None of our full-time staff actually play any games competitively any more, but we're always open to bringing on volunteer staff (that do play) to help us run the events. At this point, we only have 7 active teams in Season 3, so we haven't been able to justify bringing a volunteer on to help us manage such a small event. If we were to have an influx of teams register in Season 4, it would certainly be one of our top priorities to get an experienced TF2 player to join our volunteer staff.

@marmadukeGRYLLS, I'd love to hear more about this - I've worked for CEVO since 2004 and can say with confidence that we've never suspended someone for cheating, that we weren't 100% confident was in fact cheating. Feel free to shoot me a PM if you aren't comfortable talking about this on a public forum, but I think you may be misinformed, and I'd love to set the record straight and/or look into any actual facts you have about these "corrupt admins".

As for CEVO TF2, we're more than happy to welcome new teams that are willing to come over and give our league a chance. We've had trouble convincing teams to sign up over the past 3 seasons for a variety of reasons, even though as far as I know we are the only league giving away cash + hardware prizes, with an anti-cheat, and reliable (full-time) staff without charging anyone a penny.

CEVO has been supporting competitive TF2 for a long time now, and we don't plan to stop any time soon. In some of our games with larger participation we have multiple skill divisions, larger prize pools, and live match broadcasting (matches of the week). There's only one reason that CEVO TF2 doesn't have these things, and that has to do with the number of teams that sign up each season.

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CEVO|Pipher
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CEVO.com

#31 not a problem. We have no problems adding teams manually for the first two weeks of the season. After that point, we aren't able to guarantee that we'll be able to find new teams a full season of matches, so we'll be forced to stop accepting late entries.

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@PYYYOUR, we can't extend the registration period, but we can add teams manually for the next two weeks if you or anyone else would like to join late. If you create a support ticket at http://cevo.com/support with your team name and all members CEVO accounts (email addresses), we'll add you to the event manually and schedule makeup matches for the rounds that you've missed.

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CEVO|Pipher

Team registration ends at 11:59 PM CDT tonight! If anyone has any questions at all before the deadline, ask away and I will do my best to monitor this thread. The preseason ends tonight, but teams that are "ready" will receive their first regular season schedules tomorrow morning.

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CEVO|Pipher

Yes! We have made quite a few improvements to the Paladin since our last TF2 event, and over 500 CSGO/DOTA teams have been using it without any issue in the s3 preseason.

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CEVO|Pipher

The answer is exactly the obvious one that you suggested. We don't have enough teams registered to accommodate more than one skill division. If we ever have enough TF2 teams to support additional skill tiers, we'll definitely add them.

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CEVO|Pipher

Thanks for the kind words guys! Just wanted to give this thread a quick bump and say that team registration will be open for one more week until October 17th. As #2 suggested, we're going to be updating our map rotation to the newest versions of all of the maps.

If anyone is sitting on the fence about registering and has any questions about the league, let us know.

You can register your team at - http://www.cevo.com/event/tf2-6v6/?tg=55

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CEVO|Pipher

Hi everyone,

I understand that CEVO hasn't had very much success in the TF2 space in the last few years but I thought I would drop by and leave our Season 3 announcement here anyway. As always CEVO Season 3 is completely FREE-to-play with over $600 in cash and hardware prizes up for grabs. We'd love to have you and your team give our league a chance, and look forward to a successful season!

If anyone has any questions about CEVO TF2, feel free to post them below and I'll do my best to keep an eye on this thread over the next few weeks and respond as quickly as I can.

Registration for Season 3 will open on Thursday, September 19th, 2013 and will end on Thursday, October 17th, 2013 at 11:59 PM CDT. Season 3 is completely FREE to play and participation includes:

- $600 cash prize pool + hardware prizes
- ALL matches protected by CEVO's Paladin anti-cheat technology
- Automatic weekly matches scheduled and easy to use match scheduling thread
- Real-time updated standings and team rankings
- Opportunity to advance to higher skill divisions and compete for larger prize pools
- Helpful league officials available for LIVE support on ALL match nights
- FREE access to community forums and prediction systems for every match
- Ability to reserve FREE dedicated servers for all matches

Season Details:

- 2 week preseason
- 8 week regular season
- double elimination playoffs
- 1 skill division (CEVO-Open)
- Thursday deadline days (CEVO-Open)

Prizes:

- 1st - $600.00
- 2nd - 6 x ZOWIE GEAR G-TF Speed Mouse Pads
- 3rd - 6 x ZOWIE GEAR P-TF Speed Mouse Pads

Map Rotation:

Preseason 1: cp_gravelpit
Preseason 2: cp_edifice_b4

Week 1: cp_badlands
Week 2: cp_gullywash_final1
Week 3: cp_metalworks_rc4
Week 4: cp_gravelpit
Week 5: cp_snakewater
Week 6: cp_process_final
Week 7: koth_pro_viaduct_rc3
Week 8: cp_granary

Full Announcement - http://www.cevo.com/news/120/team-fortress-2-6v6-season-3-information-600-in-cash-prizes/

Join Now - http://www.cevo.com/event/tf2-6v6/?tg=55

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CEVO|Pipher
General Manager
CEVO.com

+1, you wont regret this :p

It's an 8 week season that starts in early June, followed by about 2-3 weeks of double elimination playoff brackets. Matches are scheduled for each Thursday, but scheduling is flexible and teams are encouraged to play their matches on alternate dates if both teams agree.

I wanted to make one final post here as a reminder that CEVO Season 2 team registration is closing on Thursday night. We're giving away over $850 in our 6's division and registration is completely FREE.

You can still register your team @ http://www.cevo.com/event/tf2-season2-6v6/

We only have 29 teams registered (12 ready) so chances are good to finish in the money :D

We understand that our last season wasn't free of problems, but we've been working hard to address the underlying issues and things should run quite a bit smoother this season. With that said, we're still fully committed to TF2 in CEVO and would love for you and your team to give us a chance.

We're also running a HL division at http://www.cevo.com/event/tf2-season2-9v9/home/ if you prefer.

I'll try to respond to any questions posted below, and thanks a lot for your time.

CEVO|Pipher
General Manager
CEVO.com

We have the 6v6 matches set by default to Thursday night, but teams are encouraged to play their matches on alternate days if both teams agree using our match communication thread. Teams can report their scores any time before Friday of each week, but at least for the regular season, if teams need extensions we are usually more than willing to accommodate them.

We haven't released the updated Season 2 ruleset yet (which is why you can't find it), but we should have it available early next week on the event page @ http://www.cevo.com/event/tf2-season2-6v6/.

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CEVO|Pipher

Just wanted to give this thread a quick bump (hopefully that's okay). Registration is open until Thursday, May 30th.

You can register for the 6v6 event with over $850 in prizes @ http://www.cevo.com/event/tf2-season2-6v6/ and the Highlander event @ http://www.cevo.com/event/tf2-season2-9v9/home/ both are FREE to play.

We're always looking for ideas on how we can improve our events, so if you have any suggestions or feedback, please don't hesitate to post below.

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CEVO|Pipher

We've also released a more specific news post with the map rotation for the season.

http://www.cevo.com/news/78/team-fortress-2-9v9-highlander-season-2-information/

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CEVO|Pipher