Season 4 schedule

The start of the season is near. This season, we have made some small adjustments on our schedule/play deadlines. The system will be operating as follows:

Monday week 1: week 1 start
Sunday week 1: week 1 schedule deadline
Monday week 2: week 2 start
Sunday week 2: week 1 match deadline, week 2 schedule deadline
Monday week 3: week 3 start
Sunday week 3: week 2 match deadline, week 3 schedule deadline.
etc…

All of these dates will be entered in our calendar, you can find a list under the Events tab there, and they will appear on the calendar applet on our front page the date they are due.  Events page: [Link]

If two teams do not schedule the game by the schedule deadline, a default date will be set by the admins. This date will be in the week after the schedule deadline. However, if one team makes an effort to schedule, and the other does not, we will usually listen to the suggestion of the more active team, and set the default date for the date they suggested, if any. The match comments play a key role in this process. Before we set default dates, we will look at the comments posted for every unscheduled match. If we don’t see anything there, we will choose a default date at random. (this will be mostly Sundays though).

Map picks

Map picks have been closed. The teams who did not choose their maps, have been assigned a set of maps by the admins. Also, the map choices are now public. You can see them at every matchpage, and an overview at the fixtures page. [Link]

Cheaters

As a last note: we unfortunately had to ban some cheaters from the ETF2L once again. Here’s a list:

• Sonofpi3 – SteamID: 0:1:16671536 – [Link]
  Reason: aimbot
• Agge – SteamID: 0:0:15474411 – [Link]
  Reason: wallhack
• Nike – SteamID: 0:0:17552183 – [Link]
  Reason: wallhack

All 3 of these players will recieve a 1 year ban.

It is time to end several tournaments here at the ETF2L. We would like to congratulate everyone who won, and thank everyone else who participated. We enjoyed it, i hope you did aswell. The following competitions have ended:

Season 3

Season 3 of our main event, the ETF2L league officially started the 25th of august, and it was a long one. The last match has been played last sunday, 18 weeks later. It took some time, but we have got ourselves a winning team.  Ubersexuals beat  Team CoolerMaster 2 maps to 1 in the final match. At its height, the match had near 700 spectators on sourceTV, which is an amazing number. The season is now put away in our archives. If you feel the need to look back on your past matches, you can find it here [Link].

Congratulations to our Season 3 champions Ubersexuals!

Arena cup #1

The final of our arena cup was played between  arena:fader and  Hadouken arena. Hadouken managed to win the match, after losing the first map to fader. Congratulations to Hadouken for winning this cup! A full overfiew of this tournament can be found in our archives [Link]

TFTrue 1 day cup

You might recognize the winners of this one. It’s the Ubersexuals. They won this tryout of the new server plugin called TFTrue, for which we congratulate them.  An archived version of this cup can be found here: [Link]

There has been a lot of discussion about whether or not to use this plugin in all official matches to eliminate random damage. The outcome of this discussion is yet unknown. For a full overview of what this plugin does, and the discussion that surrounds it, have a look in this forum thread: [Link]

Season 4 map picks

A reminder: you have just over 2 days to pick your maps for season 4. Please don’t forget to do so. Map picks close coming thursday at 23:59 CET.  You can find the map selection page here: [Link]

Division tables

Finally, we can present you the season 4 tables. If you’ve been waiting anxiously to know who your opponents are, you have to wait no more. The season 4 tables can be found here:

>>> Season 4 Tables<<<

Map pick Phase

The Season 4 Map Pick Phase is starting today. All 250 teams that are participating in Season 4 have to choose one map which they will play against all 9 opponents of their division. Map picks can be submitted until Thursday the 8th, 23:59 CET Note: Teams who fail to submit their map picks will possibly lose their spot and get replaced. Note: map picks will not be publicly visible before the map-pick phase ends.

Primary Map Pool – every map can be picked three times

• cp_badlands
• cp_fastlane
• cp_gravelpit
• cp_granary
• cp_well
• ctf_turbine

Secondary Map Pool – every map can be picked once

• cp_dustbowl
• cp_freight_b3
• cp_labor
• ctf_2fort
• ctf_mach4
• ctf_well
• pl_badwater
• pl_goldrush

Details

• Map Picks Deadline: Thursday, 8^th January, 23:59 CET
• Map Picks can be changed as often as you want until the deadline is over.
• Every entered team leader and deputy is able to submit/change Map Picks.
• Map Picks won’t be published until the deadline is over.
• First matchweek starts Monday, 12th January.

>>> Season 4 Map Pick Link <<<

We’ve gone a long time and alot of cancellations in wait for this game, but its finally here! Team Coolermaster vs Ubersexuals for the ETF2L League Season 3 title!

Coverage

• Source TV: toaster.fi:27022
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• Cadred.org Article: [Link]
• PwnageTV.com Coverage
• ETF2L Radio Coverage

Match Overview

cp_badlands

Ubersexuals [4:5] Team Coolermaster

cp_granary

Ubersexuals [5:1] Team Coolermaster 

ctf_turbine

Ubersexuals [4:2] Team Coolermaster 

OVERALL

Ubersexuals [2:1] Team Coolermaster 

First of all the whole ETF2L Staff would like to wish everyone a happy New Year 2009 and a positive deployment for our favorite game Team Fortress 2.

We are glad to start the first day of the year with announcing a new partnership with SteelSeries – professional gaming gear. SteelSeries is the right source for everyone who is searching for high quality equipment to advance your gaming. You can find all their products at www.steelseries.com

SteelSeries will sponsor some cool prizes for the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd place of Division 1 in our upcoming Season 4:

• 1^st Place: 6x SteelSeries 5Hv2 [Link]
• 2^nd Place: 6x SteelSeries QcK Heavy [Link]
• 3^rd Place: 6x SteelSeries QcK [Link]