Esports Heaven Velociraptor Challenge & Bans :(

Date April 14, 2012

Esports Heaven Velociraptor Challenge

 

The Velociraptor Challenge, hosted at Esports Heaven and sponsored by Western Digital, will kick off on Monday, April 16. All teams are welcome to play, the maximum signup number is 64. Currently only 14 teams have signed up which makes the scene look pretty bad and decreases the likeliness for sponsored TF2 cups on Esports Heaven in the future.

To all teams that already signed up but do not appear in the team list: Please make sure all of your players have entered a valid Steam ID. If they have not, they can do so here (you need to be logged in on the Esports Heaven website).

If we reach a signup number of more than 32 teams, the schedule is shown below. In case this number is not reached, an updated schedule will be published on Monday.

Week 1: Monday 16/04:

20:00 CEST UB Round 1 (cp_granary)
20:45 CEST UB Round 2 + LB Round 1 (cp_snakewater)
21:30 CEST UB Round 3 + LB Round 2 (cp_gravelpit)

Week 2: Monday 23/04:

20:00 CEST LB Round 3 (cp_granary)
20:45 CEST LB Round 4 + UB Round 4 (cp_badlands)
21:30 CEST LB Round 5 + UB Round 5 (cp_gullywash_final1)

Week 3: Monday 30/04:

20:00 CEST LB Round 6 (cp_snakewater)
20:45 CEST LB Round 7 (cp_gravelpit)
21:30 CEST LB Round 8 (cp_badlands)
21:00 CEST UB final (Best of 3) (teams pick maps)

Week 4: Monday 07/05:

20:00 CEST LB Round 9 (cp_gullywash_final1)
21:15 CEST LB Final (Best of 3) (teams pick maps)

Week 5: Monday 14/05:

21:15 CEST Grand Final (1-2 maps, team from UB can lose 1 map, team from LB can’t) (teams pick maps, team from LB can choose to pick first)

Bans

The following players are found guilty in account sharing during an ETF2L match and recieve a one-year ban from all ETF2L competitions:

  • Portugal Marcu – Account sharing – 1 Year ban
  • Portugal :blind.pt – Account sharing – 1 Year ban

The following players are found guilty in supporting the above players’ account sharing and are banned for one season from all ETF2L competitions:

  • Portugal HurricaneR – supporting account sharing – 1 season ban
  • Portugal Duff – supporting account sharing – 1 season ban
  • Portugal Kiler4fun – supporting account sharing – 1 season ban
  • Portugal Lil Brotha – supporting account sharing – 1 season ban
  • Portugal Kalhó – supporting account sharing – 1 season ban

All matches except the first round match (which was a noshow default win) of the team Portugal batdog in the Saffron Cup have been removed or changed to a default loss. The following default dates apply for replaying the affected matches. The teams can agree to play earlier. If neither team can play at the default date, the result will be decided with a coinflip.

  • European The Enigma Zone Crew versus European Aftershock Gaming: Tuesday, April 17, 21:00 CEST (Result: 1-6)
  • European Aftershock Gaming versus UK Perilous Gaming: Sunday, April 22, 21:00 CEST

Obviously, this causes some delay. The deadlines for the semi-finals and the final will be moved.

  • Semi-finals: Wednesday, April 25
  • Final: Sunday, April 29

114 Comments

  1. basH: hf said:

    dont ban marcu !!!

    ban the others but let marcu go

  2. Quik: vs - Fe | said:

    gotta love the justice

  3. Reaper: Nave said:

    Situation 1:
    -Danny banned
    -Free Danny!

    Situation 2:
    -Beavern banned
    -Free Beavern!

    Situation 3:
    -Free keyboard!
    -Ban Marcu!

  4. Dummy said:

    Don’t complain Reapy, be happy you share the house with lil so you can’t be proven =D

  5. Reaper: Nave said:

    Not complaining at all, just making a joke out of it. Would it be of any use to complain? :D

  6. IPZIE: SUAVE said:

    you guys are fucking dumb eQ :D

  7. XiuUu: .pt said:

    o culpado disto foi o kalhó

  8. Swifty: ξ(゜ヮ゜)ξ said:

    patos

  9. Perry the Platypus: (Cat Enthusiast) - 一一═デ︻ said:

    patitos!

  10. alfa said:

    destroyed

  11. Swifty: ξ(゜ヮ゜)ξ said:

    Lil’ Brotha and Big Brotha aka Reaper to get perma banned for constant account sharing?! (i.e. living together and ALWAYS playing for each other)

    :D

  12. Kalhó: MM - Nave said:

    Fairplay Award: Volum

  13. iNdx said:

    did volum snitch

  14. IPZIE: SUAVE said:

    no but he left the sinking ship early enough to not get dragged down with it

  15. Kalhó: MM - Nave said:

    lol ipz
    do you know anything at all of what happen to say that?

  16. Stuppa: .Dicknitas said:

    good trick to take their premier slot

  17. Septique said:

    ahahahha

  18. Thalash: wG - S-O said:

    l.o.l.

  19. SandeR: m0. said:

    What was their trick? I don’t get it

  20. kaidus: 7 - WiK? said:

    Free kiler! Anyone whos played with him knows he hasn’t got a clue what’s going on at any point, he’s just runnin around kilin kids. Let a halfy walk I say.

  21. Ghent: Team said:

    ROFL

  22. Hildreth: Bully - Pander said:

    Sad to see such a promising team go down in such a way. TF2 should be mourning not laughing.

  23. Coleman: TEZC - TEZC said:

    Why Duff :/

  24. Buffalo Bill: TDR » - T⑨ said:

    Sad to see. :(

  25. Miikka Himself: Labi said:

    Half of eQuilibrium team is banned….. i lold hard wubwubwubw

  26. SpleeT: C.LIONS said:

    Portuguese strikes again :DDDD

  27. smziii: (Legendary Ratehacks) - SVIFT said:

    absolutely worth it

  28. Linus: [d¿s] - 007 said:

    hardly worth mourning when its due their own stupidity :D

  29. Tardus: ez-sports.ru said:

    awwww

  30. 隠者: ✓✓✓ - TD. said:

    sadly

  31. sno: UbeR | - itsallgood said:

    potatos

  32. Gobaa: posoni said:

    WHYY?!

  33. MInd: [hePPa] said:

    Keyboards, srs bsns.

  34. tack: kp/ said:

    hahahahaha

  35. t0dA said:

    Now eQ are gonna win season12 with me!!!

    ALONE

    PS: carochito

  36. Pynklùùùnningen: CotC said:

    lol

  37. Brainmaster: GoT<3 - #WW said:

    we need more teams to sign uuup..

  38. Starkie: ulti? - sniper said:

    I beez in tha trap

  39. r7an: -9w- said:

    xDD

  40. Hat said:

    t0dA is the true victim in all of this

  41. Marcu said:

    so what game should i start playing guys? <3
    also, we all still love you volum

  42. skA: TF2Pickup said:

    penis?

  43. Duff said:

    http://tf2portugal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/batdog.png

  44. huhystah said:

    We have 19 teams that are approved now! Go go, need more sign-ups.

  45. Admirable: (Toucan Ambassador) said:

    Bizarre!

  46. Caeli: #T4F said:

    Omg, poor eQuilibrium :((( they were good guys. At least I hope to see them at Season 13!

    P.D: Don’t pay any attention to Stuppa comments, he’s retarded :(( Sorry about him guys

  47. mrwhizz said:

    http://i35.tinypic.com/ogxjwk.jpg

  48. Swifty: ξ(゜ヮ゜)ξ said:

    hahaha, are you guys really PUBLICLY getting mad at volum for snitching you out? You idiots should’ve not been doing this in the first place, trying to cheat the system to get keyboards you don’t deserve and you got caught. suck2bU

  49. doks said:

    something like this happened to a turkish team like 3 seasons agoo.. but then it was a div5 team using a div1 player or something.
    i wonder how do you prove it ?

  50. Rudd said:

    What they did was wrong, but honestly I feel its even more ridiculous what volum did. Haunter, coinz, stuntz and toda to join eq now?

  51. Clark: SDCK! said:

    Sad to see Kiler4fun in this list.
    Seriously, one of the nicest guys, and probably didn’t even know a damn of what was going on.

  52. Dummy said:

    doks – i guess by comparing IPs of the players who pld on server and the suspected ppl previously =p

  53. HurricaneR said:

    Sure what we did wasn’t correct at all, no doubt, but knowing that VoLuM only snitched because we didn’t let him play in duff’s account just proves how much of a baby and hypocrite he is.

    Anyway, lesson learned and sorry for the mess we caused in the cup and I can guarantee that everyone who played are nice guys and just didn’t think it all through.

    And in response to doks they can prove it by comparing the IP’s of the players and seeing if they match.

  54. Stuppa: .Dicknitas said:

    I was not insulting them fag-voice

  55. Marcu said:

    Sure what we did wasn’t correct at all, no doubt, but knowing that VoLuM only snitched because we didn’t let him play in duff’s account just proves how much of a baby and hypocrite he is.

    Anyway, lesson learned and sorry for the mess we caused in the cup and I can guarantee that everyone who played are nice guys and just didn’t think it all through.

    +1

  56. MightyMe: UbeR | said:

    VoLuM 2012

  57. Dummy said:

    First of all y’all, he did not ‘snitch’ as in, he wasn’t the one who caused any suspicions. that was when we lost to a team with supposed 3 div 5 players – we’re not very good xD but we’re not that bad either! second of all for everybody reading, that’s their version of the events – the other one is that volum isnt a cheetah and did not want to partake in this

  58. wrock: vier said:

    why they cup is 5v5? im sure we get more signups if we have 6v6…

  59. HurricaneR said:

    I wouldn’t say what I said if I wasn’t sure about it.
    I am sorry to tell you but I read steam logs where VoLuM directly said to Marcu before the game what I just said, and many other rude things that aren’t even worth mentioning. I just want to warn you that VoLuM isn’t who you think he is, because I’ve known him since he started playing tf2 and even having this in consideration he had no problem in screwing us just because he couldn’t also play (I still stand on what we did was not correct, but please, don’t say it’s “their version of the events” because it is what really happened). And he did snitch (maybe he wasn’t the one who told you, but he did) because he said he was going to do it did just as we started playing and also because your team said in the middle of the game something about marcu, implying blind was account sharing.
    Another thing that also amazes me about VoLuM is when confronted about having snitched he didn’t admit it, maybe because he was afraid of the people who were in mumble at that time I don’t know really know, but after explicitly saying he would do it why not just admit it?

  60. smziii: (Legendary Ratehacks) - SVIFT said:

    ^ what dummy said :)

  61. vøid said:

    why the fuck cheating and account sharing lead to the same ban length ???

  62. Dummy said:

    Wrock, the cup is 6v6

  63. san alex said:

    fairplay? haha volum used alts in Portuguese cups, just saying.. ;)

  64. Traxantic: TLR said:

    potato

  65. raappana: KoP!? said:

    ahahahahahahahahhhahahahaha

  66. Kiler4fun: SUAVE said:

    quote void

    Indeed, account sharing and cheating shouldn’t have the same lenght :)

    Also free marcu need my scout buddy back :P

  67. Kalhó: MM - Nave said:

    lesson learn, next time we are better off just cheating then trying to be sneaky with accounts

  68. djc: d2f~ said:

    maybe next time you should just be less weird and take your video games less seriously

  69. Enef: fest - #wubafan said:

    Portugal representing well.

  70. djc: d2f~ said:

    are you guys gonna all corner volum inside of the famed Portuguese TF2 House where you all live and group-sodomize him for snitching

  71. Marcu said:

    dont free me! but i’ve got a question: why is my and blind’s ban longer in 7 months than the other multi accounts bans? :D

  72. djc: d2f~ said:

    maybe you’re going to tie volum to the floor and have coinz punch his meaty fist through glass tables over top of him, over and over again

  73. djc: d2f~ said:

    is haunter going to show his fatherly disappointment in kiler4fun by giving him a rigorous bare-bottom spanking

  74. san alex said:

    join free ;) http://steamcommunity.com/groups/volum_sucks

  75. HurricaneR said:

    going in with djc

    FRONT PAGE OF ETF2L TOTALLY WORTH IT

  76. Kalhó: MM - Nave said:

    brilliant ideas djc xDD

  77. Marcu said:

    made me cry

  78. K3 said:

    lik dis if u cry everytim ;(

  79. K3 said:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MngGyN8Q294

  80. Coleman: TEZC - TEZC said:

    djc: said: “maybe next time you should just be less weird and take your video games less seriously”

    Portugal is the third world; they could sell those keyboards for half a year’s supply of grain!

  81. san alex said:

    http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/8789/18554144.jpg

  82. Vlijm: UbeR | said:

    “lesson learn, next time we are better off just cheating then trying to be sneaky with accounts”

    Lol, gtfo you idiot. This ban serves you right for being the mongs you are. Couldve seen it coming when you desided to pull this trick in order to win some keyboards :)

  83. Kiler4fun: SUAVE said:

    We should start on personal insulting :) That’s just being rude. Dinner has been served. Now please just don’t start a flame war :)

  84. Kiler4fun: SUAVE said:

    I meant we shouldn’t :P

  85. GunBarrow: Barroliano - A4 said:

    Not the first time VoLuM backstabbing the Portuguese community and by that I’m not saying that the bans are wrong.

    Ps: Funny how volum admits on pt forums : p.

  86. AnimaL said:

    funny how buthurt u are

    well done volum

  87. SiTeHBu0mb: DOWN said:

    Kalhó: said:

    April 14th, 2012 at 16:25

    lesson learn, next time we are better off just cheating then trying to be sneaky with accounts

    This promoting cheating should be punished.

    They took the risk and got caught.

  88. Warmaster: -[MG]- - HL said:

    Important esh cup! w/e

    oh yea, and some bans….OMG OMG DRAMA

    Oh etf2l, you never disappoint!

    tl;dr Join the esh cup.

  89. Kalhó: MM - Nave said:

    dont be mad Vlijm, i was just trying to see the fun part of all of this now
    its the ony thing i got left to do xD

  90. Swifty: ξ(゜ヮ゜)ξ said:

    “We shouldn’t start on personal insulting :) That’s just being rude. Dinner has been served. Now please just don’t start a flame war :)”

    I like you Kiler. FREE KILER!

  91. atmo said:

    Serving diner al day long!

  92. Gubbins: Op4 said:

    Ban Swifty, Morphine and Minimoose.

  93. tweek\: ez-sports.ru said:

    inb4 mexicans

  94. smziii: (Legendary Ratehacks) - SVIFT said:

    hey leave phytek alone!

  95. Starkie: ulti? - sniper said:

    Wow volum called out some people breaking the rules, what a prick.
    Gimme that steam group

  96. Casual: prtyboiz - T⑨ said:

    Err, can someone point me to the exact rule in etf2l that forbids account sharing? Because I can’t find it..

  97. doks said:

    btw – if i was still at full time college… id have 2 IP`s during the week… 1 from home and 1 from the dorms – would i get banned too ?
    well i guess since no other nickname would play with my 2nd IP – i wouldnt… but still…

  98. doks said:

    oh and Casual.. its not about the etf2l rules.. its about the season or cup rules wich means: no mercs allowed without enemies permition :P

  99. Casual: prtyboiz - T⑨ said:

    So why weren’t they banned for that or violating that specific cup’s rules?
    I just find it weird that they’re banned for something which etf2l doesn’t even have a rule for :/

    You could put this under the “Any attempts of fraud” rule, but my opinion is that if you’re going to hand out such harsh punishment the reason should be explicitly stated in the rules.

  100. san alex said:

    they still upset cuz Portugal reached the semi finals of the nations cup.

  101. Andee: GoT<3 - HoT<3 said:

    Does this means Volum gets the fair play award now?

  102. HurricaneR said:

    I still don’t understand why marcu/blind ban is as long as a aimbot/wh one, like marcu already mentioned the last bans due to account sharing had a shorter duration (5 months) and as Casual said, as it is explained right now it isn’t understandable why such a long ban duration. I just get the feeling that being green and red is negative characteristic here…

  103. Marcu said:

    with a yellow dot in the middle to make things easier to understand

  104. Dummy said:

    im so confused hurricaner what the heck is being green and red (and yellow marcu) :D

  105. Starkie: ulti? - sniper said:

    Their flag you moron

  106. Dummy said:

    fuck off idiot

  107. Beef: Dawson said:

    Casual: Rule 7.3 in combination with common sense.

  108. HurricaneR said:

    Last time I checked common sense did not apply here (http://etf2l.org/matches/27492/)

  109. Kalhó: MM - Nave said:

    or in the case of this team http://etf2l.org/teams/5982/

  110. Casual: prtyboiz - T⑨ said:

    @Beef
    I’m not saying these people don’t deserve punishment since they clearly broke the rules.

    Why not list the correct offence instead of 1. using a reason that isn’t in your rules, 2. justify inventing a reason on the spot by referring to the ‘admins can ban you for w/e LOL’ rule, 3. make up more reasons (common sense LOL). Imho, if the punishment is harsh the rules should be *very* clear about what’s allowed and what isn’t.

    And I haven’t even started about the harsh punishment although I’ll assume there are aggravating circumstances we’re not being told about and hold utmost confidence in the professionalism of the etf2l admins. ;)

  111. Dr Icecream said:

    YEAH ESH CUP! :D

  112. Dummy said:

    Casual – there are no special circumstances. They used accounts of other players to play, they got caught, they got banned

  113. Dr Icecream said:

    Let’s put it this way casual:

    If you were still playing in div6 last season, and every team would get their higher ranked buddies to play in their place against you, you wouldn’t stand a chance to win, would you?

    There were rules to prevent teams with too many div2+ players signing up, to make this a cup in which lower div teams would be able to show themselves, draw your conclusions.

  114. mustardoverlord: :) said:

    maybe its just me but I feel like these guys should just be banned from cups and the like and not from league seasons

    or maybe im too much of a softy

    idk