Season 11

Signups are open! for our 11th glorious season of 6v6!

Teams signing up should specify which division they would prefer to be placed in using the handy dropdown menu (now with added “prem”).

Teams requesting any division higher than 6 should be prepared to provide evidence to support their ability, whether it’s a long-standing pedigree or a boatful of screenshots from recent results. Such boats should be uploaded to one place like imgur, and the link should be sent in an email to [email protected], along with details of who you are and what division you are requesting.

Map Poll

Yesterday we opened the map vote for Season 11. The feedback we received had many cries for turbine and viaduct to have been in the poll, so after receiving 1,024 votes we have closed the poll and had a discussion. The following poll is the result. We have eliminated the bottom 3 maps from the previous poll (Obscure_final, Croissant and Bazillion) and replaced them with koth_pro_viaduct_rc3 and ctf_turbine_pro_rc1. Like last time, please vote for the maps you would like to see in Season 11.

Please note: Voters do not need to pick 6 maps, 6 is just the maximum. If for example you only want to vote for 4 maps, pick those 4 and submit your vote. The final map pool will, however, contain 6 maps.

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Turbine_pro rules proposal:

“ESL rules” – Best of 3 rounds, timelimit 10, capturelimit 5. Rounds ending without a clear winner are ignored.

Pro_viaduct rules proposal:

Best of 5 (winlimit 3), timelimit 0.

Schedule

• Map pool finalised: Thursday (at the latest)
• Signups open: Now!
• Signups close: Sunday, January 15 (Waiting list will still be open for signups)
• Provisional Divisions out: Next week
• Week 1 start: January 22nd

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

Rule Changes

We’re working on a number of minor improvements to our league rules. These will be explained in detail in a separate post to come soon.

Highlander Tiebreakers

Our first Highlander Season has finished, which brings us to the tiebreaker games. Teams that are tied on points for first place need to play a best-of-three maps match to determine who is to be promoted from their respective divisions. Maps should be chosen from the Season 1 Map Pool.

The following Highlander matches must be played in the next 2 weeks:

• Division 4F
  • Guru training with Yoda vs Man1a Crew
• Division 5C
  • Kazminators vs Manchester United
• Division 5E
  • Furious Wookiez vs Spice Marines Extreme Culinary Squad
• Division 6B
  • The Magnificent Nine vs Freefrag Frag Bag
• Division 6D
  • FREE 2 GAY vs Vanilla Existence
• Division 6E
  • Foust team vs Orbit Fruittini

Season 10! 2: Season 11

After the resounding success of Season 10!, we are delighted to announce a sequel, originally titled Season 11!

The Season 11 format will probably be a lot like that of Season 10!. We will of course announce any changes for the new season as soon as we decide what they may be. For the moment, we’d like to hear what you think the map pool should be.

Presenting: The Season 11 Map Pool Poll!

Please note: Voters do not need to pick 6 maps, 6 is just the maximum. If for example you only want 4 maps, pick those 4 and submit your vote.

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Poll closed for now, stay tuned!

Season 10! Awards!

The deadline has now passed, the polls are closed. The winners of the remaining awards are:

• Demoman of the Season: numlocked
• Upcoming Talent of the Season:  wwww
• Fairplay Award:  Team Infused

Wireplay!

Just in case that wasn’t enough TF2 for you, our friends at Wireplay are announcing their own Season 10! You can find more information on their medlocks and mapvotes here.

Another Highlander Reminder

The deadline for all Highlander Season 1 matches is tonight! Tomorrow, all unplayed matches will be closed and neither team involved will receive points. Any necessary tiebreaker matches will also be announced tomorrow.

Foundry Cup Wrap-up

Last night we held what seems to have been the largest one-night competition in TF2 history! 80 teams were placed into brackets of 16 and gave Valve’s latest map a thorough workout. Winning was not the main objective, but since we all love a shiny trophy, here is the list of winners:

• Highest Bracket:
  • Team YoYoTech
  • Karnage eSports
  • elemental violence
  • ISIS
• High Bracket:
  • Team Useless
  • dashfire
  • SexyGamers
  • no name yet
• Low Bracket:
  • Team iLuminate
  • nervousENERGY Green
  • G7 eSports
  • Team Colonslash: Reditio
• Lowest Bracket:
  • Young Men
  • Zaparit
  • Extreme Tambourine Players
  • Deadly touch

The Mid bracket suffered a few delays which resulted in the final and one semi-final not being played. We have allowed the teams involved to find some time in the very near future to play their matches and conclude what was overall a great event.

Some Season 10! Awards

After 5 days and around 800 votes each, we are ready to announce winners for most of the Season 10! Awards. Some of the polls are still close – we will keep those polls open until Sunday. The following winners received over 50% of the votes, so we are happy to declare them early:

• Scout of the Season: Schocky
• Soldier of the Season: Mike
• Medic of the Season: F2
• Off-classer of the Season: wltrs
• MVP of the Season: Schocky
• Best Premier Division Debut of the Season: quad
• Most Surprisingly Good Team of the Season: Crack Clan

The rest of the polls are still very close! Make sure you had your say!

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Excello are happy to announce their fifth sponsored Team Fortress 2 tournament. The upcoming tournament is sponsored by the graphics chip manufacturer SPARKLE and the winner of the invitational tournament will receive six SPARKLE GTS 450 1024MB 128bit DDR5 One Slot graphics cards.

The signups for the open tournament, held on Monday, January 9, are open from now on until the check-in starts. The maximum slots are 64. If it becomes conceivable that there will not be significantly more than 32 signups, the slots will be reduced to 32. Keeping 64 slots means the first round starts with the recently added official new 5cp map cp_foundry. Reducing the slots to 32 means the first round will start with cp_granary, the second features cp_badlands and so on.

The list of the invited teams for the invitational bracket that will be played on Monday, January 16 is:

• 1 Epsilon eSports
• 2 Infused.Tt eSports
• 3 Crack Clan
• 4 Relic
• 5 CKRAS Gaming
• 6 broder
• 7 Team Yoyotech
• 8 Exotic

For any questions or remarks feel free to contact CanFo, Crasp, huhy or SonnyBlack on #excello.tf2 / quakenet or leave a comment on this post.

For more information please see the original newspost at excello.net or head over to VanillaTF2.org.

Reminders

• Bear in mind that all matches from the highlander season 1 have to be played until Sunday, January 8 (January 9 for US divisions)
• Remember to give your vote for the 6v6 Season 10! awards
• Sign up for the foundry one-night-cup on Thursday, January 5

Happy New Year!

A year ends and another begins! Last year TF2 allegedly died at least once – all we know is, we’re the biggest TF2 league in the world and all we did last year was get bigger. Happy New Year from everyone here at ETF2L, may 2012 be a good one for all of you!

Foundry Cup!

As most readers will probably know by now, cp_foundry is the latest map created by Valve for TF2. Some good things have been said of it, as well as more than a few requests to add it to next season’s map pool. Before we do that, we’d like to give it a proper test, in the form of a one-night cup! As usual, it’s open to 6v6 teams, however it is also possible to enter this cup using a Fun Team, which can be setup using this page. The draw for the cup will be held at 19:00 CET on Thursday, January 5th, with the cup itself starting at 20:00 CET.

• Setup – Cups of 16, divided by skill levels
• Merc rules – 2 mercs allowed by default
• Bracket draw – Thursday, January 5th at 19:00 CET in #etf2l (irc.quakenet.org)
• Map – cp_foundry
• Feedback Thread – Here
• Sign-ups open – Now

Highlander Deadline Reminder: The Deadline for all Highlander Season 1 matches is this Sunday, January 8th. Please make sure you have played all of your Highlander League matches by then, otherwise we will have to enter a null result.

Season 10! Awards!

Our first (but less important) order of business for 2012 is to conclude our fabulous Season 10! with the good old awards polls!

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