Will cheetah really manage to continue his amazing win streak against one of the most known soldier in Europe or will Coinz make this another easy win for him and have fun with the money? The big final will take place today at 19:00 CEST.

Coverage

Source TV: 84.244.189.238:27022

Road to Final

YoYo.Coinz

• Round 1: vs.  Axik – 30:2
• Round 2: vs. sweiny – 30:2
• Round 3: vs.  gK_ – 30:5
• Round 4: vs.  [FB]cook – 30:22
• Round 5: vs.  Nutz – 30:7
• Quarter Final: vs.  illegal.hocz – 30:22
• Semi Final: vs. codcrille – 30:16

[SpA]cheetah

• Round 1: vs. wonder – 30:14
• Round 2: vs. nvc – Default Win
• Round 3: vs. RobbaZ – 30:15
• Round 4: vs. [4K^daf] – 30:23
• Round 5: vs. SfynX – 30:26
• Quarter Final: vs. eLD.Dreadi – 30:23
• Semi Final: vs. Dignitas\TeoK – 30:21

Match Details

— Friday 26 June 2009 19:00 CEST —

[Matchlink]

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YoYoTech.Coinz [30:15] [SpA]cheetah

RIP Michael Jackson

Due to the big request the gamemode for the Soldier 1on1 Cup is changed to “Best of 7” (first player reaching 4 points wins). Exception is a “K.O. streak” which will take place if one player wins the first three rounds. All rules are listed on the [Rules Page].

Please start to contact your Round 1 opponent; the match deadline is coming Tuesday. GL & HF to all players and teams!

Details

• Soldier 1on1 Cup (cp_turris): [Cup Tree] – [Specific Rules]
• Pyro 3on3 Paintball Cup: [Cup Tree] – [Specific Rules]
• Round 1 – Match Deadline: Tuesday, 30^th June, 23:59 CEST
• Round 2 – Match Deadline: Tuesday, 7^th July, 23:59 CEST

Alea iacta est! Polls are closed and over 550 players decided: the next two fun cups will be a Soldier 1on1 Cup on cp_turris_b3 and a Pyro 3on3 Paintball Cup on cp_pyropaintball.

Sign Ups for both cups will already open today, at 19:30 CEST. As there will be only 64 slots each, be sure to sign fast if you want a spot. Round 1 will start in the next days and schedule will keep to a strict 1-week-rhythmus. Both competitions will be finished before the summer period.

Sign-Up-Instructions

1. [Create a team]. Choose 1on1 or 3on3/4on4 as team type.
2. Add yourself to the 1on1 team or at least 3 players to your 3on3/4on4 team.
3. Enter at least two contact methods.
4. [SIGN UP!] – *UPDATE* Both cups full!
5. You will be automatically added on the Waiting List until an admin verified your submission.

Schedule

• strict 1-week-rhythmus
• Sign Up start: Sunday, 21^st June, 19:30 CEST
• Round 1 start: ~Tuesday, 23^rd June
• Final: ~22th July

Soldier 1on1: Details

• Map: [cp_turris_b3]
• Gamemode: Best of 10 rounds (first one reaching 6 points wins)

Pyro 3on3 Paintball: Details

• Map: [cp_pyropaintball]
• Gamemode: Best of 19 Rounds (first team reaching 10 points wins)
• Rules: Pyro only, Flaregun only

Phishing websites

As of late, a new phishing website has emerged. This particular website pretends to be the steamcommunity website, and it does a pretty good job at looking like that. Please make sure, that whenever you log in to the steam community or the steampowered website, the URL is correct and that your browser bar displays a lock icon on a green background saying “Valve Corporation”. If you can’t see the green lock, or are not on one of these 2 websites, never give out your steam login details.

Sign Ups will already start Sunday evening; both cups will start shortly after so they will be finished before summer. If you want a safe spot, be sure to sign fast.

Edit: Polls are closed, Soldier (turris) 1on1 Cup and Pyro Paintball 3on3 won! Sign Ups will already start this evening. Details will be published soon.

Details

• Slots: 64
• Schedule: strict 1-week-rhythmus
• Poll end: Saturday, 20^th June, 23:59 CEST
• Sign Up start: Sunday, 21^st June, 19:30 CEST
• Round 1 start: ~Tuesday, 23^rd June
• Final: ~22th July

“Why can’t we discuss in our native language?” was a frequently asked questions of the last weeks. Today we are happy to publish our solution: Country forums!

Every country forum is specified to one language and covers any discussions of your choice (as long as they aren’t against any league rules). For the start we have created four country forums of big TF2 nations. If everything goes fine we are probably adding more soon.

• [Dutch Forum]
• [Finnish Forum]
• [German Forum]
• [Swedish Forum]

Season 5: General match deadline & promotion system

We have reached halftime in Season 5. With currently being in Week 6 out of 9, there are only a few weeks left till the final decisions will be made.

Due to that fact we would already like to announce the general match deadline for all Season 5 matches: Sunday, 12^th July, 23:59 CEST. Please have in mind all matches will have to be submitted by this Deadline. No later dates will be accepted.

Also we have published the promotion system for our current Season. Like announced before, the Playoff Phase will be skipped due to the upcoming summer period (exception are decider matches if two teams end tied in points).

You may have a look at our tables [Link] to check all promotion (green) and relegation (red) spots.

50 € Soldier 1on1 Cup: Semi Finals

The Quarter Finals are over and surprisingly two prediction poll predicted pretty wrong; [SpA]cheetah (only 43 % voted for him) managed to win against eLD.Dreadi (30:23) and codcrille (with just 14% of all votes) won against the big favorite FB.Exfanus (30:15). Well done!

Now it’s just one more match before the big final everybody is looking forward to. Will the underdogs get us more unexpected results? Or will we see two Division 1 players in the final? Good luck to all remaining players! Everybody else have fun predicting below.

Fixtures

[Fixture List]

• Match Deadline: Sunday, 21^st June 2009, 23:59 CEST
• Semi Final #1: Dignitas\\TeoK vs. [SpA]cheetah
• Semi Final #2: YoYo.Coinz vs. codcrille

Scout 2on2 & Sniper-1-Day-Cup: Grats to piece sucks & waiz

We are a bit late on that, but of course we would like to congratulate the winner of our lately finished fun competitions.

Piece sucks, a fun team of I Don’t Know players, had a close fight against Morty is on a mission. After they lost the first map (cp_granary) clearly (0:3), they made an excellent comeback and got the win home after three maps (cp_badlands 3:2 | cp_fastlane 3:2).

Besides, we also congratulate waiz who pretty much dominated our first Sniper 1on1 Cup and won a high quality headset from our partner SteelSeries. Have fun with it!

[Scout 2on2 Cup]

[Sniper 1on1 1-Day-Cup]

Fun Cup polls

Fun Cups are dead. Long live the Fun Cup. ETF2L will arrange two new fun competitions of your choice in the next weeks! Yep, it’s your choice again: Vote below and decide which 1on1 and low-team-size cup will be next!

As we would like to finish these before the summer period, both cups will have a small slot limit of 64 and get a strict 1-week-rhythmus as schedule. More information will be published Sunday.

Schedule

• Poll end: Saturday, 20^th June, 23:59 CEST
• Sign Up start: Sunday, 21^st June, 19:30 CEST
• Round 1 start: ~Tuesday, 23^rd June
• Final: ~22th July

Today we proudly present a completely new section of our website.

In cooperation with own3D.tv, a high quality online video streaming platform for gamers, ETF2L.org will now host it’s own Team Fortress 2 video section.

>>> [ETF2L Video section] <<<

Everybody is invited to upload and post his gaming videos in our video section. All added videos will be listed on the overview page where you are also able to filter it to particular class videos or search for specific titles.

We hope the community will give it a try and take it as an option to create one big TF2 video portal. Feel free to start uploading and spread the word!

How-To: Upload a video

1. Currently you will have to register an own3D.tv account [Registration Link] first.
2. Upload your video to own3D.tv [Upload Page].
3. Add your video to our website [Link].

Please have in mind this section is at the start, so we are looking forward to bug reports or ideas for new features, especially the latter.

Note: If you are using Firefox with an adblock plugin, you might have trouble watching the videos. If this is the case for you, whitelisting etf2l.org and www.own3d.tv  should help.

The SteelSeries QcK+ Limited Edition SK Gaming is a limited edition super-sized mouse pad made of a high quality cloth material, featuring an eye-catching design created in cooperation with SK Gaming’s designers. The combination of the high quality cloth and an optimized textured surface, guarantees both smoothness and glide, while the specially designed non-slip rubber base prevents the mouse pad from sliding. With a height of 4 mm (twice as thick as standard QcK+ pads) the SteelSeries QcK+ Limited Edition product is unique, created to help SK Gaming create an additional revenue stream for their team of worldclass gamers.

SteelSeries QcK+ Limited Edition highlights

• Smooth cloth surface
• Heavy thickness reduces problems from uneven surfaces
• Steady rubber base
• XXL sized
• SK Gaming artwork

The new SteelSeries QcK+ Limited Edition SK Gaming pad will premiere at DreamHack in Sweden, with the first 50 pieces sold being signed by the professional Counter-Strike players in SK Gaming. The pad will be available worldwide over the summer.

Another two rounds of our first prize money competition have finished. Only 8 out of 380 players managed to make it through Round 1-6 and will give their best to continue their winning streak in the Quarter Finals.

But who will win and make it to the Semi Finals? Make your guess and vote below!

Fixtures

[Fixture List]

• Match Deadline: Sunday, 14^th June 2009, 23:59 CEST
• Quarter Final #1: eLD.Dreadi vs. [SpA]cheetah
• Quarter Final #2: YoYo.Coinz vs. illegal.hocz
• Quarter Final #3: Dignitas\\TeoK vs. m0re
• Quarter Final #4: BD.codcrille vs. FB.Exfanus

IRC Bot: New division announcement feature

After some work on our IRC Bot we have created a new feature which allows you to decide which results it should announce. See the How-To and an overview about our IRC Bot below.

How To

• Command: help etf2l watch - Explanation: list of all commands & explanation
• Command: watch [<all|none|divlist>] - Explanation: set which divisions you want to watch results/STV IPs from; can only be altered if you are opped in a channel.
• Command: !watch - Explanation: to see a list of divisions you are watching at this moment.
• Command: !watch all- Explanation: to watch all divisions.
• Command: !watch none- Explanation: to watch no divisions.
• Command: !watch <divlist> - Explanation: watch a specified list of divisions – Example: !watch 1 2a 4 (watches division 1, 2a and all divs 4 (4a-4f))

All other bot functions

• Command: !results – Explanation: Latest 5 verified Cup/League Results
• Command: !fixtures – Explanation: Next 5 upcoming Fixtures
• Command: !events – Explanation: Next 5 entered Events & Deadlines
• Command: !info – Explanation: League Page URL
• Command: !hl2 <server ip> – Explanation: Get a server info
• Highlighting published Newsposts
• Highlighting League Matches with Source-TV
• Highlighting verified League/Cup-Results (can be changed, see above)
• Highlighting Important League Announcements

How can I get the bot into my channel?

1. You need to be opped in the requested channel.
2. Type /invite ETF2L3 #channelname (or any other available bot, ETF2L2 or ETF2L)
3. The bot will join after an admin confirmed your request (requirement is a minimum of 5 people in your chan)
4. If you want to have our bot removed again, please contact an admin in #etf2l

Besides that, we are working on a complete new section for our website which will be published soon. Stay tuned!

“tarmo-” got things just about right with:

“thanks m0re for this amazing hud :)! tf2 hasn’t been pleasant to play without this. after you try more’s hud, you cant switch back. :D!”

For his PRAISE, he shall receive a headset of his choosing, delivered to his cot this week and at the same time, robbing -9m- Gryzors pocket. I am not amused. Thanks for participating!

Original thread is located here and keep watching our forums.

Our 50 € Soldier 1on1 Cup is running smooth. We have reached Round 5 and 32 players from 17 different countries are left to fight for the fame and money.
Please have in mind the match deadline for all R5 matches is coming Sunday, 31st May, 23:59 CEST. Good luck to all players to reach the Quarter Finals!

Fixtures

[Fixture List]

• fenneks.Sendo Takeshi vs.  PdB.Janman
• TCM.aves vs. Dignitas\\TeoK
• ppb.Line vs. eLD.atreides – 31:29
• m0re vs. CarpeD//Rubikon
• LoopeR vs.   plan-B.pEx
• Imperial.Matt vs. GLC.danieL
• Authentic.WalWer vs. eLD.Dreadi
• FB.cook vs. YoYo.Coinz
• illegal.hocz vs. GC.bash
• SfnX vs. TCM.weqo
• Authentic. Atty vs. nutz
• optimus.Jowy vs. YoYo2.Ed
• FB.Exfanus vs. eX.pr0ph3t
• FB.Dr. Leon vs. FB2.Nislem
• BD.codcrille vs. -HH-Hitoshura
• SpA.cheetah vs. 4K^daf

Season 5: Week 4 starting

Also our current main season is going on. After all unscheduled Week 3 matches got a Default Date last Sunday, Week 4 is starting this week. You should contact your opponents now and schedule your match.

Please have in mind we might give away Minor Warnings for teams who don’t make any effort to schedule their matches. Also a not submitted result or an agreed date outside the normal schedule can be a reason for a warning. Every team who accumulate 3 Minor Warnings in between one Season will get a point deduction (see Rule 2.12).

Spy & Sniper Unlocks

As we have already stated on our forums, all new weapons which were released for the Sniper & Spy are forbidden unless both teams agree otherwise.