Announcing Season 16 powered by BlackOut Gaming, Sign-ups OPEN!
September 6, 2013
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Sign-ups are now open!
Here we go again. We’re proud to announce that the signups for Season 16 powered by BlackOut Gaming are now officially open!
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Season Schedule
Signups: September 1 – 12
Publishing of Provisional Divisions: September 13
Publishing of Final Divisions: September 14
Schedule Week: September 15 – 21
Main Season: September 22 – November 9 (7 weeks)
Catch-up Week: November 10 – 16
Playoffs: November 17 – December 7
You can still sign up your team after September 12. Teams signing up later than September 12 will be placed on the waiting list and have a very high chance of replacing dead or dropping teams during the first two play weeks.
Sign-up process
Make sure to choose your desired division when signing up. If you created a new team or feel you can jump a division, feel free to apply for the division you believe you deserve you should be in. To prove you are capable of the division you applied for, we require you to submit screenshots of results from your recent practice matches or tournaments where you scored decent results against teams that play on the level you aim for. The quantity is not the most important factor in this case, it’s more of a helpful measure for us to figure out if your team will be able to keep up with the pace. There is no magical, minimum or maximum number of screenshots that you have to submit.
Please note that the success of your request also strongly depends on the free slots in the division you aim for. Established teams will be favoured over new teams or teams that request to jump a division. The screenshots have to be uploaded to an online image storage service (for example, you can use imgur or Dropbox). Keep in mind that if you opt for a zipped archives with tons of pictures attached to an e-mail, your application will be ignored. Keep it clean.
If you are applying for Division 6 (which is our entry division), you do not have to provide any proof that you are capable of playing at that level. This only applies to Division 5 or higher.
Please send your application to [email protected]. The division assignment request has to include the following information in order to be considered. Incomplete applications will be ignored!
- Do not use HTML in your e-mail. If you want to add a link, just paste the link in the e-mail as you would enter it in your browser.
- Team name
- Team link on ETF2L.org
- Division you apply for
- Link to the online photo album
- Reasons why your team deserves to be placed in the division you applied for (optional)
Maps, Unlocks, Prizes & other changes
Everything concerning maps, unlocks, prizes and other changes will follow in a later newspost.
Posted by ETF2L Staff in 6v6, League
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Woohoo!
OMG ITS HAPPENING
still no team :<
Get hyped
Here we go!
Calling it now, reverto to win prem
Wohoo
Hypetrain!
Prem div could be interesting this season.
:))
It’s happening!
should be able to use logs.tf as well as screenshots
Wow, no warning or anything just dropping the announcement and signals in the same day :/ so now I have 12 days to find 2 scouts.
Sign ups*
Every question regarding the season start was answered with “mid september”. It should have been obvious that the signups start earlier than mid september ;)
aw, i expected to s16 trailer :'(
cos etf2l is well known for doing things early rather than late :P
“Everything concerning maps, unlocks, prizes and other changes will follow in a later newspost.” Please don’t switch to NA scoring system is all I can say.
FINALLY I WON’T BE LATE TO PARTICIPATE THIS TIME.
@ fraac logs.tf is extremely easy to edit and manipulate, it would probably cause us more work (as well as updating the site to enable log uploads internally). For now you can just put the logs in the comments.
I think the season should be delayed a bit, with Nations Cup there isn’t enough time for teams to reform/form. It’s either A. Going to fuck up the quality of the Nations Cup or B. Fuck up the quality of new teams.
permzilla
how are screenshots any harder to manipulate
I think they’re about equally easy to manipulate (copypaste steamids versus play a match with fake names). logs are surely easier to gauge quality of opposition though, from admin point of view, no?
please don’t switch to NA scoring system
Delaying this season means more overlap with the next Highlander season, which is clearly not wanted (judging from the last feedback thread on this topic). It is not ideal but all matches of the Nations Cup are supposed to be played before week 1 starts (September 22) and the later rounds will only affect few players anyway.
Editing images is significantly harder to do than editing a text file, even more is editing an image and make such a good job at it that nobody notices. Also, less people have the skills to use photoshop properly than there are people with notepad on their PC.
That said, logs are a nice supplement to screenshots and won’t be rejected. Screenshots will just be more important for the seeding process.
The later rounds are going to effect prem, that’s my point, because of that it means that you will have an poorly arranged final and prem season, mainly because most players are going to chose the prem season over nations cup and vice versa.
To me this seems like it could really fuck things up for one of the cups, which isn’t exactly good for TF2.
ESEA starts at the same date, they are affected either way. I am sure they will manage and that teams with players in the NC final or 3rd place match may have a harder time arranging their week 1 match won’t draw through the whole season.
There is simply not enough time this year to give everyone 2 weeks after each competition to prepare for the next one.
(you don’t have to edit the image. just play with fake names and avatars)
[…] shine? No definitive top three but more of a competition between all the teams in the division? The sign-ups for ETF2L Season 16 have just opened, so we will just have to wait and […]
please don’t switch to NA scoring system
cool !
No trailer?!
please don’t switch to NA scoring system
please don’t switch to NA scoring system
please don’t switch to NA scoring system
please don’t switch to NA scoring system
please don’t send an application via email if you are applying for division 6 :> Signing up on the page is sufficient to enter in division 6.
When is that post regarding unlocks maps prizes comming up?
GIVE US THE UNLOCK RULES