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Challengers Cup hosted by teamfortress.tv
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September 14, 2015

If you've been around at all in the past two months you'll have witnessed the most amazing tournament in the history of TF2 with i55. What you'll have also noticed skulking in the corners, ready for its time in the limelight, is Razer Arena. Razer Arena is a fantastic automated system that runs tournaments from a website seamlessly. It's well-administrated, fantastically easy to use and very supportive of TF2. You might have seen smaller cups being casted here, or even played in them. This, however, is the big debut!

Prizemoney

Razer has put up a stonking $1500 for Europe to battle tooth and nail over in an incredible tournament spanning 3 days. Four teams have been seeded already by invitation:

  1. [R]eason Gaming
  2. Epsilon eSports
  3. The Last Resort
  4. Full Tilt

...another 32 will compete for the right to challenge them, with every single round casted live on teamfortresstv!

The winners of the entire tournament will walk away with $900 and a title before Season 22 is even halfway through. The 2nd place team will get $400 to mop up their tears with, while the 3rd and 4th place teams will get $100 to put toward treatment for the traumatic events that led to them being knocked out so early.

Schedule

The main tournament is open to absolutely everybody and with the roster shakeups at the top, anyone can take the money! The tournament will start on Thursday 24th September at 19:45 CEST (just a tiny bit before normal pcw time for your convenience). 32 teams will battle it out, playing 2 Best-of-Three knockout matches to leave us with our top 8 Open teams! You're guaranteed at least 2 maps against teams roughly your skill level, and up to 6 tense maps if you win as the entire tournament is Best-of-Three. So sign up fast to get some practice in before Season 22, get casted, and try out the new Razer Arena system!

Games continue on Sunday 27th September at 18 CEST where those top 8 teams will once again go head to head in another 3 Best-of-Three games. With everything on the line, teams must win at least the Quarterfinal match to secure themselves a place in the Invite tournament! After that, the teams can breathe a sigh of relief - and then immediately battle for seeding! At the end of the first Sunday, we will have our top 8 teams for the Invitational bracket, and the seedings going into the tournament.

The final day of the Challengers Cup hosted by teamfortress.tv will be an unholy spectacle. On October 4th at 18CEST, the potential leviathans of [R]eason Gaming, Epsilon eSports, The Last Resort & Full Tilt will have to withstand a barrage from the tried and tested champions of the Open Qualifiers.

Again Best-of-Three. Again the losers walk away with nothing. But if even one of them falls - the Open teams get a fat slice of the winnings! Yes that's right, all you have to do to guarantee yourself at least $100 is to upset a single one of the 4 invited teams.

Razer Arena

Find out more details about the schedule below (including times, brackets & maps) and click the links to create a team and sign up on Razer Arena. We'll be posting more content later on including roster rundowns of the top teams, a video trailer by Beater featuring sick frags, information on which of your favourite casters will be making appearances and more.

SIGN UP YOU FILTHY SWINES

Want to make a name for yourself and your team on the teamfortresstv stream? Just want some experience in an Official before Season 22? Maybe all you want to do is support competitive TF2? AIM HIGHER DAMMIT!!

Do you have what it takes to fold Full Tilt, roll TLR, create an un[R]easonable upset & take down Epsilon?! OF COURSE YOU DO!

Challengers! Are you ready?!

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#1
19 Frags +

Cover art by http://viewseps.deviantart.com

Logo by Jesse

Words by Mirriam-Webster

Sign up by September 24th

Cover art by http://viewseps.deviantart.com

Logo by Jesse

Words by Mirriam-Webster

Sign up by September 24th
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#2
6 Frags +

Holy shit dude nice

Holy shit dude nice
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#3
serveme.tf
15 Frags +

Will end-of-match, STV, livestats and logs.tf yet be fixed in time for the cup?

Also: YAY! :)

Will end-of-match, STV, livestats and logs.tf yet be fixed in time for the cup?

Also: YAY! :)
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#4
3 Frags +

lf High team ;___;

lf High team ;___;
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#5
6 Frags +
ArieWill end-of-match, STV, livestats and logs.tf yet be fixed in time for the cup?

Also: YAY! :)

Heh, we hope so. Working on it!

[quote=Arie]Will end-of-match, STV, livestats and logs.tf yet be fixed in time for the cup?

Also: YAY! :)[/quote]

Heh, we hope so. Working on it!
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#6
Razer Arena
44 Frags +

Woohoo! Way to go, guys! I cannot wait to see this play out.

Arie, logs shouldn't be an issue. We are going to try like hell on STV, but I have a list of IP's that I know are working, we'll flesh out that over the next few Frag Fest events to verify the IP's we are marking as A-OK are in fact that.

Woohoo! Way to go, guys! I cannot wait to see this play out.

Arie, logs shouldn't be an issue. We are going to try like hell on STV, but I have a list of IP's that I know are working, we'll flesh out that over the next few Frag Fest events to verify the IP's we are marking as A-OK are in fact that.
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#7
6 Frags +

stonking

stonking
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#8
16 Frags +

fat

fat
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#9
2 Frags +

get your hype

get your hype
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#10
5 Frags +

Holy crap this game is awesome.

Holy crap this game is awesome.
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#11
5 Frags +

900 dollars might make it worth it for high tier NA teams to give it a shot despite the ping.

900 dollars might make it worth it for high tier NA teams to give it a shot despite the ping.
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#12
36 Frags +
16jacobj900 dollars might make it worth it for high tier NA teams to give it a shot despite the ping.

They could, but there's something coming up for them too.

[quote=16jacobj]900 dollars might make it worth it for high tier NA teams to give it a shot despite the ping.[/quote]

They could, but there's something coming up for them too.
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#13
6 Frags +

That is a shitton of dough. Wow. This kind of stuff is what motivates me to get better at the game. Super hype for this fight.

That is a shitton of dough. Wow. This kind of stuff is what motivates me to get better at the game. Super hype for this fight.
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#14
6 Frags +

This is absolutely based. Thank you razer

This is absolutely based. Thank you razer
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#15
15 Frags +

good stuff, amazing prize pool, quite close to ETF2L's one per season in one cup!

good stuff, amazing prize pool, quite close to ETF2L's one per season in one cup!
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#16
2 Frags +

LFT any class

LFT any class
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#17
15 Frags +

I dunno how to express my love to Razer for beliving in us. No words.

I dunno how to express my love to Razer for beliving in us. No words.
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#18
3 Frags +

E P S I LO N

E P S I LO N
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#19
4 Frags +

stonking

stonking
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#20
5 Frags +

i cri evy tim

i cri evy tim
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#21
-16 Frags +

nothing for NA?

nothing for NA?
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#22
9 Frags +
tsc16jacobj900 dollars might make it worth it for high tier NA teams to give it a shot despite the ping.
They could, but there's something coming up for them too.
rAz3nothing for NA?

O N E P A G E

[quote=tsc][quote=16jacobj]900 dollars might make it worth it for high tier NA teams to give it a shot despite the ping.[/quote]

They could, but there's something coming up for them too.[/quote]
[quote=rAz3]nothing for NA?[/quote]
O N E P A G E
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#23
2 Frags +
rAz3nothing for NA?

It's open for everyone dude

[quote=rAz3]nothing for NA?[/quote]

It's open for everyone dude
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#24
4 Frags +

go epsi

go epsi
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#25
2 Frags +

This is awesome stuff.

This is awesome stuff.
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#26
7 Frags +

Saloon is gonna be really fun that week

Saloon is gonna be really fun that week
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#27
5 Frags +

$$$ CU ON $$$

$$$ CU ON $$$
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#28
2 Frags +

i just simply cannot wait

i just simply cannot wait
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#29
6 Frags +

How do you plan on countering DDOS attacks like we saw in the GGG tournament and what ever happened to the prize money?

How do you plan on countering DDOS attacks like we saw in the GGG tournament and what ever happened to the prize money?
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#30
7 Frags +
V4renHow do you plan on countering DDOS attacks like we saw in the GGG tournament and what ever happened to the prize money?

Due to the way razer servers are managed you can't find the IP quite so easily. Players can get DDoSd but that's outside of our control.

Sideshow stole the GGG money to pay his potato-tax to Admirable for covering i55 when Admirable couldn't be there.

[quote=V4ren]How do you plan on countering DDOS attacks like we saw in the GGG tournament and what ever happened to the prize money?[/quote]

Due to the way razer servers are managed you can't find the IP quite so easily. Players can get DDoSd but that's outside of our control.

Sideshow stole the GGG money to pay his potato-tax to Admirable for covering i55 when Admirable couldn't be there.
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