It’s actually here! The moment we’ve all been waiting for, the culmination of teams battling to win Prem, to win DreamHack to find the teammates and the chemistry to build a world champion squad. Rest assured that the pinnacle of European TF2 is represented, our four time champions Se7en is participating, alongside top teams such as Full Tilt, Unexpected and shredded autism, who made some LAN changes. But wait there’s more, a little team by the name of Froyotech, you may have heard of them, are flying in from the Americas. Oh, and let’s not forget that we have people from down under coming to shake things up, reigning Ozfortress champions Jasmine Tea have made it all the way to the UK from Oceania. All of this will be covered by an immensely talented production team put together by our good friends over at teamfortess.tv. You may notice that it holds, not one but three caster of season recipients, all in all their crew has a total of 12 ETF2L awards between themselves. So this is a must for anyone who loves TF2. Games will run starting today and all through the weekend. So be sure to tune in! Viewer’s guide.

nicer name :) vs Presents Including Erections

The Highlander Open #2 finals have arrived and both our finalists are ready to go at it! Both teams have plowed through 6 weeks of matches to reach the final and tonight we'll see who claims the 1st place. The first team up  Presents Including Erections getting a flawless run through the tournament not losing a single map. Is this thanks to their persistence to return after an unsuccessful run in the first Highlander Open or thanks to their 2 buddies sp & asadawarf. But will their winning spree continue, that is what we'll get to see tonight when they face off against  nicer name :). This team has plowed their way through their fair share of opponents together with their set of buddies Maccy & Shaggy.

And tonight you'll get to see the outcome in a casual cast hosted by CeeJaey, Maxi, ... with Wiethoofd on the camera. So let's see what the best of the new have to offer!

We are starting off season 25 with a 6v6 cup featuring two controversial maps made by phi, as well as a new king of the hill map by Tekku. The main focus of the cup is to test allowing all weapon pickups as well as play testing koth_forge_b3!

The ETF2L 6v6 Preseason 25 Cup

>>>> Sign up for the 6v6 Preseason 25 Cup here! <<<<

Signups are open until Monday 29th August 20:00 CEST! Eligible to participate is any 6v6 or Fun team that has 6 players on the roster at the end of Signups.

The cup will run on one day in a group stage format

Tuesday, August 30th.

• 19:00 CEST: Round 1 on cp_sunshine and koth_forge_b3
• 20:00 CEST: Round 2 on koth_forge_b3 and cp_reckoner_b3
• 21:00 CEST: Round 3 on cp_reckoner_b3 and cp_sunshine

We will create groups of 4 teams, so you’ll be able to prepare screenshots for Season 25, as well as having fun games. Make sure you select the division you’re most likely going to apply for in Season 25 or you think your mix team is capable of handling.

Teams will be seeded first come first serve. Signing up late just before the deadline will not guarantee your team a seed if there aren’t 3 other teams to create a bracket.

Rules/Whitelist

The 6v6 Season 24 rules apply in this cup with the exception of the merc rule and weapon pickup rules. We are allowing one default merc per match. Please only present players as default mercs, that meet the experience requirements to prevent time consuming discussions (for clarification see point 1.4 of the HL Season 10 rules). All weapon pickups, including mediguns, are now permitted.

NOTE: Abuse of picking up weapons from ground with a pickup spam bind will result in punishments such as default losses if done during any of the games.

The whitelist that is going to be used is this one (This is a test-whitelist that is not necessarily going to be the exact same for Season 25).
You can also execute the whitelist by typing “rcon tftrue_whitelist_id 6249” if you have TFTRUE installed.

In short, the following weapons have been added to the whitelist of Season 24:

+ Brass Beast
+ Pomson 6000

… and fixed taunts accordingly to be up to date with the newest set of items.

Prizes

Every 1st team will receive a pixel trophy on their team page and the rights to brag about their achievements.

In any case, there is going to be a newspost before the cup starts. Make sure to check etf2l.org before you play your first round match for all the updates!!

We opened a forumtopic for this cup, feel free to provide us with feedback!

Season 24 powered by Tt eSPORTS – Wrap-up

As the summer seasons are often known as one of the most competitive seasons of the ETF2L calendar, this time the season turned out to be rather surprising to most. All top 3 teams were evenly matched throughout the season, however for the fourth time in a row, Se7en was the team that prevailed in the playoffs to claim the Season 24 title and securing themselves €500 in the process.

The winning squad is comprised of:

• Raymon (Medic)
• spudd (Demoman)
• kaptain (Soldier)
• Drackk (Soldier)
• Hafficool (Scout)
• Starkie (Scout)
• Permzilla
• kaidus

LEGO earned 2nd place, winning €300 and Full Tilt won 3rd place, securing €200

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It’s Quarter Final time, the business end of the competition and for both Denmark and France, both will be harbouring title ambitions but only one will reach the last 4 and play England. Join CeeJaey, Jon and Danish substitute turned caster, Beater are here on the mics to bring home a keenly contest matchup live on BlackOut TV tonight at 21:15 CEST.

Denmark last made it to the Semi-Finals in 2012 and lost out to England, and most of their squad that day feature tonight, looking to relinquish the painful memory of 4 years ago. France meanwhile are the holders, but feature a completely new team to the one that won the gold in 2014.

The history in TF2 for these two nations is great, but how have they compared so far this tournament? Strangely the best way might be to measure their performances against Iceland – France‘s only map loss this tournament was a 4-2 loss to Iceland in the groups, where they needed to win a close tiebreaker to determine their first seed. Denmark meanwhile strolled the group stages, winning every map 5-0 and overpowered Iceland in the last 16, taking two maps 4-1 and 2-0 to set up this meeting.

Ultimately it is sure to be a closely contested game, based on performances against other opponents Denmark might have a slight edge but it’s so close it doesn’t matter for the game itself.