UPDATE: Matches finished. Congratulations to Call of Duty Gamers UK for winning and Cardinals for coming 2nd.

6 matches are left in the tournament, all of them to be played 1 after the other tonight! The schedule is as follows:

• 19.00 CEST: Call of Duty Gamers UK 2-0 ql?
• 19:30: M&M 0-2 bunchiez
• 20:00: Cardinals 2-0 Dark Angels (default win)
• 20:30: virile unhumen 0-2 CoDUK
• 21:00: Cardinals 2-0 bunchiez
• 21:30: CoDUK 2-0 Cardinals

The SourceTV, courtesy of VanillaTV, is connect relay.vanillatv.org:27100 or relay.vanillatv.org:27101. Build-up to the finals is here, good luck to all teams!

ETF2L Summer Seasons Awards!

After a week of voting the time has come to announce the winners of the Summer Seasons Awards. A big thanks to everyone who voted and our congratulations to the winners!

• Medic of the Season:  Mirelin (Team Thermaltake, 33% votes)
• Demoman of the Season:  Kaidus (Team Thermaltake, 28,8% votes)
• Soldier of the Season:  Exfane (Team Thermaltake – 31% votes)
• Scout of the Season:  .Stefan ( ButtonBashers / Epsilon – 37% votes)
• Sniper of the Season:  Cookye (SG-1 / Team Dignitas – 31% votes)
• Upcoming Talent of the Season:  TheSucker (Team Yoyotech – 46% votes)
• Frag clip of The Season:  Taimou (2stroNg, 45% votes)
• Special Recognition Award: Torden (Creating / running vanillaTF2, 48% votes)

• Fairplay Award:  Team Thermaltake (37% votes)
• Most Surprisingly Good team: Team yoyotech (43% votes)
• People’s Choice Award:  VanillaTF2 (Providing epic TF2 coverage, 43% votes)

You can have a look at the full Award History and medal count of all seasons here!

ETF2L Season 10 Map Pool Vote

With season 10 approaching quickly, it is time for you to let your opinion be heard. And we are very curious how your Season 10 map pool would look. In the poll below you will be able to create your Season 10 Map Pool with the 6 maps you would like to see.  If there is a map that you are not familiar with yet,  be sure to give it a try with your clan or on tf2lobby, or check out the forum-thread for the map. We will use your opinions to decide on the maps that will be in Season 10, so be sure to make your opinion known!

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Summer Season Awards

You’ve waited long enough, the time has finally come for you to cast your votes on your favourite players and teams in the ETF2L Summer Seasons Awards. The nominations were made by a jury of selected respected European TF2 personalities, including the likes of  Torden,  Arie and  Byte. They were allowed to nominate players and teams that played in a league or cup during the summer/spring seasons.

The voting system has been updated a bit, meaning that from now on, you will not be able to see the results immediately, and possible answers will be ordered randomly. The poll results will be announced on Sunday the 21st 21:00 CEST, the team winning the fairplay award will receive a set of signed Valve posters!

Be sure cast your vote quickly, because in a few days you will get to vote on maps!

Dignitas Alienware Cup

But before you go on to vote, we would like to draw your attention to the Team Dignitas Alienware Cup #11 featuring our favourite game, Team Fortress 2. It has 64 slots and is a one-day-cup, starting at 19.00 CEST on Sunday, 21st August. To sign up leave a comment under the newspost at the Team Dignitas homepage. You are expected to idle at #dignitas.cup before the tournament to check in. In case you have any questions, ask dignitas/Sui on QuakeNet. The top four teams will receive a cash prize!

 >>> Vote On The Summer Awards! <<<

UPDATE: Brackets are up here

Following on from the poll, the latest edition of the ultiduo cup will be on Monday 15th August. Signups will close at 16 CEST, when check-in will begin. Check-in finishes at 19 CEST, after which brackets will be made and drawn live in #etf2l at approximately 19:30 CEST. Matches are then played between 20 and 22:40 CEST.

Also, following on from the latest TF2 updates we have decided to allow the original. Considering how little difference it is likely to make, we’d like to at least give those who have it a chance to use it.

A second note is that signups have dipped a little. While at the moment they are at 87 and could rise, it is very possible that after check-in there will be around 64 teams. If there is less than 64 then, of course, there will be 1 less round played on Monday. If there is any more, there will be a first round match for a few teams while a lot of teams will already be in round 2. If this happens, we encourage teams to play their round 2 games as early as possible.

Servers will still be available to use, but if you can get a server for yourselves rather than use an ETF2L one it would be much easier.

All other information is in the previous post here.

Ultiduo Cup #2  reschedule

Having been made aware that a few teams would be unable to play on Sunday the 14th, and also because some people would prefer spectating the Bigfoot TF2 Challenge II Invite and play the 2nd ETF2L Ultiduo Cup at a later date, we are offering the opportunity to play on a few different dates. Tick all days that you are able to play. If you are not going to play the cup, please do not vote, as it makes it harder for us to estimate numbers and how many sign-ups we would really get. If you want to play and can play all 3 days, you are able to tick all 3 boxes.

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The poll will end on Thursday at 00:00 CEST. Shortly afterwards, we will announce the date (probably the winning option unless there is a good reason to make an exception), with a few cup updates.

Staff Updates

Progress towards getting the ETF2L awards ready has been a little slow. But we’ve received the nominations from our panel and made some improvements to the polls. So we can assure you that they are to be ready soon!

Spike Himself has chosen to resign from the admin team due to inactivity. We appreciate all the work you have done for us and wish you the best in the future.

As announced earlier in the forums, we are looking to restructure the AC section with some updated and requested guidelines and procedures. This means we say our thanks to  konr,  Gubbins and basH. Much of their work as anti-cheat admins was invaluable, for which we are eternally grateful.

All the above means we are looking for people willing to put their time and effort into ETF2L, and strengthen the staff of volunteers. We will work through some earlier applications first, realising there are some great applications still unanswered. But if you’d like to help out, don’t hesitate to send an email to [email protected], telling us a little about yourself and any relevant experience, as well as why you want to be an admin. News writers and site coders (PHP) are especially welcome.

We realise we aren’t always quick with handling applications, but we will be trying to reply to every application in some way from now on.

Cup Updates

Albert is on vacation for a month or so. This does, however, not mean that his weekly #tf2cups are suspended! #tfcup #6 will be run by his fellow Dutchman Martn on Tuesday, 9th August, starting at 20.00 CEST.
To sign up, leave a comment here or contact Martn on IRC. You can find him in #tf2cup on QuakeNet. For both options you need a representative on IRC.