Nations Cup #7: Announcement

The Cup will feature a Group Stage and a single-elimination Tournament, and will take place throughout July and August. Each country will be represented by one team consisting out of players of the same nationality, led by a Captain chosen through the applications process.

Nations Cup #7: Schedule

• Captains Applications: 03.07 – 12.07
• Announce Captains & Groups: 13.07
• Group Stage Round 1: 15.07 – 18.07
• Group Stage Round 2: 19.07 – 24.07
• Group Stage Round 3: 25.07 – 29.07
• Tiebreakers: 30.07 – 03.08
• Round of 16: 05.08 – 09.08
• Quarter Finals: 10.08 – 15.08
• Semi Finals: 16.08 – 21.08
• Break for i63: 22.08 – 28.08
• Grand Finals and Bronze Match: 29.08 – 06.09

IMPORTANT! We do encourage teams to make use of their roster of up to 13 players. Mercs will not be allowed! (Although we may be more lenient regarding the verification time.)

Nations Cup #7: Captains Applications

National teams are created and managed by Captains chosen out of submitted applications. Each Captain will pick the best possible roster from among their countrymen and lead their glorious squadron to victory. There are no restrictions on which players you can field in your team, so long as they are of your country’s nationality and are eligible to play in ETF2L. We are not allowing players to change nationalities, if you have previously been connected to a nations cup team, 6v6 or Highlander you are locked to that country and may not play for a different nation. If you have any queries please contact the admin team.

To apply, send an email to [email protected], explaining why you should be your country’s captain and describe your planned national roster. Applicants who have experience leading successful ETF2L teams and a good reputation in the scene will be given priority. This should be self explanatory  but you should include at least your nickname and your ETF2L profile link in the application letter.
Also please use the pre-fix [ETF2L] in your email’s subject, for example [ETF2L] NC7 Captain’s Application Belgium.

Captain Applications will close on Thursday, July 12th at 20:00 CEST. Only approved Captains and their National Teams will be added to the competition. Up to 32 countries can be represented so if we reach that number before the deadline applications will be closed, however if we do not reach 32 teams we may have to reduce numbers to 16.

Nations Cup #7: Maps and Whitelist

The map rotation for group stages will be the following:

• Group Stage round 1:  koth_product_rc9 + cp_process_final
• Group Stage round 2: cp_process_final + cp_gullywash_final1
• Group Stage round 3: cp_gullywash_final1 + koth_product_rc9

For the elimination stages teams will pick and ban their choices from the following maps:

• cp_process_final
• koth_product_rc9
• cp_gullywash_final1
• cp_snakewater_final1
• cp_prolands_b5

The season 30 whitelist will be used, which can be found here.