When?

The event starts this Friday the 22nd of September at 20 CEST and will run for 3 days over on twitch.com/tipofthehats. You can find a schedule, guest appearances and more over on their site tipofthehats.org. So get your favorite snack and drink ready for an awesome weekend filled with Team Fortress 2 while kicking cancer’s ass in the meantime. If you can’t contain your excitement you can check previous years events over on their Youtube channel.

Note* If you want to calculate over the schedule to CEST then you have to add 9 hours. So 3 PM turns into 12 PM.

What is Tip of the Hats?

Tip of the Hats is a charity event hosted and supported by members of the Team Fortress 2 community. Since 2013, it has raised over $320,000 for Children’s Oncology Services, Inc., which offers camps and other educational and excursion programs throughout the year that allow children with cancer to just be kids. With your help, COSI can offer attendance to kids at little to no cost to their families.

Season 28: Update

There have been talks of cp_reckoner expecting to receive an update further on in the season, so Reckoner is getting delayed in the season to weeks 6 and 7 as a result to see if the changes will positively affect the map.

The Season 28 Map Pool will be adjusted to be like this from now on:

Map Rotation

• Week 1: cp_process_final & cp_prolands_b2c
• Week 2: cp_prolands_b2c & cp_gullywash_final1
• Week 3: cp_gullywash_final1 & koth_product_rc8
• Week 4: koth_product_rc8 & cp_snakewater_final1
• Week 5: cp_snakewater_final1 & cp_sunshine
• Week 6: cp_sunshine & cp_reckoner_rc2
• Week 7: cp_reckoner_rc2 & cp_process_final

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Season 28: Provisional Tiers

In case you do not find your team in this list, you were likely removed because you had between 1 and 5 players, in this case you have to gather 6 players in your roster and sign up for Season 28 again or you changed your name during signup process, just check for an old team name. We will try and get as many teams into the season as possible before week 1 starts. This is also a reminder that we will leave the signups open until the start of week 3 for late signups. If your team is not on the list or is in a different tier to what you expected please contact the admin team.

Provisional Tiers

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Written by Smin 

More ETF2L Preaseason Playoff action is coming your way with ★★★½ vs. Da Choke Bustaz! The winner of this match should’ve had to play nunya for a spot in the Premiership, but with Se7en announced as unable to play, the winner of this match will go straight into Prem!
★★★½(aka ★★★½ with) finished 2nd in High last season and placed 9-12th at i61, and now have their sights set on Prem. However, they’ll have to get past Premiership veterans Da Choke Bustaz if they hope to reach that goal. Da Choke Bustaz are more similar to last season’s nunya than the new team under that banner, and will be looking to slip into Prem for the third season in a row. Can ★★★½ come out on top, or will Da Choke Bustaz snake their way into the Premiership one more time?
Join Beater, first-time caster Smin (depending on my storm-wacked internet connection), and gedu as we find out who will take the last Prem spot up for grabs!

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ETF2L Season 28 is getting back underway with the Preseason Playoffs. This season, the Premiership hopefuls will play through a single elimination bracket, with the winners stealing the last slot available in the Premiership. This first match of the playoffs will feature nunya and Ora Elektro!
The old nunya team of the past two seasons has turned into Da Choke Bustaz, but left medic Condawg behind to play for this nunya squad. In addition to Condawg, nunya features breakout demoman Eemes, older names like Rising and Hank playing their mains, with ixy (scout) and LUKASTANK (soldier) rounding out the roster. Their opponents Ora Elektro finished third in High last season, and have the same roster with the exception of S!MON on medic.
Will the experience of some members of nunya shine through, or will Ora Elektro show that their skills learned in High can take them to the next level?
Find out with casters zeFrosty and polof, while gemm mmans the cammera!

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