The Divisions are finally final!

>>> Season 9 Tables <<<

We have tried to accommodate every team as best as we can. If you still disagree with where your team has been placed, the best course for you to take is to prove us wrong with your results from this season. Teams that haven’’t yet signed up but are still interested can join the waiting list. If for any reason there is room in a division, due to for example drops, we try to fill the gaps with teams from the waiting list.

Week 1 starts this coming Monday, so start talking to your week 1 opponents now! This is only Schedule Week 1 – on Monday the 28th, we will move into Match Week 1/Schedule Week 2. At this point, all unscheduled Week 1 matches will receive a Default Date. During the week starting the 28th, you should play your week 1 match AND schedule your week 2 match. More on that can be found in the General Rules.

Reminders

• Please note that warnings will be given out this season if a match has not been played after the match deadline, unless an admin has been consulted and an extension of the match deadline has been granted.
• As a general reminder we like to note that match comments should be used to record any agreements between two teams regarding the use of mercs, servers or other issues. This way you can ensure easy processing of results, as well as avoiding problems when a dispute arises.
• Try not to use the chat function during a match to comment on anything unless it’s in a positive manner. Chat abuse or racist names/avatars will not be tolerated (this includes binds!).

Another great LAN event will take place next weekend  between the 18th and 20th of March, at Epinal (in the East of France, not too far for Germany). Maxlan is a big E-sports event in France, featuring a lot of different games including:

• TF2
• CS 1.6
• COD4
• CSS
• Starcraft 2
• Trackmania

At the moment, thirteen teams are signed up. While three or four teams will definitely pay in the upcoming days, TF2 is still far from the ultimate goal of twenty-four teams. There is still time to sign up and form a (mix)team! Who could refuse spending a wonderful weekend in France, playing TF2 while eating frog legs and drinking wine? It will only cost you €42 (and you’ll get €5 offered for beers!).

Top European teams including the likes of  Button Bashers and Epsilon eSports will also be attending the event. And people will be able to watch awesome frags and keep up with the competiton results with TF2TV, HiscoreTV(French), Cadred and esportfrance covering the event live. So make sure you leave room in your schedule to follow this event when it happens!

Official site

General information
Mix/Merc
Attending Teams

If you have any queries get in touch with Keyro or Drosophile

As of yesterday, the sign-up stage for The ETF2L SteelSeries Season 9 has ended, over 365 teams have signed up in just one week. Teams that haven’t signed up but are interested can still sign up to the waiting list in case there is room in a division, due to for example drops.

ETF2L would once again like to give a huge thanks to SteelSeries who have been generous enough to put forward the following prizes for Season 9:

Premier Division :

Premier Division Winners – SteelSeries Siberia v2 (White) Headset

Premier Division 2nd Place – SteelSeries Xai Mice

Premier Division 3rd Place – SteelSeries 4H

Division 1 :

Division 1 Winners – SteelSeries 9HD

Everyone :

In the style of Season 8 and in partnership with Valve, all participants of Season 9 will receive an in-game medal to show off their efforts! Coming first, second or third in your division will earn you a gold, silver or bronze medal respectively. We haven’t forgotten about the medals promised to you in Season 8 either; the technology required to give them out will be released by Valve soon.

And more :

Three sets of posters signed by Valve staff will be up for grabs for 3 teams that prove themselves to be awesome in season 9. The requirements for qualifying as awesome, and hopefully winning the posters, will be published soon.

Finally, we officially announce that BuffaloBill has departed from the admin team. Many thanks for the time and effort you put into the league and helping us out, Bill. We wish you all the best.

Esports Heaven is holding another cup for TF2, sponsored by Full Tilt Poker!

Full Tilt Poker has given us a prize pool of €1,000 to encourage 64 teams to sign up. We were recently notified of an additional rule from Full Tilt Poker. It’s unfortunate that we learned of the addition late into the signup period, but it is necessary for all teams participating in the cup:

“Every team must add one of a list of linked sponsor phrases to their team website (preferably in a news post about their participation in this tournament).”

More details on the requirement here.

Not knowing about this rule sooner has meant all teams previously signed up for the Cup had to be unapproved, until they contact either DeNeusbeer or Crasp (preferably in IRC) with confirmation of a news post on their team’s site. It’s a shame that we had to reset the signups, all we can do is make sure it won’t happen again. However the best way to guarantee more cups from ESH is for teams to sign up to this one!

Note: Teams without a website don’t need to worry about a news post, but they still MUST contact DeNeusbeer or Crasp to be re-approved!

Allowed unlockable weapons for this cup:
– Ubersaw
– Kritzkrieg
– Blutsauger
– Bonk! Atomic punch
– Frying Pan
– Holy Mackerel
– Equalizer
– Sandvich

You can find more information on the Cup here. Sign up here!

I42

The preparations for the upcoming 42nd I-series LAN event are in full motion. Visit the LAN Forum for the latest info on things like the  map pool, unlocks and mix teams. Be sure you don’t miss out!

Season 9 Signups

There are over 2 full days left to sign up for Season 9, but we are already getting close to the holy number of 350 teams. After that, a place in the season is likely, but not guaranteed. So Sign Up while you still can!

As a reminder for you all, it is Friday today, which means the ETF2L Season 9 Signups are open! The Map schedule and Rules have already been published, so be sure to check those out if you haven’t already!

If you do not have a team yet, be sure to check out the recruitment section or learn more about creating a team and the site on the FAQ page. If you think your team deserves special consideration regarding your seedings, please email your application to [email protected] with screenshots and other helpful information.

>>> Sign Up Now! <<<

The Highlander Community Challenge Grand Finals

Over 10.000 players signed up to the tournament. Over 800 teams played in the Group stages. Now, only 2 teams remain in the Highlander Community Challenge. But there can be only one! The best community team in TF2 will be known next Sunday at 18:30 CET, as the Finnish long time favourites Colony will face off versus the European powerhouse SNSD. View their road to victory trough the huge playoff group stage here. After the finals are played, the European Thunder 6v9 will go live, be sure to check that out as well!

• Colony is:
  • zoob
  • J0rmund
  • s3
  • mente
  • fraggen
  • furbo
  • jonzku
  • MrLate;
  • nappr
  • noretus
  • SabaSaba
  • yonus
• SNSD is:
  • Linus
  • Hat
  • Alx
  • Billykins
  • chojje
  • hurr
  • Hurri
  • immortal flow
  • MikeW
  • Morphine
  • roblax
  • Sisu
  • zire
• SourceTV info: connect 145.92.203.100:27100
• The match will be casted live by ETF2L.radio and TF2TV
• ETF2L.radio casters: Byte and Baerbal (Germany’s finest)
• ETF2L.radio mumble: Host – fakkelbrigade.eu , Port – 64740
• Match time: Sunday, March 6th at 18:30 CET (9:30 PST, 12:30 EST)