have some late schedules again. And again you will have time to schedule your games till Sunday 23:59 CET. If they are not scheduled in the Calendar by then, we will have to decide a league default date. That’s the case for these Week 6 Fixtures:

• (Division 1 – Clan United vs. fof²)
• Division 2b – Team Jobola vs. Pub Clan
• (Division 3a – Team Empire vs. Kaizen)
• Division 3a – klan:fader vs. fight club
• (Division 3b – jAgarna vs. Unalleviated Suffering)
• Division 4 – Insane Dutch Killers vs. Die Philosoffen

If you have any problems contacting or reaching your opponent, please contact us, we will try to solve the problem. Otherwise schedule these matches as soon as possible. Also don’t forget Week 7 Fixtures, which are also supposed to be played next week.

Valve released cp_badlands yesterday and it feels like some people even like it. We will have a public vote about adding cp_badlands to the mappool soon, so feel free testing it in PCWs under ETF2L rules.

We are happy to announce we found a new partner with clanserver4u who is one of the biggest and oldest gameserver providers in Germany. They will support us with our very own ETF2L League Server and with it a 128-Slot-SourceTV-Server. The server is public for the first days, so feel free to test your ping (it is 24 hours cp_badlands for the moment).

ETF2L League Server powered by www.clanserver4u.de

195.13.62.57:27020

With this own server we will be able to have more bigger Coverages in the future and always a good possibility playing a match under neutral conditions.

Also remember you can always upload your ETF2L demos on our new Demo-FTP; you will find the account information in our forum thread. Once a demo is verified, everybody will be able to download it with high speed.

We also released a first version of our FAQ Page where some of the daily questions get answered.