Afternoon all.

The following players are now banned:

• eLm0re – Wallhack – 1 year ban
•  eLmore – Alt account of eLm0re – 1 year ban
•  eLmore – Alt account of eLm0re – 1 year ban

That’s all for now!

With many matches still unplayed, we decided to give all teams one catch-up week to finish their remaining matches. The final deadline for Season 10 is now Saturday, 19th November. All matches need to be played and submitted by then or the result will not count and both teams will get a minor warning for an unplayed match after the match deadline. The Season 10 playoff matches will be generated shortly after the catch-up week ends.

• Season 10 deadline for all season matches is the 19th November
• It is the responsibility of the teams to schedule their remaining matches with their opponent
• We will not set default dates for the catchup week, if your opponent is dropped or you have any other issues, please contact an admin
• Gravelpit and Obscure can be switched out for different maps if both teams agree

Also remember that wildcards used in week 7 are not valid and should be ignored as they would push matches past the season deadline. Please contact an admin if your opponent used a wildcard.

Season 10 Roster Locks

We would like to remind all teams of the roster lock rule:

1.7 Teams are not allowed to use new players from week 7 and onward

Teams may not add new players to their roster during week 7 and following playoffs. Teams may use new players in that time, however only if their opponent agrees.

This means all players that have been added after this post are considered mercs and need approval by the other team. Teams caught using new players without approval from the opponent will face a default loss.

Premiership and Division 1 Playoffs

The Premiership playoffs will follow the trusted format of last seasons. The teams who finished in the top 4 will battle it out to decide who will take home glorious pixel and hardware prizes, but most of all eternal fame.  Starting off, the 4th placed team will play the 3rd placed team. The winner of that match will then have to play the 2nd placed team to decide who enters the grand final against the 1st placed team, and who goes home with the 3rd place prize.

The winners of Division 1A and Division 1B will face off for eternal fame, and mousepads. The winner will promote to Premiership, while the losing team will get a promotion match versus the 7th placed team in Premiership. The Division 1 teams that achieved the admirable feat of reaching 2nd place, will play each-other for a shot at premiership promotion, the winner will have to face the 6th placed Premiership team to decide on both their futures.

We are still fine-tuning the other promotions and relegations to make sure they tie in well with Season 11 and divisions of 8, stay tuned!

With over 300 signups and a very diverse audience, the divisions of the first ETF2L Highlander season are now complete, go have a look!

>> Highlander Divisions <<

Teams are seeded across 6 different skill levels, with division 1 being the strongest and most prestigious, and division 6 having the most awesome people. Different regions have been grouped into sub-divisions where possible. If you were too late signing up, or if your team had too few players (less than 10), you can join the waiting list and be placed into the season when another team drops. If you have any questions or requests regarding your division placement, please contact an admin (support page).

Important Highlander Updates

Each week, you will face a different opponent from your division. Week 1 starts Sunday the 13th and will run to Saturday the 19th. You will have to get your match scheduled by the Thursday before the week starts (more info). For example, week 1 starts on Sunday the 13th, so you need to have your week 1 match scheduled by Thursday the 10th at the latest. All further dates can be found in the Calendar. If neither team has a server for your match, ETF2L can provide one for you. Our servers are located in Amsterdam and Germany, kindly provided by Multiplay.

To promote and facilitate highlander practice, we have decided to re-open the ETF2L Highlander Ladder. The map pool includes all of the league maps and some popular highlander and 6v6 maps. All teams are welcome and invited to participate and test the ETF2L ladders. For finding other regular training matches we recommend checking out this thread.

Unfortunately, all popular attack/defense maps still suffer from a bug with the round timer. With no indication that the bugs will be fixed, and Steel being quite vulnerable to the bug, we decided to replace Steel with Gullywash. If the overtime bug happens on Gravelpit (i.e. the round ends after capping in overtime) the full round will have to be replayed. However, teams can agree to replace Gravel Pit with another map, if they don’t want to risk the bug happening. More specific info on this will come at a later date. On Gullywash, make sure to remind the server admin to turn off the item whitelist by using the following command:

rcon mp_tournament_whitelist “”;mp_tournament_restart

Some other important reminders:

Sign up for the ESH Sapphire challenge

Esportsheaven has announced a new 6v6 cup with £500  in cash prizes. The first round is next Tuesday and it definitely needs more teams representing competitive TF2. So if you want to play some exciting games and help the future of competitive TF2, then be sure to have a look and sign up.

Just a quick note to say that we have shipped an update to the configs to fix a bug that was present in the new version. This bug should not have affected many people, only people who tried to play payload and then play 6v6/koth afterwards without restarting the server inbetween. You can find the configs on the rules page. If you installed the config pack, you’ll only need to replace the ETF2L config file. Our apologies for the inconvenience.

The amazing I-series admin,  Tapley, would like to let you all know that with little under a month to go, he and ETF2L sponsor Multiplay bring you another Insomnia LAN tournament hot off the heels of i43. Be sure to read this post for the latest information he has to share:

Now you may feel that the winter events are always a bit quiet, which is true but a lot of people have already signed up and multiplay again have stumped up the cash for TF2!! At least £1000 to be won regardless of how many teams sign up, and if 24 teams make it then it’ll increase to £2500! Please join us again in Telford for another awesome event and help support Tf2… Those drinking steps must be reclaimed :]]].

Again I’ve created lots of threads to help everyone out please post up!

• Official Chat / Questions Thread.
• The Accomodation Thread – With hotels as close as 1 minutes walk away why not! Camping is still available and free however (bring extra socks)
• Equipment Share Thread – Got some spare equipment that could help people out?
•  Tr(l)ansport Thread, Need a lift or can give a lift? Please help out your tf2 brothers and sisters, payment can be made in beer,money or your body.
• Automatic Mix Team Thread – Just wanna play tf2 and don’t care who you play with? Sign up!
• Official Mix Mercs Thread  – Post here if you want a team or need players for your team.
• Co-Admin Search! – Thats right I’m ucky for a very lucky person to help me admin i44 and possibly the future, more info within.
• I44 Online Tournament – Want free tickets to LAN? We’re running a upper and lower tournament again with 2 teams worth of tickets to be won again. Rules + Maps TBC soon!

We all know how much fun LAN is :D If you can make it get those tickets! Any help needed please post up in one of the relevant threads <3.