Season 14 Schedule, Maps and Unlocks
December 27, 2012
Season 14 is almost upon us, and as a late Christmas present we’ve decided to announce some details early: the Season Schedule, the Map Pool, and more importantly, the Unlocks. We are also happy to announce that Twitch will support Season 14 as the main sponsor!
Season Schedule
Signups: January 2 – 9
Seeding: January 9 – 11
Publishing of Provisional Divisions: January 12
Schedule Week: January 13 – 19
Main Season: January 20 – March 2 (7 weeks)
Catch-up Week: March 10 – 16
Playoffs: March 17 – April 7
You can still sign up your team after January 9. Teams signing up later than January 9 will be placed on the waiting list and have a very high chance of replacing dead or dropping teams during the first three play weeks.
Map Pool
Turbine has proven to be the least popular map of Season 13’s map pool, and thus it has been removed. In Season 14, we will put an emphasis on mastering a smaller pool of maps, all of which are well-known and popular throughout all levels of play.
- Week 1: cp_badlands/cp_gullywash_final1
- Week 2: cp_badlands/cp_snakewater
- Week 3: cp_snakewater/cp_gullywash_final1
- Week 4: cp_gullywash_final1/cp_process_rc2
- Week 5: cp_process_rc2/cp_snakewater
- Week 6: cp_process_rc2/cp_granary
- Week 7: cp_granary/cp_badlands
The Unlocks
Based on the feedback from the 6th Cup, we have decided to break the status quo and introduce the Cup’s unlocks into our regular 6v6 League. We believe that these carefully chosen unlocks will add more variety and tactical depth to 6v6 across all skill levels.
The complete list of unlocks allowed in Season 14 is as follows:
- The Kritzkrieg
- The Übersaw
- Crusader’s Crossbow
- The Blutsauger
- The Overdose
- The Gunboats
- The Boston Basher
- The Pain Train
- The Escape Plan
The Season 14 whitelist will be identical to the 6th Cup whitelist.
If you’ve never played in a ETF2L 6v6 Season before, check out the 6v6 Newcomer’s Guide and the FAQ to get started!
Season 14 signups, prizes and rule changes will be announced on January 2nd. Enjoy the holidays, and we will see you again in 2013!
Posted by ETF2L Staff in 6v6, League
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nice!
shitstorm incomming
gl hf.
keine fan…. dann geh doch oder wie du heisst
fuck unlocks!
what rock said.
+ Mappool okay, but i miss gpit :(
what rock said.
+ Map pool okay, but i miss gpit :(
Unlocks are welcome but 3 weeks of snakewater…..not cool..
The mappool is amazing, but 5 or more badlands had been coolio! Don’t care about the unlocks, not gonna make a difference in the long run.
ME WANT GPIT
shitstorm incomming [2]
THANKS GOD FOR UNLOCKS !!!!!!!!!!!!
Good job admins!
This league is going beast mode.
Congratz on the twitch sponsorship!
Looks good to me
Am I the only one who thinks that the only thing this particular set of unlocks does for TF2, is encourage one of the worst aspects of the game…. suiciding soldiers for medic kills.
Sure, allowing some unlocks is a start, and I appreciate that this will cause some sort of diversity in the sense that now, two 280 HP soldiers can jump for a medic, leaving a scout behind to build uber and clean up the mess after (bleh), but still… It looks like all we’ve done is copy half of the American unlock rules, without thinking about the implications of not allowing the remaining ones with can provide hard counters to repetitive aggressive soldier bombing.
Still, I won’t jump the gun! Let’s see how it plays out. The cup worked fine, so let’s see how the meta changes once people are used to everything.
no turbine, some minor, quite cool, unlock additions
high time
GJ ETF2L
Where is Gravelpit?
Yeah, we should get the direct hit to counter it Arx. I 100% agree.
nice
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10/10 gg
replace process with gpit and we have a mappool that would last forever.
not saying that process is bad, but its no gpit either.
unlocks.. meh as a medic i love the BB adition but other then that i couldnt care less.
2nd of january ? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MINDS ?????????????? [way to soon]
thank you.
Ok firstly, great job all round admins. Nice map pool, nice sponsor, nice unlocks (not that unlocks make a difference anyway!). Tbh, I’ll be happy as long as there’s no flare gun.
I don’t think anyone reads this, but there is a decent amount of support for Gravelpit to return looking at these comments. For me it’s the ultimate test of teamwork and coordination, and most of us miss the map (as shown in these comments).
Process is a shit map
Awesome Mappool and Unlocks!
Also fuck Gpit.
Gpit was removed because teams didn’t pcw it outside of the few weeks prior to match weeks. The time it takes to play was the deciding factor, not the map itself. It was kept in for many seasons based on its merit as a map. Turbine was removed because of similar reasons. I don’t think these comments are a reasonable place to decide that the majority want the map back because the people who want it back are far more likely to comment than those who are happy.
This map pool is very strong, tried and tested maps which will really show a team’s ability across the season rather than just who managed to find the most pcws on the map as was the case with gpit and any new maps that are in the season.
Seems nice.
But yeah it would be nice to play gpit and crossaint or viaduct mby? I think that making some kind of community map voting before the season would be a good idea too.
5 maps for 7 weeks? umm, “top teams don’t have time to practice so much”, really? Oh yeah you need to learn2badlands, forgot sry.
Unlocks? Imo only gunboats will impact the gameplay.
fuck this im starting my own league @ esl without unlocks
wait what.
Maps and unlocks look pretty good!
Does this mean that the original is not allowed anymore?
maps are kewl but really, the escape plan :D inb4 “soldier jump” -“what, I dont know how to o.o i just run with this pickaxe”
Add Gpit and I’m fine :)
way too early. signups 2nd January, people will still be hungover.
Best possible map pool. Awesome!
2nd january? shit my team still only has 2 players…
The signups only open on the 2nd of January – you’ll have a whole week to get your team application in. Signup order doesn’t matter until the 9th.
Good bye far challenge
Awesome map pool, waiting eagerly to see how the new unlocks work out :) (Too bad i play demo now and only option is “Pain Train”, going to die to scouts even quicker now :D)
The graphic in the article is bizarre!
Great news love the map pool and the unlocks good job admins.
The unlocks are a great change I just think it’s a shame that we only made this changes because we got shat on by the Americans at i47, with that said I’m looking forward for the next season and I’m sad gpit and viaduct didn’t get added to the map rotation, and 3 weeks of snakewater upset me.
Oh jolly, Snakewaßer..
What?
löl
myR will smash everything possible in d3
Admirable: I thought it was iron man at first glance.
” I just think it’s a shame that we only made this changes because we got shat on by the Americans at i47″
Who said that? Because its entirely wrong.
suicide soli -> no shotgun -> wont kill homer :D
WHY THE ESCAPE PLAN
WHY
I was fine with the rest
How about allowing Force-a-nature?
Gunboats -> more surfing for ze doctors :>
“How about allowing Force-a-nature?”
We can only hope bro. Also huntsman. Please. :D
Wie kann man sich da anmelden?
Where’s my mouspad from S13?
can you allow Three-Rune Blade?
its a reskin of boston basher.
t0dA: Your mousepad should have been sent out some time these days. I would expect it to arrive during the first or second week of January.
bax: You can not sign up yet. As the schedule in the post says, the signups will open on January 2nd (late at night, knowing us).
Good News ! The best mappool that we can have, and finaly we have some good unlock, the gameplay will change a lot, specialy for soldiers (and scouts, yeah now you gonna build my uber :D ) !
Liking the unlocks, about time things got freshened up a bit. Reminds me of the good ol’ days in S8 with the crit-a-cola :D
As for the maps I’m pleased with them though I wouldn’t have minded having another new map forced on us like you did with process because its the best way to get a new map played. Maybe you just felt there wasn’t a strong enough candidate which is fine I suppose :]
Anyway nice job and looking forward to the season :]
Fuck gpit……
Like vanila so don´t care about unlocks.
sponsor, don´t know who they are and don´t care.
Ohh come on, FaN is ok, the other ones are op, but the FaN?
And the medals?:(
Nice, !!! love the map pool
gjgjgjgjgj
Looking good!
Is there any limits to pain trains?
“Is there any limits to pain trains?”
No
Awesome Mappool!
Unlocks? Really? I can’t put into words how much I hate this unlocks thing. I think ubersaw, crossbow and kritz were enough…
Dem x11 caps!
Congrats on the twitch sponsorship! That’s awesome.
FAQ page looks incredibly cool, don’t think I’ve seen it before :D
Newcomers guide is a good thing as well, but could use some re-editing. Looks like a “draft” at the moment, both text-wise and formatting-wise (I know it’s been around for a while).
Everything else is just aaaawesome, thanks admins!
Wouldn’t it be x13 caps, since demoman can use Pain Train too?
Shitty unlocks. 2bad i hoped for something really new like a quick fix or vaccinator.
Nice one etf2l.
Keep up the pace with the unlocks kkthxbye
……
make a pool about the new unlocks ffs
Like a fuckin America:)
My first season… 5 maps I play the most (They are chosen by the popularity so Yeah) And unlocks! Roaming soldier is now way stronger than it was before.
where are the signups…
OMG OMG OMG
“Wouldn’t it be x13 caps, since demoman can use Pain Train too?”
2 scouts = x4
2 PT sollies = x4
1 PT demo = x2
1 medic = x1
4+4+2+1=?
“4+4+2+1=?”
Sorry, suddenly thought scout had x3
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