Yes, unless you’re a big noobie, you’ll know of the latest ETF2L announcement – Season 9.
Some key details:
Signups open: Friday March 4th
Signups close: Friday March 11th
Seedings published: Tuesday March 15th
Week 1 start: Monday March 21st
Map schedule:
Week 1: Badlands / Warmfront
Week 2: Gravelpit / Warmfront
Week 3: Gravelpit / Granary
Week 4: Turbine_pro / Granary
Week 5: Turbine_pro / Gullywash
Week 6: Obscure / Gullywash
Week 7: Obscure / Bazillion
Week 8: Badlands / Bazillion
Week 9: Badlands / Granary
New maps are Bazillion, Warmfron t and Turbine(with new rules). Warmfront and Turbine are improved versions of previously redundant maps of ETF2L. Obscure and Gullywash (as published last week) are also brushed up for the season.
Byte adds:
new version of obscure will be used in this league afai can tell so it’s soldier heaven, no more sniper heaven and lesser sticky heaven =) No more stalemates =)))))))
You can find the full announcement, with map information and download links on ETF2L.
Note: The upcoming prizes and ruleset (including unlocks) is yet to be announced.
Bazillion, created by the revered Arnold, the man behind Gullywash.
Meanwhile, The IRC channel for Div 2-> (tf2.europe) was flourishing this afternoon.
Moose reports:
For the past few seasons, a notable part of the top teams in ETF2L have been dissatisfied with the league’s unlock rules. On the previous seasons, conflicts with this have been easily avoided with the gentlemans rule in the premiership division for not using the unlocks (besides the old medic weapons). However, with new teams in the premiership, using the gentlemans agreement seems to be impossible now as several teams prefer to play with the unlocks.
The unlock ruleset coupled with the recent announcement of the map pool for season 9 triggered a decision for some of the top teams not to participate in ETF2L for now unless both of the map pool and unlock rules are changed. List of teams deciding to not join the upcoming season include at least Epsilon eSports , Power Gaming and Team Dignitas . Three of the previous seasons top four teams leaving could be a big blow towards the credibility of ETF2L as the premier TF2 league in Europe.
Inb4 the haters:
We expect there will be rants on this topic. And, as long as they hold a decent level of editing (with pictures please!), they’ll be published on Friday and Saturday.
In the meantime, don’t forget to open a window, have a look outside and take a deep breath of fresh Spring air. It’s been a long winter!
- Torden
Originally published on VanillaTV (vanillatf2.org) on 2011-03-01 by moose.
Recovered from the Internet Archive (archived copy) as part of tf2esports.com's preservation of VanillaTV's TF2 coverage. The original site is no longer online. All rights remain with the original author; reposted for historical reference.