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To kick off Season 20 we decided to host a cup totally fitting the general climate around this time of the year: The Sunshine Cup! In addition to introducing the map it will give teams new to ETF2L a chance to try out the whole ‘official match’ process and result submission before the actual season – hopefully decreasing the amount of mistakes during the actual season. We’ll be using cp_sunshine_rc4.

For this cup we will be using the Season 20 whitelist, which includes all the preliminary unlocks and the recently released demoman unlocks. Make sure to use the correct whitelist which can be found on whitelist.tf (raw)!

Depending on the number of signups there will be several brackets to accommodate different skill levels, each consisting of four groups of four teams each. This cups group stage will be played on Thursday, January 15th. The top two teams from each group will proceed into the knockout stages on Sunday, January 18th. We’ll break any ties primarily based on head-to-head match-ups and, if that’s not enough, based on round difference over the whole of the group stage. If any tiebreakers are needed after that they will be played on Friday and/or Saturday, January 16th/17th.

Both standard 6v6 and fun teams are eligible to enter the cup and can sign up here. Don’t forget that one default merc will be allowed – so your 6v6 team might just be viable after all! Both signup lists will be merged for the actual seedings, it doesn’t matter in which one you sign up.

Sign ups will close on Wednesday, January 14th at 23:59CEST or when there’s a total of 128 sign ups, whichever occurs first. Teams signing up after that deadline will be considered as replacement teams for teams dropping on short notice!

serveme.tf will provide 30 keys and one-year-donator-status for 12 players to be handed out to the glorious winners of this cup!

Just to recap the schedule:

Group Stages – Thursday, January 15th

• 19:30 – Round 1
• 20:30 – Round 2
• 21:30 – Round 3

Tiebreakers – Friday, January 16th (Saturday, January 17th)

• 19:30 – teams can play at an alternative time on Friday or Saturday if both teams agree

Knockout Stages – Sunday, January 18th

• 19:30 – Quarter-Finals
• 20:30 – Semi-Finals
• 21:30 – Finals

All matches will be scheduled via default dates, no manual scheduling will be needed.

Because it is a cup, one merc is allowed by default (and up to two if the opponents agree)! The default merc can’t be more experienced than the overall team. Teams caught using a merc that’s too experienced without the explicit approval of their opponents will get their match defaulted and potentially be expelled from the competition.

Standard ETF2L 5CP rules will apply for this cup which you can find on our General Rules page. In short: Timelimit 30, Windifference 5. If the score is equal after the timelimit is reached a Golden Cap with timelimit of 10 minutes will be played. The team that scores a round first during that GC or, if the time runs out again, whichever team holds the middle, wins the entire map.

Further details will be posted in upcoming news posts.