Before kicking off Season 39, we have one last thing to do to close out Season 38. Congratulations to Backyard Bullies for clinching the title in a thrilling game against gerz. Below you can cast your vote for the Season 38 Award Polls!

The polls will be open until Sunday 20th of June 20:00 CEST

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While we are running behind provisional schedule and 6v6 Season 38 isn’t officially wrapped up yet we will be lifting the roster lock so that teams can add their players and start applying for the upcoming season.

Welcome to our 39th Season of 6v6!

Without further ado, we are very happy to be able to announce that our signups are open right now until the 30th of June 18:00 CET!

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Prize Pool

There will be a prizepool, the size of which will be confirmed in the upcoming weeks!

Season Schedule

• Signups: June 12th – June 30th, 18:00 CET (Premiership signups will close early, on June 26th at 21:00 CET)
• Publishing of Provisional Divisions: June 30th
• Publishing of Final Divisions: July 3rd
• Premiership Qualifiers: June 27th – July 4th
• Main Season:July 4th – August 20th (Roster Lock will be active starting from August 15th, 00:00 CEST)
• Playoffs:August 22nd – September 5th

Map Pool

We’re confirming 5 maps so far. Expect updates and a finalized map pool once we get closer to the season.

• 8,49/10 – cp_process_f7
• 8,35/10 – cp_gullywash_final1
• 8,13/10 – cp_snakewater_final1
• 7,47/10 – cp_sunshine
• 7,36/10 – cp_granary_pro_rc8

The polls below are made to score some of the other maps in contention for the season map pool.

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EssentialsTF are gearing up with the next instalment of DreamHack TF2 Community Clash EU. This time around they are featuring a $2400 prize pool main tournament and introducing a Newcomer tournament with a $90 prize pool. Both tournaments will take place over two weekends, beginning on June 12th and 13th with the Swiss Group Stage and continuing on June 19th and 20th with the playoffs stage culminating with the grand finals. Any team may sign up to the Main Tournament while the Newcomer tournament has limitations on league division experience and official match count. There are about 5 days left to sign up to both tournaments. Signups end on June 11th at 1am CEST.

For more information on the maps, schedule, rules and more, head over to clash.tf or the EssentialsTF Discord Server.

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After 3 delirious weeks of nations coming together and fighting to scary close results teams have made their way out of the group stages in to the Round of 16.

With France and Netherlands each winning a map when they met resulting in a tied score for the highest seed in group C, alongside Portugal drawing with Sweden when they met in group E, these countries still have to play a tiebreaker to figure out their final position in their respective groups and go through to the next round if a tiebreaker game has not been played already.

Tiebreakers will be played as a Best of 3 in the upcoming week and the Round of 16 will start on June 13th, or earlier even if these matches get played sooner!

Following the playoffs during the Round of 16, teams will be paired against teams in their nearby group for the quarter finals as shown in the bracket below.

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Staff Changes

We are sad to announce that quintosh is retiring from his position as Head Anti-Cheat admin and will be leaving the Anti-Cheat team entirely. The expertise he gained and applied in this field while supporting the team for so many years on ETF2L was highly appreciated by all and he was able to pass down a lot of his knowledge to those following in his steps. His dedication to the cause of keeping ETF2L cheater-free and his efforts in upholding high standards in case work and improving relations with the community will not be forgotten.

Unfortunately his departure is not the only one as thaZu and nash have also left the ETF2L staff. We thank them all for their work and wish them the best in their future endeavours!

As for happy news, Faust has successfully completed his trial as a League Admin. Both Biohazard and JENNY have also proved their mettle as Anti-Cheat Admin trials and will be joining our team.
With the position of Head Anti-Cheat now being vacant, Samus receives a promotion and will resume her former role.

Bans

PLEASE NOTE THAT SOME OF THESE BANS WERE ENACTED BEFORE THE RELEASE OF THIS NEWSPOST! SOME BANS WERE APPLIED WHILE THE OLD CHEATING BAN POLICY WAS STILL ACTIVE.

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