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I've put up a quick page with stats that have been collected for ETF2L 6v6 Season 21. I think it's fairly comprehensive although there might be a missed log here or there. Use the search box to filter classes, etc

http://beta.fantasytf2.com/season21stats.htm

ozfortress OWL 14 game now open

Think you know which antipodean members of our global TF2 diaspora are as fit as a Mallee bull and who is as crook as Rookwood? Now is your chance to prove it, the ozfortress OWL 14 game is now open.

For this competition I'm liberalising the transfer rates a bit to allow 4 changes a week instead of 2.

Sign up here http://beta.fantasytf2.com/PlayerTeam/Create?seasonid=9&name=&weekid=0

Health warning: the live logs parser is the most beta part of a beta website, so there might be a few jitters here and there.

For the ESEA playoff fantasy game and ETF2L playoff fantasy game see the posts above, time is running out on those so get your teams in.

ESEA Season 19 Playoff game now open

The fantasy game for the ESEA playoffs is now available. Initially because of the likelihood of overlapping games I'm keeping transfers to the 2 change limit initially and probably increasing it as the competition progresses.

There's a bit of a health warning on Street Hoops, it's rumoured there will be some switching early amongst a couple of players and alfa may just be filling in briefly, so take that for what it's worth.

Sign up here
http://beta.fantasytf2.com/PlayerTeam/Create?seasonid=7&name=&weekid=0

ETF2L Season 21 Playoff game now open

The fantasy game for the one day playoff extravaganza is now available with players available from the 3 qualifying teams. However this fantasy game has a big difference from the ones that went before. Instead of the stingy 2 transfers a week there will be 12 available from when you create your team, so switching your team around between maps to take advantage of fluctuating form or a particular player's skill on a class (Flippy's sniper for example) is encouraged.

Whether a player you select will score points for you will be based on when I mark the game as played which will be the start time of the map as close as I can get it, and as long as players are shown to only have moved after the start time then you have them for the whole game. For times I'll be trusting server times from logs. If you make a switch very close to the start time then there's a chance you'll miss that window, but you can safely switch a player during a map for the next game as long as they were on your team for the start of that map.

I've only included Schocky for Reason but that comes with a health warning, that scout spot may be changed by them. I'll try to react to any changes there in time for people to make alternative selections if possible. Also who knows if Zebbo will stay on soldier after nerdRage's beating last night.

There won't be any market movements during the games, what you see is what you get price wise.

Sign up here
http://beta.fantasytf2.com/PlayerTeam/Create?seasonid=8&name=&weekid=0

ESEA announcement should be made this afternoon

End of Regular Season wrap up and prizes

ESEA season effectively finished last week but I wanted to make sure no late forfeits were rescheduled before finishing up here. The nail biting finale saw Sideshow screwed by ESEA defaults again, pipped to the post by Fantasy TF2 savant hg. The final results are:

1st place: hg's team a cum for help on 2299, wins 5 keys and a Master Mind hat
2nd place: Sideshow's team Sideshow's AYO lads on 2293 (6 points sideshow, 6 points!), wins 3 keys
3rd place: adorable soup's team plz enjoy game on 2272, wins 1 key

And with tonight's destruction of nerdRage by Epsi... er Reason, the ETF2L competition has been wrapped up too. The final results:

1st place: at0mic's team The Killers on 3079, wins 5 keys
2nd place: hg's team save me barry! on 3030, wins 3 keys
3rd place: Death's team domoi on 2963, wins 1 key

Prize distribution has begun...

Playoff Fantasy Games

Given that Reason's player prices from the season won't represent their demand I'll have that adjusted and live tomorrow, and hopefully the ESEA playoff game live as well.

Seeing as our generous sponsor wiethoofd (of tf2pickup.net and whitelist.tf) has been ruthlessly fleeced for prizes all season and has now been forced to start sleeping on park benches as a result, it'll all be for pixel trophy glory.

Because they won't be used on stream

http://i.imgur.com/Lpz81oU.png
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How ironic

edit: DUMB - same question asked right above

This one looks like it will likely be the opposite, teams compounding advantages and rounds being more one-sided, but it should also hand a bigger advantage to teams successfully holding last encouraging a push out. Big swings and big advantages rather than stalemates.

I doubt it will come into play often once medics get used to switching off when they're in danger, but you always have the option to stay on medigun and die with the expectation your team will be able to win the fight and keep it.

Interesting new risk/reward mechanic potentially but as always Sideshow has managed to troll it to the maximum already.

Become the new Greek finance minister of course

The Winners

ESEA Week 9

omochi's team Tokyo took 1st
botmode's team grimmmothy mcgee took 2nd
corsa's team Bangbus9 took 3rd

ETF2L Week 7

damneasy's team :)) took 1st
hypontize's team Jerry Calà e-Sport took 2nd
hg's team fdsa took 3rd

Prize distribution has begun

There's only 2 games left to be played for ETF2L, and ESEA regular season is finished barring any bizarre last second scheduling, I'll do an announce for that separately when I've got the season prize situation clarified but you can see the current finishing positions on the site. Spoiler: Sideshow screwed by ESEA defaults again.

When they fix the pause bugs and make ubercharge levels available you'll get your gold watch.

Does this mean the competitive relevance is down to the ability to leave insulting messages on your weapon for them to read? Please make it possible Valve.

Also all the skins in the preview either look like your granny's wallpaper or an 80s discotheque