The Season 4 Map Pick Phase is starting coming Monday. Every team will have to pick one map against every opponent of his Division. After the Map Pick Phase is over, the picks will decide which maps two teams will have to play against each other. If two teams picked the same map against each other, it can be changed once to a Secondary or 3^rd Party Map (see Rule 2.8).

Note: Every team who doesn’t submit their Map Picks in time will lose their spot. Be sure not to miss it.

Like every season we will have some changes in our Map Pool. After some internal discussion we already decided to add the two standard maps pl_badwater to the secondary and tc_hydro to our 3^rd Party Map Pool. Also cp_steel and ctf_smooth_b2 [Map Info – Download Link] will be added to the Secondary or 3^rd Party Map Pool which will be decided by the community. Besides these we also added two public polls if cp_freight_b3 and/or cp_fastlane should be moved into the Primary Map Pool. Vote below!

Current Map Pool

• Primary Map Pool (can be picked 3 times) – cp_badlands, cp_gravelpit, cp_granary, cp_well, ctf_turbine
• Secondary Map Pool (can be picked 1 time) – cp_dustbowl, cp_fastlane (public poll!), cp_freight_b3 (public poll!), cp_labor, ctf_2fort, ctf_mach4, ctf_well, pl_badwater, pl_goldrush
• 3rd Party Map Pool (see Rule 2.8): cp_redstone_b2, cp_science2, cp_stag, cp_warpath2, tc_hydro

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All polls will close Sunday, 4^th January, at 22:00 CET.

The next step is done! Today we will announce our provisional Division seeding for Season 4. All 250 teams have been divided into Divisions from 1-6. Due to the increasing number of teams we had to add a 6^th Division level with another six Divisions with 10 teams each. All other Division levels are keeping their structure from Season 3. The Season 4 promotion and relegation system will have some changes which are published soon.

Our provisional Division announcement is a feature for all teams. The primary function is giving teams who feel overrated and would like to play in a lower Division level time to give us a notice. But also we will give teams who feel underrated time to make a request about getting promoted to higher Division level in our final Divisions. See below for instructions.

>>> Season 4 Division seeding <<<

Request instructions

• Write an e-mail to [email protected]
• Include the following information (for overrated teams): Team name, Current Division, Requested Division
• Include the following information (for underrated teams): Team name, Current Division, Requested Division, List of 3-5 league matches (with screenshots and/or matchlink) against higher seeded teams
• Note: We will collect some requests first and will discuss them with our admin team. It will take a few days until you will receive an answer. Please be patient.
• Request Deadline: Friday, 2^nd January, 23:59 CET

Yesterday the 4th Round’s Fixtures of our 4th Cup has been drawn by our IRC Bot. The last 16 out of 128 teams have been splitted into the following Fixtures:

Care Bears vs.  pancake

Nervous.tf2 vs.  Oh My God It Is

jAgarna vs.  Team Druidz

Piggy Bankers vs.  The Imperial

Team CoolerMaster vs.  r@ts

Weapons Of The Rebelion 2 vs.  Die Doppelnullen

Crack Clan vs.  Ubersexuals

OverGame e-Sports vs.  4 Kings

Details

• [Fixtures Page] – [Specific Rules]
• Fixed Maps: 1. cp_gravelpit 2. cp_fastlane 3. ctf_turbine
• Schedule Deadline: Sunday, 4th January, 23:59 CET
• Match Deadline: Sunday, 11th January, 23:59 CET
• Quarter Final – IRC Live Drawing: Sunday, 11th January, 19:30 CET

Also we would like to announce the Season 4 Provisional Divisions will be published tomorrow. Every team will have a few days time to request to play in another Division if your team was seeded wrong in your view. Be sure to check our page in the next days to check your teams’ seeding.

First of all, honour to whom honour is due: big congratulations to ryb from 4 Kings who gained the title “Player of the Season”. Grats also to bybben for reaching the 2^nd and dunc for reaching the 3^rd place in our poll!

After Season 3 is like accomplished now, we are looking forward to Season 4. After the amazing Sign-Up-Phase with over 250 registered teams in less than 7 days, we would like to wish all teams a Merry Christmas and much fun in our upcoming Season:

• European (41 teams): -Dead.Face-, 4 Kings, 69ER Gaming Community, Anonymous Gamers, Barbecue team, BLITZ, Casey Ryback Wannabes, eL Diablo’s Brigade, enixe, equilibrium, fragMative, Fun Until Someone Loses an Eye, Ghostbusters, Guru Gaming, Hampshire Heavies 2nd Team, I Don’t Know?, IceWind, Imperox Esports, International Special Force, Kevlar Bullets, MM2 Team, Monkey Gamers, More Brains, Nervous.tf2, Ninth Gaming, northwave.gaming, plan-B.retired, Rock, Paper, Scissors, SpecialAttack, Team Druidz, Team Fruit, Team[X]treme, The Hampshire Heavies, The Imperial, They Kick Ass, Totally Totalitarian, Ubersexuals, unbindAll, weapons of the rebellion, Weapons Of The Rebelion 2, Yurop Extrim
• Germany (35 teams): Ansammlung Laestiger Krieger, C.S.L Reloaded, cause we can, Clan-Germany, Die Doppelnullen, Die Philosoffen, Digital X-Plosiv, Disturbed Gamers, elected, Erdnuckels, Explicit-Content!, Game Control | Red, Gods of Egypt, guinneX, Hobbygam0r, Keine halben Sachen, KomaCrew, M4Pw, plan-B, r@ts, Racoon, ScArYsUcKeR, Soldiers at Work, Special farmer´s medicine, Special Marine Soldiers, Special Marine Soldiers 2, Team-Xplosion, Terror Without Order, Terror Without Order 2, TFPortal.de, Unterwasserpyromanen, veAre.black, veAre.green, veAre.silver, Vendetta in each room
• Russia (33 teams): 40 degrees, AuToBoTs, chaotic community, Cryoemia, Dark Force, Dekrowning, Distort Reality, dmg., dmg-2, Electro Clan, FBM, Final Team, Final Team 2, Genesis TeaM, hypercube, Immortals2, it, Last Man Standing, LOL Team, loveninjas, Lulz Team, Nameless TF2 Squad, Old Quake School, Quick Brown Fox, Revenge, Saint Piterzburg, se7en, Team Slayers, TFB, Who Dares Wins, Yummy Elite Sausages, [BloodMeat], [dT]
• United Kingdom (21 teams): Back off Bitch!, boX?1, CantFitMyN, Clan Crazy, clanda, DCSB Red Team, Dead Cows Strike Back, diced: Reloaded, epic-clan, epic2, fight club united kingdom, Gaming Masters Falcons Squad, HellJumpers, Knifeback Mountaineers, Mafia, Necrotic United Brothers, Pure, Special Air Services, Team CoolerMaster, the Exponential Pwnage eXperience, Whats in the boX? 2
• France (19 teams): #RofL, *B@D*, Bande2oufs, BEC Team, clickNplay, ColorZ, Fonce t’as L’uber pov’ Bite!, IPBP, Lapinou Team, Les Douze Salopards, ouF Team, pancake, paradox, ptt., redline, S4Y-Multigaming, Timmy And The Fratellis, warrior of legend, XCalibur
• Sweden (12 teams): decapitate the exicutioners, eXhale, eXhale 2, Forever-Gaming.TF2, Gurka*, hb0da, jAgarna, Känner IngenTing, klan:fader, starLike, TEAM SdX’08, TEAM SdX’98
• Finland (10 teams): Blood Pressure, c0ck, Care Bears, Clan Troopers, Crack Clan, cvx, Gypsy Xylophone Gang, Piggy Bankers, The MIPC Organization, Virtual Troopers
• CzechRepublic (9 teams): Cavaliers BLUE, Cavaliers RED, Czech tactiX TF2 B squad, CZech tactiX TF2A, Ethanol Monkeys, imperial, imPerial team 2, Pixel Warriors, Team Defiance
• Italy (9 teams): Allied Serial Killers + Associazione CRY, eXplosion C4, GoV, GoV Blu, I Gladiatori, Impact, QuiD Multigaming 2, Smart Move, Titans
• Spain (8 teams): Brigada SoS, failure as Gamers <3, Freedom Fighters, Iron Sharks, knock0ut, OverGame e-Sports, Pajaros de Barro, PeK e-sports
• International (5 teams): Fake, Nervous Energy, Shut Up and Play, Team Ratchet, Urban TerroristZ
• Hungary (6 teams): .point Guards, Argo, Cel-Shaded Army, Crit Rocket, Extreme Duo, Rogues in TF2
• Latvia (5 teams): bmp, GotGame.lv nonamerz, Old boys, ppb, Royal Dynasty
• Poland (5 teams): FPS-Arena Team, Panacea, Rejected, Semper Fidelis, total llamas
• Ukraine (4 teams): Chancy Team, Drunk Cowboys, Oh My God It Is, ReVival
• Benelux (4 teams): Gathering of Tweakers Team 1, Gathering of Tweakers Team 2, Gathering of Tweakers Team 3, Black hawk down 1
• England (3 teams): 9 Men, Cable internet Clan, Maximum^2
• Luxembourg (3 teams): MTF.Gaming, MTF.Gaming 2, QpiK Gaming
• Norway (3 teams): Brigaden, Pul Kai, Red Brigade
• Portugal (3 teams): Never-Ending Twilight, The Conquers, Veni, vidi, Dormivi
• Austria (2 teams): HerbsArmy, Robert Hartlauer Syndikat
• Belgium (2 teams): powerseed!, Squad Killer 10
• The Netherlands (2 teams): FakkelBrigade, Fakkel Brigade 2
• Turkey (2 teams): Smash Project RED Squad, The Smash Project
• Belarus (1 team): RabbidS
• Bulgaria (1 team): Redemption
• Israel (1 team): eSrael
• Scotland (1 team): Red Eyed Jedis

Season 4: Waiting List

Your team didn’t get one of the 250 spots but still want to participate in Season 4? Feel free to join our Waiting List and grab a spot if one of the signed up teams is folding. If you don’t miss any Sign-Up Requirement, an admin will contact you when a suiting spot is free.

Requirements

• Minimum of 6 players with correct Steam ID on your teams’ roster.
• Minimum of 2 different contact methods entered
• Set your correct skill level. Please be honest on rating your own team, it will help us doing correct Division seedings.

>>> SIGN UP LINK <<<

Rules

We have revised our rules for season 4. Please be accquainted with our current ruleset, found here. [Link]

The most notable changes are:

• The maximum amout of default losses before you will be dropped has been decreased from 3 to 2. (rule 2.9)
• A dropped team will now have all its results removed if it has played less than 75% if all matches in its division. (not counting matches against dropped teams)
• The turning-up for a match delay time has been altered. It is now 15 minutes after a match has been started, and 10 minutes after the first map ended for the second map to start. (Rule 1.6.5)
• We had a small adeddum to our rules against scripts, which is the following: “For any scripts not mentioned here, you can use as general rule of thumb: anything that allows you to do something that would be impossible without that script is forbidden. When in doubt, the admins decide on the legality of the script.” (Rule 1.4.8)
• Updated warning system. (Rule 2.12) Warnings can now cost you points. The points are deducted on a per-season basis. Warnings from season 3 will not cost you points in season 4. An overview of the system:
  

  General system

  • 3 minor warnings = 1 major warning
  • 1 major warning = deduction of 1 point
  • 3 major warnings = additional deduction of 3 points
  • 5 major warnings = expulsion from the league

  Minor warnings

  • Wrong / missing screenshot (can be reverted if screenshots uploaded afterwards)
  • Unplayed match after match deadline
  • Use of non-english language (Note: You are allowed to use your foreign language if both teams are from the same country.)
  • Not being able to provide a requested Demo (1st time)
  • Flaming (1st time)
  • Not showing up for a match (+ Default Loss for this match)
  • Entering a date into the Calendar without opponents approval (1st time)

  Major warnings

  • Using of an unauthorized player
  • Any attempts of fraud
  • Not being able to provide a requested Demo (after 1st time)
  • Flaming (after 1st time)
  • Entering a date into the Calendar without opponents approval (after 1st time)
  • Cheating (+ reduction of possible extra points and banning of the player involved, depandant on the situation)

Season 4 – Division 6

Because of the huge amount of teams interested in participating in the ETF2L, we have yet again vastly expanded the amount of participants. For the most people, everything will stay the same. But to be able to play host to 60 more teams, we will add a 6th division. Out of the many options we had to place all these teams, we found this to be the best.
The emphasis of this 6th division will be teams who just play to have a good time, and don’t take everything all too seriously. You should see this as a place for the brand new teams, who are only just starting out, and for any other group of friends playing for the fun of the game.

Do you think this is what you seek? Please let us know, and we’ll secure a place for you in our 6th division. You can contact us through IRC or by email, or just leave a post in the thread we created for this (only accessible by team leaders): [Link]