Highlander Season 2 News

We are nearing the start of Highlander Season 2, with sign-ups closing tonight at 24:00 CET. All teams signing up after that will go straight to the waiting list. With 252 teams signed up at the time of writing, it looks like we’re heading for another excellent season of Highlander, with a level of play higher than ever before. So don’t hesitate to sign up!

Prizes

Apart from in-game medals to all participants, we will also be offering real cash prizes this season, thanks to a generous donation of £1000 earmarked for Highlander. We will distribute the prize as follows:

Division 1 first place: £500

Division 1 second place: £250

We are also setting aside £250 which will go to various prediction contests around division 1. Do you have any suggestions on what prediction contests we should run? Please share them in the comments.

Item bans

Due to the exploits associated with the High Five action item, we have decided to ban it for Season 2. Reported usages of the taunt will be judged from case to case, with punishment only being handed out if the item was exploited.

Where it goes from now..

As sign-ups close tonight, we will aim to release the seeding on Wednesday. If you think that your roster or your past results are not enough for you the be placed in the division you requested, please remember to send result screenshots from Highlander matches to [email protected], to prove that you do belong in that division (the screenshots from official matches like UGC league are very valuable and critically improve your chances). The deadline for scheduling your first-week match will be Thursday the 22nd of March, and you should play it before Saturday the 31st of March. After this, we will be on our usual ETF2L schedule of scheduling deadlines on Thursdays and play-weeks running from Sunday to Saturday.

BBall Cup News

The Fourth BBall cup has come to its conclusion. Over 128 teams competed against each other until only 4 teams were left. In the first semi-final Eliyahu Ha Navi took a clear victory over Get Good. The other semi-final saw Air Fary beat pinky.

Eliyahu Ha Navi (matnuN and Retsh0ck) took a convincing win against  Air Fary (Pescanova and HarryHook) in the final. Congratulation to them for defending their crown in the fourth ETF2L bball cup!

6v6 Season 11 News

Week 7

Week 7 will start on Sunday, March 11. As every season, the following rules are in place from now on:

• Rosters locked: Once week 7 starts all rosters will be locked, so no players can be added for the duration of week 7 and the play-offs. All new players are considered mercs and need to be approved by the opponent.
• No Wildcards: During week 7 using a wildcard is not valid. Rescheduling is only possible if both teams agree. If your opponent used a wildcard anyway, you should contact an admin on IRC to get the situation cleared with your opponent.
• Deadline: The deadline for all matches is Saturday, 17th of March, every match unplayed after that will be nullified!

cp_gravelpit

To avoid the usual confusion about cp_gravelpit: cp_gravelpit is played “best of 3”. “Best of 3” means, the first team to win two rounds wins the map. One round consists of each team attacking and defending once. Possible results are 2-0, 0-2, 2-1 and 1-2 – nothing else! Because you are playing at least two rounds you obviously need at least two screenshots of the scores. For a good example of the needed screenshots for cp_gravelpit take a look at this match page.

Playoffs

Premier Division Playoffs

Once again a reminder for the Premier Division Playoffs:

• 4th vs 3rd: March 18th – March 24th
• Winner vs 2nd: March 25th – March 31st or sooner
• Winner vs 1st: April 1st – April 7th or sooner

For possible placement decider playoffs etc. you will have to wait until all matches have been played.

Golden Cap Rule

The golden cap rule has been greeted with a lot of positive comments when it was first established in the highly successful AFS Season. Well, let us just say it was the best thing about that season! In the past weeks and months it has been criticised by some, demanding its abolishment. We started discussing this topic in the admin forum but we would like to hear the thoughts of the community as well. Feel free to discuss a possible change of the golden cap rule in this thread and give constructive feedback.

Excello News

On Wednesday, March 7 the Excello ZOWIE TF2 Challenge III Open cup took place. uV Gaming has been promoted early (moved to Invite, due to Karnage eSports not being able to play) but still a good load of division 1 signed up – that were good for quite a lot of surprises. The biggest surprise probably being Team Decerto losing 2-3 to the newly formed team WALE (now known as  Perilous Gaming) on cp_snakewater. In the end Quarantine and NITROSE managed to make it into the finals, where NITROSE managed to take a map off  Quarantine, but on cp_snakewater and cp_badlands they did not stand a chance.

The final list of invited teams:

1. Epsilon eSports
2. Team Infused
3. Crack Clan
4. Team Yoyotech
5. uV Gaming
6. Quarantine
7. NITROSE
8. Perilous Gaming

The invite cup will start on Tuesday, March 13 at 20:00 CET.