Friday Bans and Rule Updates

Rules updates

Recent events, such as the influx of third party betting sites to the TF2 scene, has lead the necessity of an updated ETF2L rulebook. Here are the new rules, effective immediately:

1.6 Committing or supporting fraud is strictly forbidden

Committing or supporting the act of fraud is strictly forbidden.

Different types of fraud include (but are not limited to):

– Playing a match to a completely or partially pre-determined result.
– Manipulating screenshots, chatlogs or match results.
– Impersonating players, ETF2L staff or contacts of the league (with malicious intent).
– Non-permitted acquisition of profits (e.g. selling spots on your roster, monetizing ETF2L specific content without our permission etc.).

Every case will be reviewed individually and penalties may vary based off of the severity of each offense.
Any decisions made will be at the discretion of the admin team and all circumstances are going to be taken into account.

1.7 Betting & Gambling policy

ETF2L holds no responsibility for risks connected with gambling or betting on third-party services.
This includes (but is not limited to) lost bets, overturned results or other events leading to the loss of valuables and/or profit.

Players caught betting on their own matches, taking bribes or having an incentive to tamper with the genuine result of a match in any way are subject to penalties such as league bans and potential bans on the third-party service site.
Naturally the usage of alternative accounts or other people as betting proxies is also forbidden, accomplices will face a penalty aswell.

1.8 Disruption of ETF2L and it’s services are strictly forbidden

Causing disruption to the ETF2L ( the ETF2L website, ETF2L matches or any other service run by ETF2L ) is strictly forbidden.
This includes (but is not limited to) intentionally connecting to an in-game server during an ongoing match, tampering with server settings to disrupt or create an advantage for a team, attacking a server with a Denial of Service attack, connecting to a team’s voice server during an ongoing match with the intention to cause disruption etc.

Every case will be reviewed individually and penalties may vary based off of the severity of each offense.
Any decisions made will be at the discretion of the admin team and all circumstances are going to be taken into account.

Staff changes

Netsky has after a period of inactivity re-joined the ETF2L staff for season 21. Welcome back!

Bans

These players have been caught with VAC bans affecting TF2, and will be banned from the league for one year:

• Moelijk
• hady
• Handy Smurf
• Leo
• Trolldier
• Maxime
• PinkPandaz
• Gamin With Kaammm
• Ze Medic
• voldi

As these players have not been caught cheating by our staff, their match results are not affected.

The following players have been caught cheating by our Anti-Cheat team. They will be banned from ETF2L for one year:

• Carbonated – Triggerbot
• -Numnutz- – Aimbot
• Noel – Aimbot
• TheLieingCake – Aimbot
• Ditzy – Triggerbot
• Moosicorn – ESP, triggerbot
• Mist – Aimbot
• Chochy – Aimbot
• Toko – Aimbot
• Wako – Aimbot