Sadly some teams didn’t manage to schedule their matches in time (again). We will give you an extra time of 24 hours; if no other date is entered by tonight 23:59 CEST, the mentioned Default Date will be entered.

Update: Default Dates are entered now.

• Division 1 – Ubersexuals vs. TLR – Monday, 22th September, 21:00 CET
• Division 1 – TCM vs. WebOne – Monday, 22th September, 21:00 CET
• Division 2b – Care Bears vs. I Don’t Know? – Monday, 22th September, 21:00 CET
• Division 2b – klan:fader vs. Team wL – Monday, 22th September, 21:00 CET
• Division 3a – I Don’t Know? 2 vs. Northwave – Monday, 22th September, 21:00 CET
• Division 3a – HerbsArmy vs. Team SdX’98 – Monday, 22th September, 21:00 CET
• Division 3b – Czech tactiX vs. FB – Sunday, 21st September, 21:00 CET
• Division 3b – FOG vs. Prima Nocta – Sunday, 21st September, 21:00 CET
• Division 3c – Babylon vs. IsF – Monday, 22th September, 21:00 CET
• Division 4b – MIPC vs. Smash – Sunday, 21st September, 21:00 CET
• Division 4c – LoL vs. Mirage – Sunday, 21st September, 21:00 CET
• Division 4c – c2 vs. Team SdX’08 – Sunday, 21st September, 21:00 CET
• Division 4c – Final Team vs. FB2 – Sunday, 21st September, 21:00 CET
• Division 4d – BoF vs. Incoming – Monday, 22st September, 21:00 CET
• Division 4d – uA vs. PoD – Sunday, 21st September, 21:00 CET
• Division 4e – RageCritters vs. Uberium – Sunday, 21st September, 21:00 CET
• Division 5a – Distort Reality vs. Yurop Extrim – Sunday, 21st September, 21:00 CET
• Division 5b – CantFitMyN vs. Team Uprising – Sunday, 21st September, 21:00 CET
• Division 5c – Cockstars vs. TWO – Sunday, 21st September, 21:00 CET
• Division 5d – I Gladiatori vs. Pixel Warriors – Monday, 22th September, 21:00 CET

First of all: Week 4 officially started yesterday. Please contact your opponents and schedule your matches. Of course we will set Default Dates again for all unscheduled Fixtures after Wednesday, 23:59 CEST.

Soldier 1on1 & Basketball 2on2 Cups finished and archived

Our first Fun Cups ever finally finished with two great finals:

In the Soldier 1on1 Cup Final (which was already played some time ago) the underdog Slim of r@ts met the Goliath of Soldier 1on1’s, Coinz from Team CoolerMaster. The finalists gave each other a good fight and the result is quite closer than most expected before, but in the end top favorite Coinz managed to win by 50:36 [Match Page]. Everyone interested in a more detailed look into the final feel free to download Slim’s POV Demo [Link].

Two days ago, after some general delay, also the Basketball 2on2 Cup Final was played. HAUNting, a team of Haunter, ETF2L Admin, and the Soldier Cup Champion Coinz, were meeting Massive Meat, a Cruciamentum subteam with haza and kentt. All four hoopsters tried their best to win the very first TF2 Basketball Title, in the end it was a very close win for Massive Meat on a Decider Round. Final scores are 25:20, 20:25 and 25:23 [Match Page].

Congratulations to Coinz and Massive Meat for winning our first Fun Cups!

Arena Gamemode

Our public Arena Gamemode Polls finished last Sunday, thanks to over 400 voters telling us community’s opinion. Official Arena Gamemode for upcoming competitions will be 4on4, Classlimit 1, No Medics + Engineers.

We have added an Arena Team Type to the database. Feel free to already create your Arena Team [Team Register Link] and start inviting your buddies for our two upcoming Arena competitions…

Watchtower-Arena-1-Day-Cup on Thursday, 25^th September

As introduction to our future Arena competitions we will host a 1-Day-Cup for testing a promising looking Custom Map called “Watchtower”. This cup will be played “Best of 11”, first team reaching 6 points going to next round. As little extra we will have some poll for participating teams after who will decide if it will be included to the upcoming Arena Cup #1 (see below).

Dates & Details

• Date: Thursday, 25^th September 2008
• Timetable: Sign-Ups will open 17:00 CEST, Cup will take place from 20-23:00 CEST
• Gamemode: Arena, 4on4, Cl1, No Medics + Engineers
• Winmode: Best of 11 Rounds (first team reaching 6 points wins)
• Map: arena_watchtower_b3 [Map Info]
• Slots: 32

ETF2L Arena Cup #1

Beside the 1-Day-Cup we will also arrange a longer Cup over several weeks, the ETF2L Arena Cup #1. Up to 128 teams will be able to fight their way to the first big Arena Cup Title. All or most standard Arena Maps will be included to the Map Pool.

More detailed rules and information will be published soon; anyway here are some dates to note down already:

Sign-Ups open: Sunday, 28^th September, 19:00 CEST

Sign-Ups closing: Sunday, 5^th October, 23:59 CEST

Round 1: Monday, 6^th October till Wednesday, 15^th October

Another wednesday, time for more default dates. We have had more unscheduled matches than last week again. Please try to schedule your matches in time. This goes especially for divisions 1 and 2. 50% of the matches in those divisions haven’t been scheduled this week. Just take 10 minutes to talk to your opponent to arrange a match. It saves us time, and gives you the guarantee you’ll play your match on a date that suits you. A win-win situation.

The following matches will be given a default date if no other time is entered into the calendar by tomorrow.

• Division 1 – Oslo Lions vs TFPortal.de –  Monday 15th September, 21:00 CEST
• Division 1 – Weapons of the Rebelion vs Ubersexuals –  Monday 15th September, 21:00 CEST
• Division 2a – Vale vs Veritas –  Sunday 14th September, 21:00 CEST
• Division 2a – prior.eSports TF2 vs Weapons of the rebelion 2 –  Sunday 14th September, 20:00 CEST
• Division 2b –  LOL Team vs Team wL –  Wednesday 17th September, 20:00 CEST
• Division 2b – Care Bears vs Totally Totalitarian –  Monday 15th September, 21:00 CEST
• Division 2b – n2o-gaming.de TF2 vs plan-B –  Monday 15th September, 21:00 CEST
• Division 3a – I Dont Know? 2 vs TEAM SdX’98 –  Sunday 14th September, 21:00 CEST
• Division 3b – eL Diablo’s Brigade vs FOG –  Sunday 14th September, 21:00 CEST
• Division 3b – CZech tactiX TF2A vs Know Your Enemy –  Sunday 14th September, 21:00 CEST
• Division 3c – Babylon sh.esports vs Oh My God It Is –  Sunday 14th September, 21:00 CEST
• Division 3c – QuiD Multigaming vs Tribunal Team – Monday 15th September, 21:00 CEST
• Division 3d – Friede seiner Asche vs enixe –  Sunday 14th September, 21:00 CEST
• Division 4b – AWOL vs ouF Team –  Sunday 14th September, 21:00 CEST
• Division 4b – The Smash Project vs OPS –  Sunday 14th September, 21:00 CEST
• Division 4c – Legion of Legends vs Fakkel Brigade 2 –  Sunday 14th September, 21:00 CEST
• Division 4c – Ethanol Monkeys vs TEAM SdX’08 – Sunday 14th September, 21:00 CEST
• Division 4c – chaotic community vs Final Team – Sunday 14th September, 21:00 CEST
• Division 4d – unbindAll vs Digital X-Plosiv – Monday 15th September, 21:00 CEST
• Division 4d – Battalion of Fear vs cleveridiot – Monday 15th September, 21:00 CEST
• Division 5c – Frag Test Dummies vs Core-13 – Sunday 14th September, 21:00 CEST
• Division 5e – guinneX vs Xenomorphs – Sunday 14th September, 21:00 CEST
• Division 5f – Erdnuckels vs Last Man Standing – Sunday 14th September, 21:00 CEST

Arena Polls

Due to the positive feedback of the newest released Team Fortress 2 Mode „Arena” we decided to give it a try and will arrange an ETF2L Arena Cup soon.

As there are no clear rules yet (besides disabling the Engineer) we would like to catch up the community’s opinion. Take your right to vote below. All Polls will close coming Sunday, 23:59 CET.

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Player Bans

After we had a detailed look on Demos of Moonroach (ex-member of GoT1) and Trojan (ex-member of CiC) we have enough evidence to prove they used illegal cheats during clan matches. We decided for a 1 year ban on both and also a punishment of Trojan’s former team CiC, who will lose 2 Map Wins of their first two played Season 3 matches.

• Moonroach [Steam ID: 0:0:18906082] – Issue: Using a Triggerbot – Punishment: 1 year ban
• Trojan [Steam ID: 0:0:19138683] – Issue: Using wallhack + aimbot – Punishment: 1 year ban
• Cable Internet Clan – Issue: Using a cheater in ETF2L matches – Punishment: One map gets defaulted against them each match he used him

On a side note I would like to mention CiC reacted very fair and sportsmanlike on this issue. Also see their Forum Statement [Link] about it.

First of all we would like to remind all teams Week 3 officially started today, please contact your Week 3 opponents and schedule your matches (latest match date should be the 14^th, but we will be liberal if it’s scheduled for 1-2 days after Deadline).

New Admins

We are happy to announce our admin search was successful. We received lot applications and have to say sorry we couldn’t take everyone in.

Still we doubled our Staff and have quite a lot new faces to welcome. Big welcome to all 11 new Admins:

• AnAkIn
• Fenrir
• FrAg
• Freakadelle
• Ice
• MaceWindu
• mihalch
• mvp
• Netsky
• RobbaZ
• Winneh

We are looking forward to work with you and hope you will have a nice time.

Rule Change

As surprisingly many teams picked the same map against each other, we decided to add the option to change the map once to a Secondary Map Pool Map, so no 3^rd Party Map has to be played:

2.8 Same Map picked twice for a match? Change it to a Secondary Map Pool Map or to a 3^rd Party Map once!

If both teams managed to pick the same map against each other, they can change it to a Secondary Map Pool Map or to a 3^rd-Party-Map [see below] once if both teams agree. Map can be decided by Map Elimination Mode [Explanation] (team on the left @ Fixtures Page is supposed to start) or just by agreeing on one map.

Secondary Map Pool: cp_dustbowl, cp_fastlane, cp_freight_b3 [Link], cp_labor [Link], ctf_2fort, ctf_mach4 [Link], ctf_well, pl_goldrush

3^rd Party Map Pool: cp_granary (with gates), cp_redstone_b2, cp_science2, cp_stag, cp_warpath2