Thursday’s Nations Cup matches and reminders

6v6 Nations Cup Reminder: Schedule Your Matches!

Once again the reminder for all team captains: If you do not want to play your week 2 match on your group’s default day you have to schedule your match on the ETF2L calendar until Sunday, July 22. Once you agree on a scheduled date, it should not be changed (apart from the time that can be rescheduled by a couple of hours to accomodate different timezones).

Highlander Nations Cup Reminder: Playoffs are Live!

The tournament tree for the Highlander Nations Cup Playoffs has been created. All Round 1 matches feature pl_upward in a “Best-of-three” series and need to be played until Tuesday, July 24(included). Please schedule the matches yourselves as soon as you can and let the admin staff know if any problems occur. Default dates for matches with no schedule proposals will be distributed on Saturday.

Season 12 Awards hosted by Pirate Radio Reminder

Just a quick reminder that the Season 12 Awards Polls are live, you can vote for your favorite players, casters and Pirate Radio hosts on the awards page.

Now, here are Thursday’s games from the 6v6 Nations Cup!

Germany vs. Netherlands

Germany is one of the few teams that rivals Finland in terms of superstars on their roster, featuring amongst others  basH,  schocky (or stefan) and  Thy*, might they be the ones to turn Winland back into Finland? Maybe, but first they’ll have to get past Netherlands, who have  Exfane,  Demourge and  Skeej on their side, as well as the legendary  Arie.

VanillaTV is streaming this match with  Skully and  Chaplain on the mic and  Warden on camera.

• STV: relay.vanillatv.org:27100

Lineup Team  Germany

• Scout: basH
• Scout: schocky
• Soldier: KLar
• Soldier: Thy*
• Demoman: Brego
• Medic: ThUn

Lineup Team  Netherlands

• Scout: Arie
• Scout: Qun
• Soldier: Exfane
• Soldier: Eledorian
• Demoman: Demourge
• Medic: skeej

Russia vs. Romania

Romania might be a small country, boasting only Shampoo,  Alfa and Ghostface (this guy who can not even jump spire, you probably already heard of him) as known players, but upsets have happened before. Conversely Russia is traditionally a strong team – which once again applies here featuring almost all of uV Gaming, Season 10!’s Division 1 winners. On paper this should be an easy game for Russia, but there are always plenty of things to trip over. Will we see Russian dominance or will sheer determination (and a lot of luck) pull through and produce a Romanian victory?

• STV: fakkelbrigade.eu:27100

Lineup Team  Russia

• Scout: Sickless
• Scout: Redzzzz
• Soldier: Forsak3n
• Soldier: Ordinator
• Demoman: Hitman
• Medic: wg

Lineup Team  Romania

• Scout: Alfa
• Scout: Cannady
• Soldier: Ghostface
• Soldier: Lazy
• Demoman: Shampoo
• Medic: Punct

Finland vs. Luxembourg

Staying in the David vs Goliath area, the mighty TF2 giant Finland (or as some people like to call them: Winland) takes on the tiny dwarf Luxembourg! Finland’s lineup is not known yet, but with  Hymzi,  Hocz,  Rebeli and a list of names capable of making 2 premiership teams on their own it will certainly be one of the most capable ones we will see this Nations Cup. Facing them will be Luxembourg who, while not lacking in enthusiasm, can not boast an equally impressive roster. Their most well-known player is long term ETF2L Admin  Netsky (the famous D’n’B and electronica DJ).

Lineup Team Finland

• Scout: Rebeli
• Scout: hymzi
• Soldier: hocz
• Soldier: Punpu
• Demoman: mafu
  
• Medic: kyynel

Lineup Team Luxembourg

• Scout: Pischto
• Scout: Netsky
• Soldier: Splinter
• Soldier: Ninjuh
• Demoman: Dut0n
• Medic: Hisui

France vs. Poland

France is another star-studded roster mostly from the Premiership team Punchline!, fielding  Tek,  Flinn and the always-eager-to-reinforce-stereotypes  CaptainHax. Tonight’s roster sees them fielding  KnoxXx from Season 10! and 12’s premiership winners Epsilon and  DonUt alongside their Punchline buddies. Poland counters with a solid Division 2/1 mixture, with  Fassadin as their most well known player.

• STV: relay.vanillatv.org:27102

Lineup Team  France

• Scout: PlaPla
• Scout: DonUt
• Soldier: Tek
• Soldier: CaptainHax
• Demoman: Flinn
• Medic: KnoxXx

Lineup Team  Poland

• Scout: Fassadin
• Scout: Mariano
• Soldier: Nislem
• Soldier: Kazachu
• Demoman: Gameton
• Medic: Natty