The last news I wrote about the current Wireplay season was seven weeks ago. What happened? - [D3C]Dr3am Clan dropped due to inactivity of their players. All their games were set to default wins. - 20 out of 45 games are remaining to be played in the coming weeks. - nh.#Noobi-Heaven and [RV]Royston Vasey are leading in played matches: 16 and 14 played maps, respectively.

http://goldsrc.org/?sec=news&newsid=57

Yesterday b0nes officially started the 23rd Wireplay season. First off, let's see what he wrote.. Eleven teams applied, this means that every team will have a default win in one week. The Wireplay config is now available to download, it prohibits the use of a sniper on normal maps. I strongly recommend looking at both of the configs, especially the AvD config allows some interesting tactics. He also wants everyone to read and understand the rules. (Smart move to write that, I didn't tell people to read the rules two years ago and then got complaints about my decisions in WCTFC.)
Anyways, it's one game a week. If you can't agree on a date with your opponent, you'll have to play on a default date. Then he goes on and says something about how noob and pro teams play in one division and that they shouldn't whine about it. The skill ceiling and floor are quite extreme, I must say. Having a team that is built on a national team (Players of Team USA within .ll) play against a team that is built on a public server community (Royston Vasey) will probably result in a capfest. Nonetheless, b0nes wishes everyone a "gl & hf", and so do I. Let the pwning begin!
I also have some additions to my previous post, in which I wrote a line or two about every team that signed up.
- [DA]Clan DA now has nine players signed up, [GER]daHool may be interesting to keep an eye on here.
- [KoSm]Kings of Sunday morning changed their name to Codename: Classified and have now rostered twelve players.
- [A0L]Anal Only Lamers changed their name to isaninja. and has now listed nine players.
- The following clans also increased their player count: [~X~]~Xeno-Project~: fifteen, -/SS/-Swift Soldiers: sixteen, RV-Royston Vasey: sixteen, eL.: twelve, llama legion.ll: thirteen, nh.#Noobi-Heaven: thirteen, [D3C]Dr3am Clan: eight.
- Nothing changed for < )-|gulpttub.
That's all for now! In the first week the teams will play 2mesa3 and siege, of course both maps are available in the file section of GGDB.

The deadline that b0nes, the Wireplay TFC admin, announced, is now reached. Thirty minutes after the sign ups should be closed, let's see how many and which teams we have with enough players. The team order is taken directly from the League Preview that b0nes put online a few days ago. Unless otherwise noted, these teams made it into the league.
- [DA]Clan DA, the team around b0nes, has six members as approved, two more as inactive. As far as I know, this means they do not have enough to participate in the league.
- < )-|gulpttub is a team formed of European TFC pickup players. Nos and sincie are leading this team and have twelve players to choose from.
- The German [~X~]~Xeno-Project~ has been around since late 2001. Sigm@ and Rayzor are leading a team of thirteen. Also, eight of them signed up within the last 24 hours. Close call, guys!
- Team USA, ahem.. sorry, I meant llama legion.ll, constisting of the best North America has to offer. They were able to gather twelve American TFC pickup players. Thanks, Wheaties!
- Ah, right. -/SS/-Swift Soldiers is another American clan that found its way into the 23rd Wireplay TFC League. Oreoman forced twelve players to sign up.
- The lamefest has to wait, because [A0L]Anal Only Lamers (formerly .infinity) only has seven sign-ups. Sorry, but that's just not enough! How lame...
- Bow down before the [KoSm]Kings of Sunday morning, the remainders of all the best European TFC clans ([MsA], at |, ..) present to you eleven players who fight for pride and glory for their Nordic nations. This team incorporates the withdrawn at|.
- Oh, nh.#Noobi-Heaven.. There is nothing objective I can say about my own clan. Only, that if you have a designated driver in a bar, who's like "Well, someone has to drive, so I could just make the best of it", nh. is probably the designated last ranked team, and I give you eleven players who will stand by my side and fight until everyone in TFC knows that NOOBS WILL BE NOOBS. Also, this team includes former J4F members, as they were unable to find enough for their own team.
- Wow, tempted. Good job on actually getting a big RV-Royston Vasey team. With seventeen members this is the biggest team in the current Wireplay TFC season.
- A Spanish oldschool clan? Ok, Erner0 signed up [D3C]Dr3am clan and brought six players with him. Sorry mate, this is not enough.
- Don't let the return of Erner0 stop you, kalimist. eL. is a clan full of Spainiards and those who'd like to be. Having collected eleven players, they will fight in the league.
And that's all we got, guys! Now, maybe it's possible to quickly merge some of the smaller clans. Unless that's possible, we'll now say goodbye to [DA], [AOL] and [D3C]. All others: Have fun and good luck in last league of TFC.

Today is the last day to sign up eight players for the 23rd season of the Wireplay Team Fortress Classic League. b0nes confirmed that tomorrow the sign-up will be closed and on Monday, the league will start.
"im gonna start the league on monday", said b0nes. He continued: "teams need to prove they can field a team by this weekend".

As of now, eleven clans signed up for the league, from which 6 have more than eight members, which leaves 5 with not enough to proceed and play in the new Wireplay season.

The Wireplay Team Fortress Classic League has opened the sign-ups for another season. The games will be played in a 8v8 format.

http://tfc.wireplay.co.uk/