Removing a player from the system is dangerous since if anybody owns scruff everything will go haywire for that person. I might remove him at a later date when I can reliably assume that nobody has him on their team, but until then he's staying in.

This is the most unsure I've ever been about which teams are going to be strong, so the prices are almost definitely terrible.

inb4 LEGO dodges because they can't be bothered walking to the train station

You can find the rules by following the link in the OP. The relevant part for you is this:

"2. The map must be an original creation that has never been used in ETF2L, ESEA, OZFortress or UGC before. The map must be a koth or 5cp map. You cannot Submit a pro version of a map that is currently or was previously used in any of the listed leagues, no matter how old the map is. Want to make a pro version of cp_mainline or koth_ashville? Too bad, not allowed. Have you worked on a map for a while but it has still not been accepted into any league? These entries are allowed."

Najesu has come through big-time and has added 150€ to the prize pool. 100€ will go towards the mappers and 50€ will be put into the final tournament (more information about this at a later date)

The top prize is now 130€ and a SVIFT hoodie, while second and third place will receive 35€.

I don't know if Najesu has an account on these forums, but either way he deserves all our praises!

I have a whole bunch of updates and news to share with you all, so I'll do my best to be short and concise:

1. Thanks to ETF2L releasing their s29 schedule I have moved the submission deadline to March 16th.

2. I have created a steam group with the goal of testing out the submitted maps and provide feedback: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/BeaterMapTestGroup . I'm going to try my best to stream these games.

3. The prize pool keeps growing! SVMZI of SVIFT-gaming have added a SVIFT hoodie to the first prize, and Mysterious benefactor Najesu has also promised to throw a bunch of money into the prize pool (we're still working out the specifics, so this isn't official yet). I'd also like to thank the surprisingly large amount of people who have contacted me offering to help out either through donating items, designing medals and so on. I've mostly turned these offers down since I didn't feel I could control them well enough, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate the offers!

4. I made a youtube trailer for the contest. There's no new information in the video, but you get to see some neat overviews of the maps, and of course a few frags have been thrown in for good measure as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2KYKDJLFew

5. Essentials.tf keen on doing some more streams where we showcase the maps that have been submitted so far. The first stream we played all the maps briefly, but for the next event I'm looking for two teams (high or prem, or the American equivalent) willing to play two 30 minute maps against each other. Hopefully this will provide a more serious test of the maps, and you'd only have to give up half a night of scrims to participate. Contact me on steam, or just message me here if your team is interested in participating.

That's it for now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XcVvb4Enco

I decided to watch some ESEA playoffs during the holidays, and these were some of the best highlights that i saw from those games. Enjoy!

Song: Gigamesh - Don't Stop (Version 2.0)

I just couldn't make it past all of the b4nny singing. Lord have mercy on my soul

More Danish sniper videos! This time starring Helberg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoavgM2G6l4

https://youtu.be/UpD-Svz9l0Q?t=2m8s

Don't worry about me dude, just keep making awesome videos!

The season 28 video will be out soon. I had some vegas issues that caused it to be delayed but tings appear to be working again. I didn't make a democall this season, so any frags you get from people outside of prem will be exclusive to you.

Some people care a lot about being the only ones to showcase certain frags. I don't. If you feel like using prem etf2l s28 frags I won't mind at all. The only thing that will ever piss me off is when I share ticks with someone and they don't credit me in the video.

A/D maps have generally not been very popular in 6v6, and I don't believe the game mode has the same amount of depth and potential as 5cp and koth, so I decided to exclude it all together, as to not leave people at an unfair disadvantage should they choose to make an A/D map

The intention is to give players ample opportunity to play-test the maps. The mappers would like this as well.

Thank you Uberchain for making the awesome poster!

https://i.imgur.com/NrsRgPf.png

Hello everyone. I'm hosting a map making competition ( See the TF2Maps.net thread for full details and rules ) which aims to find the next great 6v6 map!
There are a lot of unresolved details at this time, but here is a rough overview:

• Mappers have until March 16th, 2018 to create either a koth or 5cp map
  
• A group of experts will pick out the 3 best maps
  
• These 3 maps will be used in a big tournament
  
• The participating teams vote on their favorite maps
  
• The winning map receives a 130€ first prize, as well as a SVIFT hoodie, while the runner ups each get 35€

I personally believe that introducing new maps to the map pool is an essential part of keeping the game fresh and add some spice to the meta game, so that's why I'm doing this whole competition to begin with.

If you have any comments or questions let me hear them, but most importantly: If you have map making skills, fire up hammer and start mapping!