Fun Cup Sign-Ups closing,, League ending, Nations Cup Sign-Ups

June 20, 2008

Fun Cup Sign-Ups closing Sunday!

Soldier 1on1 + Basketball 2on2 Fun Cup Sign-Ups closing this Sunday, 23:59 CET.

Quite a lot teams have signed up for a cup, but haven’t entered all requirements. Please be sure your team has:

• Correct number of players in roster (Soldier - 1 player | Basketball - 2 players)
• At least two different contact options entered

At the moment we have 43 people registered for our Soldier 1on1 Cup and 37 teams for our Basketball 2on2 Cup, so still some spots are free. Interested in participating? Have a look at our Sign-Up instructions. [Link]

3^rd Cup Round 2 - Schedule Deadline

The 2^nd Round Schedule Deadline is coming closer. All Round 2 Games have to be scheduled and entered in our Calendar until Sunday, 22th June, 23:59 CET.

Please contact your opponent soon if your game isn’t scheduled yet. [Link]

If you have problems reaching some representative of the opponent team, try using our new Challenge System. [Link]

Season 2 - Regular Season Games finished

We are happy to announce all regular Season Games are done; you can now have a look at the Final Tables. [Link]

Due to our League Rules („If two teams are tied in points for a position at the end of the season they will play a Playoff-Game for final position.”) there will be two Playoff Games:

• Division 2a Title Decider - last one alive lock the door vs. extenSia!
• Division 4b Promotion Spot Decider - Legion of Legends vs. QuiD Multigaming

Both games will be played by Tuesday night. Season 2 will end with Season Awards Polls and an article on Wednesday.

Nations’ Cup Sign-Up Phase

Due to Season 2 Playoff Games we will open our Nations’ Cup Sign-Ups next Wednesday, 25^th June, at 0:00 CET.

All National Team Contact Persons have been mailed with more information about the Cup and Sign-Up instructions to register their National Team at the site. Please check your mails if you haven’t read them yet.

All registered National Teams are listed in our database. [Link]

TF2 Pyro Update

Most people will already have noticed Valve released the new Pyro Update with a Free TF2 Weekend for everybody. [Link]

We will have a look at all additions and changes. It’s forbidden to use any new Pyro Weapon in any ETF2L Game until we announce something else.

As ctf_turbine has been added as official map this version is supposed to be used from now.

Posted in League by dAyKiLLeR 3 Comments »

General Update on New Player System, Fun Cup Sign-Ups and 3rd Cup Round 2

June 17, 2008

New Player System

Our new player system is running smooth; we are counting almost 500 player registrations in the first two days. Please be sure you are fixing your teams’ roster soon (especially if you are participating in an active competition like 3^rd Cup or a Fun Cup).

Don’t forget it will take 24 hours before someone is added to a teams’ roster.

You will find all information how to use the new Player System in our last newspost or at our FAQ. If you find any bugs please contact an admin.

Fun Cup Sign-Ups

Our Fun Cup Sign-Ups running smooth so far, we are counting 38 Sign-Ups for our Soldier 1on1 Cup and 40 teams for the Basketball 2on2 Cup at the moment. You haven’t signed up yet but would like to play in one of the Fun Cups? Have a look at the Sign-Up Instructions. [Link]

We will start verifying Sign-Ups from the Waiting List from tomorrow on. If your fun team hasn’t enough registered members yet, you should add your mate soon to have a safe spot in the cup.

Beside that we are announcing the general Round 1 Rules for both tourneys, so people can start to praccy already (we will probably increase the winlimits in further rounds).

Soldier 1on1 Cup Details

• Slots: 64
• Gamemode: Best of 3
• Winmode - Round 1: Fraglimit 25
• Map - Round 1: duel_parallel (Download Link)

Basketball 2on2 Cup Details

• Slots: 64
• Map: ctf_bball2 (Map Description) (Download Link)
• Gamemode: Best of 3
• Winmode - Round 1: mp_winlimit 15 + mp_timelimit 20
• Allowed Classes: Demoman + Soldier
• “It’s not allowed to put sticky bombs on opponent’s respawn zone.”

We will have some more detailed look at possible additional rules for both cups during this week. If you have any suggestions, feel free to post them in the comments or in our forum.

3rd Cup - Round 2

Thanks for about 300 people who took part in our last Live IRC Drawing on Sunday. All fixtures are up on our site now. [Link]

Our IRC Bot ETF2L drew some very interesting games for this 2^nd Round (out of 7 total rounds). The biggest highlights are probably French Top Team Team wL meeting Excello, fresh born Division 1 climber last one alive lock the door playing vs. Weapons of the Rebelion and the most improved Russian team of the last months dmg are going to fight misChief, an American highskilled team!

Good Luck to all teams for your 2^nd Round Cup Game, here are most important details again:

Map Order: 1. cp_gravelpit 2. ctf_turbine (3. cp_pro_granary 4. ctf_2fort 5. cp_badlands)

Schedule Deadline: Sunday, 22th June, 23:59 CET

Game Deadline: Tuesday, 1st July, 23:59 CET

FAQ + Challenge System + League config changes

As some people probably already noticed we had some clean up and rewrite at our FAQ. [Link] We please you to always have a look at our FAQ first before contacting an admin. We have also added important dates and details about all competitions there. We will have another clean-up at our Rules during this week.

We have also added a new Challenge System:

• If you fail reaching your opponent to schedule a match, you are supposed to use our Challenge System: (Link)
• If your opponent isn’t reacting on the challenge in between 4 days, a Default Win will be entered for your team.

Beside that we had to change one command in our League Config: tv_transmitall “0″ has been changed to “1″

>>> Updated League Config <<<

New Admin: Buteille

After some applications we found another addition for our staff: Buteille from thai#WHINE joined us and will especially help all French players if they have any problems/questions. Our team is now completed for our upcoming events in the next months.

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New Player System, Big Action tonight, Nations Cup Update

June 15, 2008

New Player System

A lot of work has been done in the background and we are glad to announce a major internal change in our Player-System. Our site admin ST8 worked out a new system which finally manages us to have a clear Database of all active Team Fortress 2 players.

General overview of new Player System:

• Every active playing TF2 player got his own profile [Screen]
• Registered players can update their profile with details [Link]
• Every player has to enter his SteamID at the profile
• Once you have entered your SteamID, you are able to join/leave registered teams/fun teams
• You will be added to a teams’ roster after 24 hours
• Unregistered players have to register at the site or get registered by his team leader (see next point)
• If players are too lazy to register, team leaders are able add players to their team by creating an account for them [Link]
• Team leaders need to accept players that have asked to join their team at roster page “Edit Players”. Team leaders need to re-add their entire squad

We are using our old Player-Database as backup for the upcoming games and ask all teams to sort out their roster within the next 2 weeks, at which point the new rosters will be shown. If there are any bugs or problems please contact an admin.

19:30 CET - 3rd Cup Round 2 Live IRC Drawing at #etf2l

The 1^st Round of biggest TF2 Cup in history is almost finished, 52 out of 64 games are decided, the last 12 will happen tonight.

Round 2 will start straight away, our big Live IRC Drawing for the 2^nd Round will take place at 19:30 CET in our IRC channel #etf2l @ QuakeNet!

Please start contacting your new opponent in the coming days to schedule the game. Don’t forget to add it in our Calendar.

*UPDATE: Round 2 Fixtures now up on the site! [Link]*

Map Order: 1. cp_gravelpit 2. ctf_turbine (3. cp_pro_granary 4. ctf_2fort 5. cp_badlands)

Round 2 Schedule Deadline: Sunday, 22th June, 23:59 CET

Round 2 Game Deadline: Tuesday, 1st July, 23:59 CET

20:00 CET - Soldier 1on1 and Basketball 2on2 Fun Cup Sign-Ups open!

Shortly after our Live Drawing is finished, we will open Sign-Ups for our upcoming Fun Cup Tournaments.

Soldier 1on1 Cup Details

• Slots: 64 (can be upped to 128)
• Gamemode: Best of 3
• Fraglimit (Round 1): 25
• Map-Pool will be published tomorrow

Basketball 2on2 Cup Details

• Slots: 32 (can be upped to 64/128)
• Gamemode: Best of 3
• Winlimit (Round 1): 15
• Timelimit (if Winlimit isn’t reached before): 20
• Allowed Classes: Demoman + Soldier

Sign-Up Details:

1. Register yourself on the site if you don’t have an account yet. (Link)
2. Go to the Fun Cup menu at Dashboard. (Link)
3. Add a Fun Cup Team. (Link)
4. Go to “Edit Roster” at the Fun Cup menu to add Players to your teams’ roster.
5. You can join the Soldier 1on1 or Basketball 2on2 Cup NOW –> (Link)
6. All Sign-Ups will get on the Waiting List first. We will give every team 2 days to fix their rosters by new player system.
7. An admin will check your Sign-Up and will verify your team to the Cup after this period.

21:00 CET - Pwnage.TV Top Match Coverage it’s a farm! vs. wotr2

After last Sunday’s showmatch Coverage between Europe’s best TF2 team 4 Kings and American’s top team Frag Dominant we are happy to announce another coverage for tonight!

Pwnage.TV will cover Division 2a Week 9 Match between last one alive lock the door (current position: 3^rd) and Weapons of the Rebelion 2 (current position: 6^th). With Division 2a still being very open, on the one hand it’s farm! still have possibility to get on 1^st or 2^nd position if they manage to win both maps and Extensia or Knights losing at least 1 map in their last game. On the other hand, Weapons of the Rebelion 2 still have to worry about finishing at a relegation place if they lose their last games.

Any kind of draw won’t help anyone, so both teams will have some hard fight for a clear win on both maps which they have to go for.

>>> Pwnage.TV Live Coverage <<<

Line-Ups:

last one alive lock the door: ekse, GRANiT, zerox, fasty, pbL, aves

Weapons of the Rebelion 2: Lofty, Nitro, Mr Peckerston, Tumble, DeUs, Evil Hulio

Maps:

ctf_turbine

last one alive lock the door [3:1] Weapons of the Rebelion 2

cp_well

last one alive lock the door [3:0] Weapons of the Rebelion 2

OVERALL

last one alive lock the door [6:0] Weapons of the Rebelion 2

Nation’s Cup Update

First of all thanks for the big positive feedback we got for announcing this tournament. We are happy many countries are looking forward to play the tournament. As you can see above we already worked on a little Nation’s Cup banner. We hope you like it; all thanks go to minkee who also made our head banner. If you like her work have a visit at minkee’s blog!

We are already counting 18 “Yes” of countries who are forming up a National Team and will probably participating in our Nation’s Cup. All teams will get informed with detailed information about how to sign up and take part in the next 2 days.

Current participating list:

• Austria
• Belgium
• CzechRepublic
• Denmark
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Israel
• Italy
• Latvia
• Luxembourg
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Portugal
• Russia
• Spain
• UK
• Ukraine

Season 2 ending

Yes it’s true, our official Deadline for all Season 2 Games is tonight, 23:59 CET. But of course we are having some exceptions with 4 games being scheduled for a later dates. It will be ok for these; still no more postponements are allowed for any Season 2 Game.

All games will have to be entered by coming Wednesday, 23:59 CET. We will publish a big “Ending News” shortly after and of course we will also have some Season Awards again.

Posted in League by dAyKiLLeR 1 Comment »

Tonight’s Division 1 Decision covered by QuadV + ETF2L Nations Cup upcoming!

June 11, 2008

QuadV Division 1 Top-Match Coverage tonight!

Tonight the last important Season 2 Division 1 Game between Excello (current position: 2^nd) and Clan United (current position: 3^rd) will take place. Excello needs to win both maps to get tied in points with current 1^st placed team 4 Kings. Clan United can take their chance and become 2^nd by beating Excello on both maps. We are looking forward to a great thrilling match.

Our partner QuadV.com will cover this Top-Match with a live video-stream and commentary by Deman and A_Spec! Their show will start at 21.15 CET, game is supposed to start at 21:30 CET.

>>> QuadV Live Coverage (TV Channel 1) <<<

>>> SourceTV: reve.fi:27020 <<<

Line-Ups:

Excello: weqo, appe, fette, glufse, russi, ins

Clan United: Moose, humis, snifz, Jambo, H4wk, ReVe

Maps:

cp_pro_granary

Excello [2:0] Clan United

cp_gravelpit

Excello [1:1] Clan United

OVERALL

Excello [4:1] Clan United

*UPDATE* 4 Kings win ETF2L Season 2 Title! Congratulations!

Tourney of the summer: Big ETF2L Nations Cup coming up!

Today we are happy to announce the probably most wanted competition of the last months: The ETF2L Nations Cup! About 16 different National Teams will fight their way through the competition during July and August!

System will be equal to current running Football EM 2008 with 4 Groups à 4 Teams, Top 2 of each Group going to the Playoffs. If we reach more than 16 teams, we will have a Pre-Round between smaller countries.

The following countries have confirmed their participation already:

• France
• Sweden
• Finland
• UnitedKingdom
• Spain
• Portugal
• Latvia

Beside that we are already in contact with National Teams from Russia, Germany, Netherlands and Belgium.

Still we are missing some organized National Teams from potential gaming countries like USA, Canada, Austria, Italy, Poland, CzechRepublic, Norway, Denmark and Luxembourg (also any other countries from any continent are welcome of course). Feel free to contact us if you have any information about a possible National Team or persons who could become in charge building some team up.

We decided for the following team/member rule for National Team’s roster:

• “A national team can field a maximum of 3 players of 1 team at a time.”
• “A national team must field members of at least 3 different teams.” (Exception for smaller countries will be worked out)

Current Schedule Plan:

• 22.-30.6. - Sign-Up-Phase
• (1.-6.7. - Pre-Round)
• 1.-31.7. - Group Phase
• 1.-31.8. - Playoff Phase

We will have a big special coverage ready! More details will be announced soon!

IRC-Bot: New trust

We finally got some IRC trust and could get back our IRC-Bot Clones. Do you always want to be informed about newest league information? Invite our IRC-Bot to your channel!

Request:

1. You need to be opped in the channel you want to request our bot for.
2. Type /invite ETF2L3 #channelname
3. After an admin confirmed your request, the bot will join your channel.

Features:

• !results - Last 5 entered Results
• !fixtures - Next 5 upcoming Fixtures
• !hl2 <server ip> - Get a server info
• Highlighting published Newsposts
• Highlighting League Matches with Source-TV
• Important League Announcements

New Admin: Exact

Our search was successful already - we welcome our new admin Exact, who can speak Latvian and Russian, to our staff. Welcome and have fun!
We are still looking for more admins, find more details at our last newspost.

Sunday Action

Don’t miss our big Sunday night action with our 3^rd Cup Round 2 Live IRC Drawing (19.30 CET) and our Soldier 1on1 and Basketball 2on2 Sign-Up-Opening (20.00 CET). More details at last newspost.

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Fun Cup Sign-Ups, IRC Live Drawing, Admin Search

June 9, 2008

Fun Cups - Soldier 1on1 + Basketball 2on2

Our public Fun Cup polls closed last night, two competitions have been voted for being our first ETF2L Fun Cups - Soldier 1on1 and Basketball 2on2!

All important details:

• Sign-Ups starting: Sunday, 15.06., 20:00 CET
• Sign-Ups closing: Sunday, 22.06., 23:59 CET
• Slots (Soldier 1on1): 64 (can be upped to 128)
• Slots (Basketball 2on2): 32 (can be upped to 64)
• Rules will be released on Sunday, 15^th June
• ctf_bball2 - Map Description + Download

Time Schedule:

• 23.-30.06. - Round 1
• 01.-06.07. - Round 2
• 07.-13.07. - Round 3
• 14.-20.07. - Round 4
• […]

Fun Cups Sign-Up instructions:

1. Register yourself on the site if you don’t have an account yet. (Link)
2. Go to the Fun Cup menu at Dashboard. (Link)
3. Add a Fun Cup Team. (Link)
4. Go to “Edit Roster” at the Fun Cup menu to add Players to your teams’ roster.
5. When Sign-Ups are open, you can easily join a Fun Cup with your registered team.

3rd Cup Round 2 - Live IRC Drawing + Maps

Round 2 is coming closer, and of course we will have a Live IRC Drawing again! 3^rd Cup Round 2 Live IRC Drawing will take place coming Sunday, 15.06., at 19:30 CET. Be our guests and join our IRC channel #etf2l @ QuakeNet!

Round 2 Details:

• Live IRC Drawing: Sunday, 15.06., 19:30 CET
• Map-Order: 1. cp_gravelpit 2. ctf_turbine (3. cp_pro_granary 4. ctf_2fort 5. cp_badlands)
• Schedule Deadline: Sunday, 22.06., 23:59 CET
• Game Deadline: Tuesday, 01.07., 23:59 CET

Staff - Welcome DrG + Admin Request

We are happy to welcome DrG as support admin for all Spanish TF2 teams to our staff! He will help especially our Spanish friends at any issues regarding our league.

With some uprising tournaments, ideas and teams we are still looking for more admins to increase our staff.

Requirements:

• At least 18 years old
• Acceptable English
• Friendly
• Motivated to take part in discussions
• Some free time
• IRC-Using
• Any nationality (Russian-, French-, Finnish- or German-speaking people are very welcome)

If you are interested and comply with our requirements, feel free to contact dAy at our IRC-Channel #etf2l @ QuakeNet.

Default Dates - Summary

Don’t forget Game Deadline for all games is Sunday, 15.06., 23:59 CET!

3^rd Cup - Round 1

• S@W vs. 961- Sunday, 15.06., 21:00 CET
• CityNov vs. GoT2 - Sunday, 15.06., 21:00 CET
• exS! vs. fader - Sunday, 15.06., 21:00 CET
• Excello vs. BEWARE - Sunday, 15.06., 21:00 CET
• Team uber vs. Team Empire - Sunday, 15.06., 21:00 CET
• Total Genius vs. Clusterfunkers - Sunday, 15.06., 21:00 CET
• Cruciamentum vs. I Don’t Know? - Sunday, 15.06., 21:00 CET
• Game Control vs. MTF.Gaming - Sunday, 15.06., 21:00 CET
• Dmg vs. Plan-B - Sunday, 15.06., 21:00 CET
• LRRP vs. Intoxicated - Sunday, 15.06., 21:00 CET

Season 2 - All Weeks

• Div 1 - Week 9 - Clan United vs. Excello - Wednesday, 11.06., 21:00 CET
• Div 1 - Week 9 - TLR vs. wotr - Wednesday, 11.06., 21:00 CET
• Div 2a - Week 9 - exS vs. LOL - Wednesday, 11.06., 21:00 CET
• Div 2a - Week 9 - FsA vs. Prima Nocta - Sunday, 15.06., 21:00 CET
• Div 2a - Week 9 - Team Empire vs. Zero Tolerance - Sunday, 15.06., 21:00 CET
• Div 2b - Week 7 - plan-B vs. jAgarna - Wednesday, 11.06., 21:00 CET
• Div 2b - Week 9 - jAgarna vs. Cruciamentum - Sunday, 15.06., 21:00 CET
• Div 2b - Week 9 - Team wL vs. Virtual Troopers - Default Date: Wednesday, 11.06., 21:00 CET
• Div 3a - Week 8 - LRRP vs. I Don’t Know? - Wednesday, 11.06., 21:00 CET
• Div 3a - Week 9 - hb0da vs. LRRP - Sunday, 15.06., 21:00 CET
• Div 4a - Week 9 - IDK vs. RHS - Wednesday, 11.06., 21:00 CET
• Div 4c - Week 8 - 961 vs. ask|cry - Wednesday, 11.06., 21:00 CET
• Div 4c - Week 9 - Smaland-Online vs. GoT3 - Wednesday, 11.06., 21:00 CET
• Div 4c - Week 9 - ouF vs. ask|cry - Tuesday, 10.06., 21:00 CET
• Div 5a - Week 7 - Quack Attack vs. Info Seekers 777 - Wednesday, 11.06., 21:00 CET
• Div 5a - Week 9 - Info Seekers 777 vs. Sang Royal - Sunday, 15.06., 21:00 CET
• Div 5b - Week 9 - FTD vs. uA - Wednesday, 11.06., 21:00 CET
• Div 5b - Week 9 - GC vs. YES - Wednesday, 11.06., 21:00 CET
• Div 5c - Week 9 - Titans vs. Bastards - Wednesday, 11.06., 21:00 CET

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