It's already hard to cast a bball match, let alone the usual rolls in the first rounds, i think we'll be able to mantain a certain quality if we stream from the semifinals onwards and it will give a bit more rest to the casters.

No one would be interested in seeing 25-1 rolls or something.

we're playing the 1st round atm.

Stream will start with the semi finals #HYPE

These were the only special rules I had in place for the eu bball cup

• It is not allowed to fire rockets at each other at map start.
  
  
• It is not allowed to deliberately drop the intelligence on top of any of the billboards / poles behind each basket.

I have removed them for this bball cup after talking to a few NA people. I don't think I ever had a goalkeeping rule but to be fair in the whole eu cup which had 40 teams and many more games that wasnt a problem and there wasn't one single complaint about it during the cup.

Edit: We now only have 1 remaining spot, 50 mins until the cup start, if I dont get another team until then the team facing placeholder team 2 gets a bye to the second round

there are none, there were a few special rules in place for the EU cup but after talking to a few ppl I have removed them for the NA cup.

2 Hours until cup starts, we still have 2 spots open

Brackets are out on the official cup page here as well as the final scheduling
http://comp.tf/wiki/Comp.tf_2nd_bball_cup_NA

Warning: We have postponed the cup start time by 1 hour so it should start at 4pm EST instead.

We still have 2 placeholder teams in the brackets, this means there are still 2 spots available to fill for the cup until tomorrow, if by the cup start they aren't taken the teams facing the placeholder teams automatically get a bye to the second round.

So if you want to signup for the cup there's still a chance. Just add me before the cup starts tomorrow.

The stream is estimated to start at around 5PM EST with the semi-finals.

That's an insult to the 300 teams playing etf2l season 17.

The scene is far from dead, what you see is a natural cycle in every competitive game, people get bored or interested in other games and simply quit, it happens to high level or lower level players alike, and when it happens someone takes their place sooner or later.

Gonna release the full brackets in about 1-2 hours, but meanwhile some team gave up their spot and we're 1 spot short of completing a full 16 bracket. I will probably release a bracket with a placeholder team so there will be 1 spot up for grabs until tomorrow to fill up the bracket

Yes and it's impossible for us. Me and ducky are EU so we're already gonna finish at mignight - 1 am on a sunday.

last bump for signups, add me asap if you wanna sign up for the cup, if Im not online I will be accepting the pending adds tomorrow when I wake up and after that release the brackets

In case I'm not on tonight or I don't respond to your adds I will still accept signups tomorrow lunch-early afternoon (EU time) due to the timezone difference.

I really hope there are a lot of signups saved for the last day, we're almost hitting 16 signups, but the EU cup had 40 signups back in december, and NA was supposed to be the bball motherland ^^

Oh my god this is such a deal, if I wasn't EU I would take it right aaway. I have a k90 and I love it but it really is a bit massive I would love to have a smaller k60

Just the fact that they were able to go through mt moon is an incredible feat

This shit's hilarious.

Dying to a pidgey at level 24

Reminder that signups end tomorrow night

If you wanna signup add me and I will need your and your partner steam profile urls, team name and challonge username

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8axiRhenVQ

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