Just a quick heads up to tell you all about our friends across the pond at eXtv are trying to bring 2 top class North American sides over to this summer’s highly anticipated Multiplay insomnia-46 LAN event. The top 4 teams from the continent have announced their intentions to attend the event, meaning that the winners of an eXtv arranged tournament will be sponsored to fly to LAN and settle the age old argument of “America versus Europe”.

The awesome people at eXtv have set up a donation drive, the link you can find HERE or chip in right below. If you have any spare change please chip in towards the cause and help make i46 the most spectacular LAN in TF2 so far!

Highlander Nations Cup Signups

Signups for the Highlander Nations Cup are now open! Please ensure you have the minimum of 12 required players registered on your team before signing up for the cup! The deadline for signups is June 27 and the first week will start on July 1. More information on the schedule will follow soon / later.

>>Signup here<<

Free Mumble Server

The kind folks over at Multiplay have given us a 1000 slot mumble server to use as the official ETF2L mumble server a while ago. We now decided to put it to good use. All players registered at ETF2L are welcome! The details for the mumble server are as follows

• IP Address – 85.236.100.59
• Port Number – 6687

There are no requirements for your own channel other than not to use racist or offensive channel names, descriptions or nick names. To request your very own channel please contact an admin on IRC (or message LManiac or CanFo directly).

Epsilon’s next matches

There are quite a lot of promising high level TF2 matches coming up next week, most of them featuring Epsilon eSports and many featuring  Team Infused. Do not miss them out and check out the broadcasting info on the VanillaTV homepage.

• June 19, 21:10 CEST:  Epsilon eSports vs.  TCM Gaming
• June 19, 21:15 CEST:  Punchline vs.  Team Decerto
• June 20, 20:00 CEST:  Epsilon eSports vs.  Team Infused
• June 20, 21:15 CEST:  Epsilon eSports vs.  Team Infused
• June 21, 21:15 CEST:  Epsilon eSports vs.  Team Infused
• June 24, 21:10 CEST:  Epsilon eSports vs. Team Infused

Also remember to play all of your remaining matches until Sunday, June 24!

6v6 Nations Cup: More Captains

We received some more applications for the following countries. The assigned captains has been given access to our team captains forum to discuss the settings for the upcoming Nations Cup. The whole list of captains can be viewed here. If your country is not on the list it means we received no applications and the spot is still vacant. The next applicant for a vacant captaincy spot will become captain.

• Norway – drleånn
• Ireland – Admirable
• Scotland – Fragm3nt3d
• Belgium – Genmix
• USA – harbleu
• France – KnoxXx
• Latvia – AnimaL
• Turkey – fle.

Additionally, the current captain for  Slovenia,  DruzeKus, withdrew his application to make way for Datenshi.

Season 12 powered by Tt eSPORTS Reminders

Like every season the rosters are locked from the last official playweek of the season until the last playoff is played. You can not add players to your rosters anymore, any merc will need approval from your opponent.

This should not come as a surprise either but right after the catch up week, starting on Sunday, June 24, the tiebreakers and premiership playoffs will have to be scheduled and played. All Season 12 matches that are still unplayed at that point will be nullified. We were asking for feedback for a revision of the current playoff system but did not receive any feedback so far. If it stays this way, the first premiership playoff match will have to be played until June 30 and no extension will be given because of the following Nations Cup.

UPDATE: The catch up week is extended by one day, until Sunday, June 24. All other deadlines remain the same.

Also be reminded that using wildcards is not allowed from now on. In case your opponents uses a wildcard please contact an admin to restore the original schedule. Every match without a schedule will get a default date for no later than the last official day of Season 12 (which is Saturday, June 16) so if you want to make use of the catch up week please schedule the match(es) yourselves.

Experimental HL Cup #2 Brackets

The brackets can be found here

A quick reminder of the schedule…

• 19:00 CEST – Signups close & teams split into brackets.
• 19:30 CEST  – Draw will be made and the matches posted.
• 20:00 CEST  – Round 1 begins, on koth_ashville_rc1
• 20:45 CEST  – Round 2 begins, on pl_waste_v2
• 21:30 CEST  – Round 3 begins, on ctf_converge_b3

The rules can be found here.

Please ensure that you are on time to every match and start promptly so that there are no delays. If a team doesn’t show after 15 minutes, or doesn’t have at least 8 players, request an admin in IRC to claim a default win.

Highlander Nations Cup Milestone

As the Highlander Nations Cup approaches we are going to be enforcing a milestone on June 17th. By this point all teams registered in the cup should have at least 12 verified players. The captain of any team that doesn’t have at least 12 players will be contacted by an admin to explain why. If a team leader hasn’t been putting in the effort to fill a roster then they will be replaced with another candidate. If a team can’t fill a roster due to lack of player interest, the country will be dropped from the cup! Therefore, please ensure that you have at least 12 players registered in the team by June 17th!

6v6 Nations Cup Captains

You had time until Saturday to send in your applications, we now picked a first round of captains. If your country is not in the list, it means that nobody applied to be captain for your nation and the spot is still vacant. The next round of captains will be announced next Sunday (June 10) which means the application should be in our mailbox at [email protected] by June 9 at the latest.

In case a National Team already exists for your country you may request leadership by contacting an admin. The following players have now access to the team captains forum to work out the schedule and rules together with the admins.

• Germany – Thy
• England – numlocked
• Winland – hocz
• Sweden – Zebbosai
• Lithuania – huhy
• Russia – Galant
• Egypt – WildEast
• Czech Republic – Rok0s
• Israel – matnuN
• Hungary – Luigi
• Luxembourg – Netsky
• Bulgaria – Hohen
• Portugal – t0dA
• Canada – spadez
• Slovenia – DruzeKus
• Denmark – F2
• Estonia – M2R
• Poland – Aez
• Romania – punct
• Spain – Erner0

Reminders

As you can see on our calendar, week 6 of our 12th 6v6 Season, powered by Tt eSPORTS, has begun. This season we are reminding you extra-early that there will be a catch-up week from June 17 to June 23. All unplayed matches will be set to 0-0 on June 24, with no exceptions. If you want to make use of the catch-up week you should contact an admin.

The premiership playoffs will start immediately after the catch-up week. We invite everyone, especially the high level players and casters/streamers, to discuss changes to the playoff format. You can find the thread here.

Our next standard reminder at the end of every season is that you are not allowed to use wildcards during the last week of the season. This means that you are not allowed to use wildcards after June 9. and have to contact an admin if your opponent used a wildcard anyway. The admin will then restore the old schedule.