Did some testing.

I'm extending sign-ups until tomorrow 17:00 CEST so get your last minute mixes together!

Record label. Facebook page.

Let's add 6 headsets from Plantronics to the 1st place prizepot.

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Also, remember to sign up, we need more teams if we want this to survive.

Remember that sign-ups close Friday!

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Registrations are open now over at Toornament.

We're happy to announce the first Essentials.TF Monthly Cup with a prizepool of 500 Euros! The cup will take place on Saturday the 30th of September and Sunday the 1st of October starting 18:00 CEST each day.

Format:
The first day will consist of a 5 rounds swiss with matches being BO1. Day 2 will consist of a single elimination playoff stage where all rounds apart from the finals are BO1, the finals being BO3. Check-in for both days start at 17:30 CEST on the Essentials.TF Discord. One match per round and also the finals will be casted over at the Essentials.TF Twitch.

Maps:
cp_process_final
cp_prolands_b2b
cp_reckoner_rc2
cp_gullywash_final1
koth_product_rc8
cp_snakewater_final1
cp_sunshine

Prizepool:

€500
1st: €350
2nd: €150

Remember to follow us on Twitter and Twitch for all the latest news and to catch all the live action from our tournaments and online cups.

You can now sign up over at toornament.

Yes. Most of them are played on Friday, some on Saturday morning.

The plan is to offer the possibility to warm up, this might change in case of delays but the goal is to make sure you can.

It's not the invite group taking up most of the time in the schedule, it's the open groups as they have more matches. Thus invite's playing BO2 so that we're always able to cast good matches while the open groups are finishing up.
Having 2 extra teams from open would result in 8 teams double elimination which is not possible due to upper bracket round 1 + upper bracket round 2 and lower bracket round 1 taking too long to complete.

What I want people to remember here is that we added open groups so that people could come and play some TF2 instead of going with the format that was used at Dreamhack.

Forgot to add the hostel, it's a bit cheaper. I got a single room for ±400kr per night which is about 40 euros but I added breakfast and stuff to that. It's also about 5-6 minutes walk from the venue.

I assume there will be some questions about the format and some have already been posted here so I thought I'd address them and hopefully some potential future questions.

When looking at the format we've tried to let people play as many matches as possible while still maintaining a level of production value for the viewers. This however was made harder due to limited logistics at the venue, we're only able to run 3 matches at the same time. Thus for example 8 teams double elimination would simply not be possible, it would take too much time to complete the first 2 rounds. The alternative would've been to run more of a Dreamhack style tournament, maybe without open sign-ups and only invited teams but to some extent we want to show that competitive TF2 is based around the community and letting people come and play via open sign-ups is probably the best way to do so.

This is also why we decided to call it a "community rumble", the idea is that you attend the event, you play some TF2, you watch some TF2 but you're also able to take part of the other things at the venue such as gaming on consoles, a skate park, sumo wrestling and other things together with the TF2 community.

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Essentials.TF is excited to finally be able to go public with information about our next offline 6v6 LAN event, which will take place in Lidköping, Sweden under the banner of Esport United Community Rumble between the 3rd and 5th of November 2017.

More information on prizepool, format etc can be found here.

You can now sign up over at toornament.

Reminder that this is coming up tomorrow.

Tonight me and Wolf Machina will be on KritzKast to talk a bit about i61, Sweden and Season 0. We're not fully ready for an official announcement for Sweden but tune in at 21:00 CEST if you want to know where we're at with things.

When we get all the tools on our website ready I hope that splitting the year into seasons makes more sense. At the moment it's just a way for us to easily make changes to map pool and rules but still keeping some consistency and with players knowing that it will happen beforehand. It hopefully also gives offline events some context, think ESEA LANish.

Wolf Machina: Heny I'm sure I recognise those dates.
Heny: It's fine, I've made sure we're not on the same dates as anything else.
Wolf Machina: ...

But it's fine we'll move it to the weekend after.