Despite some slight technical hitches and delays, we managed to hold our first ever experimental one-night cup for Highlander! We saw plenty of really close and superb matches on some unorthodox maps, which will hopefully translate into some constructive feedback for their creators. With 42 signups, we divided the teams into three brackets – Low, Mid and High – with Low and Mid having 16 teams each and High having 10 teams with 6 teams receiving byes for the first round.

The results of the first 3 rounds have left us with the following matchups:

High Bracket

SNSD v  Colony

Mid Bracket

  GFM Highlander team v  Free Fire

Low Bracket

  Gibs \’R\ Us’ v  The Low-Fi High-Five Team

Congratulations to those teams and thank you for everyone who took part tonight, please remember to give your feedback in this thread.

The maps for the Final are currently – cp_upland_rc2, cp_foundry and ctf_turbine_pro_rc1 as the decider map. The final will be played in a best of 3 maps format.

Due to the amount of default wins on pl_barnblitz, we will give teams the option to replace either cp_upland or cp_foundry with pl_barnblitz for the final providing both teams agree to swap one of these maps. The decider map (if required) will be ctf_turbine_pro_rc1. Please make sure you make a note of the maps you have decided  to play on the match page. Teams will have until Sunday 19th February to play their matches.

Season 11 Playoffs

Playoffs will be held between March 18th and March 31st. Write it down, cancel all other engagements, consider yourselves notified.

Premier Division Playoffs

• 4th vs 3rd: March 18th – March 24th
• Winner vs 2nd: March 25th – March 31st or sooner
• Winner vs 1st: April 1st – April 7th or sooner

Yet More Bans

The following players have been banned:

• Fix – Wallhack; Triggerbot – 1 year ban
• HaKo – Aimbot; nospread – 1 year ban
• Ghost7 – alt account of HaKo – 1 year ban

Just a quick message out there to any teams thinking of signing up for the Experimental Highlander cup #1 that the signups will officially close at 18.00 CET tomorrow (Thursday 9th February). If you still haven’t signed up you can do so HERE, we are about 2 signups short of having an ideal number for the cup, which means there may well be some byes for  some teams for the first round on the map pl_barnblitz.

With Highlander Season 1 champions  SNSD plus other Division 1 teams like  Colony and  turbopoop eSports, this will be a great chance to showcase yourself against some of the best Highlander teams around. Remember to download cp_upland before the cup starts. The bracket draw will commence at approximately 19.00 CET on irc, join Quakenet @ #etf2l – please ensure you have at least one representative from your team on #etf2l during the cup.

Snakewater

Gullywash

Season 11 Playoffs

Playoffs will be held between March 18th and March 31st. Write it down, cancel all other engagements, consider yourselves notified.

Premier Division Playoffs

• 4th vs 3rd: March 18th – March 24th
• Winner vs 2nd: March 25th – March 31st or sooner
• Winner vs 1st: April 1st – April 7th or sooner

The Konkreet Cup ran mostly without problems yesterday so thanks to all participants. If you have not already, make sure to give feedback on the map here. Our congratulations go to the winners and runners up:

High Bracket
 Trying to get good
clanda
Forced Anal Penetration
 Minimoosegamer.eu

Low Bracket
Everyone Wants a Piece of Muffin
Five ants are more than four elephants!
Greatest gamers
Spade

Ban

Unfortunately, not everything went smoothly. Someone found it necessary to disturb a running official match. The following player is now banned from all ETF2L matches until the end of season 11:

• Rad – Interfering with a match – 3 month ban

Season 11 Playoffs

Playoffs will be held between March 18th and March 31st. Write it down, cancel all other engagements, consider yourselves notified.

Premier Division Playoffs

• 4th vs 3rd: March 18th – March 24th
• Winner vs 2nd: March 25th – March 31st or sooner
• Winner vs 1st: April 1st – April 7th or sooner

Highlander

Signups are still open for the Experimental Highlander Cup #1. If you’re looking for a fun Thursday night and would like to contribute to the Season 2 map selection process, this is the place to be!

That’s all for now.

It’s cup time again! Tonight at 20:00 CET we will be giving people the chance to try another upcoming map. All rounds will be played on cp_konkreet, a map created by  Mark. Similar to the croissant cup, it is also possible to enter this cup using a Fun Team which can be setup in the normal way using the page found here.

Konkreet can be downloaded here.

• Setup – Cups of 16, divided by skill levels
• Merc rules – 2 mercs allowed by default
• Brackets – High Low
• Map – cp_konkreet_b2