Season 30 sponsored by STN-Trading & scrap.tf is officially over!

Congratulations to Se7en for defending their ETF2L title and taking home 1000 € on top!

The winning squad is comprised of:

• seeds (Medic)
• kaidus (Demoman)
• adysky (Soldier)
• amppis (Soldier)
• credu (Scout)
• Thalash (Scout)

Right behind our old and new champions SVIFT.mc placed second winning 650 € with the 3rd place being awarded to  the bin (175 €).

Although we all enjoy watching top-notch Team Fortress 2 gameplay, ETF2L is not only about the Premiership Tier. The following teams placed top of their tables in the lower tiers:

Division 1

1.  – Flush Agency Headquarters
2.  – Quaint Gaming
3.  – got a point!!!
3.  – Foreskings

Thanks to generous item donations by you guys to our ETF2L Steam account,  Flush Agency Headquarters will be awarded 41 keys for winning our second highest tier! Congratulations!

Division 2

1.  – SLED GANG
2.  – throw sum mo
3.  – :Blinky:
3.  – Animate

Mid Tier

1.  – Spacemen
2.  – monkey business
3.  – Louis van Gaal's Army
3.  – KNOPPERS

Low Tier

1.  – ЦИРК УРОДОВ
2.  – Lucky Lukes
3.  – Spy Boys
3.  – The Compound

Open Tier

1.  – h0t b0ys
2.  – Vague
3.  – Meat Department
3.  – tik is bi

Season 30 sponsored by STN-Trading and scrap.tf: Awards

Due to Insomnia 63 the casting / streaming organisations had no opportunity to host an awardshow. Since we have no time anymore to schedule one at this point, here is a simple list of the award winning gamers:

•  Best Player of the Season: Thalash
•  Demoman of the Season:  kaidus
•  Medic of the Season:  seeds
•  Pocket of the Season:  amppis
•  Roamer of the Season:  adysky
•  Scout of the Season:  Thalash
•  Off-classer of the Season:  Mon
•  Best Premier Division Debut of the Season:  shampain
•  Caster of the Season:  Beater

Congratulations to all award winning teams and players!

Shoutout to our sponsors!

Last but not least, we would like to thank STN-Trading and scrap.tf for their support during Season 30! Make sure to check out their services in the future!

Season 31 is just around the corner. Make sure you gather your players and be on the lookout for that announcement!

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Welcome everyone to the conclusion of the 16th season of ETF2L Highlander 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 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 match with your opponent, 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 Mid, Low and Open tiers, the schedule for the playoff matches will be the following.

• Quarter final matches will be played from 26th August – 1st September.
• Semi Finals will be played from 2nd – 8th September.
• Grand Finals will be played from 9th – 15th September.

For Premiership, Division 1 and Division 2 we are going with single elimination bubble bracket, the schedule for the playoff matches will be the following.

• The Semi Final results must be submitted by 5th of September and the grand finals must be played by 15th of September. If you need to play outside of these dates contact an admin.

Premiership

Matches:

As  Feila eSports slim shady edition lost head to head against  Strong Opinions they will face  open_squad in the Semi Final.

Semi Final: Feila eSports slim shady edition vs open_squad

The losers of this match will be knocked out, while the winners will advance to the grand final to play against Strong Opinions.

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The best team in Europe right now is Se7en, but who are the best individual performers?
Their premiership level peers decided who has the honor to be nominated… However, it is up to YOU to determine the winners of each category!

So without any further ado:

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The European Team Fortress 2 League and its sponsors STN-Trading and scrap.tf distance themselves from the behavior of two premiership players, Pred and gedu, on the social media platform Twitter. The aforementioned individuals are in no way representatives of our league, its staff or its community. We strictly condemn any kind of racism, sexism or intolerance towards people of different cultures, religions, countries, genders or sexual orientation. Our entire staff is shocked by the abuse that one of our most respected and loved members of this community had to suffer and feels nothing but compassion for uberchain.

Like everyone else we believe it is our duty to take action in the matter. However, it is important to consider that neither  Pred or  gedu, as insulting and disgusting as their behavior was, have broken any match or forum rules. The offence in question happened on a third party service without an affiliation to ETF2L or the TF2 community. Unlike professional esport leagues we do not have any kind of contract with our teams and players that would have been broken. The expectation of some to remove these players from the league altogether cannot be met.

That said: premiership players, while not being representatives of the league, often function as role models for beginners and younger players. We cannot and will not let this matter simply slide. We want to raise everyone’s awareness of toxic behavior inside our small community and call out the people responsible for creating an unpleasant environment.

Behaving in such a way will not be rewarded.
Thus, as a result of their actions, gedu will not be eligible to nominate or be nominated for the Season 30 sponsored by STN-Trading & scrap.tf award polls.

We will also be issuing the following bans:

gedu will be banned from all ETF2L competitions for 2 months.
Pred will be banned from all ETF2L competitions until the end of the year.

Furthermore, the bin– who Pred is a leader for and hence is a representative of the team – will only be awarded 50% of their prize money for season 30. The other half of €175 in total will be donated to a charity of  uberchain‘s choice which supports victims of sexual harassment and abuse. Our sponsors as well as  uberchain have welcomed the idea of sending a message this way. We are aware that this is only a small gesture, but a signal like this can go a long way.

Reconsidering our approach

The events of this week will have us relook at our rules and policies. In the past some violations of our rules regarding verbal abuse and harassment have not been followed up on thoroughly. We will question ourselves, our rules and the punishment for violations of those for the future. At the time of this post being published there are already plans to huddle up with other community websites and services in order to work out a community-wide report system.

Toxicity and discrimination have no place in our league and our community!

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10 years ago, 4kings was the first team to win an etf2l season, defeating FoF in two close maps on ctfturbine and cpwell. At the time, there was no proper playoffs phase, a very different whitelist and a very different map pool. Yet despite all this, the same eagerness to win inhabits the players from 10 years ago and the ones from today. Se7en versus SVIFT is only the latest example of such dedication to the game. Recently, Se7en has been said by many to be weakened by its recent roster changes and is still adapting to having Starkie on Medic. SVIFT, on the other hand, has managed to greatly improve over the season and was able to take a map from Se7en in the Upper Bracket Finals, but the team is still struggling against an incredibly cohesive and experienced Se7en.
With such teams meeting in the finals, we can expect the game to be close and the winner might simply be determined by the sheer willingness to win from one of them.
Can SVIFT dethrone Se7en and win a 2nd etf2l season or will Se7en, once again, prove its worth as the dominant force of Europe? To find out the winner of etf2l Season 30, join https://www.twitch.tv/teamfortresstv at 20:45 CEST.

Play-by-play: GrunpyKoi | Analysis: DuMmTm | Production: Beater | Pre/post analysis: Eemes | Match Page | Se7en | SVIFT.mc | Written by Wylenn

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