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TF2 Action tonight (oh, and win TWO steam mobile keys)

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January 30th Matches
Tagged: div 2c etf2l outsiders steam mobile beta team insolence


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).

fr LDLC.com

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ETF2L Season 11: Week 1 (Division 2B)
(49 comments)
TIME
  • Monday January 30th
  • 21:15 cet
  • 15:15 est (na)
  • 05:15 est (aus)

Who will win this match?

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

Total Voters: 44

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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!  

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ETF2L Division 2B: Chaotech and MIPC in the Clash for the Cash

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January 25th Matches
Tagged: Angel Chaotech etf2l mipc vanillatv


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:

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ETF2L Premiership kicks off: Epsilon are not Tryharders

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January 24th Matches
Tagged: epsilon etf2l tryharders


Trath — Well the first Premiership match of the season is here.  Who would have thought that Prem teams would actually play their games on time? It is a new age for TF2!  Truth be told – this dosen’t seem like an exciting match on the face of it; the defending champions Epsilon eSports are huge favorites, whilst the unproven Tryharders have a really, really small chance. But you know how it goes… it ain’t over til the fat lady sings.

 Tryharders have been trying hard, playing a lot for the past two weeks.  They picked up Super Scouts  Longas and  EstaniS, as well as crazy jew demoman  Erectus.  While nobody thinks much of their soldiers, and most high level players dislike  Taimou‘s aggressive style of play, they are rumoured to be working on some oddball strategies that nobody has prepared for yet.   Epsilon have been on a roll for a very long time.  I cant remember the last time they lost a match, if ever.  Nobody can argue they are #1 right now.

VanillaTV have risen to the occasion at the last minute and will be bringing you a star-studded international extravaganza with eXtelevision’s  Salamancer, our homophonically amphibian friend from across the pond, who will be joined by our very own Admirable on the mic and Comedian on the streaming duties.  Turn on, tune in and drop out shortly after 21:00CET.

Last but not least, thanks to the TF2 streaming revolution you can also catch POV of fearless Finn, Taimou, and the Tryharder’s team comms over on TaimouTV, including their warm-up games right now!

eu Epsilon eSports KnOxXx, wltrs, stefan, GeaR, randa, F2

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tryharders eu EstaniS, longás, mineral, Koeitje, erectus, Taimou

ETF2L Season 11, week 1
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TIME
  • Tuesday January 24th
  • 21:15 cet
  • 15:15 est (na)
  • 05:15 est (aus)

Who will win this match?

  • Epsilon eSports (83%, 89 Votes)
  • tryharders (17%, 27 Votes)

Total Voters: 107

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ETF2L S11 Map pool survey

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January 13th Commentary
Tagged: etf2l maps tf2


Koeitje — You probably all have noticed that ETF2L has published it’s map pool for S11 after two polls that didn’t include all possible map choices. I’ll run through all maps that can be considered candidates for being played in competitive TF2 followed by a small survey (or just click here to go straight to it) containing all the maps I would consider to be candidates for a possible map pool. But first the official ETF2L S11 map pool.  The most surprising maps are, of course, Cp_Freight_Final1 and Cp_Foundry being a decider map while not being in the map pool.

cp_badlands
cp_gullywash_final1
cp_granary
cp_snakewater
cp_freight_final1
cp_gravelpit

The 7th map, cp_foundry, will be the decider map in any and all Season 11 playoffs. This means that during the map-pick/elimination phases, teams only need to pick 2 maps rather than 3.

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Votes, votes, votes

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January 11th News
Tagged: etf2l season 10 season 11


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
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We bring love, peace, unicorns and good tidings

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December 22nd
Tagged: etf2l highlander tf2 vanillatf2 vanillatv


SeriousCat —With the holidays right around the corner most of the competitive scene has taken a break, with a few notable exceptions! Scheduled for tonight Dec. 26th is the Div 1 Highlander match between Comunidade Portuguesa TF2 and turbopoop eSports:

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ETF2L Highlander Season 1: Week 4 (Division 1)
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TIME
  • Monday December 26th
  • 20:00 cet
  • 14:00 est (na)
  • 04:00 est (aus)
CASTED BY
  • No cast information available
SOURCETV
  • To be announced

Who will win this match?

  • turbopoop eSports (79%, 15 Votes)
  • Comunidade Portuguesa TF2 (21%, 4 Votes)

Total Voters: 19

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At VanillaTF2 the unicorns never sleep either. We present you with a new (beta) feature: an aggregate RSS feed of all the TF2 community’s news, as well as our matchticker & matchresults. Point your RSS reader of choice to http://rss.vanillatv.org/. If you have visited us on IRC before, you will recognize it as the RSS version of our VanillaTV bot’s output.

Additionally, our VanillaTV bot is now available on the GameSurge IRC network: contact me for details.

Happy holidays!

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ETF2L’s Season 10 Grand Final video analysis

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December 19th Movies
Tagged: epsilon etf2l infused insight


Darkdwarf — After watching the epic grand final of ETF2L Season 10 between  Infused.Tt and  Epsilon, I, and I am sure many more with me, felt I didn’t really understand everything going on. Fellow newbies, don’t worry,  Byte‘s here to provide some insight into what actually happened on the first map of badlands. If you want to find out more about the game, VODs, demos can be found here.

To get the latest vid’s from Byte’s youtube channel

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ETF2L Season 10 Finale!

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December 15th News
Tagged: epsilon etf2l final Infused.tt season 10


Crasp — As the Christmas holidays approach, ETF2L’s Season 10(!) comes to an end which can only mean one thing – the Final of the Premier Division Playoffs!

 Infused.Tt, who finished the main season in first place, face third-placed  Epsilon eSports, who fought their way past Relic and Crack Clan to reach the final.

We will be bringing you all the action here at VanillaTV, streamed in delicious quality by  Shrike and casted by the dynamic duo,  AcidRenix & Beta!

The match is scheduled for 21.15 CET so you have plenty of time to come home from work, or school, or any other institution you may be required to attend during the day. In the meantime, go read  Kaidus‘s preview to the match on Cadred.

uk Team Infused dunc, numlocked, Mike, quad, flisko, Greg

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Epsilon eSports

Epsilon eSports eu wltrs, shocky, F2, randa, GeaR, KnOxXx

ETF2L Season 10 Playoffs, Final
(55 comments)

Who will win this match?

  • Epsilon eSports (62%, 145 Votes)
  • Infused.Tt (38%, 105 Votes)

Total Voters: 233

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ETF2L Premiership 2nd vs 3rd playoff CC vs Epsilon

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December 13th Matches
Tagged: 2nd 3rd crack epsilon etf2l


Faint — With Crack Clan maybe a little out of practice as of late, and having lost to relic in the Semi-Finals of the Excello cup, will their lack of momentum hamper their performance? Epsilon on the other hand, seem to be back in form. Aside from their loss against Team Dignitas in the Excello cup last week, they have been going from strength to strength, and could cause a few problems for CC. That being said, the spanjews are no kid on the block any longer and have a map win against Epsilon in their bag already, from earlier in the season. Having lost their scout, Estanis, Blight’s Bash will be the substitute to try and teach the upper dogs a lesson.

The winner of tonight will secure a place  ETF2L Season 10 grand finals against Infused.tt this upcoming thursday, so tune in to VanillaTV Open Mic with ye olde TF2tv duo rejoice Pledge and d2m  casting, alongside Shrike on the stream to find out who will come out on top!

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Division 1 playoff – playing for the premiership!

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December 6th Matches
Tagged: broder div1 etf2l playoff Yoyotech


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!

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

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Yoyotech

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

ETF2L Season 10 Division 1 Finals
(57 comments)
TIME
  • Tuesday December 6th
  • 21:15 cet
  • 15:15 est (na)
  • 05:15 est (aus)

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!

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CommFT/eXtv Community Highlander Discussion

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December 3rd Feature
Tagged: agro commft Community discussion etf2l


Comedian — While it has mostly gone unnoticed to the European community, CommFT and eXtv are organising a community highlander discussion at 21:00 CET.

Attending will be Free and jinn from CommFT, eXtine and  Mikal from eXtv, Bubblebobbler, INF,  hein and  forn from UGC, Comedian from VanillaTV,  Hildreth from ETF2L, Agro and  Ruskeydoo from KritzKast, wm from Ozfortress and last but not least, dubel from CEVO to discuss the fine points of Highlander and everything surrounding it.

The plan is to have around 1 hour talking about the various questions, after which it will turn into a public chat where we will be taking from you, the community. Of course, like always, there is the risk of overtime, so dont take this schedule too closely to your heart, especially not with so many people attending.

you can listen to the discussion in the eXtv Mumble Server (dal.eoreality.net:64760) or tune in to eXtelevision for the stream. Read more for the The panel questions and details.

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