i42 LAN

Many thanks to those who attended i42, especially to  Tapley and the rest of the TF2 admin team there. The top 3 TF2 teams were:

Infused.Tt

Team Thermaltake

Children of Poop

Infused took a surprisingly comprehensive victory over their Thermaltake companions to win the top prize of £1,350. Other highlights included an incredible game on viaduct between Intensive Noobs and mixteam Flanks* and Gamesense, going right down to the wire. VODs of both of those games and more can be found at tf2tv.com.

Tickets are now on sale for the next Multiplay LAN, i43, set for August 26-29. Currently tickets are available at a 20% discount, though not for long! More details can be found here.

The latest offering from ESH

Signups are still open for the Tt eSPORTS TF2 Challenge, for a chance to win $500! Tt eSPORTS “went huge” at i42, with both of their sponsored teams reaching the TF2 final, now they want to give us some of their free money for free! Check out the rules page here, then go here to sign your team up! Do it!

General Reminders

SCHEDULE AND PLAY YOUR WEEK 5 MATCHES! It is in fact time to start scheduling your week 6 matches too! This newspost is so late that it’s even time to think about your week 7 matches!

Turbine rules reminder

We’ve noticed quite a few teams struggling with our rules for ctf_turbine_pro. These rules can be found in the General Rule 4.8

Turbine is not played in a “Best of 3, timelimit 10” format in ETF2L. The ctf ruleset for ETF2L has been designed to reduce the odds of a draw to a minimum.
The regular etf2l.cfg sets the server variable “tf_flags_per_round” to “5” and the timelimit to 30 minutes.

You need to capture 5 flags in one round to score a point. If a team scores 2 points, that team wins. In order to stop the game when one team scored 2 points, you can set “mp_winlimit” to “2”.

In case both teams have an equal amount of points on the scoreboard when the timelimit is reached, the team with more flag captures in the final round wins. In that case, you need to submit 2 screenshots: One of the scoreboard showing that the teams are tied and one where you can see the amount of captured flags.

In the rare case that the amount of captured flags in the final round is equal as well, you have to play a golden cap round. Set “mp_timelimit” to “0” and “tf_flags_per_round” to “3“. The first team to capture 3 flags, wins the golden cap round.
Only tick the golden cap box if the latter happened. You will have to submit 3 screenshots if you played a golden cap on turbine: One of the scoreboard showing that the teams are tied, one where you can see the amount of captured flags and one screenshot with the golde cap round score.

(Sadly) a Ban

The player Lukas will be banned from now until the end of the season for abusing the leader rights of another team.

We’d like to clarify further confusion regarding the ban of ForzaEagLE and co., which looked like it would expire this weekend. Their ban was for the whole of Season 9, so the bans will be extended up to that point.

Wildcarded/Unplayed Matches

Some of you may have noticed Default Dates appearing on wildcarded matches. We will add a Default Date to a wildcarded match one week after the wildcard was taken, if the match is still unscheduled. We hope this will reduce the number of matches left unplayed until the catch-up week.

We will also give warnings to any matches which haven’t been played or scheduled after the Match Deadline has passed. These warnings can be easily removed once the match has been played, provided you contact us at that point.

*Thanks ilike2spin!

After months of planning and waiting, our friends from across the pond over at Community Fortress have announced their very own Highlander tournament! This time, everyone is invited, pubbers and pros alike! There will even be separate conferences for European and American teams, meaning, we won’t be forced to wake up in the middle of the night to stomp on American gunboat soldiers.

Alright, let’s skip to the details:

• Sign-ups close on Saturday the 16th of April. Matches can start being played on the following day.
• Open to everyone regardless of division and experience. Everyone will play in the same bracket and the seeding will be completely random.
• There will be a North American conference and a European conference. They will stay separated throughout the entire tournament. This is done to avoid the ping issues that occur when playing between continents.
• It will be a double elimination tournament.
• Teams will play on servers provided through Community Fortress.

Be sure to check out the rule page for a full set of rules, maps and unlocks.

American matches will be casted by the guys over at eXtv, while TF2TV will be taking care of the European match-ups.

The maps will be played on a ‘1 map per week’ basis with a double elimination format, meaning that teams with a busy schedule should still find the time to participate. This also means that all teams will get to play at least two matches in total, since they will be moved to the loser’s bracket if they lose their first match.

But what would highlander be without prizes?! Our friends at Valve will be kind enough to provide the top 3 teams of each conference with some signed TF2 swag!

If you want a chance at winning these prizes or if you just want to play some highlander, head on over to the sign-up thread and join in on the fun!

In the build-up to the i42 LAN, ETF2L partners Multiplay have announced that they are running an online qualifier tournament. This will give teams the chance to win free tickets to i42, which runs from the 22nd to the 25th of April. Sign-ups are open now, if you have any questions or problems, please go to #insomnia-tf2 on QuakeNet.

Rules

Matches will be played on one map per round in the Vanilla+med format, until the grand finals where the winner will be decided in a Best of Three maps contest.

Sign-ups will be open until 2 hours prior to each competition’s start time.

UPDATE! Due to technical problems, the i42 Online Qualifier Tournament will be held one day later, on Wednesday! The sign-ups will close at 18:00 CEST on Wednesday. If everything goes as planned, the tournament will be finished at Wednesday, so it is shortened to a One-Day-Tournament! Optional, the remaining matches can still be played at the next day.

The new schedule is as follows:

Wednesday 6th of April:

Round 1: 20:00 CEST
Round 2: 21:00 CEST
Round 3: 22:00 CEST

Grand Finals: Decided by finalists (can be played at 23:00 CEST but is Best of Three, so the option to re-schedule is available)

For more details and to sign up, please see the Multiplay Website. Remember that there are limited spaces available so get signed up as soon as possible!

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