You might've not read the ESL Discord but we said that this was purely testing the waters, and we understand there are a few issues that we're going to look into.

We'll be posting a quick poll for people to fill later after the cup to collect people's thoughts. We're currently talking about either a Double Elimination or Swiss so that teams get to play more than one match.

I believe Kritzkast will be providing some English coverage, with Ga_da bringing Russian coverage!

This cup is seeded. I know not having divisions is optimal but this is more a test of the waters for ESL and will be a temporary system.
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ALL TEAMS PLEASE MAKE YOURSELF AWARE OF THE CUSTOM MAPS
- cp_logjam_rc10a
- cp_prolands_rc1
- koth_product_rc9
- cp_granary_pro_rc8
Downloading the map is not an excuse for delaying the match and will be treated as such.

Not this time, but there is discussion about bringing back the very old but prestigious ESL medal! This will all depend on if we can get teams playing in this cup.
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Two days remaining till the cup! Sign-ups will cut off 30 minutes prior to the cup with check-in starting promptly after. We will be offering support in the ESL Team Fortress discord only, please make sure you've joined it so you have easy access.

We've also put out a tweet if anyone would like to send it around ;)

We're looking into this at the moment, depending on signups we may run a swiss. If not it will be a single elimination bracket.

As I said back at the start of this, it wasn't going to be an easy journey. All ESL games start with community cups, and as we go along more will be integrated, like medals or new formats etc.

I understand that cups for the long term aren't very popular, but if people keep playing them for enough time we can say "okay we're seeing a stable number of teams in these cups, I think it's time to add a league (or something of the sort)."

These cups unfortunately can't be rescheduled, as this is a one night cup.

https://i.imgur.com/I6JmPWth.jpg

ESL is excited to announce it's return of community cups for TF2! This cup is available for the EU region only but there may be openings for other regions soon.

This will kick off Sunday 10th of February at 4pm CET and will continue throughout the night.

Map Pool

• cp_process_final
  
• cp_granary_pro_rc8
  
• koth_product_rc9
  
• cp_gullywash_final1
  
• cp_snakewater_final1
  
• cp_sunshine
  
• cp_prolands_rc1
  
• cp_logjam_rc10a

Prize Pool
1st: 30 days of ESL Premium
2nd: 14 days of ESL Premium
3rd: 7 days of ESL Premium

For people new to ESL Play, here's a quick guide on how to signup to the cup: https://play.eslgaming.com/guide.

Live support will be provided during the event via this Discord: https://discord.gg/2T4MJjJ
Signups are now open on ESL Play!

Signups | Original Post | ESL Play Help

ha, haahaa, ha.

no bye

For those joining early and wondering what is going on, we're currently casting the ESEA MDL. As soon as the match is over we'll jump ships to bring you this matchup :)

https://i.imgur.com/CHPbjle.png

https://i.imgur.com/PHqWRsu.png

sorry I had a brain fart about b4nny and gordon ramsay at eachother

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Cups will always be free, and we are still in the process of deciding which regions we want to support but I will let everyone know when I've got more information.

Hi all,

I thought I should just provide a quick update so people don't feel in the dark. We're still waiting to start plans for next year but hope that we should have some more news out by early February if all goes smoothly.

ESL's only complication at the moment is that the feedback you gave in the polls were things that ESL cannot provide straight off the bats. Thing's such as major prize pools and Pro LAN events, these things can't just fall from the sky and cannot be provided unless we have a strong player base in ESL Play cups.

Referencing the ESL structure, we have to start from square one (ESL Open), which means there may be little to no prize pool in events. The admin team will do their best to provide something with what they have (medals or other such things). This may sound bad at first but if the community commits to playing in the cups, we can move our way up to the ESL Major stage which ensures prize pools and a possible league and so forth.

On a more positive note, we're looking for staff to come onboard with ESL to get this kickstarted! If you have an interest in assisting us in making ESL TF2 happen feel free to apply. When signing up, type in Team Fortress 2 in the new game/mod section.

I hope we're all on the same page so we can go ahead with this, it's going to be an exciting 2019!

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