As we doubled the overall tournament size, we also doubled the size of our Invite bracket.
The Invite teams are:

NerdRage- counou,dmoule,Yeehaw, Josh, Elacour, shock
les cuniculiculteurs cumixaphilistes- Raf, Karnax, AlienSmiley, Olgha, Deli, mulaa, Dwo, Clem
Da Choke Bustaz- Condawg, Yllen, chris, Funs, Ratslayer, ubrs
Ascent- Domo, Papi, Toemas, Iatgink, Credu, Lukas
6ix- ever_x, nubbi, Voxtec, Gaz, Smirre, Ace
Bionicle- Dr. Phil, Dandere, Toast, Aubriac, Pot8o, Juno
baton esports- seeds, eemes, nevo, sorex, amarok, azunis
Super Buck World- kaptain, Permzilla, Thaigrr, kaidus, Starkie, Silentes, Thalash

We accepted another 28 teams today, exactly doubling the intended size of the tournament!
If you are amongst these now 56 teams, your spot is guaranteed. If you are not, then you have to wait until teams which signed up earlier than you drop out.
That said: PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOUR TEAM WISHES TO NOT PLAY THE TOURNAMENT!
First teams on the waiting list at the time of writing this are:
57. The Joe Zone
58. clarted gaming
59. McBities
60. Lithuanian Rapsody
61. SOP
62. Baltica Olds
63. Boomer Squad
64. conotech
... + more

Updates on the new schedule and format will be published within the next days.

More like 18 teams, but yeah.

Seems unlikely that we will accept more than 56 teams at this point, but it may be.

Good riddance.

We have now verified the first 28 teams that signed up. You should have received an Email.
You are going to be allowed to play, not matter how many more teams sign up or what structure we will end up using in the end. The other teams sadly will have to wait until after the signups closed in order to know. :(

One more important thing: We will start making the groups and brackets immediately after the signups close.
You then will have a window of approx. 24 hours (9th April) to "check in" to the tournament. This step is necessary for us in order to find out which teams already died after signing up or simply cannot play due to unforeseen circumstances.

Should you not check in, you will automatically be replaced by a team on the waiting list.

In any case, please let an admin know ASAP should your team withdraw from the competition!

Wow, we have already reached the planned maximum of teams.
But since there seems to be interest of more teams, we say: screw our plans!

We have increased the maximum from 32 to 64 teams, so you can still sign up!!

Please note, that not all teams will be able to participate. We will think of a format which includes as many teams as possible, but until the end of signups (8th April. 21 CEST) we will likely not exactly know what the structure will be. Only one thing is for sure: there will be a ton of TF2 played on easter weekend!

Teams who signed up for invite but do not make it into the invite group will automatically be seeded into an open group.

- Updated Rule 2.7 (regarding livestreams)
- added Rule 6.7.1: Maps (ETF2L S35 map pool)

Actually, it was meant slightly differently to what GipsArm said in #8.
You cannot participate when:
- on 10th April you have an active ban that on this day is active for 1 month or longer

You are o.k. to play if you have no active ban or you have been only banned for less than a month at the time of the tournament. This basically means that 2-week demo bans or similar bans won't affect your eligibility to play.
Cheaters are not okay to play though.
The 1-month-part was basically implemented, because for LAN we couldn't really say: No banned players at all. If you had gotten demobanned 1 week before LAN with all your stuff booked it would have created awkward situations...

When you challenge god, god smites you down.

Well said.

credu egg: i dont know what poached means

On deli's stream the donation goal is set to 500 €. Though admittedly it also says "182 days to go"...

As a Seahawks fan I hope it will be a 55-58 inOvertime

http://prntscr.com/qwhqxu

Goddammit

If there are any invite-level NA teams out there who are interested in attending this event, shoot me a DM in discord!
I am tagged as Tournament Admin in the LAN Discord.
PS: this event WILL happen.

A master of his prefession. Truly a heavy loss. [*]