TEAM COLONSLASH CUP #1: CUP DAY!
That’s right folks, the cup is going live! Signups are officialy closed and both high and low brackets will be published here by 19:50 CEST.

{High | Low}

You better prepare yourself for some proper games, because more than 64 teams signed up for this cup! If your team can no longer participate in the cup, please contact an admin here to remove your team as soon as possible. Contact your opponents as soon as the brackets are available – if your opponents cannot play, they may be replaced with a team from the waiting list.

CASTING

Thanks to VanillaTV, some of our bracket games tonight will be casted (in addition to the finals in Thursday). Tune in tonight and listen to ThePledge and Skully on mic, with AnimaL on stream.

Please be aware that the schedule has slightly changed, as the amount of teams that signed up is larger than we had anticipated:

Tuesday 20:00 CEST – Round of 64 Starts
Tuesday 20:45 CEST – Round of 32 Starts
Tuesday 21:30  CEST – Round of 16 Starts

This also moves some games to thursday:

Thursday 20:00 CEST – Round of 8 Starts
Thursday 20:45 CEST – Round of 4 Starts
Thursday 21:30 CEST– Finals
Good luck and have fun!

Admirable: They say three is the magic number. So it must be a good omen that this is the third in our interview series for the ETF2L Season 14 powered by Twitch Premiership Playoff. This is a man who puts the ass in ambassador. Yes. It’s me, Admirable. Today I am joined by a distinguished German; none other than Crack Clan’s highly skilled, highly strung roamer-turned-pocket, ipz. Happy Easter, Felix!

Ipz: Yeah same to you my friend.

A: I don’t think I need to tell you to speak your mind, but that is the theme of these interviews. It’s supposed to be conflict and drama; so hold no punches.

I: Hahaha. Alright!

A: I suppose as usual I should say that for unfamiliar listeners who aren’t really familiar with the scene: I do in fact play with ipz in Crack Clan. You can read in to that what you want, but in all honesty it probably just makes my desire to smack talk him even greater.

I: Hahaha. Read the rest of this entry »

ETF2L is now in Summer Time

As of March 31st, ETF2L is now in summer time and all match times are in CEST (CET+1). If you’ve scheduled a match before March 31st, your match time is now one hour later – please make sure the new time is acceptable for you and your opponents, and agree to reschedule if needed. This conversion is necessary, as a significant part of ETF2L’s playerbase does not observe Daylight Savings Time.

April Fools :)

Yesterday, in a small cottage in south west of Holland, during the biggest storm Netherlands has ever seen, Team Colonslash and ETF2L staff have disputed about something called a “higher bracket”. It was a furious debate, in its energy contested only by the Armageddon outside, and many bad words were spoken. Trial admins were crying whilst honorary ones were screaming promises of real life spawn camping. CanFo‘s face went pale as an Irish forehead when an unknown stuttering British voice cried out against the (so-called) germanization of ETF2L. The theme was quickly shunned as “off topic” and so were others that did not pertain to the Team Colonslash cup. After a handful of insults, about four barrels of ale and eleven re-votes, a tough decision was made:

Team Colonslash Cup #1 is now open to all higher division teams! That means any team from any division can now apply for this cup. However, rewarding lower div teams was the core idea and both prize pool and finals casted by VanillaTV will still be focused on lower div finals. There are no excuses now not to try a super map made by choiie, so sign up and test it out!

ROSTER LOCKS
6v6 rosters are now unlocked to allow participants of the Team Colonslash Cup to add new players. New players still count as mercs in any pending Season 14 matches!

Banner by accless, logo by MoZz

OVERVIEW

Team Colonslash!

That’s right, the kings of circle jerking are back! This time we are not drinking nor screaming frenchopolish words, we are not batting people on automatic sentry guns; no, this time we are trying to enrich your gaming souls with something more materialistic – keys and weapons signed by top EU and US players!

What better way to give you keys then through a one night, single bracket 6v6 cup, made in cooperation with ETF2L? Considering the prize pool, in this cup we are focusing on lower division teams (more info below). Of course, both 6v6 and fun teams can enter the tournament! The cup is happening on Tuesday, 2nd of April, with finals following on Thursday, 4th of April. Signups close Tuesday, 2nd of April at 18:00 CET with brackets published at 19:30 CET.

>>>Sign up here<<<

CUP FORMAT AND SCHEDULE

The cup will be of a single bracket and single elimination format, with all matches (except the final one) played on the same night:

• Tuesday 20:00 CET – Round of 32 Starts
• Tuesday 20:45 CET – Round of 16 Starts
• Tuesday 21:30  CET – Round of 8 Starts
• Tuesday 22:15  CET – Round of 4 Starts
• Thursday 21:00 CET – Finals Starts (Finals will be casted by VanillaTV’s casters Pledge and Admirable!)

MAP RULES

Home map for this cup is going to be cp_quay made by highly talented choiie, whose battle-tested cp_snakewater has been in the official ETF2L map pool for the last 5 seasons. Both Team Colonslash and ETF2L staff members think that cp_quay has a lot of potential for becoming a new highly popular competitive 6v6 map. The map is filled with great hiding places and interesting pushing/holding routes. Judging by the amount of positive feedback from double mixes, cp_quay deserves more attention and play-testing so don’t hesitate and sign up for this cup.

PRIZES

Acquired by various donations (shoutouts below):

• 1st place – 18 keys, 6 signed weapons (2 Scout, 2 Soldier, 1 Demoman and 1 Medic weapon).
• 2nd place – 12 keys, 6 signed weapons (2 Scout, 2 Soldier, 1 Demoman and 1 Medic weapon).
• 3rd place – 6 keys.

UNLOCK RULES

The unlocks’ whitelist applicable in Season 14 official games will apply here as well.

SPECIAL RULES

In most one night cups, lower div teams receive nothing but a pixel trophy. With this cup we are aiming to reward those teams and their efforts with a symbolic prize pool. That said, we’re asking players higher then div 4 from all leagues and competitions not to participate in this cup. Using general rule 7.3 regarding admin discretion, we will decide which teams fit the „lower div requirement“.

Status screenshot
As a way to negate higher div player usage, all teams are required to upload status screenshot after each match. If a status screenshot is not uploaded, both teams will be punished by cup disqualification.

Mercs
Considering that some teams have players with higher div experience, this cup will allow up to two default mercs if they are div 4 or below. Unverified players will count as mercs. Using general rule 7.3 regarding admin discretion, we will decide which mercs fit the „lower div requirement“. If you are not sure if you or your teammate can participate, contact an admin on ETF2L IRC channel (#etf2l).

For everything else, standard ETF2L 6v6 rules apply.

SHOUTOUTS

A big THANK YOU  to our item donators:
Bontsa, Sauce, Cup Cake, Mallux, Prolefeed, Kyriales, TurboTabs, Calump, Ligz, Spike Himself, Loose E (the E stands for Stupid), Marik, Oxy, Gladdy, Enef, Drackk, Player Avatar, Mohawk and Mads.