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Faint — So as we are switching over to cast the game between  LDLC vs  CIDO, the competition to correctly guess the first round time of cp_snakewater will apply for this new game instead of the Outsiders vs Team Insolence game. All current guesses will carry over into this game instead. If you want to change your guess because of the different game, please do so before the end of the first map (badlands).

LDLC.com

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Cido

ETF2L Season 11: Week 1 (Division 2B)

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TIME

• Monday January 30th
• 21:15 cet
• 15:15 est (na)
• 05:15 est (aus)

CASTED BY

• VanillaTV Livestream
• VanillaTV Mumble

SOURCETV

• relay.vanillatv.org:27100

Who will win this match?

• Cido (77%, 34 Votes)
  
• LDLC.com (23%, 11 Votes)
  

Total Voters: 44

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cp_snakewater2-3

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Trell — Vanilla TV swing back into regular action tonight with  Comedian and  Chaplain bringing you coverage of the Division 2C game between Outsiders and Team Insolence.  This week 1 game should prove to be an engaging spectacle, with OutSiders relatively new to ETF2L, having only previously participated in the one night foundry cup prior to Season 11, and Team Insolence having been dropped into division 2C after coming third in Division 3b in Season 10.

More information on how you could get your sweaty mitts on a free Steam Mobile key after the jump!  

Trent — The third epic 6v9 showdown will be taking place in the early hours of February 12th.

Kharne — Team Fortress 2 comes to our Spring LAN again and we are continuing to support the community by putting up a prize fund of at least £600 if 8 or more teams attend. Like all of our other tournaments this prize pot will scale up – so encourage more teams to show up and you will see more money which will be paid out to more teams: Get to 64 teams and even the top 8 win something!

But that’s not the most exciting part, the winning team earns 6 tickets to insomnia46! Our summer LANs are the Mecca of TF2 globally – last summer our tournament was the biggest ever seen and we look to repeat this at insomnia46 in 2012.

Team Infused - Winners of i44

Further information after the jump.

Admirable — Last night we saw the Premiership get off to a punctual, yet flaccid start with the might Epsilon eSports riding roughshod over well-intentioned Tryharders in a 6-1 6-1 stompfest.  Some would say that the top level of our competitive scene is a in a state of transition, whilst others have already called the time of death, so I have set off on the hunt for some juicier fixtures for you, the loyal spectators, to feast upon.

In my daily routine of circling over VanillaTF2 and the ETF2L like some sort of  cyber vulture, waiting to peck the eyes of unsuspecting nerds on their last legs, I spotted an intriguing post from Russian millionaire-playboy-philanthropist-come-ETF2L-Admin, Angel.  In it the man behind the Ultiduo revolution, who is never scared to put his money where his mouth is, declares quite matter-of-factly that he will give $200 to the “first man who correctly predict first three places in the right order for group 2B” only to up the stakes again moments later with an additional $300 for the second person to correctly predict the outcome of Division 2B.

Only an hour old and already speculation was rife on the thread about potential match fixing and Angel had once again caught the attention of the community with his random acts of generosity, but that was not all the man with the money had to say on the matter.  A second update came thick and fast with our Russian benefactor announcing that the winner of Division 2B would now receive $600, again from his own pocket!  When forumites inquiries moved to gain some insight to his motives, he offered up the following:

Faint — The winner of the AntLion Audio ModMic is  Rinta for the couple of nice haikus she wrote, although it should be mentioned that  Sonny Black’s entry may have won if it wasn’t for 6 syllables in the first line (damn technicalities!). Ty to all those who entered, and gratz to Rinta!

CanFo — Tonight Team Infused and Epsilon eSports will battle out who gets six Sparkle GTS 450 1024MB 128bit DDR5 One Slot graphics cards, in the final of the invite bracket of the   Excello Sparkle TF2 Winter Warmup Tournament (I challenge the casters to read out this sentence without mistakes). I would like to take this opportunity to thank all teams that participated in both the open, and invite bracket, and made this tournament the biggest TF2 tournament at Excello so far with 52 teams participating. But now back to the final!

VanillaTV will be casting tonight’s match with  ThePledge and  nvc on the mics, with nvc running the stream as well. Casting will start shortly after 21:00 CET!

Epsilon eSports F2, KnoxXx, GeaR, stefan, wltrs, randa

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Team Infused flisko, cookye, numlocked, Greg, dunc, Mike

Excello Sparkle TF2 Winter Warmup Invite - Grand Finals

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TIME

• Thursday January 19th
• 21:15 cet
• 15:15 est (na)
• 05:15 est (aus)

CASTED BY

• HiScore.tv
• VanillaTV Livestream
• VanillaTV Mumble
• TF2World.Ru TV

SOURCETV

• relay.vanillatv.org:27100
• relay.vanillatv.org:27101

Who will win this match?

• Epsilon eSports (65%, 105 Votes)
  
• Infused.Tt (35%, 56 Votes)
  

Total Voters: 161

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cp_badlands4-5VanillaTV

cp_granary6-1VanillaTV

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Faint — Tonight sees the start of the Invite bracket of the Excello Sparkle Winter Warmup TF2 Cup.

With the winner of last night’s open bracket   Karnage eSports gaining the 7th seed, they face off against  Infused.Tt. This gives the newly formed Karnage a chance to show what they can pull off against a top prem team.

Elsewhere  Crack Clan gets a chance to show themselves back in form against exotic, and  Epsilon eSports face  Team Decerto which should be a simple game for the former of the two (in theory at least).

The last of the quarter-finals features  Broder against  Yoyotech, which should be a cracking game and will give the newly promoted teams another chance to battle it out.

Torden — We’re great at pointing out when something is wrong, and often rightly so. -But, I’d like to point out something right, the swiftness of ETF2L’s current affairs, players of last season and the commencement of the next. Before they’re gone “like tears in the rain”, here’s a list of those you voted the most worthy of season 10:

•  MVP  + Scout of the Season:  Schocky (Epsilon)
•  Soldier of the Season:  Mike (Infused)
•  Medic of the Season:  F2 (Epsilon)
•  Off-classer of the Season:  wltrs (Epsilon)
•  Demoman of the Season:  numlocked (Infused)
• —-
•  Upcoming Talent of the Season:  wwww (Team Insolence)
•  Best Premier Division Debut of the Season:  Quad (Infused)
•  Most Surprisingly Good Team of the Season:  Crack Clan

b0nes — It’s a good time for us active tf2 players and clan leaders, I personally relish the chance to play as many comps as possible to keep tf2 interesting for me and my friends. Both etf2l and Wireplay have opened signups for new seasons. Obviously I work for wireplay and although etf2l is the king tf2 leagues, I believe there is room in many peoples lives for 2 simultaneously running leagues.

Both leagues have offered players an input on maps and I would expect the outcome would be a pretty similar format for both, however still offering a different enough experience to make them stand apart. Etf2l starts on the 22^nd and Wireplay slightly later on the 30^th with signups closing sooner. Please help spread the word.

See the sites for full info:
http://www.etf2l.org/
http://tf2.wireplay.co.uk/

CanFo — So far 46 teams have signed up for the open bracket of the Sparkle TF2 Winter Warmup Tournament, including big names such as BLAST, Quarantine, Karnage and Team Decerto. That is absolutely huge for the Team Fortress 2 scene – if all of these teams check in and show up! We would like to remind you that in order to participate all team owners have to check in from 19.00 to 19.30 CET on the excello site. On the spot at 19.00 CET the “SIGN-UP” button in the right menu bar will change into a “CHECK-IN” button. By clicking on that button you will be checked in. Sounds easy? It is! You may as well check in on the tournament page. See a picture of the button here.

If your team owner can not make the time for whatever reason (and only then!), you may contact an admin in our IRC channel #excello.tf2 and ask to be checked in by an admin. We also recommend you to have a representative in #excello.tf2 at the duration of the tournament to get in touch with your opponent and be updated about any last minute changes. The result always has to be submitted by the losing team or posted in our IRC channel.

The number of probably more than 32 teams will mean that the teams with a high seed get a “bye” in the first round and will start playing at 20.45 CET. The teams with the lower seeds start playing with cp_foundry at 20.00 CET (note: this only applies if more than 32 teams check in). Please note that there is currently a bug on cp_foundry that will cause the timelimit not to kick in after 30 minutes. Be aware of that and stop playing after 30 minutes! Complaints regarding this matter will require an uploaded demo from the match.

CommanderX - Its Sunday and its time for the first Pirate Radio show of the new year, unfortunately I will start this post with some bad news,  djc has decided to take a step back from the podcast, and as such we will have a new co-host alongside Greg  and myself tonight. Where we return with the latest scene news and gossip, take a look at the latest player transfers, analyse and discuss the cups and take a look at the ETF2L Season 10 Awards.
Tune in at 22:30 CET for another night of entertainment and to find out who our new addition to the podcast will be!

Connect to the mumble at fakkelbrigade.eu:64740

Skyride will also be streaming it for those of you to lazy to connect to mumble. Go www.twitch.tv/GregBushell

For a list of previous episodes check out our thread on ETF2L
Part1:  http://www.twitch.tv/gregbushell/b/304922389
Part2: http://www.twitch.tv/gregbushell/b/304925723

Leftism — With regular writer Torden unavailable due to work commitments, it’s been left to baddies like me to provide some form of post. According to m0re, a TF2 tournament at winter assembly looks to be off the cards. With this news, top level TF2 has lost one of it’s iconic teams: Team Dignitas, formerly Power Gaming, have folded – we’re unsure as to whether the lack of a winter LAN in Finland is the main reason behind it although as these articles are interactive and a constant development I’m sure some comments can help enlighten us on the situation.

The teams Scouts, cookye and longas, are in the process of finding a new team with the Finn having joined newly promoted Broder and the Spaniard making a recruitment post on ETF2L. Longas also confirmed in IRC that the remaining members of Dignitas, hocz; hymzi; kyynel & Haza, have no intention of playing TF2 anymore. He also confirmed the lack of a winter assembly was the sole reason behind the team folding.

Team Dignitas announcement

Although unconfirmed (from a reliable source, anyway), news of CKRAS is making it’s way down the grapevine – keep us posted on this development.

Update #1: M0re responds:

I’ve never said to anyone that I’m leaving ckras/tf2, neither that we would fold.

So there you have it, directly from the source!

Update #2: It would appear cookye has found himself a new full time spot at Infused.Tt alongside Greg and replacing pistol extraordinaire  quad. The main reason behind this change is that the Dane is unable to attend the upcoming insomnia events, i45 and i46, due to real life issues and the team wish to run a player they can take to LAN with them.