It's that time of year again, and we're going back to Łódź for poLANd.tf 2025: locking Europe's fourteen finest teams in a box, feeding them Blue Bonk and making them beat the crap out of each other!

Poster by deli

FORMAT

The LAN begins on Friday with the Group Stage: teams are split into two round robin groups, playing six best-of-one matches to decide the seeding for playoffs. The bottom team in each group will be eliminated, the next two will go straight to the Lower Bracket, and the top four will start Saturday's best-of-three playoffs in the Upper Bracket with that extra chance of survival. Throughout Saturday and Sunday, team after team will be eliminated until by Sunday evening only two are still standing, ready to fight it out in the best-of-five Grand Final for the lion's share of €1200.

A B tournament will also be held for those eliminated early, details of which will be announced nearer the time.

For full details, see the Toornament page.

TEAMS

Invited:

• ANTICIDE
• #BIGBLOKELAN
• Danish Tyrant Regime
• /for fence
• MANDEM
• sammakot
• TheDogs
• Venomcrest
• Witness Gaming EU

Qualified:

• $moke break
• Bloking Hazard
• Velo Gaming
• MPREGALODONS
• curse of rah

MAPS & CONFIG

ETF2L's 6v6 Winter 2025 (S49) config and map pool will be used, with the Golden Cap time reduced to 10 minutes.

• cp_granary_pro_rc17a3
• cp_gullywash_f9
• cp_metalworks_f5
• cp_process_f12
• cp_snakewater_final1
• cp_sultry_b8a
• cp_sunshine
• koth_bagel_rc10
• koth_product_final

SCHEDULE

Friday 14th March:

• Group Stage Match 1: 2pm CET | 1pm GMT | 9am EDT | 6am PDT
• Match 2: 3pm CET
• Match 3: 4pm CET
• Group A Match 4: 5pm CET
• Group B Match 4: 6pm CET
• Match 5: 7pm CET
• Match 6: 8pm CET
• Match 7: 9pm CET

Saturday 15th March:

• Upper Bracket Round 1: 12:30am CET | 11:30am GMT | 07:30am EDT | 04:30am PDT
• Lower Bracket Round 1: 2:30pm CET
• UB Semi Final 5pm CET
• LB Round 2: 7:30pm CET
• UB Final / LB Round 3: 9:30pm CET

Sunday 16th March:

• LB Semi Final: 2pm CET | 1pm GMT | 9am EDT | 6am PDT
• LB Final: 4pm CET
• Grand Final: 7pm CET | 6pm GMT | 2pm EDT | 11am PDT

COVERAGE

The tournament will be streamed live from Łódź on EssentialsTF while a remote B stream will also be live on Fireside Casts.

On-site talent:

• Benpl
• Condawg
• Domaytoe
• Jakeowaty
• Not Steven
• Surny
• TurboTabs
• wandum

On-site production:

• Antimation
• Beater
• JMaxchill
• Samus