6v6 Season 15 Home
Season 15 powered by BlackOut Gaming
Welcome to the landing page for ETF2L’s 15th season of competitive 6v6! The regular ETF2L Season is our main competition, and has been the biggest and most prestigious Team Fortress 2 competition in Europe since 2008.
Season 15 is supported by BlackOut Gaming and Club 3D. Thanks a lot!
Trailer
In case you haven’t gotten hyped up enough yet, we’ve prepared a treat for all of you to get your gears up to speed.
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It’s about time to ask yourself: Are you ready for Season 15 powered by BlackOut Gaming?
Signups
Pre-Season signups are now closed.You can still sign up for the waiting list with high chance of replacing dead or dropped teams during the first three play weeks.
Qualifiers
All Season 15 rules apply for the Premiership and Division 1 qualifiers with one exception.
- 1 merc (instead of 2) is allowed, if the opponent agrees
The team with the most points in the Premiership qualifier gets the last Premiership spot. The remaining two teams are placed in Division 1.
Two more spots are up for the grabs in Division 1. The team with least points from the Division 1 qualifier goes down to Division 2, the other two teams are seeded into Division 1.
Each map is worth 3 points, golden caps have to be played in case of a map draw.
-[ Premiership Qualifier | Division 1 Qualifier ]-
Newcomer guide
If you are new to 6v6 or competitive TF2, or haven’t played in ETF2L before, take a look at the [Newcomer guide] first. It should get you started in no time!
Format
Every team is placed into a Division that matches their skill level, with up to 8 teams per Division. The lowest ranked division is Division 6, and the highest is Premiership. Teams from one Division will meet each other once. There will be 7 regular season matches, with playoffs for Premiership and potential tiebreakers for other divisions.
-[ Hall of Fame ]-
Prizes
Players in all divisions will receive in-game medals for winning the group, as well as participation medals for finishing the season.
The best three Premiership Division teams will receive a share of €1000 generously provided by BlackOut Gaming. Additionally to that there will be 6 Club 3D Radeon HD 7850 royalKing graphics cards for the 1st place.
- 1st Place – €500 + 6 Club 3D Radeon HD 7850 royalKing
- 2nd Place – €300
- 3rd Place – €200
Season Schedule
The regular season has 7 match weeks, followed up by a catch-up week to play remaining wildcarded matches and three weeks of title playoffs in the Premiership Division and potential tiebreakers for other divisions. Here’s the full schedule:
- Signups: April 17-26
- Publishing of Provisional Divisions: April 27
- Schedule Week: April 28 – May 4
- Main Season: May 5 – June 22 (7 weeks)
- Catch-up Week: June 23 – 29
- Playoffs: June 30 – July 20
Maps
Season 15 features the following maps: cp_badlands, cp_gullywash_final1, cp_granary, cp_snakewater, cp_process_rc3, koth_pro_viaduct_rc3
- Week 1: cp_badlands/cp_gullywash_final1
- Week 2: cp_gullywash_final1/cp_snakewater
- Week 3: cp_snakewater/cp_granary
- Week 4: cp_granary/cp_process_rc3
- Week 5: cp_process_rc3/koth_pro_viaduct_rc3
- Week 6: koth_pro_viaduct_rc3/cp_badlands
- Week 7: cp_badlands/cp_gullywash_final1
Unlockable weapons
The new unlock set has been proven to be useful, balanced and enjoyable in the last season. There are no changes concerning the allowed unlocks for Season 15.
The complete list of unlocks allowed in Season 15 is as follows:
- The Kritzkrieg
- The Übersaw
- Crusader’s Crossbow
- The Blutsauger
- The Overdose
- The Gunboats
- The Boston Basher
- The Pain Train
- The Escape Plan
Cosmetic skins of allowed weapons are also allowed. Items that enable Pyrovision are banned.
League rules and configs
Complete list of Season 15 and General League Rules, as well as server configs and whitelist can be found in the [Rules Section]
Hall of Fame
- Season 14 – (01/2013 – 04/2013) Epsilon eSports [Full Archive]
- Season 13 – (09/2012 – 12/2012) Epsilon eSports [Full Archive]
- Season 12 – (04/2012 – 07/2012) Epsilon eSports [Full Archive]
- Season 11 – (01/2012 – 04/2012) Team Infused [Full Archive]
- Season 10! – (10/2011-12/2011) Epsilon eSports [Full Archive]
- Season 9 – (03/2011-07/2011) Team Thermaltake [Full Archive]
- Season 8 – (10/2010-01/2011) Epsilon eSports [Full Archive]
- AFS Season (06/2010-08/2010) – TCM-Gaming [Full Archive]
- Season 7 (02/2010-05/2010) – I Don’t Know? [Full Archive]
- Season 6 (09/2009-12/2009) – Team Dignitas [Full Archive]
- Season 5 (05/2009-07/2009) – Team Dignitas [Full Archive]
- Season 4 (01/2009-04/2009) – Team Dignitas [Full Archive]
- Season 3 (09/2008-01/2009) – Ubersexuals [Full Archive]
- Season 2 (04/2008-06/2008) – 4 Kings [Full Archive]
- Season 1 (12/2007-03/2008) – 4 Kings [Full Archive]