Both myself and deltron initially started things here as administrators along with day almost 2 years ago now. I’m not active in the TF2 community and so most of you won’t know who i am but i think its important that the following statement comes from me or deltron. I’d quickly like to address a couple of issues that have been raised recently in the community and on other websites.

Money

I’d like to start by clearing up the issue of money being taken from deltron. We spoke recently and both myself and deltron are satisfied that no money was stolen. I’m assured that there were issues with the advertising company that was being used. However at the same time etf2l is hosted entirely by deltron (he pays the bills himself) and we currently use our fair share of bandwidth and resources. I’m therefore suggesting opening a donations account at least until any real sponsors are found. It’ll be set up to go to weqo as id like to believe that most of you trust him (i do anyway). I can guarantee that any donations made will make their way to deltron and to start the ball rolling weqo has donated £50 and i myself will be making a donation too.

Deltrons only concern was that the site was making money due to the ads and he was receiving nothing for the charges we incur. We are only looking to cover a % of the total costs (which are £53 a month) anything above this will obviously be put back into the league.

Freedom of Speech

Id like to make clear that the forum rules are not here to stop you discussing issues you may have with ETF2L or its administrators. The majority of the forum rules are just common sense, many other forums have significantly stricter rules. Please feel free to discuss any issues you may have with both the league or its staff, just keep your threads clean. We won’t lock or delete your topics if you can discuss things in a mature fashion.

I’ve started a new thread here: https://etf2l.org/forum/league/topic-6878/

Furthermore i’m hopeful that there will be more changes in the coming weeks.

Cheers

ST8

In the last days we have worked on a few general forum guidelines and rules. Every user will have to accept these before she/he can post in the forum again. Please have in mind these rules also affect newspost and match page comments.

• [Forum Rules]

Forum/Website Rules & Code of Conduct:

F.1 – Please be polite at all times, we take hostility very seriously, anything we deem inappropriate will be removed and depending on the severity of what was said, a warning or temporary ban will be applied.

F.2 – Please do not flame or insult other members in the TF2 Community, if you notice that someone starts to flame you in topic or a reply that you have posted, please refrain from flaming back, the member will be dealt with, as we have forum moderators overlooking the forums constantly. If we haven’t dealt with it within 3 hours please join #etf2l @ quakenet on IRC and speak to an admin.

F.3 – Please do not swear at other members in the TF2 Community, swearing is only deemed appropriate when used in the humour or joking form. Please refrain in using such words otherwise.

F.4 – Please do not post any inappropriate links in any threads on the forum.  This includes

Phishing sites/Spyware sites/Virus Sites, double check the website you are posting is legitimate.

F.5 – If you wish to bump older threads that have been forgotten about please do so but for a good/related reason. Otherwise the topic will be locked.

F.6 – If you created a topic and wish for it to be locked, please change your topic of the thread to “Close Topic” and an admin will shortly lock it for you.

F.7 – If by accident you post the same reply twice or more please change the 2^nd to “x” spammed replies to “[delete post]”, and an admin will shortly remove them.

F.8 – Please do not post any sensitive data on these forums, e.g. date of birth, someone’s real name, location of where they live and so on. Failure to abide by this rule means you are breaking the data protection act.

F.9 – Please do not go against a forum admin’s decision, it will be dealt with severe consequences. An example is, if an admin deemed your post was inappropriate, do NOT reply again with the same post, if caught the punishment will be quite severe.

F.10 – If you wish to make a complaint about an admin for incorrect behaviour or procedure applied, please contact a different admin in #etf2l @ quakenet on IRC. All admins are neutral to each other; we do not take sides of either party. We follow the rules and analyze what has been said, if the admin has made the mistake, we will rectify it as soon as possible. Just remember admins are also human and they do make mistakes.

F.11 – Strictly NO racism will be tolerated,  direct racism and words will NOT be tolerated, failure to abide by this rule results in a permanent ban.

F.12 – If you wish to create a topic which links to a picture/clip/sound file and is deemed as “not safe for work” please put in your post at the end [Not Safe For Work]. Some of the admins check the ETF2L forums from work and do not wish to see/hear gross images/clips/voice clips.

F.13- When creating your own thread please make sure it is in the right forum ‘section’ i.e. if you are advertising that you are looking for a clan then please place a new topic under “Player recruiting forum”.

F.14-Strictly no topics are to be created with reference to: –

• Religion
• Politics

We’re happy for members to discuss off topic, however anything related to religious/political will be immediately deleted, and the offender will be given a warning the 1^st time. If you wish to discuss one of those two topics mentioned above please use another forum, search on the internet there are plenty around.

F.15 – If you wish to express your views or the communities views through your own thread you may do so, however if approached in the incorrect manner, your post will again be deleted. For example, if you/you speaking for the community have issues with the FaN (Force of Nature) then make a valid argument and open it up for discussion. Don’t try and emphasize what you think is correct in a hostile manner, [Guidance Rule]

F.16 – If you wish to discuss anything related to the league/Team Fortress 2 which would involve the community to agree or disagree on, feel free to do so, however in relation to the very first rule please do not flame/troll/abuse or be hostile in what you are trying to express. We all have our different opinions some of which are right some are incorrect. In the end we are out for the same thing usually, so please keep it clean. [Guidance Rule]

F.17 – Make sure you apply this rule when your posting, “two wrongs do NOT make it right”, If someone has gone against any of the rules, this does not give you the right to lash back in the same approach; this is not deemed as a valid excuse.

F.18 – Any direct abuse to any of the ETF2L admins will NOT be tolerated, we take good care of our admins and will not stand for either being picked on nor bullied.

Lastly, we try our very best to be fair and neutral to all members of the public in the TF2 Community, we do listen to your requests and we do as a team discuss what the solution or outcome should be. If you as a community approach us within an appropriate manner we will listen to your requests. Just because you are behind a monitor it does not give you the right to be abusive or disruptive to anyone or any topic.

Punishment Guidelines for offenders

Racial Discrimination/Racism – Permanent ban this applies to all members, admins or players.

Spamming – Deliberate Spamming results into a temporary ban.

Flaming – Results in a warning from admin(s) and if the person persists then a temporary ban will be set.

Hostility/Nasty’ness’/Inappropriate Manners – A heavy warning, if continues then a temporary if not lengthy ban.

Incorrect topic placement – Light hearted warning.

Inappropriate links – Depending on how bad the link was, if it was porn/sadistic material a temporary ban, otherwise a mild/heavy warning.

Irrelevant topics created – Mild warning and advised to read the rules.

Inappropriate material – Depending on how severe the material provided whether it is a picture viewable or downloadable, punishment ranges from a mild warning – very lengthy ban.

Punishment for Re-offenders

Everytime you are caught and have broken any one of the etf2l rules you will receive on most cases double the length of your previous ban. I.e. you were previously banned for 1 day for flaming, the next time you will be banned for 2 days, then 4 then 8 etc… Unless your offence was so severe probably a lengthy ban or a permanent ban will be applied.

Finally, if you do not like these rules then we suggest you start posting threads else where, we want our league to be clean, efficient and friendly, where new players from all ages to be able to come and read the forum with some integrity and maturity.

Nations Cup: Round of Sixteen

The group phase of our 2^nd Nations’ Cup is over and ended with no real surprises. All 16 teams from Pot A & B made it to the playoffs. Now the more interesting part starts. In the Round of Sixteen, every group winner will meet a 2^nd place in a “Best of 3 Maps” match with possible overtime on all maps. Thrilling matches can be expected. See below for all important details.

• [Playoff Tree]
• [Fixtures]
• Maps: 1. cp_badlands 2. ctf_turbine 3. cp_fastlane
• Schedule Deadline: Thursday, 8^th October, 23:59 CEST
• Match Deadline: Wednesday, 14^th October, 23:59 CEST

Season 6: Week 1

Season 6 officially started on Monday and many matches have already been played, including some surprising results in the top divisions. Please stay on the initiative and already start to contact your Week 2 opponent.

Bear in mind Week 1’s Schedule Deadline is this Sunday. All unscheduled matches will be assigned a Default Date. Add a comment to your match page if you haven’t yet, and have problems reaching your opponent.

Also, please be sure to submit your teams’ results and verify results which have been submitted by your opponent.

• [Season 6 Deadlines]
• Week 1 – Schedule Deadline: Sunday, 4^th October, 23:59 CEST
• Week 1 – Match Deadline: Sunday, 11^th October, 23:59 CEST
• Week 2 – Schedule Deadline: Sunday, 11^th October, 23:59 CEST

Staff changes

Our admin search was successful. Thanks to over 30 people for showing their will to help and sorry we only were able to take in a small number of new admins. A big warm welcome to our new additions, hope you will have a good time!

• AnroliF – [Profile]
• baerbel – [Profile]
• Crasp – [Profile]
• RaCio – [Profile]
• SnowiE – [Profile]
• AnAkIn – [Profile] – Anti-Cheat admin
• cheetah – [Profile] – Anti-Cheat admin

On the other side, we had to say goodbye to some old admins.  Gryzor, m0re, Freaka and DrG left the staff. Thanks a lot for your help on this project and we wish you the best for the future.

Ban hammer

We are reorganizing our Anti-Cheat team, which is now back on track again. Catching up the first cheaters wasn’t hard. We decided to send a clear signal and raised the punishment to a permanent ban. See below for an overview.

• [Smart Move]: banned for Season 6 & 7 due to supporting a cheater
• [Infedel] a.k.a. [Trullo]: permanent ban for creating new account to prevent a ban
• [Giordy]: permanent ban for using an aimbot
• [Chinaski]: permanent ban for using an aimbot
• [oZZy]: permanent ban for using a wallhack

Map picks closing tonight!

A short reminder to all teams that the map pick phase is ending tonight at 23:59 CEST. All teams who haven’t submitted any map picks by the deadline will get a fixed list of default maps. All maps will be published after the map pick phase is over.

Have in mind Week 1 officially starts tomorrow, so get in contact with your opponent and schedule your first match if you haven’t done yet. See last newspost for a longer explanation!

The following teams haven’t picked any maps yet (status: 15:45 CEST – list won’t get updated):

• #invaders
• .22
• 81 TeaM
• 9 Men
• Afterlife
• animosity
• Argo
• Auto Aggressive Aiming
• Back off Bitch!
• Black Apple
• BLITZ
• Blood Brothers
• Blood Pressure
• Born to be Wild
• Carpe diem
• Catching Bullets
• censoreD
• chaotic community
• Clan Troopers
• ClipZ’
• Cloud Team
• Crazy Suicide
• Cryoemia
• CZech tactiX TF2 Delta
• Deadly Old Gents 1
• Death Adder
• DeliriuM
• dYnamic eSports
• eGamers.it
• eL Diablo’s Brigade
• emphasis Team
• enixe
• Erotic Elephants
• essentiaL !
• executive order
• Explicit-Content!
• FakkelBrigade
• FakkelBrigade 2
• fingerprint
• flashpoint
• Freedom Fighters
• fubar
• Gathering of Tweakers Team 1
• Gathering Of Tweakers team 4
• Hampshire Heavies 3rd team
• Haxx
• hb0da
• HelloRocket!
• HerbsArmy
• HoriZon Black
• HUNters
• I Don`t Know? “Gold”
• I Gladiatori
• Impressive
• incredibles!
• infernal Gamers
• jAgarna
• Juniors
• Klan Old School Generation
• KOMANDA ZIVS
• Lan51
• Lapinou Team
• Last Man Standing
• Lege Artis
• Lonely Team
• Maggots !
• Mah Clan
• Maroon Team
• meet The
• Mmm…
• Monster Munch
• MTF.Gaming
• n!Gage Team Omega
• Next Generation
• nGage Team 2
• Nine Team
• Omega
• One by One
• Origine-Gaming
• OverGame e-Sports
• pancake
• plan-B
• Potato Inc.
• Precursors of Death
• PsychoShock
• QlimaxBeer e-Sports Club
• Quack Attack
• ReWind
• Riders On the Storm
• rockit
• Rogues in TF2
• rude Eyed Jerks
• Rupture
• simply
• Special Air Service
• Special Air Service Blue Squad
• Special Marine Soldiers
• STER-Gaming
• SUICIDE
• Super Krazy Killerz
• Talkmaster
• Team Coolermaster
• Team Dakka
• Team Empire
• Team Unkown
• Team-Xplosion
• team.#faTality
• Team4Friends
• TEC Gaming
• TFB
• The Good Guys!
• The GoVernative Team Red Squad
• The Legendary [Rasta] Clan
• totalTroubles
• Ultimatvm
• Void Of Tranquillity
• WESTSTADT
• Whats in the boX?
• Xen-Team
• Yummy Elite Sausages

Prediction polls

Which team will win Season 6? Who will end up 1^st in Division 2 and gain a direct promotion spot for Division 1? It’s time for our public prediction polls again! Vote your favorites below.

Also, for everybody who would like to state his/her own personal predictions, feel invited to reply in the [Season 6 – Unofficial predictions] thread!

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Season 6: Final Divisions

All 33 divisions for season 6 have been finalized. We have taken into account all division change requests, and applied them where possible. Without further ado, visit the following link to see your division and your opponents for this season:

-> [Final Divisions] <-

Note: Use separate links if you directly want to jump to your division, e.g. https://etf2l.org/league/tables#division4a

Season 6: Map picks open

All teams can now start picking the maps they want to play for this season. This means you can pick one map to play against each opponent. Every map can be picked twice. You can change your map picks as much as you want while the map picks are open, but once they close, the map picks are final, and cannot be changed.

Details

• Map picks open: *NOW*
• Map picks close: Sunday, 27^th September, 23:59 CEST
• Map picks page (only for team leaders/deputies): [Link]
• Don’t forget to submit your map picks in time, or you will be assigned default maps.

Season 6: Start scheduling

All fixtures are now known. Week 1 starts coming Monday. Please start arranging your first matches. All fixtures can be found on the [Fixtures page].

The most common method of contacting your enemy is through IRC, but steam friends works great aswell. There are usually some alternative contact methods entered on your opponent’s team page. Also, on the matchpage, you can make a comment, and as team leader or deputy, you can tick the box marked ‘Challenge Request’, and an email will be sent to the other team’s leader. This is an easy way for us to see if you’ve been actively scheduling the match.

Once you’ve agreed on a match date with your opponent, please enter it into the [Calendar].

If a fixture date is not entered into the calendar by the Schedule deadline, we will appoint a default date. If one team does not respond to schedule requests, please make this known to us (preferably by making match comments). If you suggested a date, and the opponent didn’t respond, you will usually get the date you suggested as default date.

League Config: mp_windifference 0 for ctf_turbine

Some short notice which still is important and effects many matches: Please be sure to set mp_windifference 0 if you are playing a CTF map. A note about this has been added to the official league config.

-> [Official ETF2L League Config] <-

Edit: Also our Rules page was updated with all [Season 6 Rules].