Unity Cup 2022

UNITY Cup 2022 was an online European 6v6 cup run by kaidus on 16 and 17 April 2022 to test a 5CP ruleset meant to bring the rules of the largest regions closer together, after North America had tried something similar at Localhost Fullerton LAN 2022. Games were played to a win limit of 5 with a 30-minute time limit and a 5-minute round timer, and with "continuous" overtime: a game still short of 5 rounds at 30 minutes carried on without a reset, and the win limit dropped to the leading score plus one. Everything else followed ETF2L Season 41, including its whitelist and plugins.

Seven invited teams played single-map round robins in two groups (three teams in Group A, four in Group B) for their playoff seeding, while 22 open teams played six single-map rounds of Swiss. Nine teams came through the Swiss to join the invited teams in a 16-team single-elimination bracket, best of three until a best-of-five grand final, on Process, Gullywash, Prolands, Snakewater, Granary, Sunshine and Product.

tf2easy won the cup, beating North Americans For Unity, a North American mix, 3-0 in the grand final. Ora Elektro took third when Witness Gaming forfeited the third-place match. The finalists won €700 and €300 and each semi-finalist a €125 serveme.tf premium voucher, with the prize pool put up by Witness Gaming and Arie of serveme.tf. DrHappiness and Nyna were the admins. The full rules and schedule are in the organiser's rulebook.