Bigfoot TF2 Challenge at excello & ESL Scout 1on1 Cup

Bigfoot TF2 Challenge at excello

A lot happened in the last few weeks in the Team Fortress 2 community. Valve released several patches to fix their fixes and most importantly Team Fortress 2 became free to play for everyone and forever. One day later TF2 was the most played steam game and easily overtook Counterstrike and Counterstrike: Source.

We at excello want to take this opportunity to host our first ever Team Fortress 2 Prize Cup: the Bigfoot TF2 Challenge. A maximum of 32 teams enter the battle for six Bigfoot Killer 2100 network cards. Some of you might remember that even the Team Dignitas TF2 team uses this hardware. Some others might even remember the glorious swedish excello team featuring players like weqo, appe, Glufse, fette and sommie that took the second spot in ETF2L’s second season. This is the very same organisation.

For this cup the only allowed unlocks are the medic unlocks, excluding the Amputator Vita-Saw, the Solemn Vow and the Overdose. This means, that the Ubersaw, the Blutsauger, the Kritzkrieg, the Quickfix and the Crusader’s Crossbow are allowed to be used.

The map pool is a bit experimental as well. In the first round all teams have to play the latest version of the custom map cp_bazillion by Arnold. The second round hosts the all-time-classic cp_badlands followed by cp_granary in the third round. In the semi-finals we will see whose tactics for cp_gravelpit are superior in a best of 3 match.
UPDATE: By popular request, the finals will now be a best of 3 match with map elimination featuring cp_bazillion_rc4, cp_badlands, cp_granary, cp_gullywash_pro and cp_gravelpit.

The first four rounds of this tournament will be played on the 13th of July so do not waste any time and head over to excello.net and register your team! The finals will be played on a different day that can be decided by the finalists. The match can be scheduled until the 20th July.

If all goes according to plan, some matches will get coverage by VanillaTV (more on that later).

If this cup is a success the odds are very high that excello will host more prize tournaments for TF2 in the future.

In order to sign up for this cup, all of your players need to have an account at excello.net and need to enter a valid steam id in the format STEAM_X:X:XXXX on their profile page. The teamleaders can create a team and invite the players. Before the players join the team they need to confirm the invite in their inbox.
Please note that teams who signed up have to check in on the website from 19.30 to 20.00 CEST.

Admins for this cup are CanFo, Crasp and SonnyBlack. If any questions arise, feel free to contact one of them at #excello.tf2 on quakenet or answer the question in the IRC channel. We will get back to you a soon as possible.

ESL 1on1 Scout Whiskas Cup #2

After the success of the first Whiskas Cup Catman has decided to dust off the cobwebs from his wallet and host another 1v1 Scout cup, this time the winner will take home up to $1000 for first place!

All rounds will be played on Catman’s map dm_whiskas_reload.

Prize money available for first place will depend on the number of signups we achieve. If the playercount only reaches 500 then $500 will go to the winner, if it goes up to over 1000 signups then $1000 will be yours to play for.

Signups for the cup will start on 10/07/11 and run for 3 weeks. The ESL staff is still looking to add hardware prizes for 2nd, 3rd and a random give away for all those involved so even if you don’t reach the final you may still leave with something.

Player’s will be required to “check-in” once signups have closed to ensure their participation in the cup, so tell your friends and lets reach the 1000 player’s!

Of course, ESL Wire is mandatory to use.

Head over to the ESL newspost for more information and the sign up.