The Free2Play Invite Tournament and More

Date July 27, 2011

The event is going live now,  head over to www.vanillatv.org to follow the action!

The final event, taking place tonight (Thursday the 28th), is the Free-2-Play Invitational Tournament! Four top teams from other known competitive games will battle it out on cp_badlands in an action-packed one-night tournament, with all teams playing each other once to decide which team can handle competitive TF2 best. The teams will be supported by a TF2 top division medic. The teams are CKRAS from CSS (mentored by Denmark F2), Xotic from L4D2 (mentored by Netherlands skeej) and the Epsilon eSports teams from both Brink (mentored by Ireland Admirable) and CoD4 (mentored by France KnOxXx).

You can also follow things from the ingame SourceTV by entering the following info in console:
STV 1: connect tf2.team-thermaltake.com:27102
STV 2: connect tf2.team-thermaltake.com:27100

Round 1 – 20:00 CEST:
CKRAS CSS vs Epsilon CoD – STV 1
Epsilon Brink vs Xotic L4D2 – STV 2

Round 2 – 20:30 CEST:
CKRAS CSS vs Xotic L4D2 – STV 1
Epsilon Brink vs Epsilon CoD4 – STV 2

Round 3 – 21:00 CEST:
CKRAS CSS vs Epsilon Brink – STV 1
Xotic L4D2 vs Epsilon CoD4 – STV 2

Final – 21:30 CEST:
(top 2 teams with the most wins) – STV 1

 

The champion will get to play a team with the endbosses of TF2, at a later date:

  • Robin Walker (head of TF2 development)
  • Jon Lippincott (TF2 Replay system development)
  • TotalBiscuit (of YouTube commentary fame)
  • Dr. Gonzo (Editor of Cadred)
  • TheSucker (medic for ETF2L highlander champions, SNSD)
  • Macisum (top division demoman)

ESL Country Championship Grand Finals

With 3 competitions drawing to a close and another just beginning, the next two days will have some truly exciting matches!

The first match provides an all-too-familiar country rivalry, from world wars to world cups, in the ESL Country Championships grand final: UK United Kingdom vs Germany Germany. The German team has taken a 2-1 victory against the UK earlier the cup and are still on a undefeated streak in the tournament. That does not mean the result will be predictable though, as Team UK’s has a strong record in this tournament as well, beating many favourites and proving their critics wrong.

The match will be played tonight at 21:15 CEST.

Casts are available in English (VanillaTV: stream and mumble comms), German (ESLtv), French (HiScore.tv) & Russian (Team-Fortress.ru).

I43 Online Tournament Moving To The Next Level

Before that (as in now), however, the i43 online competition to win tickets for the upcoming I43 LAN is taking place, with the lower brackets concluding today! You can find the tournament brackets here (in the TF2 section). For more information on I43 and how to be a part of it go here!

20:00 CEST – Lower tournament semi-finals (on cp_gullywash):
European UV-Gaming EU vs Finland  illegal. SourceTV: connect 188:138.56.35:37415
Russia RAGE.eSports vs Germany Vier RED. SourceTV: connect 188:138.56.35:37515

The finals between the winners of the 2 matches will be played at 21:00 CEST on cp_gravelpit (SourceTV: connect 188:138.56.35:37415).

22 Comments

  1. ashkan said:

    Number 1 cause of delayed ETF2L posts:
    RaCio thinks Ashkan is gonna click the Post button, while Ashkan thinks RaCio is gonna click.

  2. vøid said:

    awesome idea :D

    bet brink all

  3. atomic said:

    kewl

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  5. Dummy! said:

    bet css all
    ez win for the lads

  6. n00ne said:

    Ez win for css scouts, not sure about the rest tho. :D

  7. lollapalooza: candy said:

    lft brink high- soldier

  8. strut: -=Crazy=- said:

    This is going to be EXTREMELY interesting

  9. strut: -=Crazy=- said:

    p.s. no bans? :(
    saving them up hopefully :)

  10. Defur said:

    Help spread the word of this guys!
    Post it everywhere!

  11. Pricee: has $w@G said:

    GO XOTIC!!!!!

    <3 Sweet and sour dragon :3

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  13. michaelll: LAME said:

    only streams? :/

    or will there be an STV relay?

  14. Su1c1deR said:

    stv!!!!

  15. michaelll: LAME said:

    STV: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=wXChmV9Q

  16. RaCio: GoT² said:

    STV’s are in the post ;)

  17. Lukas: ti. said:

    KURWA ! ;D

  18. strut: -=Crazy=- said:

    was a lot of fun to watch, and interesting seeing naturally skilled people from another game adapt to TF2 (scarily well in rulah’s case)

  19. Buffalo Bill: TDR » - T⑨ said:

    Rulah’s played TF2 the past month, including mercing for Diggy in the excello cup. He got a head start on other people. ;)

  20. RaCio: GoT² said:

    Well, he started playing after the cup was announced, so it’s still pretty amazing.

  21. ashkan said:

    I had a practice session with the Brink demoman this morning. We mostly checked out the rollouts and stuff. After only a few hours of practice, I could almost do them as fast as him! That guy taught me everything I know.

  22. Buffalo Bill: TDR » - T⑨ said:

    Better watch out when playing Valve’s boys. From today’s update:

    – Definitely did not add cheats for upcoming Free-2-Play Invitational Cup.