The fixtures for the The Fresh Meat Challenge #2 are now released! The fixtures and tables can be seen within the competition tab in the ribbon. If your team isn’t included too many players on your team had a too high skill level to participate in the cup. The same goes for individual players removed from your roster.

Groups

The groups have been made and due to the high amount NA teams signing up we decided to make a group solely for NA teams. These teams are not forced to play their games on EU servers and within the EU timeframe during the group phase. As always you can reschedule the time and date of the game with your opponent. The following is a reminder of the general schedule for the duration of the group phase.

Group Stage

Week 1: 09.04. – 14.04.  cp_snakewater_final1 & cp_gullywash_final1
Week 2: 16.04. – 21.04. cp_gullywash_final1 & koth_product_rc8
Week 3: 23.04. – 28.04. koth_product_rc8 & cp_process_final
Week 4: 30.04. – 05.05. cp_process_final & cp_sunshine

We have divided the teams into 4 groups. One group of 12 North American teams, of which the top 5 teams will qualify for the knockout stages (playoffs).
The remaining 60 EU teams were split into 3 groups of 20. The best 9 teams will make playoffs, which leaves us with a playoff bracket of 32 teams once the group stage commenced.

RGL’s choice to introduce No restrictions into their league was a bold decision, however after seeing the success of the tournament we would like to announce that we will be looking towards a similar format for our main 6s and HL seasons!

So without further ado, in this post we will be announcing 6v6 Season 33!

Season Schedule

• Signups: 10th – 24th May 21 CEST
• Publishing of Provisional Divisions: May 25th
• Publishing of Final Divisions: May 26th
• Pre-Season Premiership Qualifiers: 18th – 25th May
• Main Season: 6th May – 12th July
• Playoffs: 4th July – 1st August

Unlocks and Map Pool

Map pool

• cp_process_final
• pl_upward
• koth_product_rc9
• cp_gullywash_final1
• koth_lakeside_final
• cp_sunshine
• cp_prolands_b6

Unlocks

There is no whitelist! Every weapon in the game is allowed!

Rule Changes

With this new approach the following rule will be changing:

2.1.1 Classlimits: 6on6 – Medic, Heavy, Engineer, Sniper, Pyro and Demoman limit 1, Classlimit 2 for other classes (Scout, Soldier and Spy)

Classlimits for 6on6 competitions are Medic limit 1, Heavy limit 1, Engineer limit 1, Sniper limit 1, Pyro limit 1, Demoman limit 1 and Limit 2 for other classes.

To:

2.1.1 Classlimits: There are no classlimits! You can play whatever needed!

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Staff Changes

We are sad to announce that our friend Menty has left our League Admin ranks. We wish good luck for them in their future endeavors.

Provisional Schedules

As our tradition, every 3 months we have (at least attempted to have) published our method of scheduling, meaning that we will be posting the provisional plans for the following 6 months every 3 months in a newspost. This post covers the period ranging from approximately 1 April 2019 – 31 September 2019. These posts only cover regular season events and do not cover Nations Cups, Preseason Cups or any other spontaneous or surprise events.

Season 33

Signups: 10th – 24th May
Premiership Qualifiers: 18th – 25th May
Publishing of Final divisions: 25th May
Main Season: 26th May – 12th July
Playoffs: 14th July – 1st August

Highlander Season 19

Signups: 28th June – 12th July
Premiership Qualifiers: 6th – 13th July
Final divisions: 13th July
Main Season: 14th July – 16th August
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Playoffs: 25th August – 13th September

Season 34

Signups: 6th September – 20th September
Premiership Qualifiers: 14th – 21st September
Final divisions: 21st September
Main Season: 22nd September – 8th November
Playoffs: 10th November – 29th November

Please note that these dates are provisional and a subject to change!

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Welcome everyone to the conclusion of the 32nd season of ETF2L 6v6 for Open, Low, Mid, Division 2, Division 1 and Premiership.

We hope you enjoyed the matches, and for the teams that made it through, congratulations.

All tiers will have playoffs, all playoff matches will be using the Map Elimination system. Note that all dates are estimates and teams are able to negotiate other days by scheduling with their opponents.

If you find yourself on the list of these teams expect an admin to add you and request your availability if there is no information or insufficient information is given we will have to decide your match dates for you. Keep in mind that we will try and accommodate both teams, but the match date may still vary from your provided days if for example none of the days matches with your opponent’s, but your opponent offered more days than you did. Deadlines listed for the matches are flexible and may be changed in certain situations if admins are contacted about allowing extensions on these.

Schedule

For Division 2, Mid, Low and Open tiers, the schedule for the playoff matches will be the following.

• Quarter-final matches will be played from 17th – 24th March.
• Semi-Finals will be played from 24th – 31st March.
• Grand Finals will be played from 31st March – 7th April.

For Premiership and Division 1, the schedule for the playoff matches will be the following.

• Upper Bracket Round 1 matches will be played from 17th – 22nd March.
• UBF/LBR1 will be played from 23rd – 28th March.
• LBF will be played from 29th March – 2nd April.
• Grand Finals will be played from 3rd – 7th April.

Premiership

For Premiership we’re going with 4 teams in the playoffs with double elimination. All matches except the Grand Finals, which will be a BO5 with a map pick advantage for the team winning the upper bracket final, will be played as BO3.

1. Se7en
   • 33 points
2. ComedyShortsGaming
   • 32 points
3. SVIFT
   • 20 points
4. Faint Gaming
   • 15 points

Matches:

Upper Bracket Round 1 matches will be played from 17th – 22nd March.

UBR1 #1: Se7en vs Faint Gaming
UBR1 #2: ComedyShortsGaming vs SVIFT

Winners of these matches will face off against each other in an Upper Bracket Final match, while the losers of these matches will play against each other in a Lower Bracket Round 1 match.

UBF/LBR1 will be played from 23rd – 28th March.

LBF will be played from 29th March – 2nd April.

Grand Finals will be played from 3rd – 7th April.

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Tell me if this sounds familiar, you are new to competitive TF2 and:

• You want to play competitive TF2 but you are afraid you’re not good enough.
• You want to play competitive TF2 but you find it hard to find a team.
• You want to play competitive TF2 but you have no idea what you’re doing.

Welcome to the long overdue second edition of the Fresh Meat Challenge! Here we host a second edition designed mainly for those NEW TO COMPETITIVE TF2.

However those who are long-standing members of ETF2L, we need your help as well, there will be hundreds of new players in need of guidance and we’re calling on you to be the ones to offer them insight on how to play the 6v6 format.

If you’re organizing a team for this event we recommend looking for an experienced player to help you out. We also recommend that you read through our match guide to get a good understanding of how matches tend to go.

Prizes

We’re still looking at possibilities but for now there are medals! Medals are decided by who is on the roster when the rosters get locked (May 5th). Your team may not have dropped from the competition.

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