CanFo — After a hopefully dignified Christmas and a happy New Year’s Eve celebration it is now time to work on your New Year’s resolutions. One of mine was to host and admin more Team Fortress 2 competitions.

We are happy to announce the fifth sponsored Team Fortress 2 tournament at Excello – this time with a fresh and new sponsor. The upcoming tournament is sponsored by the graphics chip manufacturer SPARKLE and the winner of the invitational tournament will receive six SPARKLE GTS 450 1024MB 128bit DDR5 One Slot graphics cards.

A sparkle in my eyes

We have no imagination so we came up with a very poor joke (Credit for the picture goes to evokje)

We had the impression that our previous tournament structure that involved an invite-only tournament and an open tournament where the winner qualifies for the invitational tournament is well-received within the community so we will keep it as long as a significiant amount of people starts to moan.

The signups for the open tournament, held on Monday, January 9, are open from now on until the check-in starts. The maximum slots are 64. If it becomes conceivable that we will not have significantly more than 32 signups, we will reduce the slots to 32. Keeping 64 slots means the first round starts with the recently added official new 5cp map cp_foundry. Reducing the slots to 32 means the first round will start with cp_granary, the second features cp_badlands and so on.

The list of the invited teams for the invitational bracket that will be played on Monday, January 16 is:

  • 1 Epsilon eSports
  • 2 Infused.Tt eSports
  • 3 Crack Clan
  • 4 Team Dignitas
  • 5 Relic
  • 6 CKRAS Gaming
  • 7 broder
  • 8 Team Yoyotech
  • 9 Exotic

The teams from this list are hereby invited and have time until Sunday, January 8 to sign up. The top 7 that signed up will make it to the invitational cup. After January 8 it will be “first come, first served” for the remaining invited teams. The teams that do not make it straight into the invitational tournament can still sign up for the open cup to fight for the last spot. If you feel that we overlooked your team but you are doing fairly well against most of the teams mentioned above, apply for an invitation at any admin (see below). Keep in mind though, that you will apply for the 10th spot, therefore your chances of actually making it into the cup are rather slim. In order for your team to appear in the Invitational Cup three teams from the list of invited teams will have to drop.

Please familiarise yourself with the cup rules for the open cup and the invitational cup. You are allowed to use one merc if your opponent agrees. Golden cap rounds for all best-of-one rounds last only 5 instead of 10 minutes to keep the schedule (this obviously only applies to the open challenge).

All teams are again required to check in via click on this very website. The check in will start at 19.00 CET for both tournaments. The fixtures will be generated around 19.30 CET.

For any questions or remarks feel free to contact CanFo, Crasp, huhy or SonnyBlack on #excello.tf2 / quakenet or leave a comment on this post.

For the original newspost at excello.net please see here. To see the announcement about the SPARKLE partnership with Excello please go here.