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Galant — We have launched our russian series of Night Cups right after success of Albert’s Cups during last summer. Since then every cup is gaining 16 teams, the last one – #5 called “New Year Special” (brackets) – has provided interesting games on snow maps (such as old obscure and coldfront) in chase of winning 100$. This time the 6th cup called “PreSeason” will bring again 100$ to the strongest team and games on maps from ETF2L Season 11 map-pool: cp_freight, cp_gullywash, cp_snakewater and cp_granary.

Cup will start today at 18:00 cet. Brackets will be published here.

Our american friend  Salamancer will cast all rounds on his  SalTV, and  competitf TV will mix some lovely music and insight of the game by team  ISIS as far they will proceed in this tournament.

The schedule is next for tonight:

• 18:00 cet – Round 1 – cp_freight_final1
• 18:45 cet – Round 2 – cp_snakewater
• 19:30 cet – Semi-Finals – cp_gullywash_final1
• 20:15 cet – Final, BO3 (can be postponed on Sunday if games will delay)

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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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.

Galant — While there is not so much news in the euro scene, here in snowy Russia we have some action.  TF2World.ru has launched a Russian TF2 league. With more than 40 teams participating it is a great long-term event for russian scene. You can see the full current tables here: link.

But there is more!  We had TF2World Night Cup #5 last Thursday. It was called “New Year Special” and there are only snow maps: old (but still interesting) cp_coldfront, old version of  Byte‘s obscure – cp_obscure_final, and koth_viaduct. Tonight the final will be played. You can find the brackets here. In this match ISIS will meet HoverHands on cp_coldfront and cp_obscure_final with koth_viaduct as the decider.  Salamancer will cast this game for english speaking community, while TF2World TV will cast on russian, and a PoV by  Galant will be streamed live on competiTF TV.

The winner of this cup will get 100$.

HoverHands Rubikon, zef, D1ego$, TroX, krol, kenzi

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International Secret Intelligence Servic Recluse, gdk, mort, FiRE, Galant, DeDoK!

No League TF2World.ru Night Cup #5 Final

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TIME

• Sunday December 25th
• 19:00 cet
• 13:00 est (na)
• 03:00 est (aus)

CASTED BY

• TF2World.Ru TV
• competiTF TV

SOURCETV

• relay.vanillatv.org:27101

Who will win this match?

• International Secret Intelligence Servic (63%, 17 Votes)
  
• HoverHands (37%, 11 Votes)
  

Total Voters: 27

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Crashsite — The aim of the Newbie Mix group has been to help newcomers make the difficult step from public to competitive, to provide the scene with fresh talents for the coming generations of competitive TF2. We have undertaken our biggest attempt yet, a Christmas Cup for newcomers. We’ve already got 48 teams signed up.

For this, we need your help. Most importantly we need Veterans. The way the group works is that for each team of five newbies we give them a Veteran, who will guide them through the basics of competitive TF2.

The cup:

Starts: 19.30cet, Sunday December 18th
Expected 3 day event (based on number of signups)
Group stages of 3 teams each, followed by double elimination
Maps and final details to be announced
Contact: #newbiemix.tf2 (quakenet IRC) or add Chaplain / Crashsite on steam

Crasp —Tonight we bring you some big battles from ETF2L!

Update: Join Salamancer and  Comedian right now as they are covering the rest of the ETF2L One-night cp_croissant cup!

Update: Sal and Torden will cover the Semi finals between Quarantine and Trick17. Due to a bug with the match ticker, here’s the relay: relay.vanillatv.org:27102

The other game between Exotic Island and ISIS is going to be played tomorrow. Exotic gets default win and will meet Quarantine in the final.

Quarantine

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Trick17

Excello Open Cup Semi Finals

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TIME

• Tuesday November 22nd
• 22:15 cet
• 16:15 est (na)
• 06:15 est (aus)

CASTED BY

• VanillaTV Livestream
• VanillaTV Mumble

SOURCETV

• No source tv information available

Who will win this match?

• Quarantine (78%, 29 Votes)
  
• Trick17 (22%, 11 Votes)
  

Total Voters: 37

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wnk1ee — With the ETF2L  and Wireplay seasons coming to an end, to keep the 6v6 boredom away, Zowie gear is hosting a one night open cup tonight!  The winner of this tournament recieves a guaranteed spot in the Excello Zowie TF2 Challenge II invite only cup, on the 28th November with the lowest seeding. The final prize for this tournament is 6x Zowie mousepads.

Currently the turn out for this one night has been poor with only 15 teams signed up, so all teams who still want to compete for a spot in the invite only challenge should sign up now!

Sign up: http://www.excello.net/tournament/1473/

• Check-in: 19.00 CET (18.00 UK)
• Bracket Draw: 19.30 CET (18.30 UK)
• Round of 32: 20 CET (19 UK)
• Round of 16: 20.45 CET (19.45 UK)
• Quarter Finals: 21.30 CET ( 20.30 UK)
• Semi-Finals: 22.15 CET (21.15 UK)
• Final: To be played until the 27th of November
• …………….
• Map pool:
• Round of 32: cp_granary
• Round of 16: cp_badlands
• Quarter Finals: cp_gullywash_final1
• Semi-Finals: cp_snakewater
• Final: Best of 3 and map elimination with cp_gravelpit, cp_snakewater, cp_gullywash, cp_badlands and cp_granary

Trell — Actual cast posts may be a little short on the ground for the next few days; but just so you don’t start thinking that TF2 is dead and do something stupid like moving over to Brink (which I hear now has its own demo function), I thought I’d give you a rundown of what you’ve got to look forward to.

Tomorrow sees Insomnia 44 begin, with the popular TF2 tournament back in full force.  The Grand Final has thankfully been moved back to the Sunday now, and apparently our very own  Byte is going along for casting duties.  More news on this, as well as scheduling times, as we get it.

The Grand Final of the ESH Sapphire cup, where the winner takes home 300 Great British Pounds, and the second place takes 150, will ‘probably’ be played on the 23rd or 24th of this month.   Epsilon eSports and  Relic face off to take home the cash prize, over a Bo3 match, with maps to be decided between the two.  VanillaTV will definitely be casting this, and we’ll also be running a competition to win free games during the match!

The second edition of the Excello Zowie Team Fortress 2 challenge starts next week too, with the Open Cup kicking off on Tuesday 22nd November, and the Invitational Cup starting a week later, on Monday the 28th.  If you haven’t signed up to the Open Cup yet, you have until Monday 21st to put your team down for it.  Remember, winning the Open Cup gets you a guaranteed spot in the Invitational!

 huhy has been working on a Lithuanian only 6v9 Pros vs Pubbers match, to be played on the 26th November.  He’s somehow made it into the Pro side, no one is quite sure how – but we’ll have more information on this as and when we get updated.  Apparently there’s some Valve swag up for grabs too.

The ETF2L Premiership playoffs will be scheduled soon© as well, as you probably know by now, this will involve several games.  Relic will play Epsilon eSports, the winner of which will go on to face a match against  Crack Clan.  The winner of this match then has to play  Infused, who managed to grab first place prior to the playoffs.  Whoever wins in this game is crowned king/queen of Season 10 and gets the bragging rights until next season.  We’ll also see at some point  Broder face off against  Yoyotech to see who plays in the Premiership next season!

Finally,  Crasp reliably informs me that on the 1st December, there will be a one night Croissant cup, which has me imagining the top teams sat around a campfire, eating freshly baked pastry items.  This probably isn’t what he meant.

Leftism — As mentioned previously in the week, Dignitas will be hosting another TF2 Alienware cup. Despite the short notice in which the cup was arranged, the entry list already boasts a number of well known teams with five Premiership and seven Division 1 teams filling up the entry list! The cup will start at around 19:00CEST and VanillaTV will be casting the action. Tune in tonight!

Epsilon eSports

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Team Dignitas

Dignitas Alienware Cup #14 - Final

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TIME

• Sunday October 16th
• 22:00 cest
• 16:00 edt (na)
• 06:00 est (aus)

CASTED BY

• No cast information available

SOURCETV

• No source tv information available

Who will win this match?

• Epsilon eSports (83%, 33 Votes)
  
• Team Dignitas (17%, 8 Votes)
  

Total Voters: 40

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More information after the jump…

Torden — It’s been a while since the last free-for-all cup, this upcoming Sunday Diggy’s own
Sui is giving us what we’re craving for. The spectacle will be covered by VanillaTV, who’ll bring you the maiden voyage of Mvp‘s wild pack of germ’s, alongside prem superstars CKRAS, div1 scrubs Broder, and the all but exiled, tucked away and forgotten, Quarantine.

200 pounds are up for grabs, don’t forget to sign up. After the jump, a summary of all the tournament details, in the words of Sui.

Trent — With the first night as chaotic as expected but highly successful nonetheless, the final rounds of the tournament have been moved forward to tomorrow evening, Saturday the 24th. Tune in to VanillaTV from 1930 CEST tomorrow with Comedian and yours truly Trent for all the action from the most ridiculously pointless form of competitive TF2 you may have ever seen!