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European Team Fortress 2 League (ETFL2) is about to start its long awaited Highlander competition.

Read more here: http://etf2l.org/highlander/

If you are interested in joining our steamunpowered.eu team (I hope you do), feel free to join our Steam Group. (This is to get you folks together and ease future communication). Please do not be afraid to join and think that you are no-good. Higlander challenge is for public players and introducing them to competitive gaming.  I want everyone who is ready to kick ass to join this group and see if we have enough to complete a team and have some serious fun.

Please comment, tell friends etc, and of course join!

Thank you Stranded for posting this news!

Following is my first announcement regarding to this event. This was also posted at our Steam Group.

Hello Friends!

My name is Rasmus (but I prefer to be called by me my nickname "rottencat"). I'm a founder and current administrator of steamunpowered.eu TF2 team which was created for taking part of ETF2L (European TF2 League) Highlander Challenge.

I would like to welcome everyone of you for joining this group. By now, you should already know what ETF2L and Highlander Challenge are. If you are not, please read this: http://etf2l.org/highlander/ and this: http://etf2l.org/2010/08/09/th…..challenge/

I try not to duplicate information which is already available at http://etf2l.org site, but I want to bold one thing: "This tournament is meant for people who are new to competitive play, a competition to find the very best pub team".

For me this sentence says: You do not have to be pro, don't be afraid to join but you have to be dedicated. In fact, if you read rules http://etf2l.org/rules/highlan…..r-rules/  it says:

"2.1.1 Participants: Only players that are new to competitive play or playing in division 6

The tournament is meant for new and casual players. Players that have played in division 5 or higher in season 5, 6 or 7 (or the equivalent in any other league), are not allowed to participate, other than as a buddy. Breaking this rule will lead to penalties for the whole team."

So if we have someone already playing  in division 1-5, please let me know. You can still participate, but you are limited to the following classes: Pyro, Heavy, Engineer or Spy and there can be only one "buddy" (division 1-5 player) per team.

But lets come back to basics. In a next few days will help you all to get registered, and we have to start to play together and know each other. Some of you with more experience are "strongly welcomed" to share knowledge and participate in training process. Teams maximum roster size is 14 Players (surprisingly our current member count). As you know already Highlander consists of a team of 9 players, so 5 of us will have to stay as replacement players. Classlimit is 1, so we will have 1 sniper, 1 medic, 1 heavy and so on in our team. How we will choose who will be in final team? We will get to choosing classes later and discuss it together in a friendly way. I want to keep this community friendly and happy, but I also expect our team to be competitive. Do not worry about medals, all 14 will get one if our team takes part of all qualified matches. So even if you are replacement player and somehow will not get a chance to play, you will still get your award :)

It is important to understand that even I'm a administrator of this group, I'm not your boss and it is even possible that I will not be represented in our "team of final 9" if this is for a good of our team. I want everyone to understand that we all have a chance to be in "9", but we have to earn this honor and responsibility. In next discussions and announcements I will let you know how we will achieve this.

Right now, what you should do is to go to http://etf2l.org site and get registered. During registration process you will be asked for your Steam id: which is a numeric value in format: x:x:xxxxxxx

Please use http://steamidfinder.com/ to find out yours. After successful registration feel free to join steamunpowered.eu team http://etf2l.org/teams/10397/

If you somehow cant join, don't worry – PM (private message) your ETF2L nickname and will add you.

More news to come!

Best Regards,

rottencat

As we already have 14 players in our community and it is highly possible that there will be more people who are interested in taking part, I still want to encourage you to join. If there is enough interest, we can always create more teams.

But please, if you are joining just for medals, please dont join. Remember that to get a participation medal team has to be eliminated from the tournament. You do not get a medal for just signing up.

Implementation of ellimination of possible inactive "players" is on its way, so if you are planning to sign up but not play, it will not work out for you.

Actually Im pretty sure this is not a case here – as we have a great community and TF2 is a lots of fun.

I want to join, but i get too high pings on their servers :(

Slava said:

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I don't care about medals!  I play for fun. That's why i don't know. all this professional tournamnts alwyas made me too nervous
 

One of my priorities is to keep normal nervousness and evil nervousness apart. It is normal that during a battle there will be heat. But drama queens and overreacting "führers" whatever how skillful they are should really check their manners, think first and scream later (after thay have turned off their mic).

Also I know some nice and polite guys (in real life) who scream like madman tyrants during a battle. Its fine if you do not take it in heart so deeply. After all – its a war simulator game :)