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Arie — Live tonight on VanillaTV, the first day of the Team Colonslash Cup featuring cp_quay.

It doesn’t happen often that we see new maps added to the competitive map pool, and the ones that do often fall out of grace soon after (cp_obscure, cp_freight, cp_fastlane). Choiie‘s new map, cp_quay, is looking to be a new map for the pool.

We caught op with choiie and asked him why we should care about cp_quay:

VanillaTF2.org: You made cp_snakewater which had a pretty good run since august 2011. Some of the high lever players seem to dislike snakewater lately, do you think cp_quay will replace snakewater or do you expect it to be added alongside it?

choiie: Well, I have to admit I haven’t heard any major negative response on Snakewater before, but I suppose the day had to come… I feel like the maps being played are solely decided by how fun people think they are – if people enjoy playing pcws and officials on a map it will stay in the rotation; and thus far it seems like people enjoy Quay more than ever Snakewater (mostly due to the problematic last point). But anyone who knows me knows I’m more than happy to go back and revise when I receive feedback, and as a matter of fact I’ve made some secret changes to Snakewater in the past few months. If players still enjoy the map, I’m more than happy to keep updating it if need be. To answer your question more directly – Quay isn’t a new Snakewater, but I hope it can bring something different to the current map pool if people like it!

beach — That’s correct ladies and gents, as Season 14 begins, the 6th Cup is coming to an end.

Epsilon eSports basH, stefan, Mike, Mitsy, numlocked, KnoxXx

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Lutuset Spudge, Tumpelol, M0re, Jose, Rake, Santtu

ETF2L 6th Cup Grand Final

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TIME

• Wednesday January 30th
• 20:00 cet
• 14:00 est (na)
• 04:00 est (aus)

CASTED BY

• VanillaTV Livestream
• VanillaTV Mumble

SOURCETV

• No source tv information available

Who will win this match?

• Epsilon eSports (85%, 40 Votes)
  
• Lutuset (15%, 7 Votes)
  

Total Voters: 47

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Tonight, the Grand Final of the 6th Cup will take place between the current giant of European TF2,  Epsilon eSports, and Finnish squad  Lutuset. Before I talk about the game to come, read on after the jump to see how the teams secured those Final spots through the Best of 3 stage.

CanFo — Are you ready for some Team Fortress 2 action? Excello is back after a short break with a new ZOWIE TF2 Challenge IV tournament!

The ZOWIE TF2 Challenge IV will be the seventh sponsored Team Fortress 2 tournament at Excello. ZOWIE Gear provides 6 ZOWIE Swift mousepads for the winning team.

The signups for the open tournament, held on Tuesday, June 5, are open from now on until the check-in starts. The maximum slots are 32.

Faint —After last night’s decisive victory over  Crack Clan, Team Infused look to secure a place in the Grand Final of Angel’s Cup, where the winner of tonight’s game will face  Epsilon eSports. With €750 on the line for the winner of the grand final though, Crack Clan aren’t likely to give this one up without a fight.

The odds seemed to be stacked against them following a crushing defeat last night against the very same team, but as Crack Clan seem to perform better when they are the underdogs, this could be a good one…

On VanillaTV’s Open Mic tonight,  Greg will be joined by the one and only  Poop, with Comedian on the stream – fresh from a relaxing casting session at i45 ;)

All of the interesting stuff starts at 21:15 CET. Don’t be late!

Team Infused dunc, numlocked, flisko, Mike, Cookye, JoeyC

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Crack Clan Royze, Retshock, Matnun, Pescanova, Bash, Longas

Esports Heaven Angels Cup LB Final

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TIME

• Thursday May 10th
• 21:15 cest
• 15:15 edt (na)
• 05:15 est (aus)

CASTED BY

• VanillaTV Livestream
• VanillaTV Mumble

SOURCETV

• 145.92.203.100:27100

Who will win this match?

• Team Infused (70%, 31 Votes)
  
• Crack Clan (30%, 16 Votes)
  

Total Voters: 44

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cp_gullywash5-0

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Trath — It was supposed to be yet another regular Sunday, but then out of the blue Team Dignitas – the organization, not the team (there is no team) made an announcement: they will be hosting a 1 day cup for TF2, which being kindly sponsored by Alienware, means cash prizes. Sui – the guy that lets you know of all sorts of Dignitas related news on IRC, casually spilled out the announcement that there is a TF2 cup, and linked to a page with specifics. You can check out the Cup page, filled with all information needed such as how to sign up, cup rules, what to do on game day, etc – here.

(More info after the jump)

Trell — As The Lich from Dota 2 would say after a failed ultimate, ‘Not my best work!’ and this phrase is rather apt for tonight.  This post itself is a little late due to finding a team to cast, and secondly, it’s going to be VERY light on information – until we know the seeds for the games tonight, we can’t actually let we know what we’ll be casting!

Suffice to say, what I CAN tell you right now is that our team will consist of  Warden on the stream, with  Admirable and  CommanderX casting.  Also, I know that coverage will start from roughly 20 CEST onwards.

Matches will be posted below.

Cup Admin  Galant has this to add:

Check-in is open now! Please read this manual: http://goo.gl/fXO1L

If at the end of check-in phase (19:50 CET) we don’t have 32 teams – Perilous will play (they are actually in the waiting list at this moment). If you want to play – please sign up, you are welcome, cos we probably won’t have all teams online tonight.

CanFo — As some of you may already know the planned 5v5 cup has been cancelled due to lack of participation. Simply too few wanted to take part in the experiment – part of that might have been the Angel-sponsored cup that has been announced shortly after the first announcement of the Velociraptor Challenge.

The cup is not cut from Esportsheaven though, just postponed and reworked! In association with Western Digital, we are happy to (re)announce the Velociraptor Challenge! They will be providing 6 (yes, six!) of the newest SATA hard disks equipped with a 32MB cache and running at an amazing 10,000RPM. Not only will they be providing these unrivalled puppies, they will also be providing €250 for the winner!

The setup will be the most traditional setup for Team Fortress 2 that we could think of: 6 players on each team will battle it out. Demomen, medics and heavies are limited to 1, rest to 2. No unlocks bar Blutsauger, Übersaw, Kritzkrieg, Crusader’s Crossbow and the Original are allowed. The map pool consists of nothing else but the ever-repeating cp_badlands, cp_granary, cp_snakewater, cp_gullywash_final1 and cp_gravelpit. No surprises, just TF2.

Tournament Details

• Maximum teams: 64
• Sign-ups: 3rd April – 16th April
• Date: 16th April – 21st May
• Format: Double-elimination Cup, 6v6, Class Limit 1 for demoman, medic and heavy, Class Limit 2 for all other classes
• Admins:  Crasp,  CanFo,  huhy
• Sponsor: Western Digital
• Prizes: 1st place : 6x 300GB SATA HDD’s and €250 cash
• Rules: [link]
• Sign up: [link]
• IRC: #esportsheaven (on irc.quakenet.org)