Scout 2on2 & Highlander Cup: Sign Up Phase – Mapping Contest – 1on1 Cups finished – Instagib Update – New Admins – Tonight’s Schedule Deadlines

Scout 2on2 + Highlander #2 Cup: Sign-Up Phase starting

Our next two Fun Cup Sign-Ups finally open tonight, at 20:00 CET! We invite all interested players and teams to get together, sign up and have fun in these special competitions. Up to 64 teams will be able to play in the upcoming Scout 2on2 Cup; our 2^nd Highlander Cup will have 32 spots available. If you want a safe spot, sign in as early as possible!

Dates for both cups

• Sign-Ups open: Sunday, 8^th February, 20:00 CET
• Sign-Ups close: Sunday, 15^th February, 23:59 CET (or earlier when all spots are filled)
• Round 1: Monday, 16^th February till Sunday, 1^st March

Scout 2on2 Cup – Details

• Slots: 64
• Gamemode: 2on2, Scouts only, Best of 3 Maps, Arena Maps (exact Gamemode and Map-Pool will be published in the next days)
• Sign-Up Requirements: At least two players registered + at least two different contact methods entered

• Note: You will have to register a separate 2on2 team first. [Register Team Link]

• [Sign Up Link]

Highlander Cup #2 – Details

• Slots: 32
• Gamemode: 9on9, General Classlimit 1, Best of 3 Maps (exact Map-Pool will be published in the next days)
• Sign-Up Requirements: At least ten players registered + at least two different contact methods entered

• Note: You will have to register a separate Highlander team first. [Register Team Link]

• [Sign Up Link]

ETF2L Mapping Contest

To help promote awareness in our community for competitive maps, and to increase interest in mapping, ETF2L are announcing their first Mapping Competition!

Rules

1. It must be a 5 control point map
2. It must contain rotational symmetry
3. Submissions must contain brief documentation discussing likely tactics that the attackers/defenders can use for each area
4. Submissions must contain a suggestion of how an attacking or defending team might use an alternative class effectively on this map (spy, heavy, pyro, engineer)
5. All submissions must be based off of your own work (no re-hashes of existing maps may be entered)
6. Map must follow valve like conventions to support good navigation (red: wood, hay blu: steel, concrete)
7. Submissions must be entered in by 8th March

All maps must be made with competitive play as a priority. Intelligent design of the areas, item placement, spawn locations/times and capture point times are all crucial.

System

After the 8th all submissions will be judged by a player panel including various high level players. The maps will be judged on: potential gameplay, unique area design, navigation. Note that at this time aesthetics are not priority and will be weighted very low on judging, that said, appropriate placeholders for future updates and appropriate textures to make the map playable are required.

After this judging period the top 4 maps will go to a selected 8 team round robin league. Where each team plays one map versus each team. This ensures a lot of official play testing is performed. After the league has finished all teams are able to score each map: 4 points, 3 points, 2 points or 1 point. A community vote will also go out via a poll on ETF2L to garner the community the possibility to allocate points to each map, with the majority vote getting 4 points, then working its way down.

The map with the highest score will then have a 1 day cup hosted for it in the following week which will have media coverage. However all four maps will be considered as a possibility to be in the map pool for ETF2L season 5. Any candidate maps for this will have their authors requested to continue development of the map for rigorous play testing and finalizing aesthetics.

Demoman + Scout 1on1 Cups finished and archived

In the last days the finals of our both 1on1 cups were played. Amazingly Tumpel from Division 1 team Delirium managed to reach the final in both 1on1 cups with 128 participants each. But in the end, he weren’t able to get both titles: after losing against Shintaz from I Don’t Know? in a final over 3 maps last week (well 10:9, badlands 4:10, lumberyard 5:10 – [Match Page]) he probably were afraid of not even getting one title. He had to handle a pretty close match against his demoman cup final opponent, AnAkIn from Division 1 team redLine, but again after three maps and a theoretic overall score of 27:27 (well 10:9, badlands 7:10, lumberyard 10:8 – [Match Page]) Tumpel won the title! Both cups are archived now and can be found in our Hall of Fame [Link].

Big Congratulations to Shintaz and Tumpel for being the best in their class out of 128 players from all over Europe!

Instagib CTF 4on4 Cup: Instagib 1.1.3 released + Config Updates

A new update of Instagib has been released [Announcement]. The new version got some new added cvars which have been added to the official cup config. Please note all Instagib servers have to be updated with the new version + config.

Config changes

• instagib_enable 1
• instagib_dj 0
• instagib_flagh 1
• instagib_physprops 1
• instagib_elim 0
• [Updated Cup Config]

New Admins: Amonsilas, Goarstl, Kop and jonni!

After our announcement of searching for new motivated people to join our staff we are happy to announce the current search is over. Thanks for all people who wrote an applications and sorry we couldn’t take everyone in.

Anyway we would like to welcome four new admins to our ETF2L staff: Amonsilas, Goarstl, Kop and jonni! Welcome to the team and we hope you will have a great time working for the biggest Team Fortress 2 league worldwide!

Season 4 Week 4, Instagib & Basketball Round 1: Schedule Deadline

Tonight is the official Schedule Deadline for all matches of the 4^th Week in Season 4 and for both 1^st Rounds of the Basketball 2on2 and Instagib 4on4 Fun Cup. All matches which aren’t scheduled by tonight, 23:59 CET, will get a Default Date. Currently affected unscheduled matches are listed below.

Season 4: Week 4

• Division 2a: northwave.gaming vs Clones-Inc
• Division 2a: DCSB Red Team vs veAre.black
• Division 2a: dmg. vs Envision
• Division 2a: FakkelBrigade vs eL Diablo’s Brigade
• Division 2b: LOL Team vs FOG
• Division 2b: Nervous.tf2 vs [dT]
• Division 3a: Gathering of Tweakers Team 1 vs Galacticos
• Division 3a: n2o – gaming TF2 vs mine is BIGGER than yours
• Division 3a: Mafia vs Blood Pressure
• Division 3b: iClan vs Cavaliers RED
• Division 3b: Oh My God It Is vs Execute
• Division 3b: warriors of Legend vs HerbsArmy
• Division 3c: Totalitarian Brigade vs Nameless TF2 Squad
• Division 3d: ReVival vs enixe
• Division 3d: klan:fader vs Crit Rocket
• Division 4a: Distort Reality vs clickNplay
• Division 4a: *B@D* vs failure as Gamers <3
• Division 4b: SpecialAttack vs They Kick Ass
• Division 4b: Double D vs Cryoemia
• Division 4c: Special Air Services vs Unterwasserpyromanen
• Division 4d: [BloodMeat] vs Team Renovation
• Division 4d: Immortals vs Smart Move
• Division 5a: Maximum^2 vs Erdnuckels
• Division 5a: #RofL vs Team Effort
• Division 5b: it vs GoV
• Division 5c: 69ER Gaming Community vs Chancy Team
• Division 5d: Red Eyed Jedis vs Red Brigade
• Division 5e: Who Dares Wins vs S4Y-Multigaming
• Division 5f: boX?1 vs Die Philosoffen
• Division 5f: eXplosion C4 vs Gaming Masters Falcons Squad
• Division 6a: Presence vs Xenomorphs
• Division 6a: Black hawk down 1 vs dA-Gaming
• Division 6e: GoV Blu vs Team-Xplosion

Basketball 2on2 Cup: Round 1

• Zorkk & Toad vs 2Kings
• arnold eats shit vs peter pan & tinkerbell
• veAre.silver vs pink panther
• insAne vs Sex on a stick
• Failed Clan Name 2on2 vs cool clan
• Team Englian vs Dashing along them streets
• cvx bball vs BlackHawkDown1.bball
• Mishanya Team vs gBall
• 19% + 27% vs GumiFreak
• FLB_Bball vs Starship Troopers
• Renovation ball vs Tarasbukta
• DansTonKnux vs chill.bball
• Paz y amor, y el Plus pal salon vs Nau
• M ‘n M vs Mholk
• Strait vs Team Dropfruits
• Kab00m vs the.TEAM
• Hacemos el TF2 bello. vs Haumis
• The slashing Slash0rs vs Holy Mace-Wielding Minotaur Kings
• GLC vs Lethargy
• SALT & PEPPER vs ScArYsUcKeR.bball
• -.-‘ vs Zeves

Instagib 4on4 Cup: Round 1

• cool clan vs Split
• Pul Kai Arena Team vs InstaX
• Gathering of Gibbers vs Squad Killer 10
• Polgar JenaH vs PPB instagibbers!
• Piggy Bankers vs osos amorosos
• The Church of Tetris vs TKA.IG
• TEAM SdX’08 Instant Gib vs Team FLB
• Instapoints vs Imperox Instagib
• Instant LOL vs impressive
• Forever-Gaming.TF2 vs guinneX.fox
• Conquerors vs execute
• #false.flag vs Blood Pressure Fun
• bandytka w chuj vs #hobbygaming
• Keine halben Sachen – Arena vs Mr. Taytos