Soldier 1v1 MGE Cup

EDIT: We will also have a special whitelist featured for this cup, link to it can be found here. To enable this whitelist in servers with TFTrue, the command “tftrue_whitelist_id etf2l_mge_soldier” needs to be used.

As the last cup of our Summer Sensation we already let you voice your opinion on which class should take the place of getting to see who is the best 1v1 player in the league, and the polls have told that Soldier is the winner with 57.116% of votes!

The group stage for this cup will be played on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th of August with an unseeded round robin stage followed by a single elimination knockout stage on Sunday 20th and Monday 21st. Signups will close on Thursday 17th, 23:59 CEST.

The group stage schedule will be the following:

Group Stage – Friday 18th and Saturday 19th of August

Map: mge_oihguv_sucks_a12

Group round 1: Friday 18th 19:00 CEST – Badlands Middle arena
Group round 2: Friday 18th 20:00 CEST – Gullywash Middle arena
Group round 3: Saturday 19th 19:00 CEST – Granary Middle arena
Group round 4: Saturday 19th 20:00 CEST – Ammomod (MGE) arena
Group round 5: Saturday 19th 21:00 CEST – Badlands Spire arena

These rounds can be rescheduled to be played at any time during the said days, as long as all results are submitted before Saturday 23:59 CEST. All matches without submitted results at that point will be coinflipped.

For Knockout Stage we will have top 3 teams from each group advancing to the knockout stage. These matches cannot be rescheduled unless if they are played earlier, playing later is not a possibility. The arenas will remain the same from Group Stage with every match being a BO3, every player gets to ban an arena once and pick an arena once, with the last remaining arena being the decider. The ban/pick process will be similar to Case 1 said here, where Team A gets to ban first, Team B to ban second and pick first, and Team A to pick second with the final map being the tiebreaker arena.

Default dates for Knockout Stage matches will begin with round 1 on Sunday 20th at 18:00 CEST, with round 2 played at 19:00 CEST and round 3 played at 20:00 CEST along with round 4 played at 21:00 CEST. Every round after that will be played on Monday starting at 19:00 CEST by default, there will also be a third place match after semi-finals are done.

We highly recommend people joining up for this cup to play their matches in their private MGE servers, however admins can allow players to play their matches in public MGE servers as well if there are no private servers available to give for players to play on.

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This is a reminder post for today’s Reversed Maps Cup knockout stage explaining how the matches will be played out, and an explanation to give an insight on the teams chosen for the knockout stage.

The Knockout Tree for the single elimination stage can be found here, with fixtures alone here.

Sunday 13th of August:

Round 1: 18:00
Round 2: 19:00
Quarter Finals: 19:50
Semi Finals: 20:40
Grand Finals: 21:30

During the knockout stage, golden caps are to be played on cp_yranarg and cp_sdnaldab. cp_tiplevarg is to be BO1, if teams are unable to decide on what side to start, then teams must play a heavy fist fight in order to come to a final compromise. The playoffs will be bo1 with each team getting one map ban.

Also, further explanation towards why some teams might not appear in knockout stage that otherwise should be due to points in the group stage tables, we would want to mention that we initially weren’t expecting a flaw with our league table scoring for this cup, as ETF2L has not had map draws, so that both teams would get only a single point from a map, as an option for many years now but we accepted it as a possibility for all maps in this cup. However, this became an issue with cp_tiplevarg as commonly with maps that are normally in stopwatch played as BO3 we have two maps selected for it to allow teams to have a golden cap to settle the score.

This was not the case in this cup which allowed teams to put a 3-3 score draw for both teams which should have been a 1-1 score draw. Because of that we admins have handpicked the appropriate teams that have earned their place in the knockout stage and let them advance towards.

Lastly we would also want to mention to be able to run a proper single elimination setting we have chosen teams with second seed in their group to need to play their matches in Round 1 matches earlier than expected before the Round 2 matches, these matches will need to be played before the Result deadlines said on the match pages for each fixture, otherwise matches will be coinflipped if no result has been submitted by teams.

We will add in more news about the results of the 1v1 MGE Cup poll later on after this news post.

The premiership talent has chosen between its peers. The following players – in their eyes – deserve to be available to be voted best in their departments.
So without further ado, here are the nominees:

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Reversed Maps Cup

Now that a serious cup is out of the way, let’s bring some more fun back by playing some of the more commonly known maps in this game… reversed! Cp_yranarg, cp_sdnaldab, and cp_tiplevarg – no prizes for guessing what maps they are based on.

This cup will be played on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th of August with an unseeded round robin stage followed by a single elimination knockout stage. Both 6v6 and Fun teams may signup. Signups will close on Friday 11th, 21:00 CEST.

Group Stage – Saturday 12th

Group round 1: 19:00 – cp_sdnaldab
Group round 2: 20:00 – cp_yranarg
Group round 3: 21:00 –  cp_tiplevarg

Knockout stage – Sunday 13th

Round 1: 19:00
Quarter Finals: 19:50
Semi Finals: 20:40
Grand Finals: 21:30

During the group stage draws are allowed on cp_yranarg and cp_sdnaldab, cp_tiplevarg is to be played as a BO2. During the knockout stage, golden caps are to be played on cp_yranarg and cp_sdnaldab, cp_tiplevarg is to be BO1. The playoffs will be bo1 with each team getting one ban.

Remember that cp_tiplevarg is to be played on stopwatch config (etf2l_6v6_stopwatch.cfg)

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1v1 MGE Cup

And lastly, we also want to announce that we are making a 1v1 MGE cup again! Well, planning to! We want to hear your opinion on which class should it be done for, and for that you can vote on the poll below! This cup will be played from 18th of August until 20th of August, with the poll closing on 13th of August at 20:00 CEST.

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Update: Teams may use cp_prolands_b2a for Saturday’s group stage matches if both teams agree to it, otherwise cp_prolands_b2 will be played. For Sunday’s knockout stage all matches must be played on cp_prolands_b2a.

The fixtures for the Prolands Cup powered by serveme.tf are now released and can be seen here along with the groups.

The knockout section of the cup will vary slightly between tiers.

The Top Bracket groups will have all teams advance from the group stage in a full bracket with the group being used to determine seeding. Knockout stage matches will be played on Sunday 6th. There will also be a third place match needed to play for this bracket.

For High, Mid and Open each group consists of 4 teams with the top two teams advancing to playoffs. Knockout stage matches will be played on Sunday 6th. There will not be a third place match played for any of these brackets.

Due to shortage in teams to create more brackets, we have added in teams that signed up first to the cup to take place in the cup as of now. If any of the currently added teams decide to drop out of the competition, we will add in a team from the waiting list to the cup. This applies only before Saturday 5th 18:30 CEST.

Casting done by Essentials.tf

Coverage for the Top Bracket of this cup will also be done by Essentials.tf tonight starting from 19:00 CEST at their Twitch stream (https://www.twitch.tv/essentialstf) with Beater and nuze both on the mic and gemm on the camera!