Season 13 powered by Tt eSPORTS: Crack Clan vs. Punchline

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Match Overview
Team Infused vs Punchline
Week 1 (Premier Division)
Monday, October 1st 21:15 CEST
SourceTV: relay.vanillatv.org:27100

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3 - 1

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5 - 4 (golden cap)

OVERALL
Team Infused [5:1] Punchline

Tonight, popular teams  Crack Clan and Punchline return to Season 13 to play their Week 1 Premiership match, at 21.15 CEST. This is one of the last Week 1 premiership games, so this is a game you don’t want to miss. With the roster changes in  Crack Clan after  mantuN was found cheating by  AnAkIn’s anti-cheat plugin and replacing him with  minimoose, they already won the finals of the cp_process one night cup a couple of days ago against Premiership newcomer  Nitrose. It looks like  Crack Clan have a very high chance of performing well this game.

 Punchline, on the other hand, should still feed from their 4th place of last season and a place under the last 8 in the i46 Team Fortress 2 tournament and are expected to be highly motivated for this match. This is definitely going to be a close one.

ipz- of  Crack Clan had the following to say about the upcoming match:

Punchline was always one of our favourite teams to play against. They have some players with great skills and stunning team work. Nevertheless, they did not have that “punch” in the past few weeks and seem not to have kept the spirit of last season’s Punchline. Anyway, we’ve done our homework and expect nothing but a win. Let us hope for a very exciting match.

 Punchline’s  Flippy responded with the following:

Crackclan is definitely our best opponent, they are kind guys and they offer an excellent challenge. Even if they seem like a quite new team they already have everything to be one of the top teams at the moment. Anyway, it should be a great match with people loving each other and we hope to show a better performance than last time.

VanillaTV scheduled a cast for this match with ThePledge as solo caster and  Comedian on the stream.

• STV: connect relay.vanillatv.org:27100

Staff Updates

Congratulations to  Panromir! After only one and a half months of trial, he is now deemed worthy of becoming full ETF2L league admin. Just another step to the all-german reign over the European Team Fortress 2 scene…

 Forsak3n has decided to quit the admin staff after a longer period of inactivity and due to a lack of motivation for the admin work. We thank him for the countless hours he invested into the league and wish him all the best for his life and gaming career (see you in prem?).

Kop is moved to the position of an honorary admin. The former head admin will still remain a member of the staff to overlook things but is fairly inactive at the moment.

The full staff can be seen on our staff page. In the name of all admins, we ask you to please not add admins on steam but to use our IRC channel #etf2l on Quakenet or the support page, if you have a complaint or a question. Your advantage of using IRC to get in touch with an admin is that you will always get to talk to the next free admin.

General Reminders and Brackets

The Experimental HL Cup #3 starts tonight and signups are closed! The brackets can be found here…

High Bracket

Low Bracket

If you did not make it into the brackets but still wish to play then please idle in #etf2l @ quakenet, when the cup is due to begin, as you may be able to replace teams that do not show up.

The new whitelist can be found here

The schedule is as follows –

• 20:00 CEST – Round of 16 Starts – ctf_haunt_a1
• 21:00 CEST – Round of 8 Starts – cp_gorge
• 22:00 CEST – Round of 4 Starts – pl_swiftwater_ugc
• Finals – To be scheduled by the teams and played until Sunday, October 7 – Best of three, maps are picked with the ETF2L map pick system [Explanation]

MAP RULES

Payload and CP Maps

• Bo3 – All matches will be a Bo3 of AB rounds
• Screenshots of each AB rotation are required
• To enter the score, each AB rotation counts as a map. Therefore if you won 2 – 0, enter the score as 2-0 for 2 maps (both pl_swiftwater or cp_gorge). If you won 2 – 1, enter the scores as 2 – 1 for both, and tick the golden cap box

CTF Maps

• Matches will be played as first to 7 (Bo13) and with timelimit 20
• In the event of a draw play a Bo1 GC round with timelimit 10

Make sure to let admins know if your match is running more than 5 minutes late! If you are 10 minutes late then set mp_timelimit to 15 minutes, and so on. This is to keep the next round on time.

Note about ctf_haunt 

There is an updated version of ctf_haunt out within the past couple of days, the new version ctf_haunt_b1 only has a few changes related to bug fixes. Due to the timing of its release we will allow teams to use either version however you are reminded NOT TO exploit any glitches if you discover them, just report them on the feedback forum.

Interview Transcript

Admirable: Salut mes amis! This is Admirable welcoming you to the third instalment of ETF2L’s Season 13 Interview series where we attempt to extract some insight from the Premier Divisions finest minds.  Today we bring you the Gallic genius of Punchline’s soldier mastermind, Captainhax. Say hello to your fans, Pierre!

Captainhax: Hi everyone!

A: OK man… I’ve started the interviews so far by asking a fairly mundane question about players’ TF2 fashion choices, but as you are French I know you are already incredibly stylish.  Perhaps you would humour me anyway and tell me which hats and miscellaneous items you are planning to wear in Season 13?

C: Oh! Ah… last season I started to wear the… uhm… you know I have like a Chewbacca helmet and beard that make me look like Chewbacca and I had something like ah… what’s… how can I… you know like ah… glasses and a big nose and a moustache… right now I have this miscellaneous thing.

A: Nice!

C: You see what I mean?

A: Yeah! Yeah I like the theme you are going for there… Chewbacca… can you do a Chewbacca impression? Read the rest of this entry »

OVERVIEW

It’s that time of the year again for ETF2L to step into untested waters and experiment with new or untried maps for our league. We hope during this tournament not to crash into any icebergs or navigate through a rough sea of bugs, bad design and unexciting gameplay. Rather we hope to give everyone a chance to test out 3 potentially superbly exciting, unique maps and give us feedback – you can give us feedback in our Idea Box forum. All information regarding this tournament can be found on its hub page.

Signups are now closed!

BRACKETS

Brackets will be linked as soon as they are available

CUP FORMAT AND SCHEDULE

The the cup will be held on Thursday, September 27th, starting at 20.00 CEST. All teams will be divided into bracktes of 16 teams. You can sign up with both, Highlander and Fun teams. The signups are open and will close on September 26 at 21 CEST. The cup will be single elimination with all matches up to the final played on the same night. The finals are to be played before Sunday, October 7th

• 20:00 CEST – Round of 16 Starts – ctf_haunt_a1
• 21:00 CEST – Round of 8 Starts – cp_gorge
• 22:00 CEST – Round of 4 Starts – pl_swiftwater_ugc
• Finals – To be scheduled by the teams and played until Sunday, October 7 – Best of three, maps are picked with the ETF2L map pick system [Explanation]

MAP RULES

Payload and CP Maps

• Bo3 – All matches will be a Bo3 of AB rounds
• Screenshots of each AB rotation are required
• To enter the score, each AB rotation counts as a map. Therefore if you won 2 – 0, enter the score as 2-0 for 2 maps (both pl_swiftwater or cp_gorge). If you won 2 – 1, enter the scores as 2 – 1 for both, and tick the golden cap box

CTF Maps

• Matches will be played as first to 7 (Bo13) and with timelimit 20
• In the event of a draw play a Bo1 GC round with timelimit 10

Make sure to let admins know if your match is running more than 5 minutes late! If you are 10 minutes late then set mp_timelimit to 15 minutes, and so on. This is to keep the next round on time.

UNLOCK RULES

As well as the unlocks previously allowed in S2, we are allowing all of these newer items. Provide feedback on these items here

The updated whitelist can be found here

Scout

• Baby Face’s Blaster – [Link]
• Pretty Boy’s Pocket Pistol – [Link]
• Flying Guillotine – [Link]

Soldier

• Beggar’s Bazooka – [Link]

Pyro

• Rainblower – [Link]
• Scorch Shot – [Link]
• Lollichop – [Link]
• Neon Annihilator – [Link]

Heavy

• Huo-Long Heater – [Link]

Sniper

• Hitman’s Heatmaker – [Link]
• Cleaner’s Carbine – [Link]

Spy

• Red-Tape Recorder – [Link]

Special Rules

For this cup more mercs than in the league are allowed. Instead of the usual 1 merc being allowed, and 2 if the opponents agree, 2 mercs are allowed by default and 3 if the opponents agree!

For everything else, standard ETF2L 9v9 rules apply.

For the neverending fight for the middle point it is crucial for a Demoman to be there first. Preferably even before the enemy Demoman!

So to all the newcomers, and even the veteran Demomen, here you might learn a thing or two about how to decide that little fight at the beginning of each round for you!

Our dear  huhy has made a video explaining the demoman rollouts on all maps relevant to Season 13! With that, you might be the one being that deciding few seconds faster!