Vaccinator One-Night-Cup – Revisited!

In the first week of February, we held a proof-of-concept 6v6 fun cup, to experiment with the new medigun and experience 6v6 where you did not need to wait for ubercharges. Although the Cup was hindered by substantial technical issues, two of the three brackets successfully finished their games, and we’ve received a number of requests to re-host the Cup at a later date for a smoother experience.

Whether you enjoyed experimenting with the new medigun in the First of the cup or did not get a chance to experience it, you are invited to sign up for the 2nd Edition of the Vaccinator Cup, to be held on the coming Wednesday, March 6th!

Sign up Here!

As before, both 6v6 and Fun Teams are welcome. The signups will close on 18 CET on Cup night, with brackets announced at 19 CET.

Cup schedule and rules can be found on the Cup’s hub page.

First Edition Wrap-Up

In spite of on-site brackets being initially unvailable due to technical issues, the High and Mid bracket teams persevered and successfully completed their games. Out of the chaos that dominated much of the Cup Night, the following teams emerged as champions:

High Bracket

• 1st Place –  Insane Dutch Killers
• 2nd Place –  bubbels°
• 3rd Place –  Perilous Gaming | International
• 3rd Place –  Barmatuhi

Middle Bracket

• 1st Place –  Dirsā Pisēji
• 2nd Place –  Partyvan
• 3rd Place –  Directly Terrible
• 3rd Place –  +forward

The Low Bracket was not completed, and its results were irrecoverably lost. Our apologies to the teams affected – we will ensure nothing like this occurs in future cups.

Season 14 powered by Twitch Reminders

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The last official play week of the running season is starting this Sunday. The veterans among you know what that means – the rosters of all teams participating in Season 14 powered by Twitch will be locked. Please make sure to add any new players and backup players that you want to use during the last week or in the playoffs and tie breaker matches until tonight at 23.59 CET or they will count as mercs and you will have to seek approval from your opponents to use them in your remaining matches.

Some of you may now say “Wait, did you not lock the use of wildcards as well for the last week?” and indeed we did – with strong emphasis on the use of past tense. As of this season and as announced at the start of the season, you are allowed to use wildcards in week 7 until Thursday, March 7 at 23.59 CET. Any wildcarded matches without a schedule will receive a default date on Friday, March 8, no matter if the wildcard was used the day before or if it is a more than once wildcarded match from the previous play weeks. The catch up week is supposed to be only for wildcarded matches. However, if a match is scheduled for the catch up week, we will not nullify it immediately but only apply a minor warning (major warning for matches in the Premiership Division) for each team after the match deadline. All matches without result will be nullified 24 hours after the catch up week ends, on Monday, March 18 at 00.01 CET.

Season 15 Treats: Club 3D Sponsorship and Provisional Schedule

We know you are all fired up for Season 15, although the winner of the running season has not even been decided yet. That is why we have an exciting announcement! For Season 15, Club 3D, European market leader of total solutions for graphics cards, will sponsor prizes for the Premiership Division winner. To celebrate our new partnership, ETF2L will give out one Club 3D graphics card in a community contest during the Season 14 powered by Twitch playoffs. More information on both topics will follow at a later date. In the meantime, please browse the Club 3D product range and check out their Facebook page.

The Season 15 signups will open shortly after the Season 14 powered by Twitch Grand Final. All newly formed teams or teams that want to jump a division are advised to start collecting screenshots to prove they can play at the level they are planning to apply for. The same is recommended to teams that end up last in their division but are not sitting on a demotion spot due to dropouts. We reserve the right to demote the affected teams anyway, if their record show only few map wins and they provide no evidence that they are able to compete again in their division.

The provisional Season 15 schedule is as follows:

• Signups: April 15 – 26
• Main Season: May 5 – June 22 (7 weeks)
• Playoffs: June 30 – July 20

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Based on the feedback from the community, we’ve made several changes to the 9v9 Season ruleset and map pool. We hope these changes will improve the experience both for teams playing in the League and for viewers following Premiership matches.

Unlock changes

We have read every post in the Feedback Thread, and decided to ban The Beggars Bazooka for this season. The Quackenbirdt was mistakenly banned, and this has been revoked and is now allowed. The full list of banned weapons now reads as follows:

• High-Five Taunt
• Bombinomicon
• Bootie Time
• Jingle Belt
• Enforcer
• Holiday Punch
• Pomson
• Phlogistinator
• Vita-Saw
• Cleaner’s Carbine
• Pretty Boy’s Pocket Pistol
• Red-Tape Recorder
• Huo-Long Heater
• Beggar’s Bazooka

Map pool changes

The map pool has been edited to try and match the maps are played during the same week as UGC, to lower the number of maps teams need to practice per week. There have also been two changes, pl_swiftwater_ugc has been replaced by pl_barnblitz_pro, and cp_steel has been replaced with cp_gravelpit.

• Week 1 – cp_gravelpit
• Week 2 – pl_upward
• Week 3 – pl_badwater
• Week 4 – cp_gullywash_final1 + koth_lakeside_final
• Week 5 – pl_barnblitz_pro

ETF2L Season 14 powered by Twitch: broder vs Crack Clan

The hopes were high, the bets were solid and confident, the anxiety was in the air. broder and BFF have not disappointed us though and last Tuesday we’ve got to watch an absolutely amazing performance from both of these teams, who graciously provided us with a fight to remember. If you weren’t there to see it, make sure to check out the VoDs of that match here and here. As promised, it ain’t the end of action for Season 14’s group stage just yet – there’s a few officials yet to be played between the top Premiership teams and after broder‘s victory from a few days ago everybody’s looking forward to their next opponent, who seems to be coming into this match as confident as they are. Get ready to rumble – broder versus Crack Clan!

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Quarter Final games are done!

We have successfully reduced the numbers of teams down to four. So what? Well we are handing out prizes for the team finishing first, second and third so this leaves one team with nothing. Speaking about prizes, here a reminder of what’s at stake:

• 1st place – 2 x Keyboard  – Tt eSPORTS Knucker
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• 2nd place – 2 x In-Ears – Tt eSPORTS Isurus-Dub
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• 3rd place – 2 x Mouse Mat – Tt eSPORTS Pyrrhus
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 ASSBANGERS!,  de Monet Family,  Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and  Internet download manager are left to fight over the prizes. Who will win what? Who will leave the stage empty handed? However, most importantly – who will be remembered  in all eternity as the winner of this BBall cup?