UPDATE: We will be banning Atomizer and B.A.S.E. Jumper in line with ESEA  and ozfortress. The new whitelist link will be whitelist.tf/competitive_6v6, which should be updated soon. The rest of the whitelist will remain the same. Thank you for your dedication and vocal response, and we hope to get more feedback from you as we go along with this inter-league cooperation.

First of all, we would like to thank Netsky and Toodles for their service to ETF2L, as they are both leaving the team. This means we have Newswriting and League Admin positions open, so feel free to apply by emailing us on [email protected]. What we expect from you as an ETF2L staff member is available here.

With the 25th 6v6 Season around the corner, which is essentially a Silver Anniversary for the league (!), we have some very exciting announcements to make.

Global cooperation

ETF2L has worked alongside ESEA, ozfortress and UGC in order to unify the whitelist used in the 6v6 gamemode. This process was led by the crème de la prèm of each region’s competitive players, in order to take advantage of their deep understanding of the game. The whitelist is, by design, as open as possible, disallowing only 20 weapons total!

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Nations Cup #6 powered by Tt eSPORTS: Wrap-up

The sixth ETF2L Nations Cup has come to a close. 32 teams in total signed up for this tournament, and they have been whittled down to our winner – France. Congratulations to France for winning the Nations Cup for the second time in a row! Team captain Medico had the following to say:

“The cup was really enjoyable, we spent a lot of time training with our team and I think that’s why we won this afterall. We wanted to win this for the second time in a row and show that even without some previous top French players France is still there. I am sad that this cup didn’t have more coverage but we did have some casters anyway to help out. Thank you for the cup and time.”

The full standings are as follows:

• Winner: France
• Runner-Up: Germany
• 3rd Place: England

Many thanks also to Wiethoofd for providing the largest chunk of the coverage for the competition, featuring the Semi-Final and Grand Final matches of this competition. You can find their VOD’s here. Additionally, there’s also the Nations Cup Fragshow done by Beater to watch highlights of the cup!

Insomnia 58 was a feast for every Team Fortress 2 lover out there. Now it is time to move on… On to another LAN! The one, the only: DeutschLAN 2016!

First up: The Teams

The following teams will be attending LAN and compete for the DeutschLAN championship (not in order of seeding):

• Doctors of Mediocrity
• LOL Germans
• SDCK LAN
• Team Nein!
• Strong Opinions
• Danke Fler
• Iro and 8
• Fair Enough LAN
• Here for the Beer
• LANpander
  

These 10 teams will be playing in two groups of five teams each in a Round-Robin format. The first two of each group advance to a single elimination knockout stage. Teams that have been knocked out will be playing the equal seat of the opposing group in a game for 5th, 7th and 9th place respectively.

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The Finals have arrived. Germany will be going at it against France. Which country will come out on top, who will be capable of calling themselves the best for the next 2 years. Well you can find that out tonight over on Wiethoofd's twitch channel as he'll be on the camera with Beater and CeeJaey as casters.

This is the first time these 2 countries faced each other in the 6 editions the 6v6 nations cup has had so lets see what has granted both of them their spot in the finals!

Season 25 delay

Due to it being highly requested, we've decided to delay Season 25 by 1 week. Here is the new schedule.

• Signups: August 27 - September 15, 21:00 CEST (Premiership signups will close early, on the 10th of September at 21:00 CEST)
• Publishing of Provisional Divisions: September 16
  
• Publishing of Final Divisions: September 17
  
• Pre-Season Premiership Playoffs: September 11 - September 16
  
• Main Season: September 18 - November 03 (7 Weeks)
• High/Mid/Open Playoffs: November 10 - November 24
  
• Premiership Finals: November 20

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The previous post has been edited to match this as well. We apologize for any possible confusion this may cause. We're still looking for feedback for the season in the Preseason cup feedback thread. We'll post an announcement regarding the maps and whitelist as soon as we've gathered as much info as possible.

Polls

Apart from that we've set up some quick polls for decissions regarding season 25 that you can find back either on the separate page or down below.

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