June 21, 2011 We’ve had a fair amount of forum bans in the past few days, so much so that we feel balance is required. Without further ado, let’s have some league bans!
Danny – Wallhack + Triggerbot – 1 year banThat’s all for now.
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June 12, 2011 While cleaning out the ETF2L broom cupboard, we came across 3 sets of TF2 posters given to us by Valve, to use as extra special prizes for Season 8. Unfortunately that season is archived, so we’ll just have to give them away as extra special prizes for Season 9 instead!
One set of posters will be given to the winner of the Fairplay Award, and one to the winner of a Division 2 playoff. We haven’t yet decided on how to award the third set, perhaps a thumb-wrestling tournament at i43? Suggestions welcome in the comments.
We are now one week into the playoff phase of the season, and at the time of writing 0 of 11 matches have been played. One has been conceded, so let’s call it 0 of 10. This vexes me. It will likely take 4 weeks (since the end of the catch-up week) to properly finish Season 9, playing around 15 playoffs. That equates to adding 40% of time to the season to play an extra 1% of games. The playoffs are there to provide teams with a “winner takes all” game, to play for pride, promotion and in some cases prizes, plus they give us valuable information for seeding teams next season. It seems like this description becomes less accurate year upon year, so we will consider alternate ways of concluding next season.
Please make sure your playoff matches are played before the June 26th deadline.
Over the course of the next week we will be contacting selected users to take part in the nomination phase of the Season 9 Awards. Once they have made their decisions (which they will be free to announce publicly), we can commence the voting phase!
As you probably already know, the following players will be banned:
Blorg – Triggerbot. – 1 year ban
2k/Casual – Creating and supplying hacks to ETF2L players, using said hacks himself. – 1 year banFinally, 
Huhy has announced that he is leaving the Anti-Cheat team, in order to focus on his duties as League Admin. We thank him for his continued efforts and wish him luck!
If you’d like to be part of the Anti-Cheat team, please send an application email to [email protected] with your details, motivation and experience in anti-cheat.
Posted in League, Site by Crasp 192 Comments »
June 7, 2011 The catch-up week has finished! All catch-up matches must have their results submitted by midnight CEST tonight if they are to be counted. Tomorrow, outstanding matches will be dealt with accordingly.
Now that the main body of the Season is out of the way, we move on to Playoffs! There will be three tiebreaker matches, in Divisions 6C, 4E and 2B, which will take priority over the proper Playoff matches the winners of those tiebreakers will have to play. The other playoffs for Divisions 4 and 6 will go ahead as planned.
The Division 1 promotion Playoffs will be cancelled, since they aren’t necessary.
Tiebreaker Matches: (map elimination)
Schedule deadline: 12/06/2011
Match deadline: 19/06/2011
Playoff Matches: (map elimination)
Schedule deadline: 12/06/2011
Match deadline: 19/06/2011
Playoffs for Divisions 2, 4E&F, 6C&D: (map elimination)
Schedule deadline: 19/06/2011
Match deadline: 26/06/2011
vier // red vs Dont Shoot the Medic 
Crucial Team vs PunchLine! 
[OOC]Team vs Lost in the sky 
K1ck eSports vs Team Thermaltake 
TCM-Gaming vs Winner of Prem. Playoff #1 UV-Gaming EU vs Winner of Div.2B Tiebreaker LagTastic Gaming vs Unstoppable 
Elite nile Gunners vs BAd neWS 
That’s What We Want! vs Six Silly Somethings 
Newunionists: Green ogc.hu vs Buy More No Toilet Breaks vs FAKE.tf2 
9 Team vs Dutchnet Familiars Stage Team vs The Project Around now, one would expect the Season 9 nomination threads to be appearing on the forums. This Season though, we thought about doing something a little different. While we obviously value your opinion very highly, this Season we will invite respected members of the ETF2L community to make nominations for each category. They will make their recommendations, then the official polls will be held here for you to vote on. More details on this will be available soon!
As a special treat, we are adding a new category to the Awards this Season: The ETF2L People’s Choice Award. This can be awarded to literally anything you like, be it a player, team, division, video, site, abstract concept, limb, weather system, anything, as long as a reason for their nomination is provided! As per the traditional nominations, we will put the top 3 nominations up in a poll to decide the winner.
Posted in League by Crasp 23 Comments »
May 30, 2011 We have decided to not run a league season during the summer of 2011. It didn’t really work last year, and we don’t think that a summer league this year would fare any better.
We do however have other plans. We read our forums and do our best to consider your feedback. Over the course of the summer months, we will provide a number of smaller tournaments for teams to play a little more light-heartedly than a normal 6v6 Season.
The first event we have planned is a Kritzkrieg-only cup, in which the Medigun will be banned from play and the focus will be on the use of the kritzkrieg in different skill levels (more on this in a news post soon!).
After 2 fun cups and the great success of our Highlander Challenge, we have decided to continue hosting highlander games. We will have more details on a new event soon, that will offer some great games for everyone in a relaxed environment.
With great joy we wish to welcome RaCio back to his Head Admin position. Additionally, 
Crasp is promoted to a Head Admin position, where he replaces Dave.
We would like to thank Dave for the efforts he has put in. Congratulations and the best of luck to Crasp!
The next ETF2L season will take place after the summer, with a number of improvements over Season 9. One such improvement is the map pool, which will be changing with the help of community votes and high level input. We have yet to finalise almost every other aspect of Season 10, for various reasons. We’ll do our best to keep you abreast of developments in that regard.
We’re also working on some other improvements, as well as keeping an eye on the ideas put forward in the forums.
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May 21, 2011 In order to give teams the chance to play all their games, we have decided to add an extra week onto the end of the season. This means that all regular season games must be played by 5th June. However Week 9 Default Dates will still be given on Monday for the period of Week 9 if the game hasn’t been scheduled by then. No one will be forced by default date to play in the Extension Week, it will only be used if both teams agree to play in it.
As part of standard season policy, the rosters are locked and wildcards no longer count at the start of Week 9. This means that you cannot add new players to your roster, any player you wish to play who is not on your roster by Monday 23rd May will be counted as a merc with the standard merc rules applying. The rosters will remain locked until the end of the playoffs. Any wildcard used will be ignored and the original scheduled match date will still stand.
After the catchup week, playoff fixtures will be generated. The first batch of fixtures will be for teams that finished on equal points, to decide final positions (only where these positions are vital to decide who is promoted / relegated). After that, any playoff games from one division to another will be played, together with the Premiership playoff mini-tournament to decide the overall season winner.
After a hectic evening, the winners of Wednesday’s Cup were Spam Effect. Congratulations to them! For everyone who took part, please leave feedback on the map thread regarding what you liked/disliked about the map. These competitions are crucial in getting map makers the feedback they need to improve upon their maps.
Finally, we are shutting down the 6v6 and Highlander Ladders to allow coding work to be undertaken on them. Once these improvements have been completed, the ladders will be re-launched.
Posted in 1 Day Cup, Ladder, League, Site by SnowiE 15 Comments »
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