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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 — 1 prem spot, 5 contenders?

Update: Added news about Equilibrium reform, above Rejects. Also added Clippen comment.

The pre season mating period has officially kicked off, as vibrant as ever. Last season, Crack Clan had a pretty clear edge on getting the free promotion. This time around, it’s more difficult to predict – and not from the lack of hopefuls. Quarantine, Decerto, Exotic, Karnage and Taimou’s new crew are now on a path to a brawl to figure out who’s best of the rest. Here’s the insight.

Torden — Before they folded, Torn Productions’ Decap was in the works of making them a frag movie. He didn’t get to complete it, but he rendered it out and the frags do the talking!

Torden — YES, it’s time for another interactive article where I write some stuff and you clever people correct me. After the jump, changes in Yoyotech, Dignitas, CKRAS, Broder and Crack Clan.

Update: Drosophile replaces Origo for Yoyotech, Cyber is getting replaced by Kaidus – Linus explains. Also, Yyt now officially prem
Update: CKRAS’ shake up is now confirmed, more details after the jump.
Update: Blight returns to German TF2. Trell has all the details:

Trell — basH caught me on IRC earlier today to dish out some juicy gossip (note: may not be gossip to some of you :P).

Hey! We’re really happy about joining blight-gaming again.Since we have a full lineup now were ready to train a lot and ofcourse prepare for season 11.

I’m pretty sure we can reach a lot with this team soon and with the blight support we gonna try to get to the important events.

James “blackfoger” larsen of Blight Gaming had this to say:

I have worked with Bash and Viqun in the past, both excellent players they just need the right management behind them to become a top team again. Glad I get to work with these german powerhouses. I can’t wait to send these guys to LAN hopefully soon here. There playstyle is very unique to what our american counterparts are use to. Now we have Blight TF2 EU back under our banner.

The lineup:

Lukas “basH” Stauffenberg
Timo “Thy” Krüger
Tim “Viqun” Sijpkens
Tommy “KLar” Schneider
Tomas “Thun” Unsleber
Samuel “smZI” Niebiossa
Gabriel “Shifty” Braun

I did ask the obvious question, why no marco?  basH’s answer was simply: “He’s gone.  To BF3.  I think.”  Another casualty of war :(

Trell — Tonight sees  Broder take on  Yoyotech in the ETF2L Division 1 playoff final.  The winner of this game grabs a coveted Premiership spot for next season – and as if that wasn’t excitement enough, tonight’s cast is provided by  ThePledge and  nvc!

Broder Zebbosai, Macisum, Jukebokks, Prozak, Torden, Fanva

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Yoyotech TheSucker, Origo, Hat, Linus, Cyber, Tviq

ETF2L Season 10 Division 1 Finals

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• Tuesday December 6th
• 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

Who will win this match?

• Broder (61%, 136 Votes)
  
• Yoyotech (39%, 94 Votes)
  

Total Voters: 224

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These two teams have consistently proven that they are by far the cream of this years Division 1 talent (albeit with Broder facing stiff competition from Exotic) and fully deserve to be in the playoff final versus each other.

Join us from 21:15 CET for what will prove to be a thrilling encounter, and ThePledge’s official debut on VanillaTV!

Trell — It’s time to shed a tear and say goodbye to Season 10 of ETF2L’s Premiership league.  Tonight sees the final game play out (before the playoffs, that is), between this season’s surprise overperformers from Spanrael,  Crack Clan and those crafty Finns,  CKRAS.

With  Infused winning both maps over  equilibrium last night, they’re currently sitting pretty at the top of the Premiership, meaning that Crack Clan need to win both maps tonight.  This would then put them joint second on top of the table, however, it would mean they have won one more map than Infused, and according to a little chat I had with Crasp yesterday morning, this may just be enough to allow them to take the top spot and best seeding for the winner playoffs.  EDIT: Apparently, according to ETF2L admins, if CC and Infused end on the same points (ie, CC win both maps cleanly tonight, then they’ll have to play a seperate game vs each other to see who takes 1st spot and the best seeding!

Crack Clan Royze, HarryHook, PescaNova, matnuN, Retshock, EstaniS

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CKRAS Gaming Honky, M0re, Santtu, paavi, TucE, Zappis

ETF2L Season 10, week 7

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TIME

• Wednesday November 16th
• 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?

• Crack Clan (80%, 16 Votes)
  
• CKRAS Gaming (20%, 5 Votes)
  

Total Voters: 20

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Continue reading for some of the highlights of the past season!

Trell — As the dust settles, and Season 10 of ETF2L prepares to ride off into the sunset, the top 4 teams are all gearing up for one final push with their final game of the season, starting tonight.  2 matches tonight will shake the table up a little, however, if results go according to expectations, not much should differ.

We’ll see current 4th placed  Relic play 3rd placed  Epsilon over cp_badlands and cp_snakewater.  If Relic manage a 2-0 win then they’ll move up to 3rd place, but this will do little to help them in the playoff, since under this seasons rules, 3rd plays 4th, the winner of which plays 2nd, whilst the winner of that game goes on to play 1st for the championship.  However, if Epsilon win 2-0, technically they will jump above  Infused to 2nd place in the league**.

VanillaTV will be casting the Relic/Epsilon game with  CB and probably  Tyrone from 21:15 CET, while on the theoretical Main Stage of VanillaTV, we’ll see  Byte and  Sal cover the  Broder vs  Exotic game!

But that’s not the only games tonight, Diggy, CKRAS, Infused and Equilibrium are also all in action!

Trell — Update!  We have one more late night cast for you tonight – more ESH Cup action, with the highly delayed Quarter Final between Yoyotech and Broder being played at 22:45 CET, and casted by VanillaTV.

Join us once again on Own3d.tv from 22:30 CET with the pancake loving  Comedian streaming, and 2 casters!  Read on for the ETF2L playoff information.

Trell — ETF2l Season 10 continues tonight, with some fiery hot Division 1A action between the fine teams of  Broder and  Illegal.

With Broder holding joint second in the Division 1A table under the command of the legendary  Torden (I have to say that, since he vets all posts made with an iron fist), and a clean 2 wins out of 2 games played, this could shape up to be a tough game for the upstarts from Illegal.

I managed to grab a quote from Torden to summarise how he believes the match will play out for Broder:

Unless we screw up, we should win. Their biggest threat was zappis, and now he’s gone. But I’ll be as politically correct as to say we haven’t met them in several weeks.

 xzr is a master of IRC witticism and sharp comebacks, but how will he and his team fare against the well oiled machine of Broder?  Tune in to VanillaTV at 21:15 CEST to see the game unfold live – you can also catch us on Quakenet in #vanillatv.  See you there!

Broder Zebbosai, Jukebokks, Macisum, Fanva, Prozak, Torden

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eNigma xzr, naMu, olliii, Ziit, Salmon, fluffy

ETF2L Season 10 - Division 1A - Week Two

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TIME

• Wednesday October 12th
• 21:15 cest
• 15:15 edt (na)
• 05:15 est (aus)

CASTED BY

• VanillaTV Livestream
• VanillaTV Mumble

SOURCETV

• tf2.team-thermaltake.com:27100
• relay.vanillatv.org:27101

Who will win this match?

• Broder (78%, 62 Votes)
  
• Illegal (22%, 19 Votes)
  

Total Voters: 80

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Torden — A bit of a weird week, as the Vital roster folded, handing the org over to Rejects. Now Fish’ crew is set to rebuild under the old “renoB” name, however with the team being marked as dropped, there’s no official word on their proceedings for week2.

Last week provided no real upsets, whilst showing some interesting stats on badlands vs gully, as all the latter had much more 1 sided games than the former for all 3 match ups. Perhaps most notable, the 5-4 nailbiter between underdog Rejects (now Vital) and favourite broder. This week may make for a change regarding upsets, as Gravel Pit is introduced to the mix, a map sometimes known for providing coin toss results. The 2nd map is Gullywash.

Joining me for predictions this week are Division 1B’s  Drosophile (idk?), Evokje (idk?), Skeej (Visualize Your Enmity), and Hat (Yoyotech).

Torden — Perhaps the biggest change of late comes in the shape of a an FB/Tt fold, but I’ll take matters into my own hands for a more proper obituary later on. In the meantime, there are some immediate effects, who will take their prem spot and where will the remaining players go? -And so starts the latest news post of the type only I can be arsed with writing.