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Leftism — I should start by apologising for the lack of a VanillaTF2 website for most of yesterday and this morning. Although VanillaTV resources were unaffected (relays, mumble and our IRC bot) hosting issues, out of our direct control, were the cause of some scarce promotion of last night’s cast – but we’re hoping for a long uninterrupted up time for the foreseeable feature.

Back to business: ETF2L and Tt eSPORTS have announced a new partnership which will see them supply Europe’s largest TF2 league with prizes for the next three 6v6 seasons, this includes the current season.

“For Tt eSPORTS it’s very important to support gamers as a whole and we feel that an established league like ETF2L was the ideal partner to reach out to the Team Fortress 2 community who are very dedicated and passionate about gaming” Andrew “Vanq” Christoforou, European Marketing and Community Manager for Tt eSports, said in a statement in ETF2L’s announcement.

Prizes for season 11 have already been announced by the ETF2L staff with keyboards and rucksacks galore given to the season victors whilst mice, mousemats and headsets will be awarded to the runners-up and third placed teams respectively (with a set of mousemats up for grabs in Division 1) – details on the actual hardware is given in a later blog post.

The announce also sees Steelseries, a long time league sponsor, leave the stage. Both ETF2L and Vanilla commend them for their support of our beloved hat simulator.

More ETF2L news after the jump…

nunes — São Paulo: Tt eSports announced the first sponsorship for a team in Brazil, Ovo Frito! The team members found each other 2 years ago in the competitive scene of Team Fortress 2. Since July Tt eSports supports two teams, the main team where the focus is on the stronger players and a second team that aims to train and prepare new players and allow easier access to beginners.

Below: This is Ovo Frito

Tuesday night saw the opening matches of the two week, 500$ tournament, sponsored by Tt esports and CaseKing.

With a total of 500$ for winning first place, and 6x Tt Isurus for second, 52 teams signed up out of a maximum of 64 allowed.

Maps were as follows: Round 1 – Granary, Round 2- Turbine, Round 3 – Gullywash, Round 4 – Badlands, Round 5 – Gravelpit.

The Upper brackets round 1 2 and 3 and the Lower brackets round 1 and 2 matches were played over the course of Tuesday night, and tonight we will see the LB rounds 3 4 and 5, and UB rounds 4 and 5.

It’s been crazy days @ the office! Meanwhile, our new corporate overlord has been putting some moneyz into an upcoming ESH tourney. Maybe they’ll have some more luck with it than full tilt poker last time! If you’re wondering if this is a sponsored message or not – don’t worry, our word is as free as ever, and if ever it wasn’t, we’d be sure to let you know! Having said that, there’s little we love more than ESH tourneys with a decent prizepool.

Cadred’s tireless workhorse, Greg already did the grunt work, and even pasted it here. Life comes easy for the lazy, here’s some text:

With both FakkelBrigade and TwistedPlay now under the Tt eSPORTS banner, Tt eSPORTS have shown an increasing interest in Team Fortress 2. So it is great news that they are taking this interest further by announcing the first in a series of cups that they will be hosting throughout the year, boasting a very respectable $500 first place prize: the Tt eSPORTS Challenge.

That however is not the only prize available. They will also be providing hardware for the runners up, in the form of the Tt eSPORTS Isurus earphones, along with Tt eSPORTS goodies that will all be given away via TF2TV, who will be streaming as much of the tournament as possible.

On top of all of this Caseking.de will also be providing something special to the Team Fortress 2 community, which will be revealed the week the tournament begins (Sunday 1st May) on the Tt eSPORTS facebook, TF2TV and here on Cadred.

Source: Cadred
Signups: Esports Heaven

The tournement will be run by ETF2L admin Crasp, with “Vanilla” rules (ie. only bluts, kritz and ubersaw). It’s a 5 day cup with room for 64 teams, starting May 1st. So, get signed up, lazyasses!

- Torden