Very important Updates:
EVERY TEAM HAS UNTIL FRIDAY, 11TH SEPTEMBER, 20:00 CEST TO CKECK-IN TO THE TOURNAMENT.
If you do not check in, you will be replaced by another team.

. 74 teams have signed up and will be split into 3 skill groups:

- 1. 8 Newbie teams, who -for the most part- have no experience in competitive TF2 from what we have been able to gather.
They will play their own little tournament, completely independently (albeit also through the same toornament event).
Newbie teams are:
OnlyFrags
die fair
Bottle o' Scrumpy
Los Pelot
Doctor Assisted Homocide
Middle East Beef
Orng Kerbo Gaming
PiuMaster

They will play in 2 groups of 4. In groupstage, you will play 1 map using ETF2L rules. After groupstage, the two 2nd placed teams will play a Best-of-3 maps match for 3rd place, the two group winners will play one Best-of-3 maps match for 1st place.

- 2. 60 Open teams, who will be split into 10 groups of 6 teams each.
They will play BO1 matches in the groupstage. The winners of each group will join the Invite single-elimination knockout bracket.
The 50 teams which got knocked out in open, will be able to play a B-Tournament on sunday. Ideally we will create 5 skill groups (all 2nd placed teams, all 3rd placed teams etc....) with 2 groups of 5 teams each.
Now, we realise this is a dream that will not come true due to teams dropping out of the B-tournament on sunday, so that is a subject to change.

3. 6 Invite teams, who will be playing a BO1 maps Round Robin groupstage to determine seeding for the knockouts.

Invite teams are:
nerdRage
Covenant
Ascent
Virtus.bro
karnax le bouquet misère
6ix

MUY IMPORTANTE:
Signups have been re-opened until saturday, 12th September, 9 am CEST. Everyone signing up from now on will be placed on a waiting list and possibly make it in should teams fold.

The updated schedule will follow in the next post.

Almost exactly 24h left to sign up! If you want to jump in the hypetrain you should not hesitate: https://lockdown.teamfortress2.com/
Since we likely will not reach the 72 team limit, the schedule will be reworked. We will keep you up-to-date regarding any changes to the format/structure and schedule.
Please also make sure that your Leader and your Deputy have joined the discord (with the nickname they signed up with / have on ETF2L.org).
That said, we have changed some nicknames to match the ones on their ETF2L profiles.

prokyVII: cashing in on sauce respect

Finally got around to working on the details:

- since the schedule and format work quite well, we will set a limit to 72 teams for now. Should we unexpectedly reach a lot more signups, we will reconsider and rework the format as well as the schedule.
- added format / schedule to the Tournament Description on toornament
- added the rules on toornament
most important:
--> The map pool features the ETF2L S36 maps, except cp_reckoner_rc2 replaces koth_product. This way it is a lot easier to solve tiebreakers. KOTH makes comparing results on the basis of round wins and losses impossible. We chose Reckoner because it was recently played in ETF2L S35.
--> Golden Cap (which is not played in open group stage matches) has a time limit of 10 minutes due to scheduling reasons
--> There will be a B-Tournament for all teams that got knocked out of the Open groups. No matter how frustrated you may be after your group stage matches, you will play a BO3 against other teams who placed equally. Also, if you win said BO3, you will continue to compete on Sunday. So if you sign up, make sure you can play both days!
--> We will be using the regular config (ETF2L Season 36) for the tournament. We figure it falls upon the leagues to test gameplay-altering changes themselves.

Signups should be up and running now. Feel free to shoot me a discord DM if there are any problems, I will answer within 24 hours

@blankk: not for now, but signing up sooner rather than later secures you the best spots ;-)

Yeah, but it is fairly unrewarding to maintain an e-Sports-Page there, at least for TF2.
Turns out people prefer the anonymity of twitteraccounts etc. over connecting their online-community-presence with their real-life profiles where all friends and familymembers can see how much of a nerd you are.

In the same timespan where ETF2L more than doubled its followercount on Twitter, Facebook page likes went from ~1.400 to 1.450. Admittedly posts were much less frequent there when we realised that there is not a lot of engagement, but still.

Good luck though, it can never hurt to add another channel to try and spread the message! (:

Yak404 is a hottie

Tbf, if you really did cheat and got banned for doing so, nobody would give rat's ass about the fact that you wasted time scrimming. Personally, my compassion with cheaters is fairly limited.

Maybe people just don't like you.

Is anyone else beginning to read funhaver's posts and then kind of losing track of what he is talking about because he is not using punctuation marks I mean it is really annoying and I cannot understand how someone can write like this it drives me absolutely crazy

Regarding CPH, we had reached out to the top 5 NA teams as well as to the AU scene.
Ofc There were funding problems - we could have helped an NA team get there but at the Cost of a cut from the overall prizepool. When FROYO made clear they couldn’t make it this year, a few others tried to make a mix team. Such a team will only ever happen if you can find 6 tippi top players, because nobody is travelling across the pond to play for third place.

Then corona and Australian wildfires happened anyway and everything went to shit.

TL;DR Copenhagen Definetly wants to be an intercontinental LAN. So far it simply has not come together.

Genuinely expected this to be a Rickroll.

This is kinda like the pandemic:

I have no idea whats going on or whats true, so I am simply gonna stay away from everyone/everything and watch some Netflix.

... aaaaaaaand the signups are closed!

Thank you all for your overwhelming enthusiasm, we have reached a dazzling 95 signups! Considering we were expecting something around 30-ish teams, this simply blows our minds.

It also means the waiting list is VERY long. Sadly we probably do not know if any of those teams will get the chance to play yet. The best you can do is make yourself available on friday, hoping teams drop out on short notice!
For clarification, below is the current waiting list:

1.Golden Gyps
2. ez$
3. Les Téchets
4. NC/AB
5. Sora Elektro
6. Feline Funnies
7. Ciganyok
8. Aim Allergics
9. Ocean Man
10. G3C1T4x
11. help tractor mk. 2
12. GM'sU
13. JEWLAND
14. Ceu4ac_6ygeT_CMEIIIHO
15. henry hoover hoover henry
16. L A N D O G G O
17. Straight out of Turbine
18. Apina Lauma
19. Hotline Rebellion
20. The Feds
21. Good Vibe Tribe

All teams that have been accepted must check in to the tournament via the toornament website until 21 CEST tomorrow (thursday)! Check-Ins are open effective immediately!

All teams MUST have their Leader and Deputy join our Discord https://discord.gg/ufNKWXV with their nickname which they used to sign up with on toornament! If you wish to have your Leader or Deputy role assigned, ping a Tournament Admin!