Week 1 Default Dates

We are happy most teams managed to schedule their matches and entered a date to our League Calendar. All unscheduled matches will get mentioned Default Dates if no other date is entered by tonight 23:59.

• Division 2a – r@ts vs. Vale – Sunday, 31^st August, 21:00 CET
• Division 2b – dmg. vs. plan-B – Sunday, 31^st August, 21:00 CET
• Division 2b – Care Bears vs. Team wL – Sunday, 31^st August, 21:00 CET
• Division 3b – FakkelBrigade vs. Immortals – Sunday, 31^st August, 21:00 CET
• Division 3b – FOG vs. Hadouken – Monday, 1^st September, 21:00 CET
• Division 4b – Dr3am Clan vs. OPS – Sunday, 31^st August, 21:00 CET

Replacements

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I would say there is no better start of this passage then showing the results of our „Fun Poll” about which team will fold first in Division 1. Obviously 97% of the community was wrong as Excello made it like ColdFusion in Season 1 and IDAC in Season 2 with dropping out at the start of Week 1.

But Excello sadly isn’t the only dropping issue; anyway most teams are replaced already. All affected Week 1 matches got a postponed Schedule and Match Deadline.

Schedule Deadline: 3^rd September, 23:59 CET

Match Deadline: 14^th September, 23:59 CET

Affected Matches:

• Division 1 – it’s a farm! vs. Ubersexuals (replacing Excello)
• Division 2b – wotr3 vs. Totally Totalitarian (replacing Ubersexuals)
• Division 3b – Prima Nocta vs. Czech tactiX TF2a (replacing Die Doppelnullen)
• Division 3c – Babylon sh.esports vs. Tribunal Team (replacing T.T)
• Division 4a – Gods of Egypt vs. Clan Crazy (replacing The Warlords)
• Division 4b – GC Red vs. The Smash Project (replacing Legion of Benelux)
• Division 4b – AWOL vs. Belgian combatants (replacing O’School)
• Division 5b – ALK vs. Klan Rekreacyjno Wypoczynkowy (replacing Romania Training Team)
• Division 5c – TWOL vs. Frag Test Dummies (replacing #db-gaming)

Open Spots (probably will have to stay open):

• Division 3c – Special Air Services (Week 1 opponent: IsF)
• Division 3d – ELEmentals (Week 1 opponent: Knifeback Mountaineers)

All Group Phase Matches are played and entered; the Group Phase Tables [Link] are updated and final. The Quarter Finals are now ready and up on the site [Link]. Please contact your opponents and schedule your matches.

Good Luck to all eight remaining National Teams!

Fixtures

Finland vs. Russia

Sweden vs. Germany

United Kingdom vs. France

Belgium vs. Norway

Dates & Details

• Quarter Finals Schedule Deadline: Wednesday, 3^rd September, 23:59 CET
• Quarter Finals Match Deadline: Wednesday, 10^th September, 23:59 CET

• Gamemode: Classic “Best of 3”; possible Overtime = Golden Cap
• Map Order: 1: cp_pro_granary, 2: ctf_turbine, 3: cp_badlands

Playoff system

After a bit of delay, you can now see the season 3 promotional system on the division tables. [link]

If you end up in a spot marked green, you’ll get instantly promoted to a higher division next season. But if you end up in a red spot, you’ll have to play one division lower next season.

A new feature we have introduced this season is end-of-season playoffs. If your team ends the season on a spot marked blue, it’ll have to play a playoff match at the end of the season. The winners of the playoff match will get a place in the higher division for next season, while the loser has to go to the lower division. For example, the numbers 7 and 8 of division 1 will play the numbers 2 of division 2. The winners of those matches get a spot in division 1 for next season, the loser will have to go to division 2.

Most people will only have to play 1 playoff match, but due to divisions being unequal in size, there are 2 exceptions.

• The 4 numbers 3 of division 3 will have a preliminary playoff, the 2 winners of that will continue into the real division 2/3 playoff.
• In division 4, only the 2 best numbers 3 can continue to the playoffs. THis will be the ones with the most points.

This playoff system is to ensure that only the strongest tams go up a division and not have teams that are stronger go a division down in favor of a weaker team.

Nations Cup Playoffs

The group phase of the ETF2L Nations Cup is drawing to a close. There are only a few matches left, but those cannot influence who ends 1st or 2nd. Therefore, the playoff phase is near. We will get the playoff tree up in a few days, when all group phase matches have been finalized.

However, we can announce the maps that will be played in the playoff phase:

• Quarter Finals: 1: cp_pro_granary, 2: ctf_turbine, 3: cp_badlands
• Semi Finals: 1: cp_gravelpit, 2: cp_badlands, 3: cp_well
• Finals: 1: cp_badlands, 2: cp_well, 3: ctf_turbine, 4: cp_pro_granary, 5: cp_gravelpit

As a last note, don’t forget that the Quarter and Semi finals will be played as best of 3, but our Nations Cup Final will be played as best of 5! However, the finals will end after 5 maps played at most. If need be, there will be a 3rd round on gravelpit to decide the winner.

The classlimit on demomen has been subject to a lot of debate in the community. At most issues, finding the right answer was relatively easy, almost everyone agreed to the same. But not with the demolimit. The community has been very divided around this single issue.

However, decisions have to be made. We have thought long and hard about this. We took into account the results of the latest poll on the subject (found here).

After hours of discussion, lots of coffee and tired faces, it’s time to end this discussion.

We have decided for a Demolimit of 1, effective immediately for the ETF2L 3rd season and all future competitions. Our running competitions, the Nations cup and the 3rd cup will not be affected by this, they will be played out with a demolimit of 2.

Season start

Also, today is the start of the first matchweek of the 3rd season. Please schedule your matches as soon as possible. Normal procedure is that you have the time to schedule your match untill the wednesday of the matchweek. If you cannot reach your opponent, please post a challenge request on the match page.  You can find the match page by going to either the fixtures page or your team profile and selecting the appropriate match.

Don’t forget to tick the “Challenge” box and put 1 or more suggested dates in your comment if you want to reach your opponent. We’ll try to keep those unanswered request in mind when deciding on default dates.

If you have any more questions about the scheduling/results entering, you should take a look at our FAQ, found here

Heavy Update

As of season 3, all available heavy unlocks are allowed to be used in the ETF2L.

Their Season 1 Trailer was a big success, now they are back with some new work – an ETF2L Season 3 Trailer!

All thanks go to keller and GRANiT from Division 1 Team it’s a farm! – have fun watching and good luck to all participating Season 3 teams:

High Quality Version – [TFPortal Link]

Feel free to post your opinion about the trailer at the comment function.

Season 3 start

The regular Week start is near; our Map Picks will close this Sunday night, Week 1 will start right after. We want to remember you again every team who hasn’t made their Map Picks by the Deadline will probably lose their Season spot! Have a look at the specific Newspost for more information. [Link]

All teams should also contact their Week 1 opponents very soon, schedule their game and add it to the Calendar. All unscheduled matches will get a League Default Date after Schedule Deadline is over (Wednesday, 23:59 CET).

Season 3 Rules – Heavy Update & more

The Heavy Update is out and Valve decided to make some major changes like speeding up the Kritzkrieg charge. We are currently talking internal about all features of the new update and will give out some decisions on the new weapons and the changed Kritzkrieg in the next days (probably Sunday).

We also started thinking about a general Demomanlimit 1 again which community is discussing since months. For a better overview we started an unofficial Forum Vote on this and please as many teams as possible to give their vote. [Link]

Additional Infos

We added a new Result-Confirmation-System to the site. Your opponents’ leaders and deuptys are now able to confirm your submitted results so you won’t have to wait until an admin have verified it.

Also we added some specific Division Links which might be helpful.

Example Link: Division 5b – https://etf2l.org/season-3/tables/#division5b

Edit: If you have heard of any registered Season 3 Team folding lately, we are thankful if you give us a notice so we can replace it with a team on the Waiting List.