The following players have been found guilty of cheating by our AC team, and as such are now banned from all ETF2L competitions for 1 year:

• imdustin – Triggerbot
• Chiakii – Triggerbot

Valve has recently released a major update for VAC, adding detections for numerous cheats old and new, including some that have been considered “VAC safe” for years, resulting in a huge wave of VAC bans across all Source games.

The following players have been spotted with fresh VAC bans and are now banned from all ETF2L competitions for 1 year:

• Serotone
• Tetrix
• fraac
• misha YB`g
• cirno
• LG
• Jules

Though some of these players claim the bans were only for using OpenPlugin exclusively outside of ETF2L matches, whether to trust the legitimacy of these claims is left to our players. ETF2L enforces TF2 VAC bans regardless of their cause.

As these players have not been caught cheating by our AC team, the results of their Season 15 matches will not be affected.

In an earlier newspost, we have stated that we may ignore a VAC ban, if the user can present proof from Steam Support that his account was hijacked and used to cheat in TF2 shortly before the ban. Unfortunately, one of our users attempted to exploit this opportunity by presenting sloppily falsified “evidence” that he reported his hijack to Steam Support.

For attempting fraud, Neoxyde‘s ban has now been extended by an additional 1 year.

Any attempts to bypass a League ban will result in an even longer ban on all accounts associated with the player. Don’t do it.

Premiership Wrap-up

All great things must come to an end, and the reign of SNSD in European Highlander came to an end this season with a shocking final loss to DAROUTOUTOU, losing both Badwater and Upward’s to the Frenchies as legendary heavy weapons guy Alx announced his retirement from the game.

SNSD‘s ETF2L record is second to none – in the two years since the revival of the Highlander scene, they have reaching an astonishing streak of 44 consecutive wins across all ETF2L Highlander competitions, without losing a map. For the longest time, SNSD towered like a giant over the European Highlander scene, swatting away any challengers with ease, until Season 4’s Grand Final at last saw them toppled by DAROUTOUTOU.

This also marks the pinnacle of an incredible journey for DAROUTOUTOU. They started their Highlander careers in Division 3, earning their promotion to Division 2, then 1, and Premiership at last. Despite being newcomers in Premiership, their only loss this season was to SNSD in the Week 1 match on Gravel Pit – a loss they have avenged by taking the Premiership crown for themselves.
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As most of you probably already know, TeamFortress.TV is organising a fundraiser to send over the ESEA Season 13 winner High Rollers Gaming to the Multiplay insomnia 49 LAN in Telford, UK, at August 23-25.

mana left us with some information on one of the last steps to the success of the fundraiser.

The Team Fortress 2 community is sending  High Rollers Gaming to the i49 gaming festival in Telford, England to compete worldwide. This second showmatch is between the aforementioned HRG and the ETF2L Premiership Runner Up  broder.

We will see veteran demomen  b4nny and ryb face off as scouts cookye (aka cookye) and bybzii duel  HRG’s  bloodsire and  shrugger, while  lansky and Zebbosai throw down in rockets and shotgun casings and jukebox and  tagg roam and bomb. Both milkmen medics Mirelin and  shade are going to be put to the test.
During the stream, 2 unusual hats will be given away. One goes to the person donating the 10,800th dollar (the goal of the fundraiser) and one to a random viewer.

Stay tuned for the action on Sunday at 21:00 CEST, with camera work done by our famed cameraman huhystah and casting by the venerable  Salamancer and Admirable

ETF2L Season 15 powered by BlackOut Gaming:
Revoluzion la metagame vs SOLAR – Professional Edition

Here we are, second week of the glorious fifteenth season is about to end – how about some good old fashioned Premiership bonanza to prepare us for the weekend? Tonight we will get a chance to a pillow fight between two Premiership toddlers, spiced with shots and explosions, as the newcomers to the top division will try and make their first stand in the tables. Revoluzion la metagame, a newly formed interesting mix of players will take on SOLAR – Professional Edition, jumping into these unknown grounds by winning Division 1 last season. While we haven’t had a lot of chances to watch these guys play in their new environment, their strong results against top teams in the off-season as well as the last season suggest this match might be more exciting than some could think.

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Overview and Reminders

After a night of battle, a huge congratulations to the 4 qualifiers from last nights bracket. These players battled through the 128 player bracket to claim their spots in the Monthly Finals:

• achy
• space ranger
• Spike
• fe

Don’t fret if you didn’t make it! There is still another chance for you to qualify for this months Monthly Finals in the 2nd Qualifying Bracket! Anyone who played in the first bracket is welcome to sign up again, as long as they are not 1 of the 4 qualifiers! The 2nd Qualifier will take place on Wednesday 22nd.

Signups are now open and will close at 22:30 CET the night before the bracket is due to start!:

Signup Now!

All other rules and details can be found on the hub page!