Fair dos, but please don't put it out there that everyone has had issues working with him. It is simply false.

I do not wanna get into the topic of the thread or any complaints about a paywall.
One can absolutely come to the conclusion that KritzKast / Agro could have handled some things differently. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, I do not mind that at all.

I just want to pick this quote up because it has been repeated in some shape or form in this thread.
I am not a direct member of KritzKast (anymore, I used to cast but I finally had to admit to myself that I was terrible at it so I simply stopped), but I am yet to hear anyone talk shit about Agro or his ego from the people that worked with me on projects where Agro is involved. Not to say those people do not exist...
I just wanted to point this out. Agro, like everyone here, has his weaknesses. But it is not true, that "everyone who works with him knows he has got a massive ego".
He, as well as anyone else on PhoenixRed, has been nothing but remarkably professional in all projects (Copenhagen Games 2018-2020, Lockdown Throwdown 1+2) that I have been involved with in recent years.

GGWP!

Schedule: (ALL TIMES IN CEST)

Newbies:
Saturday, 12th
16.00: Groups Round 1 (BO1)
16.50: Groups Round 2 (BO1)
17.40: Groups Round 3 (BO1)
Break
19.00: 3rd-Place-Match / Finals (BO3)

Open + Invite (Saturday):
Saturday, 12th
16.00: Groups Round 1 (BO1)
16.50: Groups Round 2 (BO1)
17.40: Groups Round 3 (BO1)
Break
19.00: Groups Round 4 (BO1)
19.50: Groups Round 5 (BO1)
Break
21.00 Round of 16 (BO3) [Open Group Winners + all Invite teams]
--> Winners of this round will advance to the Quarterfinals on sunday.

Invite (Sunday)
Sunday, 13th
15.00: Quarterfinals (BO3)
17.00: Semifinals (BO3)
19.00: Bronze Match (BO3)
21.00: Grand Final (BO5)

B-Tournament for Open teams who got knocked out in the Group Stage
Sunday, 13th
Depends on the number of teams, but games will start at 15.00 as well. We will work out a more detailed schedule on saturday evening during the Invite RO16.

Very important Updates:
EVERY TEAM HAS UNTIL FRIDAY, 11TH SEPTEMBER, 20:00 CEST TO CKECK-IN TO THE TOURNAMENT.
If you do not check in, you will be replaced by another team.

. 74 teams have signed up and will be split into 3 skill groups:

- 1. 8 Newbie teams, who -for the most part- have no experience in competitive TF2 from what we have been able to gather.
They will play their own little tournament, completely independently (albeit also through the same toornament event).
Newbie teams are:
OnlyFrags
die fair
Bottle o' Scrumpy
Los Pelot
Doctor Assisted Homocide
Middle East Beef
Orng Kerbo Gaming
PiuMaster

They will play in 2 groups of 4. In groupstage, you will play 1 map using ETF2L rules. After groupstage, the two 2nd placed teams will play a Best-of-3 maps match for 3rd place, the two group winners will play one Best-of-3 maps match for 1st place.

- 2. 60 Open teams, who will be split into 10 groups of 6 teams each.
They will play BO1 matches in the groupstage. The winners of each group will join the Invite single-elimination knockout bracket.
The 50 teams which got knocked out in open, will be able to play a B-Tournament on sunday. Ideally we will create 5 skill groups (all 2nd placed teams, all 3rd placed teams etc....) with 2 groups of 5 teams each.
Now, we realise this is a dream that will not come true due to teams dropping out of the B-tournament on sunday, so that is a subject to change.

3. 6 Invite teams, who will be playing a BO1 maps Round Robin groupstage to determine seeding for the knockouts.

Invite teams are:
nerdRage
Covenant
Ascent
Virtus.bro
karnax le bouquet misère
6ix

MUY IMPORTANTE:
Signups have been re-opened until saturday, 12th September, 9 am CEST. Everyone signing up from now on will be placed on a waiting list and possibly make it in should teams fold.

The updated schedule will follow in the next post.

Almost exactly 24h left to sign up! If you want to jump in the hypetrain you should not hesitate: https://lockdown.teamfortress2.com/
Since we likely will not reach the 72 team limit, the schedule will be reworked. We will keep you up-to-date regarding any changes to the format/structure and schedule.
Please also make sure that your Leader and your Deputy have joined the discord (with the nickname they signed up with / have on ETF2L.org).
That said, we have changed some nicknames to match the ones on their ETF2L profiles.

prokyVII: cashing in on sauce respect

Finally got around to working on the details:

- since the schedule and format work quite well, we will set a limit to 72 teams for now. Should we unexpectedly reach a lot more signups, we will reconsider and rework the format as well as the schedule.
- added format / schedule to the Tournament Description on toornament
- added the rules on toornament
most important:
--> The map pool features the ETF2L S36 maps, except cp_reckoner_rc2 replaces koth_product. This way it is a lot easier to solve tiebreakers. KOTH makes comparing results on the basis of round wins and losses impossible. We chose Reckoner because it was recently played in ETF2L S35.
--> Golden Cap (which is not played in open group stage matches) has a time limit of 10 minutes due to scheduling reasons
--> There will be a B-Tournament for all teams that got knocked out of the Open groups. No matter how frustrated you may be after your group stage matches, you will play a BO3 against other teams who placed equally. Also, if you win said BO3, you will continue to compete on Sunday. So if you sign up, make sure you can play both days!
--> We will be using the regular config (ETF2L Season 36) for the tournament. We figure it falls upon the leagues to test gameplay-altering changes themselves.

Signups should be up and running now. Feel free to shoot me a discord DM if there are any problems, I will answer within 24 hours

@blankk: not for now, but signing up sooner rather than later secures you the best spots ;-)

Yeah, but it is fairly unrewarding to maintain an e-Sports-Page there, at least for TF2.
Turns out people prefer the anonymity of twitteraccounts etc. over connecting their online-community-presence with their real-life profiles where all friends and familymembers can see how much of a nerd you are.

In the same timespan where ETF2L more than doubled its followercount on Twitter, Facebook page likes went from ~1.400 to 1.450. Admittedly posts were much less frequent there when we realised that there is not a lot of engagement, but still.

Good luck though, it can never hurt to add another channel to try and spread the message! (:

Yak404 is a hottie

Tbf, if you really did cheat and got banned for doing so, nobody would give rat's ass about the fact that you wasted time scrimming. Personally, my compassion with cheaters is fairly limited.

Maybe people just don't like you.

Is anyone else beginning to read funhaver's posts and then kind of losing track of what he is talking about because he is not using punctuation marks I mean it is really annoying and I cannot understand how someone can write like this it drives me absolutely crazy