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Announcing Season 28!

First of all congratulations once again to Season 27 winners Arctic Foxes and Se7en for winning insomnia61. However there is going to be only a short break in the TF2 calendar with Season 28 signups open until 15th of September at 21:00 CEST. Due to the lack of time between insomnia61 and Season 28 there will not be any preseason cups.

Premiership signups will close on the 9th of September at 21:00 CEST

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Unlocks and Map Pool

The whitelist will remain unchanged from Season 27, if/when any rebalance updates occur we will provide updated information in a news post.

The map pool however is undergoing a few changes compared to Season 27. Cp_badlands is being replaced by Collaide‘s cp_prolands_b2b. This version brings in a few tweaks designed to make the last point easier to push out of, you can see a full changelog on the TF.tv thread. The more major change is the removal of granary and welcoming back an old friend, cp_sunshine. We have taken this decision because sunshine has had a few changes since we last ran it in a season. This combined with the lack of popularity with regards to granary and its divisive nature have led us to make the change for this season.

This change does not mean that granary is gone for good, we will be looking out for feedback regarding this decision.

Map pool

• cp_process_final
• cp_prolands_b2b
• cp_reckoner_rc2
• cp_gullywash_final1
• koth_product_rc8
• cp_snakewater_final1
• cp_sunshine

Map Rotation

• Week 1: cp_process_final & cp_prolands_b2b
• Week 2: cp_prolands_b2b & cp_reckoner_rc2
• Week 3: cp_reckoner_rc2 & cp_gullywash_final1
• Week 4: cp_gullywash_final1 & koth_product_rc8
• Week 5: koth_product_rc8 & cp_snakewater_final1
• Week 6: cp_snakewater_final1 & cp_sunshine
• Week 7: cp_sunshine & cp_process_final

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Season 27  Wrap-up

Congratulations once again to Arctic Foxes for claiming their first Premiership title!

The winning squad is comprised of:

• Raptor (Medic)
• adamracek (Demoman)
• feeling (Soldier)
• dd5f (Soldier)
• Thaigrr (Scout)
• Maros (Scout)

Se7en have been dethroned and place 2nd while  Politically correct pander are rewarded with the bronze medal.

Although we all enjoy watching the top players, ETF2L is not only about the Premiership Tier. The following teams placed top of their tables in the lower tiers:

High Tier

1.  – Loli Squad
2.  – ★★★½
3.  – ghey
3.  – Ora Elektro

Mid Tier

1.  – rudeboys on the block
2.  – The Aesthetics Crew
3.  – Sloup Squad
3.  – Dolmio Family Sized Lasagne fans

Low Tier

1.  – Pooper Scooper Sooper Troopers
2.  – Francesco Totti's Fan club
3.  – penguins.tf
3.  – sniper gang

Open Tier

1.  – The Abusement Park
2.  – verbfusion
3.  – Five Scrubs and a Furry
3.  – Spanish Rockets

Season 27 Awards

Due to the limited amount of time until the next season and extensive preparations for Insomnia 61, we unfortunately are not able to provide you with an awardshow this time around.
Instead, here are the winners of their respective categories:

•  Best Player of the Season:  Thaigrr
•  Demoman of the Season:  alle
•  Medic of the Season:  Raymon
•  Pocket of the Season:  kaptain
•  Roamer of the Season:  Drackk
•  Scout of the Season:  Thaigrr
•  Off-classer of the Season:  Muuki
•  Best Premier Division Debut of the Season:  credu
•  Caster of the Season:  Beater

Congratulations to all award winning teams and players!
Season 28 is just around the corner. Make sure you gather your players and be on the lookout for that announcement!

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This weekend, starting at 16:30 CEST(-ish) the best teams from all around Europe are going to be facing each other at the biggest TF2 LAN-event of the Year:

Insomnia 61 is about to begin!

i61 will see a somewhat different format than last year. 8 teams have been invited to the tournament. These teams will be split into 2 groups of 4 and will play a round robin during the Friday. This year the matches in the group stage will be BO2 instead of BO1 and teams will be able to draw on maps. After the groups tage the tournament will move into a double elimination playoff starting during Friday evening where the 8 invited teams are joined by 8 teams from the open groups. The playoffs will continue during Saturday and end on Sunday with a Grand Final on stage.

Meet the teams!

• Se7en
• Svift
• Politically correct pander
• Unexpected
• ANTIC
• nunya
• Loli Squad
• No Input

Schedule (times in BST)

Invite group stage (BO2):

Group stage round 1 group A&B: Friday 15:30-17:00

Group stage round 2 group A: Friday 17:30-19:00

Group stage round 2 group B: Friday 19:30-21:00

Group stage round 3 group A&B: Friday 21:30-23:00

Open group stage (BO1):

Group stage round 1: Friday 13:30-14:15
Group stage round 2: Friday 14:30-15:15

Group stage round 3: Friday 15:30-16:15

Playoffs (BO3 & BO5):

Upper Bracket Round 1: Friday 23:30-01:30.
Upper Bracket Round 2 & Lower Bracket Round 1: Saturday 11:00-13:00
Upper Bracket Round 3 & Lower Bracket Round 2: Saturday 14:00-16:00
Lower Bracket Round 3: Saturday 17:00-19:00
Upper Bracket Finals & Lower Bracket Round 4: Saturday 20:00-22:30
Lower Bracket Round 5: Saturday 23:00-01:00

Lower Bracket Finals: Sunday 11:00-13:00

Grand Finals: Sunday 15:00-18:30

You do not wanna miss any of the games! So clear your schedule, buy some cold beverages and enjoy an action-packed weekend of top-notch Team Fortress 2!

– Stinson_Out live from Insomnia61!

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Welcome everyone to the conclusion of the 13th season of ETF2L HIghlander for open, mid, high and premiership.

We hope you enjoyed the matches, and for the teams that made it through, congratulations.

All tiers will have playoffs, all playoff matches will be using the Map Elimination system. Note that all dates are estimates and teams are able to negotiate other days by scheduling with their opponents.

If you find yourself on the list of these teams expect an admin to add you and request your availability, if there is no information or insufficient information given we will have to decide your match dates for you. Keep in mind that we will try and accommodate both teams, but the match date may still vary from your provided days, if for example none of the days match with your opponent, but your opponent offered more days than you did. Deadlines listed for the matches are flexible and may be changed in certain situations if admins are contacted about allowing extensions on these.

Premiership

For the Premiership Tier, we are going with single elimination bubble bracket.

Matches:

Semi Final: Super Dickmann's JUNIORS! vs Super Dickmann's KANNONEN!

The losers of this matches will be knocked out, while the winner will advance to the grand final to play Strong Opinions.

The Semi Final must be submitted by 3rd September and the grand finals must be played by 17th of September. If you need to play outside of these dates contact an admin.

High

For the High Tier we’re going with 6 teams in the playoffs with single elimination.

1. inVision
   • 27 points
2. Lucrosa
   • 25 points
3. That Awkward Moment
   • 22 points
4. Doctors Of Mediocrity
   • 19 points
5. Pizza Police
   • 18 points
6. SENSATION
   • 17 points – Won H2H against  Saukot
7. Saukot
   • 17 points – Lost H2H against  SENSATION

Matches:

Quarter final matches will be played from 27th August – 2nd September.

Quarter Final 1: That Awkward Moment vs SENSATION
Quarter Final 2: Doctors Of Mediocrity vs Pizza Police

inVision and Lucrosa will join the playoffs once these Quarter Finals have finished.

Semi Finals will be played from 3rd – 9th September.

Grand Finals will be played from 10th – 17th September.

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Soldier 1v1 MGE Cup

EDIT: We will also have a special whitelist featured for this cup, link to it can be found here. To enable this whitelist in servers with TFTrue, the command “tftrue_whitelist_id etf2l_mge_soldier” needs to be used.

As the last cup of our Summer Sensation we already let you voice your opinion on which class should take the place of getting to see who is the best 1v1 player in the league, and the polls have told that Soldier is the winner with 57.116% of votes!

The group stage for this cup will be played on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th of August with an unseeded round robin stage followed by a single elimination knockout stage on Sunday 20th and Monday 21st. Signups will close on Thursday 17th, 23:59 CEST.

The group stage schedule will be the following:

Group Stage – Friday 18th and Saturday 19th of August

Map: mge_oihguv_sucks_a12

Group round 1: Friday 18th 19:00 CEST – Badlands Middle arena
Group round 2: Friday 18th 20:00 CEST – Gullywash Middle arena
Group round 3: Saturday 19th 19:00 CEST – Granary Middle arena
Group round 4: Saturday 19th 20:00 CEST – Ammomod (MGE) arena
Group round 5: Saturday 19th 21:00 CEST – Badlands Spire arena

These rounds can be rescheduled to be played at any time during the said days, as long as all results are submitted before Saturday 23:59 CEST. All matches without submitted results at that point will be coinflipped.

For Knockout Stage we will have top 3 teams from each group advancing to the knockout stage. These matches cannot be rescheduled unless if they are played earlier, playing later is not a possibility. The arenas will remain the same from Group Stage with every match being a BO3, every player gets to ban an arena once and pick an arena once, with the last remaining arena being the decider. The ban/pick process will be similar to Case 1 said here, where Team A gets to ban first, Team B to ban second and pick first, and Team A to pick second with the final map being the tiebreaker arena.

Default dates for Knockout Stage matches will begin with round 1 on Sunday 20th at 18:00 CEST, with round 2 played at 19:00 CEST and round 3 played at 20:00 CEST along with round 4 played at 21:00 CEST. Every round after that will be played on Monday starting at 19:00 CEST by default, there will also be a third place match after semi-finals are done.

We highly recommend people joining up for this cup to play their matches in their private MGE servers, however admins can allow players to play their matches in public MGE servers as well if there are no private servers available to give for players to play on.

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