ETF2L Season 14 powered by Twitch Premiership Playoffs: broder vs Crack Clan

After a relatively quiet period that began after broder succeeded in their latest match it’s about time we move on to the next of the playoff matches, two of which still remain to be played. The Swegians have shown some really decent results lately, especially against their upcoming opponents – Crack Clan. In just under a few hours those two will clash against each other and for what it’s worth, it’s Admirable‘s crew who might struggle tonight, despite having a better run during the group stages, and it’s up to them to show that they are the one worthy of facing Epsilon eSports in the finals, coming soon™. Will they manage to handle the pressure and move a step closer to the championship?

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ETF2L Season 14 powered by Twitch Premiership Relegation Playoffs

A slightly less important playoff, but still one that matters. Quarantine have managed to crash to the bottom of the top this season, only earning themselves a measly 3 points with a single win and 11 losses. WebOne on the other hand have managed to grab a promotion spot in division 1, and if they successfully trash Quarantine they will join their compadres Solar 2013 in the premiership next season. Quarantine have fallen on hard times as of late, only showing signs of promise versus Pokeman earlier this season and they will need to pull themselves together and play the game they know to bar the way to the stars for WebOne.

The first map is confirmed to be cp_badlands, the remaining maps will be picked by the loser of the previous map.

Watch live video from VanillaTV on www.twitch.tv

Match Overview
WebOne vs Quarantine
Playoffs (Premier Division)
Monday, March 25th 21:15 CET

cp_badlands

6 - 3

cp_process_rc2

4 - 3

OVERALL
WebOne [6:0] Quarantine

VanillaTV will be casting this game from 21:15 CET with AnimaL on the cam and byte and ThePledge (fresh from the insomnia LAN) on the cast.

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Premier Division: Parrot Gapers vs 27

Tonight will we see the first game in the Premier Division for Season 4,  Parrot Gapers vs  27.  Parrot Gapers will be known to most viewers, after theyhad a very good season in Season 3, finishing 2nd in the Premier Division. After   May Contain Nuts officially folded, the Gapers picked up Heavy superstar Haunter, which will surely be a huge boost to their hopes of challenging  SNSD this season.

 27 will be a unknown name to anyone fairly new to ETF2L Highlander, however they placed 2nd in Division 1 in Season 2 (back when Division 1 was the highest tier) only behind  SNSD. They consist of many old school Spanish players, like HarryHook, Hiper, Jan and vaynster. The question is whether their inactivity will be their downfall, if they can perform like they did in Season 2 then  Parrot Gapers are definitely in for a challenge here.

I didn’t talk to Gubbins, but luckily I’m a mind reader, and here is what he would have said:

Gubbins: Gapers gonna gape.

Match Overview
27 vs Parrot Gapers
Week 1 (Premier Division)
Sunday, March 24th 21:15 CET

cp_gravelpit

1 - 2 (golden cap)

cp_gravelpit

1 - 2 (golden cap)

OVERALL
27 [2:4] Parrot Gapers

Casting this game will be jakeowaty and Dandere with Jon on the stream for BlackOutTV. Be sure to tune in at 21:15 CET! 

Stopwatch Config Update

We have released a minor update to our Stopwatch configs:

mp_maxrounds is now set to 2

With this change, mp_tournament will now successfully reset after each map round (after each team has both attacked and defended). This should improve compatibility with plugins that start/stop demos based on mp_tournament and take end-of-round screenshots.

Note: You will still need to either change teams between rounds and set Ready, or use mp_switchteams console command.

You can download the new ETF2L Stopwatch config for Highlander here.

Highlander Whitelist Update

The Bazaar Bargain is now banned from use in Season 4. This ban is forced by a recently introduced bug that allows the weapon to increase the headshot counter by missing shots, and will remain in effect until the bug is fixed. Please update your servers with the latest whitelist to block this weapon in Season 4 matches.

AC Staff Update & Bans

ETF2L’s AC department has underwent significant changes:

After a period of inactivity, HYS has left the AC team due to lack of free time. We thank you for your time spent keeping ETF2L cheater-free.

The team has been joined by two new KillAri and gf18_idiot, both active admins in the French Team Fortress 2 League with a number of caught cheaters under their belts. They’ve done a lot of work in a short time since joining ETF2L staff as trials, and have earned their promotion to full-fledged AC admins.

We are still looking for additional Anti-Cheat admins to help us keep the League free of cheaters. Please check the Anti-Cheat application page for requirements and information on how to apply as an AC admin.

To celebrate the promotion of our new staff members, as well as to share the fruits of their labor, we hereby declare the following players banned from all ETF2L competitions for 1 year:

TheSpok – Triggerbot
Mozz – Wallhack
Buldo – Aimbot
Tappa/ tapper– Vac Ban
Al_Arctic– Triggerbot
baud – Esp/Aim assist

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.

Any matches in recent seasons that involved these players will be changed to default losses. One team used a banned player in all of their matches and thus had their ETF2L Season 14 results revoked completely:

Lucky Production

Results involving a VAC banned player are not affected, unless the player has been additionally caught cheating by our AC team.

Highlander Experimental Cup #4: No Wrangler – Wrap Up

Experimental Highlander Cup #4 was a great success, peaking at 49 signups, which resulted in 6 skill brackets. The winners of each bracket are listed below, alongside their hard-earned spoils of war (pixel trophies):

Highest Bracket

• Large Piece of Beef
• colony

 
High Bracket

• Hycz-eSports
• Osmoz

 
Mid Bracket

• House Full of Funk
• The Amazing 4

 
Low Bracket

• Crutched Potatoes
• OverCharge

 
Lowest Bracket #1

• We can’t push last
• Don´t Really Care

 
Lowest Bracket #2

• Killer Sandviches
• Team IKEA

Did removing the Wrangler make Attack/Defense more fun, or did it take away an important part of the game? We hope you’ve enjoyed the cup and invite you to share your impressions on the forums!

Vaccinator One-Night-Cup: 2nd Edition – Wrap Up

Though unlike the first Cup, the Second Edition featured only one bracket, it finished without any issues. The winners and their spoils of war are listed below:

Bracket

• 1st Place –  Bring the funk
• 2nd Place –  Fenneks eSports
• 3rd Place –  Negative Reality
• 3rd Place –  Partyvan

We hope you had fun experimenting with the new Medigun. If you think it would be a worthwhile addition to 6v6 and would like to see it allowed in Season 15, let us know!