TF2 FINAL: Dignitas vs. Epsilon – LIVE!  Stream STV: relay.toaster.fi:27020

The Finns’ favourite LAN tournament kicks off tonight in Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki featuring:

• ETF2L Season 8 winners, Epsilon e-Sports
• The LAN legends, Dignitas
• Finnish heroes, Power Gaming
• Everyone’s favourite Russians RAGE.esports

The schedule for tonight’s games looks like,

16.30 CET – Epsilon eSports vs Power Gaming
16.30 CET – Team Dignitas vs Refuse
19.30 CET – Loser Game 1 vs Loser Game 2
19.30 CET – Winner Game 1 vs Winner Game 2

You can catch casts for the majority of these games brought to you live from the event with TF2TV, and onsite coverage will be brought to you by  James “Admirable” McDonnell for cadred.org.

After thousands of votes we are ready to announce the winners of the ETF2L Season 8 Awards. Thanks to all voters and congratulations to the winners.

Player Awards:

• Most Valuable Player: Shintaz (Epsilon eSports)
• Medic of the Season: F2 (Epsilon eSports)
• Demoman of the Season: Extremer (Epsilon eSports)
• Soldier of the Season: Gear (Button Bashers)
• Scout of the Season: Shintaz (Epsilon eSports)
• Sniper of the Season: Jh (Epsilon eSports)
• Upcoming Talent of the Season: Skeej (DW.twitch)

Team Awards:

• Fairplay Award: Team Refuse
• Most Surprisingly Good team: Button Bashers
• Division 2 Team of the Season: Only Rockets Love You
• Division 3 Team of the Season: Trick17
• Division 4 Team of the Season: Team Effort
• Division 5 Team of the Season: Vier // blu
• Division 6 Team of the Season: Sektor gaming

Frag clip of The Season:

Taimou (Gamerzone)

You can have a look at the full Award History and medal count of all seasons here. Also be sure to have a look at the full season 8 history and winners over here.

After having counted all your nominations the past few days, it is now time for you to vote for your favourites in the following polls:

• Most surprisingly good team
• Div2-6 team of the season
• Most valuable player
• Upcoming talent
• Best medic
• Best demoman
• Best soldier
• Best scout
• Best sniper

Each poll contains the top 3 nominated players or teams. In addition, there are votes for the best division 2-6 teams. In 2 categories, one player and a team got so many nominations that they left no room for any competitors. Congratulations to Team Refuse for winning the Fairplay Award  by showing that playing TF2 is not just about results. Also, congratulations to Taimou for winning the Frag Clip Award with his nice medic clip. The polls will close on Sunday, 6th of February 2011, at 18:00 CET.

Good luck to all candidates and congratulations for making it into the poll phase!

>>> Cast your votes <<<

Custom Map Showmatch

We all love custom maps and their creators. To show this, FakkelBrigade and Button Bashers will play a showmatch on a new custom map called cp_aspiration, tomorrow at 21:00 CET. Head over to vanillatf2 for more details about this match-up.

UPDATE!! The ETF2L.radio cast between Blight Gaming vs Epsilon E-sports is now up! Click here to download!

Congrats to Epsilon eSports for securing their second ETF2L victory! Taking the 1st place in the league phase, Epsilon went into the playoffs with great confidence and  ultimately secured their deserved title in the awesome Season 8 final.  Slick’s sexy band of merry men lost just two maps over their most recent successful campaign of competitive tf2.

Road to Victory

• Maps Won: 13, Golden Caps Won: 3, Golden Caps Lost: 0, Maps Lost: 2.
• vs.  TCM-Gaming – Badlands and Granary – 6:0
• vs.  Power Gaming – Granary and Gullywash – 4:2
• vs.  Blight Gaming – Obscure and Gullywash – 3:3
• vs.  Team Dignitas – Freight and Gravelpit – 3:3
• vs.  Refuse – Freight and Badlands – 6:0
• vs.  Gamerzone –  Freight and Gravelpit – 6:0
• vs.  FakkelBrigade – Badlands and Granary – 6:0
• Semi-Finals: Team Dignitas – Badlands and Granary – 6:0
• Finals: Blight Gaming – Badlands and Obscure – 5:1

The second place was taken by Blight Gaming who crawled their way up to be one of the top teams of tf2. The 3rd place was taken by Power Gaming. In division 1 Monster Munch took the first place with 1 point difference on 2nd place Eternity. Congratulations to all of them and of course to the rest of the divisions, who have created a very exciting and close season.

Season 8 Award Nominations

With the season having come to an end, it is of course time for the ETF2L Awards of the Season. Before we kick off the voting process, we will first ask you, the community, to nominate the contestants. Besides the usual awards, such as those for the best players of each competitive class, there will be awards for the Most Surprisingly Good Team and the Frag Clip of the Season, amongst others. In addition to that, we will be looking to award the player who has been the most stable and important factor for his team during the season, in the new Most Valuable Player of the Season award.

Head over to the S8 nominations forum section!

ETF2L radio will be casting the Premier finale! between the two most arguably consistent and fully active teams. Epsilon eSports vs Blight Gaming!

Epsilon e-sports have dominated, urinated and exterminated over all the premiership teams this season only dropping 2 maps in the entire season. It would be on some level a huge crime if epsilon were not to win the title. However it’s their title to lose, they have the momentum and the team capability to annihilate anyone if they are on form.

Blight gaming on the other hand have had a mixed season, climbing just into the 4th play-off spot but doing very well in their first play-off match against Power Gaming. One would argue that Blight Gaming have fully deserved to be in the final, just going by their consistency and activeness in this season at ETF2L.

Ze Germans will be ready for this final, they won’t let this one time opportunity slip from them. I’m sure Mr Marco (mvp) will try his utter best and out stratify epsilon with some obscure (get it?) tactics.

Expect nothing but Extremer crying to Byte in tf2.europe, mvp being more german than any of you could imagine (<3) and Slick still being sexy tonight.

Follow the action live on ETF2L Radio

• Starting Monday, January 24th at 21:05 CET
• Hosted by Byte , Dave and JimmyBreeze
• SourceTV: 145.92.203.100:27100 (NL) , MORE RELAYS TO COME!
• Mumble cast: 85.236.100.59:6687
• Join #etf2l.radio on quakenet to show your support/for shoutouts

Match Overview
Epsilon eSports vs Marco FTW
Playoffs (Premier Division)
Monday, January 24th 21:15 CET

cp_badlands

3 - 2

cp_obscure

2 - 1 (golden cap)

OVERALL
Epsilon eSports [5:1] Marco FTW

See you tonight!