North America - cp_badlands is upon us as the staff at TGL work to sort out the flurry of inactive teams and FF wins that seem to mire the first few weeks of every TF2 season. Yet, despite the FFs, the season looks promising as more and more teams join up to the league and offer players another place to test their skills and gain a bit of glory in the online word of gaming (and maybe even earn a mentioning here :P). All told, there are now 47 teams signed up (though the status of a few are still questionable), including 4 clans from Brazil and 5 from your northern neighbours up here in Canada.

Week 1 was certainly an exiciting one, with dm. getting right back to business easily dispatching their old CEVO-A rivals, SAC. Unfortunately, other top teams such as xen-, Eximius & Fidelity were victims of FFWs, so we'll have to wait a little longer before we see them in action. This week's highlight match is an interesting battle between 2Years1Beta, who are undefeated in CAL with 1 FFW, and oooRGLE, formerly the CEVO-P squad REK. All the matches set for this week can be see below, with scores updated as they come in.