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June’s Cup!

In the month of June, we will be focusing on the demoman! Prepare those pipes and practice those air shots as you take on the best of ETF2L to claim your title of the best demoman in Europe ! Should you fail, never fear! This is a recurring cup, meaning once we have gone through the three combat classes, then we shall go through them again… and again, claim as many titles as you can!

As a special rule for this cup the Sticky Jumper will be allowed, however the Sticky Launcher, along with all other unlocks, will be banned!

Prizes

Winner of the Monthly Final:

1x AVerMedia Live Gamer HD C985

Additionally and as usual, pixel trophies will also be handed out to the top 3 finishers of the monthly final. Every top 4 qualifier will also get a golden trophy for his bracket, no matter if they participate in the monthly final or not.

Signups

Signups for Qualifier #1 are closed!

Signups for Qualifier #2 will open once Qualifier #1 has been played.

You’ll need to be the leader of a 1v1 team to be able to sign up. You can find a step-by-step guide on team creation on the FAQ page. Only 1v1 teams with exactly 1 player will be accepted. Mercs and backups are obviously not allowed in a 1v1 tournament.

Cup Schedule and Map Pool

The map pool:

• MGE – EndIf
• MGE – Process Middle Viaduct Middle
• MGE – Snakewater Middle
• MGE – Badlands Middle
• MGE – NoSplash / Directs
• MGE – Granary Last
• MGE – Ammomod

The overall schedule for June 2013:

• 1st Qualifying Bracket: Tuesday June 11th
• 2nd Qualifying Bracket: Wednesday June 19th
• Top 8 Monthly Final: Wednesday June 26th

The qualifying bracket schedule:

• 22:30 CET the day before – Signups Close for the bracket
• 19:00 CET Qualifier Day – Bot Draw in #etf2l
• 19:30 CET Qualifier Day – Brackets Posted
• 20:00 CET Qualifier Day – Ro128 Starts – Badlands Middle
• 20:30 CET Qualifier Day – Ro64 Starts – EndIf
• 21:00 CET Qualifier Day – Ro32 Starts – Granary Last
• 21:30 CET Qualifier Day – Ro16 Starts – Snakewater Middle
• 22:00 CET Qualifier Day – Ro8 Starts – Ammomod

The Monthly Final schedule:

• 22:30 CET Tuesday (the day before) – Signups closed. If not all of the 8 qualifying players have signed up, players from the reserve waiting list will fill in
• 19:30 CET Wednesday – Brackets Posted
• 20:00 CET Wednesday – Ro8 Starts – First map: NoSplash / Directs
• 21:00 CET Wednesday – Ro4 Starts – First map: Process Middle Viaduct Middle
• 22:00 CET Wednesday – Final & Consolation Final – First map: EndIf

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Epsilon eSports vs Skidmark Central

In theory, tonight’s game should be one of the closest we’ve seen so far, however  kaidus‘ lovable band of rejects have proven that they know how to drop points to even the most blunt toothed of bottom feeders, never mind twice-ETF2L-champions, Epsilon eSports. However, stranger stuff has happened and if  All Tied Up walk away with any points tonight it will be a huge upset.

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Crack Clan vs Last Man Standing

Starting off the week 5 matches for the Premiership are Team Infused and Last Man Standing. So tonight we will get our first dose of Viaduct Pro being played by the very top teams in Europe. The question is, which one of the two teams has figured out how to play this map.

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Season 15 Roster Lock and Wildcard Lock Reminders

As in previous seasons, the rosters of all teams signed up for Season 15 powered by BlackOut Gaming will be locked with the start of week 7. The last day to add new players to your roster is Saturday, June 15.

No exceptions will be made and the roster lock will be lifted when all Season 15 playoff matches will be played. Please take this information into consideration and add backup players to your roster if necessary.

Additionally, wildcards will be locked on Friday, June 21, on. All matches without a schedule will receive a new default date for the catch up week (Sunday, June 23, to Saturday, June 29). Any matches without result will be made void on Monday, July 1, at 00.00 CEST, after which the Premiership playoffs and tie breaker matches will be created.

Reconnect Exploit rule update

After discussing the resurfaced potential for abuse of the retry command, we have added an extra rule to General Rules:

6.6 Exploiting the retry command is not allowed

Reconnecting to the server to reset your respawn time and gain an unfair advantage is considered exploiting, and may be punished with a default loss for the map and a minor warning for the offending team.

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Overview

Having fought through the qualifying bracket, and then through the monthly final bracket, a huge congratulations to Spike who came out victorious in the finals and is now the proud owner of:

1x AVerMedia Live Gamer HD C985

But lets not forget the pixel trophies! These bad boys have be given to the top 4 in the finals bracket. The 4 qualifiers of each bracket will also receive a gold trophy! Here are the top 4 finishers from the final bracket:

• 1st: Spike
• 2nd: space ranger
• Joint 3rd: msh
• Joint 3rd: Mon

If you have any suggestions or feedback on anything from the map pool to the rules, please post your thoughts here!

Thank you to all those who took part in the cup, the admins that ran it, and finally a massive thank you to our sponsor AVermedia as without them, none of this would have been possible!

Next months edition of the AVerMedia MGE Monthly Cup is rumored to be for the demoman, so keep your eyes out for that!