no market gardener or ball?

QEL Post Season Cup 2 Reschedule Notice

The QEL Post Season Cup 2 will now be held from August 29th–31st. **Signups close August 25th**
This change has been made to avoid conflicting with RGB LAN 8 taking place from September 5th–7th. Our goal is to ensure that any players attending the LAN will still have the opportunity to participate in the Post Season Cup without scheduling conflicts.

We apologize for any confusion this change may cause and appreciate your understanding.

• Teams will be restricted to one offclass at all times
  
• Weapon restrictions being added to the RGL 6s whitelist

So not a postseason environment to compete, reflect, and adjust my roster for next szn. Got it.

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We've received several questions and comments regarding our weapon and class restrictions, so I’d like to take a moment to clarify the reasoning behind these decisions.

The recent changes to weapon restrictions are a direct response to ongoing community discussions, specifically surrounding weapons such as the Market Gardener, Quickiebomb Launcher, and Loch-n-Load. These adjustments are intended to maintain balance and align with the evolving consensus on competitive viability.

As for the one-off class rule, its purpose is to discourage overly defensive playstyles such as turtling, which can significantly slow down the pace of the game. By enforcing this rule, we aim to ensure that matches conclude on time and the overall tournament schedule remains on track.

I would implore everyone be more critical of an informal league suddenly popping up already with an 800$ prize pool and a staff list that does not inspire a lot of trust.

and a TFTV post made by an organizer who has a history of supporting alt'ing, is friends and plays with numerous banned accounts and problematic individuals. Some of which the community may be familiar with such as Crawdad and Cheeto.

Their main admin account is also used as an alt of a permanently banned player that was not disclosed to the public. Not to mention their staff members and adjacent "friends" harassing staff members from other organizations in unrelated incidents.

Did anyone else find the timing of Sidular's crashout and this league using TF2CL's medals a bit suspicious? I can't think of anyone from that particular thread or regular members of the community who would say those harmful words to him. How did they acquire access to TF2CL's medals and why did Sidular sign it off? (Update: according to Sidular, he agreed to give them the medals in good faith)

The restrictions and off-class rules are a nice touch but this seems like a poorly ladened Psyop to get a re-brand going, or at possibly at worst; allow their cheater friends to win prize money (speculation). A bit disappointing to see a positive org. like Fullbuff in the mix and I hope they vet potential sponsorships more thoroughly moving forward. I hope I'm proven wrong as time goes on since I'd much rather live in a world where there is a positive change rather than not.

this sounds like a great tourney

I'm not involved with this at all, beyond just letting them use TFCL's medals. I made an agreement with them before I shut TFCL down. Fullbuff is also involved only in that they're offering servers. They're also the reason I got involved, originally at least. Fullbuff referred me to QEL before any of us knew about the player and staff controversy.

The person that brought my dead mother up as a reason to not trust me was in that thread itself. They apologized, but what was said was still said.
Nobody in that thread sent me death threats, at least not as far as I'm aware.

No I'm not back. No TFCL is not coming back. I've shut it down a few times, and tried to bring it back a few times. Lesson learned.

This isn't the first tournament they have hosted; did they pay out the money? Were there problems running the events?

(I don't know if the money got paid out but I think it did iirc)

Yes in the QEL discord we have a payouts channel where we disclose all payouts made to tournament winners

My team played in the last one of these. We got paid promptly and aside from a team not showing up to play things went smoothly.

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For both of the events QEL has run, our involvement has only been providing servers for their matches to be played on. All of the costs for this came out of my own pocket, as I saw it as a good way to get FullBuff some recognition. One of my main goals has always been to support those working to improve the competitive scene, whether that’s through new events, development efforts, or other community initiatives.

When I first started working with the QEL team, none of what has come out was made known to me, and has such, not influenced any of the decisions I've made on behalf of FullBuff. Any suggestion that we have been knowingly trying to give players banned from any leagues some way to circumvent their punishments is false.

QEL’s transparency throughout this period of growth deserves recognition, and I hope they continue to establish themselves as a trusted organization within the community.

All of that being said, their growth has also become prohibitive to my continued support, so it is unlikely you will see FullBuff as a direct supporting sponsor of QEL in the future. I simply don't have the time or resources.

ps: I'm glad there are those that see FullBuff as a positive org, I don't get much of any feedback so I take all input seriously :)