All three parts of the 5th edition of the TF2 MixUp Match have now been released on the YouTube channel of the Yogscast. TF2 MixUp is raising money for charity, using the concept of killing each other in TF2, repeatedly. Among all donors, three winners have been selected, who got to play with celebrities like Day[9], Freddie Wong, Tay Zonday and the Team Fortress creator himself, Robin Walker.

As of today, £3667.41 have been raised for Doctors Worldwide, whose mission is to serve communities in need, through the provision of sustainable medical relief and health based development programmes worldwide. You can still donate towards the cause – or just watch the videos without an adblocker, as all ad revenue from the videos goes to the same charity.

But enough of the talking now, please checkout the videos below and the full lineup of participants.
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Prize pool of Season 14 powered by Twitch

The 14th 6v6 Season of ETF2L is about to begin, ladies and gentlemen, with only a few days left for signups all the teams are already preparing for seven weeks of tense matches. We here at ETF2L are also working hard to provide you with the best environment for competition possible. If fighting for the European crown is not enough for you, you will certainly be thrilled to hear that Season 14 will provide money prizes for the best teams! With €990 on the line, of which $650 have been provided by this season’s main sponsor Twitch, everybody is looking forward to the outcomes and upsets of the upcoming weeks.

As of right now, the premiership prize distribution for Season 14 looks like this:

• 1st Place – €495
• 2nd Place – €297
• 3rd Place – €198

Season 14 powered by Twitch trailer

In case you haven’t gotten hyped up enough yet, we’ve prepared a treat for all of you to get your gears up to speed.

Done by our own huhy, this piece has gotten us on our feet.
It’s about time to ask yourself: are you ready for Season 14?

ETF2L 6th Cup Round 5

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After a Christmas break, it is about time to get back to business. Round 5 of the 6th ETF2L Cup dawns. Additionally to the 8 remaining teams from round 4, the big boys are now joining the tournament. Each round of the tournament has been seeded randomly. For organisational reasons, a new tournament tree had to be created. These are the fixtures:

 Quarantine vs  Team Doctrinal

 AVENUE eSports vs  Crack Clan

 Elite nile Gunners vs  Epsilon eSports

 Team Reverto vs  AfterShock eXe

 Trick17 Black vs  Lutuset

 Insane Dynamite Monkeys vs  BFF

 myDGB.net vs  killSwitch

 logs.tf vs  Imbalanced

All default dates have been set to Thursday, January 10th at 21.15 CET. Rescheduling until the week’s deadline (January 11th) is allowed. Matches without result on Saturday, January 12th (when the next round is going to be seeded) will be decided with a coin flip.

This is the first “best of three” round. Contrary to the first 4 rounds, the maps now have to be selected with the map pick system (each team picks their home map and then eliminates until only the decider is left).

If you would like exposure and get your match casted, please confirm your schedule and update the match comments with the latest developments or talk directly to a VanillaTV representative. The winner of this tournament receives a whopping €€300 cash.

Ultiduo #4 by ETF2L and nervousENERGY Wrapup

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Better late than never – here is your well deserved praise. Congratulations to  Internet download manager aka  T-Mac &  Tek for winning the 4th ETF2L Ultiduo Cup! All winners have received their prizes and the pixel trophies have been handed out. Again a huge shoutout to Monkeh from nervousENERGY for providing the prize pot of £160. The full standings are:

• 1st Place – £100 –  Internet download manager aka  T-Mac &  Tek
• 2nd Place – £40 –  team >_> aka  empty &  baud
• 3rd Place – £20 –  skroll aka  Jack &  spirit

Season 14 powered by Twitch!

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Here we go, ladies and gentlemen, it’s this time in the year. We’re proud to announce that the signups for Season 14 powered by Twitch are now officially open! If you are interested in competing against other teams in a quest for glory, head on to the Competitions page in your Team Admin menu.

>>> Sign up now! <<<

Season 14 map pool, schedule and unlock rules can be found on the Hub page. Please note that the Playoff schedule announced in an earlier post planned with 4 weeks for the Playoffs. Only 3 weeks are needed though. The Playoffs run from March 17 – April 6, not April 13.

Sign up process

Make sure to choose your desired division when signing up. If you created a new team or feel you can jump a division, feel free to apply for the division you believe you deserve you should be in. To prove you are capable of the division you applied for, we require you to submit screenshots of results from your recent practice matches or tournaments where you scored decent results against teams that play on the level you aim for. The quantity is not the most important factor in this case, it’s more of a helpful measure for us to figure out if your team will be able to keep up with the pace. There is no magical, minimum or maximum number of screenshots that you have to submit.

Please note that the success of your request also strongly depends on the free slots in the division you aim for. Established teams will be favoured over new teams or teams that request to jump a division. The screenshots have to be uploaded to an online image storage service (for example, you can use imgur or Dropbox). Keep in mind that if you opt for a zipped archives with tons of pictures attached to an email, your application will be ignored. Keep it clean.

If you are applying for Division 6 (which is our entry division), you do not have to provide any proof that you are capable of playing at that level. This only applies to Division 5 or higher.

Please send your application to [email protected]. The division assignment request has to include the following information in order to be considered. Incomplete applications will be ignored!

• Do not use HTML in your eMail. If you want to add a link, just paste the link in the eMail as you would enter it in your browser.
• Team name
• Team link on ETF2L.org
• Division you apply for
• Link to the online photo album
• Reasons why your team deserves to be placed in the division you applied for (optional)

Rule changes

Based on the feedback from Season 13, we’ve made several changes to the 6v6 Season ruleset and implemented additional rules for the Premiership division. We hope these changes will improve the experience both for teams playing in the League and for viewers following Premiership matches.

Global rule changes

• Extensions have been removed. – If one of the teams cannot play within the week, they must use a Wildcard.
• Wildcards now add two weeks to the match deadline – There is no longer any difference between using a wildcard early or late in the week, as long as it used at least 15 minutes before the scheduled date for the match. New default dates for wildcarded matches will always be set on the next week’s Friday (Exception: Wildcards used during week 7 will receive a new default date on week 7’s Friday)
• Wildcards may now be used in Week 7 – Using a Wildcard in Week 7 will extend your match deadline up until the end of the Catch-up week. Wildcards will be disabled once the Catch-up week begins.
• Loser’s pick system in tiebreakers and playoffs – higher seed picks the first map, loser of first map picks second map, loser of second map picks tiebreaker. If neither team has the higher seed, the winner of the Heavy fist fight chooses the first map.

Premiership rule changes

1.10.3 Stricter late warnings

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Late matches in Premiership result in major warnings for both teams.

1.10.4 Matches must be scheduled at least 24 hours in advance

Teams must set or change the scheduled date for their match at least 24 hours in advance. Setting a scheduled date less than 24 hours in advance or rescheduling with less than 24 hours left before the match date will result in a minor warning for both teams.

1.10.5 Results must be submitted within 24 hours of the scheduled date

Any Premiership match without a submitted result 24 hours after its scheduled date or the week’s deadline (whichever comes sooner) will be considered a late match.

If you have any questions about Season 14 powered by Twitch, feel free to ask in the comments or contact admins via the Support page. If you are new to ETF2L or competitive TF2, we recommend checking out the Newcomer Guide and FAQ as well.

(written by Heavy Is GPS )
Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come for the first match of Highlander Season 3′s Secondary Playoffs, also known as the the HLSP.

Match Overview

Max-play are a Polish gaming community who lately have proven that they have a strong team in the Highlander scene.
Winning the UGC Platinum badge must be a confidence boost for Max-play, however the competition in ETF2L is a lot more fierce.

In ETF2L Max-play topped Division 5 in Season 2, and then managed to advance to play in the Premiership Division, where their only victory so far has been vs Colony.

Simply the best have dominated Division 4 in Season 2 and finished 3rd in Division 1 with two losses.

For Max-Play, this match is their last chance to remain in Premiership, for Simply the Best it may be the next step in their 3-match winning streak towards Premiership and the cash prize.

This match is being casted live by Heavy Is GPS on his Stream:

Match Overview
Max-Play Highlander Team vs #SDW
Quarter Final
Wednesday, January 2nd 21:15 CET

pl_badwater

0 - 1

pl_upward

1 - 0

cp_granary

4 - 1

OVERALL
Max-Play Highlander Team [6:3] #SDW

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