SNSD vs Colony, Season 12, Team Invitations, S11 Awards

Date April 9, 2012

SNSD vs Colony

After keeping everyone waiting for 2 weeks in true Team Fortress fashion, top highlander teams Europe SNSD and Finland colony are set to go head-to-head tonight at 21:00 CEST! The match will be covered live by VanillaTV with England Hildreth.

This is probably the most “classic” matchup in competitive TF2, with the first issue going back to a ladder game in August 2010, which finished in a close draw. It is interesting to note that colony have changed only 2 players since then, while only 3 remain from SNSD’s first roster. These teams have developed a habit of meeting each other in finals, with SNSD coming up on top and colony developing a forever-second-syndrome.

Some players to watch will be

  • Sweden furbo of colony, known for his sneaky scouting
  • UK kaidus of SNSD, who is making his Highlander debut
  • Finland SabaSaba to make Sweden TheSucker drop über (again)
  • Hungary Linus and Finland zoob, arguably the best soldiers in the Highlander scene

To mark the first clash of these 2 titans in Season 2, there will be a competition for the stream viewers to compete in! The goal is to guess how far each team gets in their first attacking round, and how long it took them (MM:SS). A whopping £25 prize will go to the viewer who submits the closest time for both teams. To enter, just comment on this post on VanillaTF2. You can also PM a caster in IRC on the night of the cast, so make sure you tune in for your chance to win!

Season 12! Map Information!

Season 12 is on its way! Please take note of the following information:

  • Signups are open NOW
  • Seeding starts on Wednesday April 18
  • Divisions should be announced on Sunday April 22
  • Week 1 will start on Sunday April 29 (default dates will be set on Friday April 27, as usual)

Like last season, we will hold polls to determine the map pool. The approach is a bit different from last season:

The top 4 maps from the last poll are set.

The last two maps will be decided with a poll between five maps. These five maps are nominated by YOU from now until April 12 after which the polls will be created. Please nominate your favourite two maps that are not in the map pool yet in this thread.

Since Season 12 is so close to Season 11, the placements from the last season will obviously be the most important factor to seed the teams into their divisions. If you created a new team or feel you can jump a division anyway, feel free to apply for the desired division. To prove you are capable of said division, we require you to submit screenshots of recent practice wars or tournaments where you scored decent results against teams that play on the level you aim for. The screenshots have to be uploaded to an online photo album (for example you can use imgur or Dropbox), zipped archives with tons of pictures attached to an email will not be considered. Please send your application to [email protected].

The email has to contain the following:

  • Team name
  • Link to the team profile on ETF2L.org
  • Link to the online photo album
  • The division you applied for
  • Further information why your team should be seeded into the desired division

New website feature

We have received numerous complaints from players about randomly being added to teams they never knew existed. Unfortunately, this was a side-effect of our efforts to make running a team simple and easy; team leaders had been able to add whoever they wanted to their team roster. Due to the many cases of abuse though, we have decided to put an end to this by introducing a new feature – Team Invitations.

Every player will have a new page on the Team Admin area of the website, called Invitations. Here you can see what teams have invited you to join and there will be buttons there to either Accept or Reject their invitations:

Preview of the new Invitation page

Once an invitation is accepted, the player is added to the team’s roster immediately and all other invitations from teams of the same type will be removed.
Rejecting an invitation will simply remove the invitation from the list.

Ignored invitations are automatically removed after 7 days.

A massive thanks to Netherlands Spike Himself for putting in the time and effort to add this feature!

Season 11 Award Polls

Thanks to everyone who participated in the nominations for the Season 11 awards. Unfortunately, we are under the impression that some people did not really take the awards seriously (SHOCK! HORROR!). As a result we have decided that these will be the last awards where the winners are nominated by the public – maybe the last awards ever.

Enough of this now, here are the polls:

Season 11: Scout of the season

Total Voters: 763

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Season 11: Demoman of the season

Total Voters: 731

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Season 11: Medic of the season

Total Voters: 741

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Season 11: Soldier of the season

Total Voters: 712

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Season 11: Off-classer of the season

Total Voters: 704

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Season 11: Best premiership debut of the season

Total Voters: 670

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Season 11: Most Valuable Player of the season

Total Voters: 711

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Season 11: Upcoming talent of the season

Total Voters: 538

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Season 11: Surprisingly good team of the season

Total Voters: 632

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Season 11: Fairplay award

Total Voters: 526

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Season 11: People's choice award

Total Voters: 640

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36 Comments

  1. Permzilla: (Legend) - (☞゚ヮ゚)☞ - WiK? said:

    Sunday is the 29th, friday is the 27th, you got the dates messed up!

  2. CanFo: (Legend) - [HA] - #T4F said:

    Indeed. Thanks :)

  3. ReveraL said:

    TARKUS TARKUS TARKUS 2012

  4. blky said:

    TARKUS 2012

  5. Dummy said:

    TARKUS 2012 (WHY????)

  6. Tarkus: aHn said:

    SEASON 11: SURPRISINGLY GOOD TEAM OF THE SEASON
    You have successfully voted for: Perilous Gaming (Insane Dutch Killers – Kittenz! / WALE)

  7. wolve: [d¿s] - LEGO said:

    Come on Tarkus show some love for your old team. We think about what your team is going through all the time.

  8. Tarkus: aHn said:

    u didnt suprise me :P

  9. Brov said:

    why

  10. ( /ʃɔ’jɛ/ [↘↗] ): keso said:

    why

  11. CanFo: (Legend) - [HA] - #T4F said:

    Why not?

  12. The Pledge said:

    Worst fucking awards ever.

  13. Whiteglow said:

    Tarkus 2012, what is it?

  14. Whiteglow said:

    Scout of the season: stefan/schocky
    Demoman of the season: Retsh0ck
    Medic of the season: F2
    Soldier of the season: Mike
    Off-classer of the season: Flippy
    Best premiership debut of the season: TviQ)
    Most Valuable Player of the season: stefan/schocky
    Upcoming talent of the season: Sorrow
    Surprisingly good team of the season: NITROSE

  15. qkls: qkls said:

    Soldier of the season: Pescanova

  16. Swifty: ξ(゜ヮ゜)ξ said:

    Scout of the season: stefan/schocky
    Demoman of the season: Kaidus
    Medic of the season: Royze
    Soldier of the season: MatnuN
    Off-classer of the season: TviQ
    Best premiership debut of the season: TviQ
    Most Valuable Player of the season: Retsh0ck
    Upcoming talent of the season: Mr. G – String
    Surprisingly good team of the season: NITROSE

  17. Pognon: DA! said:

    Off-classer of the season: Flippy

    NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.

  18. wrex said:

    Upcoming talent of the season: :(

  19. Moog: sirkkels - GG said:

    GO KONNA!

  20. omrish said:

    so many jews

  21. Shotgun Junior said:

    I voted Royze cuz F2 is always medick of the season!

  22. mustardoverlord: :) said:

    fairplay award: LAG

  23. Spike Himself: TC said:

    What Pledge said.

  24. Trane said:

    Ban all Poles and Jews please, these ‘awards’ are an embarrassment.

  25. SandeR: m0. said:

    Trane: DStP – DStS said:
    April 10th, 2012 at 09:47

    Ban all Poles and Jews please, these ‘awards’ are an embarrassment.
    +1
    they vote for themselves just because they are from the same nation
    what a shame

  26. Rudd said:

    If people are going to vote for div3 scouts and soldiers, please stop doing these public votings. Pick a jury or something like that

  27. Traxantic: TLR said:

    If people aren’t going to be nominated by normal players then you might aswell have no rewards at all…

  28. Spike Himself: TC said:

    That sums it up pretty nicely indeed :)

  29. Ghostface: spire said:

    I’m pretty sure that any half-decent league of ANY sport whatsoever has a committee who nominates players.

  30. kaidus: 7 - WiK? said:

    Only etf2l could consider abandoning something altogether in favour of having some sort of ‘expert committee’. I don’t know what the aversion to such a thing is, the admins just seem terrified of any sort of hinting at a pro circle jerk be it awards, maps, unlocks or whatever. Honestly tis beyond me.

    Also, for fair play and most surprising you should state next to them what they actually did to be nominated.

  31. P0ng said:

    Tarkus 2012 ftw

  32. GodOfFail said:

    wrex should be in the upcoming talent category,imo :/ beast
    ALSO TARKUS 2012

  33. Spike Himself: TC said:

    You are quite wrong, Kaidus :)

    We have tried a panel of high div players and some known figures for nominations. Last season, or the season before that, if I recall correctly.
    It didn’t work.

    Really though, we’re open for suggestions and we always have been.

  34. Admirable: (Toucan Ambassador) said:

    ALWAYS VOTE WLTRS, NEVER BACK DOWN

  35. kaidus: 7 - WiK? said:

    Ah yes you mean the season where there were a total of 3 teams in prem by the end? Yes it must of been the panel that caused that not to be successful…………

  36. cribbe: TC said:

    who the fuck is the panic lol