In an amazing Grand Final on December 15th, we saw  Epsilon eSports winning the ETF2L Premiership and bringing a spectacular close to the 10th ETF2L season. Securing the still prestigious 2nd and 3rd place, are newcomers to premiership,  Infused.Tt and  Crack Clan. Our congratulations to them, and all other season 10 winners. The season has been added to the Hall of Fame and all the precious pixel trophies have been handed out. Please make sure your team has the relevant trophy and take good care of it. If you feel there has been a mistake please contact an admin in IRC.

Road to Victory

• Maps Won: 14, Golden Caps Won: 1, Golden Caps Lost: 1, Maps Lost: 3.
• vs.  Team Dignitas – Badlands and Gullywash – 6:0
• vs.  CKRAS – Gravelpit and Gullywash – 3:3
• vs.  Infused.Tt – Gravelpit and Granary – 2:4
• vs.  Crack Clan – Granary and Obscure – 3:3
  
• vs.  Relic  – Badlands and Snakewater – 6:0
• vs.  equilibrium – Gullywash and Snakewater – 6:0
• Quarterfinal: vs.  Relic – Badlands and Granary – 6:0
• Semi-Final: vs.  Crack Clan – Badlands and Granary – 6:0
• Grand Final: vs.  Infused.Tt – Badlands, Snakewater and Gullywash – 7:2

Season 10 Award nominations

A step back can be a step forth! We return to the old-fashioned nomination system where every player can nominate his favourites in our nominations forum for the award polls which will start on January 1. The nominations will close on December 31 so make sure to nominate someone before celebrating New Year’s Eve.

The awards you can nominate for are listed below.

• Scout of the Season
• Soldier of the Season
• Demoman of the Season
• Medic of the Season
• Off-classer of the Season
• Most Valuable Player of the Season
• Best Premiership Debut of the Season
• Upcoming Talent of the Season
• Surprisingly Good Team of the Season
• Fairplay Award
• Frag Clip of the Season (Please only submit your own clip and only once!)

Full List of Season 10! Winners

ETF2L Season 10(!) with 360 signups and only 78 drops came to an satisfying end. The drop rate was about 21.67% which is the lowest since Season 7. (Disclaimer: These numbers to not take replaced teams into account). As foreseen by head admin  Crasp, this one was definitely one of the top 10 seasons ETF2L ever ran – if not the most competitive at least. Check out the full list of all division winners below.

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Season 10 Final!

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Config

There have been a few updates to our config. Download it here.

Changes:

• Disallowed using TF2’s server voting system
• Allowed a broader range of interpolation ratios (from 0 to 5)
• Allowed a broader range of rate values (from 30000 to 100000)
• Shortened player timeouts to avoid issues where players can’t rejoin
• Smaller cap on future ticks a player is allowed to send prematurely

Staff updates!

Four new fine gentlemen have been added to our staff. You may have seen them around already as they have been on trial for a while. We welcome  Forsak3n,  Aez,  Oxy and  Sonny Black and wish them much joy and happiness helping us do our admin duties.

With great sadness in our hearts, we bid farewell to  SnowiE and  AnroliF. Thank you both for all the hard work and we wish you all the best in whatever the future may bring you.

Rules

We would like to remind everyone of the merc rule as found in the Highlander Season 1 Rules. For your convenience, said rule is included below:

1.4 One merc allowed by default and up to 3 mercs if the opponent agrees

One mercenary is allowed by default and up to 3 mercenaries are allowed if the opposing team agrees. In order for your merc to be allowed by default, he cannot be more experienced than your team overall, and have no higher equivalent 6v6 experience (season 6 and earlier excluded). Experience in other leagues is included. Opponents can allow exceptions. For other mercs you will need specific approval from the opponent.
Please use the match page to present mercs and ask for allowance. Even the default merc should be presented, so that your opponents can make sure he is not too experienced. If you wish to contest the default allowance of a merc, please contact an admin (support page), so that he may decide whether or not the merc is too experienced.

All mercs have to be registered on etf2l. Teams caught using an unregistered merc, or a merc without their opponent’s permission, will receive a warning and possibly a default loss.

Additionally, we have found a worrying number of matches that are lacking status screenshots. A correct status screenshot is made by typing status in console and taking a screenshot of the output, which should contain the SteamID’s of all the players on the server. You are required to make one at least, and any additional ones for any player changes that may occur during the match or between maps.

These screenshots are used by ETF2L to determine who played in your match and to verify that the players used are actually in your team. Upon uploading status screenshots, our screenshot parser attempts to pull out the SteamID’s using a little OCR script – this script cannot do its job if your screenshot is of poor quality. You can increase screenshot quality by setting jpeg_quality to a value above 80 in your client config.