The year is 2019. After 4 long years, the bugs have been polished out and the ETF2L Season 21 playoffs are beginning.

nR lost their sponsorship many years ago and after having gone through every other cereal mascot in the time between the main season and playoffs are now named Captain's Crunchers, thought by many as their best name to date, even beating Coco's Poppers. Due to this distinct name advantage over The Final Resort, who have changed their name to avoid confusion with people named Tyler, CC are set to take this series in a clean 6-0 sweep after Sideshow fucks up the configs.

Permzilla, coming back fresh from his 5th retirement, has finished allowing all of TF2's weapons on the 6v6 whitelist in order to finish the game off for good. ShaDowBurn now uses the Beggar's Bazooka exclusively which has been buffed to fire 9 perfectly accurate Direct Hit rockets on a full load, except when mercing for LEGO when he uses his exclusive Genuine Unusual StatTrak Promotional Factory New "LEGO Brick" Rocket Launcher to promote team synergy.

The first game, casted by Season 18's Caster of the Season Admirable and Season 19's Caster of the Season Admirable, with an exclusive appearance from Season 20's Caster of the Season Admirable on camera, starts in disaster as CC realise they need three mercs to TFR's one, as the Anti-Cheat staff have finally reached their goal of banning every player to live or have been born in France. The only French players still standing are baud, who conclusively proved his innocence by pointing out to the AC team that he is in fact Belgian and not French, and KnOxXx, who the AC team tried to ban for aimbotting before realising he can't aim.

With NiCO having been banned after the shocking discovery that his mum was playing for him the whole time, TFR try to bring in sheepy; unfortunately, the merc is denied by Reason. TFR try to dispute this on the grounds that Reason are not even playing in this fixture but admins rule that the denial stands, forcing TFR to use ShaDowBurn on his third PC; his second is already in use as he is also playing in the place of Herr_P, who is trapped in a nightmarish alternate dimension of infinitely long train journeys. CC just borrow KnOxXx from Reason, who plays Medic for them; when asked who their last two players will be, KnOxXx claims that with his superior strategic maincalling they will not need more than 4 as Zebbosai can switch betwen Roamer, Pocket and Scout as needed. CC's scout, captainthecruncher, approves of this toxicity.

Minutes before the game begins, Team Fortress 3 is released. Playoffs are delayed until a bug is fixed which causes Pyro to still be in the game.