Season 20 powered by Tt eSPORTS: Playoffs & Prize money
March 26, 2015
Playoffs & Prize Money
Thanks to our Indiegogo campaign we managed to get over 3.000€ through crowd funding which allows us to provide the biggest total prize pool as well as the biggest prize pool for the Premier Division to date. A total of 4.080€ will be spread among the best teams of each Tier. Thank you to everyone that contributed.
Premier Division
The Season 20 powered by Tt eSPORTS Grand Finals will take place on March 29th with the following schedule:
Semi Final: 19:00CET 
Ze Knutsson Rollerbladers vs Se7en
Grand Final: 21:15CET SUAVE vs Winner of the Semi Final
The teams are fighting for a total prize pool of 3.000€! with the following distribution:
1500€ / 250€ per player
900€ / 150€ per player
600€ / 100€ per player
High Tier
For the High Tier we decided to go with the system we used when the Premier Division Playoffs included four teams.
Round 1: March 22nd-March 25th 1000 poops of the poopocalypse vs 
Lutuset
Round 2: March 26th-March 31st 
prtyboiz 1000 poops of the poopocalypse
Final: April 1st-April 5th ELOGURL vs 1000 poops of the poopocalypse
The teams are fighting for a total prize pool of 720€ distributed among the top 3 teams:
360€ / 60€ per player
216€ / 36€ per player
144€ / 24€ per player
Mid Tier
For the Mid Tier we are going to use a modified version that was suggested by 
TimTum during the last Fully Charged Europe episode:
Round 1.1: March 22nd-March 24th 
TURNUP Dodging Bullets
Round 1.2: March 22nd-March 24th 
International Oral Sex mid high
Round 2.1: March 25th-March 29th 
B-HAVE Dodging Bullets
Round 2.2: March 25th-March 29th Iso-G vs mid high
Semi Final 1: March 30th-April 1st Gamsjaga eSports vs Dodging Bullets
Semi Final 2: March 30th-April 1st 
Lemmings vs Iso-G
Final: April 2nd-April 5th Winner of Semi Final 1 vs Winner of Semi Final 2
The teams are fighting for a total prize pool of 270€ distributed among the top 3 teams:
135€ / 22,50€ per player
81€ / 13,50€ per player
54€ / 9€ per player
Open Tier
We will be handling the playoffs for the Open Tier the same way we handled it for Season 19. Each team’s leader will be contacted by Sonny Black through Steam to submit their availability. The teams will then be matched by their seed and their availability. The playoffs will take place between March 22nd and April 5th, due to this fairly tight schedule each eligible team that wants to participate in the playoffs should be able to play at least 2 matches per week. Beside the top 14 teams in Open 
candy sticks and 
Gibusztalan Spam Fest! will fill place 15 and 16. This was decided based on their Sonneborn Berger rating.
The teams are fighting for a total prize pool of 90€ distributed among the top 3 teams:
45€ / 7,50€ per player
27€ / 4,50€ per player
18€ / 3€ per player
Additionally we are trying to turn what we received in item donations into keys, to ensure a somewhat evenly spread distribution for the top 3 Open Tier teams.
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Still don’t get why we have rewards for open and mid, 29 teams in high would’ve benefitted infinitely more from playing in mid or open than where they belong. Promoting sandbagging and rewarding bad performance, but w/e.
I’m sure everyone wants to play at a lower skill level just so they can get, at most €22.50 per person for over 2 months of time put in….
The teams didnt know if there was any money in for them if they played in Open, Mid or even High (although the likelihood in High is fairly obvious). We only said we would try and never, until this point, mentioned any definite amount.
Additionally where do you think all that money came from? Players from Prem and High are accountable for 22,1% of the total sum, while players from Mid and Open donated 31,9%, with the remaining 46% spread among players without a S20 team (26,9%), players who never played in ETF2L (8,5%), Archimedes Cup players (7,3%) and unknwon (3,2%).
I think it is only fair to share some of the money with tiers that usually dont get any money. We already have the highest payout ever in Prem and the winner of High will get more than the 2nd place of Prem in any of the last seasons. So I dont think anyone can complain here.
Yeah okay due to the fundraiser I guess that makes sense. Just hoping this doesn’t become a trend.
F E N N E K S ~~ P R T Y B O I Z
thanks sonneborn berger thing for not giving me the chance to get 7,50€
Sorry Rogue, you guys are right behind candy sticks and Gibusztalan Düdz!, but there’s only two spots.
So much for the tiebreakers hype
someone was too lazy to arrange tiebreakers ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
How are we supposed to break a 9-way-tie for two spots? Especially given the time frame. :D
sonneborn berger for 8th and 9th ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)
awesome
W E E S P O R T S N O W
after this i will finaly be able to make it rain
3€ omggg
better 3€ than nothing ;D
How are maps picked?
Waaaaaaaaaay too much cash for prem, have you ever heard of communism? Equal splittings m8.
So effectively when I emailed Valve, I was right – TY SONNY.
thats funny
when i suggested using challonge i was laughed upon
http://etf2l.org/forum/feedback/topic-30613/page-8/#post-527479
and then when i bring the idea ,that was brought up on fullycharged, a day before playoffs to make high a 6/8 team playoff seed like the one used now, i get laughed upon and dismissed as it would be “too much to handle and give teams that don’t deserve the spot get it”
“This was decided based on their Sonneborn Berger rating.”
gg
easy break :)
What’s actually “candy sticks” Sonneborn-Berger-Score? … oh wait!
JackyLegs PJSalt
lol jackylegs, theyre not using challonge as a tournament bracket its just used to show how the playoff structure is visualized. every season with pre-season playoffs we use challonge so people can picture how playoffs will work
nice try though
Open playoffs at the easter weekend? I could imagine that might pose issues, especially for players attending Gamers Assembly or Insomnia.
nice try though PJSalt
rip prtyboiz
TFTV Coverage:
http://teamfortress.tv/thread/23839/don-t-panic-it-s-the-premiership-playoffs-today