Highlander Season 11 powered by Tt eSPORTS: Preseason Playoffs

The playoffs for Highlander Season 11 powered by Tt eSPORTS will start with a best of 3 between Budget Toucans and Tourettes Chessclub, the winner will proceed be granted a spot in premiership, the loser will be granted first seed in the following double elimination bracket. The full bracket can be seen here.

After the preliminary round a double elimination bracket of best of threes between the following teams will take place:

• The loser of  Budget Toucans vs Tourettes Chessclub
• PremTech
• Stacked
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• inVision
• Super Dickmann's JUNIORS!
• The Agency
• Team Colonslash: Frosties

The seeds of the teams are the same as the order they appear in the list, teams will need to win two games in the bracket to go through and if they lose two games they will be placed in high for Season 11. After this playoff 5 teams will move up to prem and 4 will be placed in high.

The default time and day for each round will be on consecutive days at 21 CEST

• Preliminary Round Tuesday 25th 21:00 CEST
• Round 1 Wednesday 26th 21 CEST
• Upper Bracket Round 1 Thursday 27th 21 CEST (The winners of these two matches both qualify to play in prem)
• Lower Bracket Round 1 Thursday 27th 21 CEST
• Lower Bracket Round 2 Friday 28th 21 CEST (The winners of these two matches both qualify to play in prem)

The playoff will use the Season 11 map pool with the maps decided by map elimination, however as Season 11 has 10 maps rather than 9 as previously the map elimination will.

1. The higher seeded team can decide if they want to start or if the other team should.
2. Team A eliminates a map
3. Team B eliminates a map
4. Team B picks a map
5. Team A picks a map
6. Team A eliminates a map
7. Team B eliminates a map
8. The higher seeded team chooses the decider map from the remaining four maps.