Highlander Season 7 Wrap Up

After a season split up by the holidays, we can finally reflect back on one that was filled with action. From the pre-season upsets during the TFTV Invitational to the very last games in the Premiership Grand Finals. The days that SNSD won every season are long over.

After a promising 3rd place in the TFTV HL Invitational Cup, Voodooh faced tough opponents, but got a break by barely securing a win over hePPa. But apparently they lost their drive as the season went on, and won’t be guaranteed of a premiership slot in Season 8.

hePPa had a rough season too, but winning a map in week 2 placed them in a relegation slot, and were going to battle over their premier spot against ResidentSleeper. However, the latter forfeited the match, giving hePPa a secure spot in next season’s Premiership Division.

The Highlander Season 5 champions Kill Switch were unfortunate to undergo big roster changes, that eventually led to them trailing off from week 4 and onwards.

Yet again Fair Enough barely missed playoffs. This team is held together by the power of friendship and HartzFartz yelling, Qnai telling him to shut up, and Blooddrunk clicking on heads. But four wins and three losses was not enough to move on.

The team that did make the playoffs was Stacked. the team led by the Irish Youtube superstar b33p had a decent season, but ended it by getting a default win from  Kill Switch.
However they forfeited a point by accumulating so many minor warnings that it stacked up to a major warning.
This tied them with PremTech where a tense playoff game sadly left Stacked on a 4th place.

Ending on second place in the regular season, Highpander© had to defend their title no matter what. But holidays happen and roster changes meant that Hildreth couldn’t continue his habit of playing in the grand finals.

Moving on to the team that ended up fulfilling their promise of making top 3, PremTech made it to the grand finals.
The team with an American powerhouse with  Nursey on medic and Kresnik on heavy tried to show how TF2 should be played. They got really close but they had to acknowledge that there was one team that bested them in the end.

On top during the main season, and eventually winning the grand finals was BreakfasT_Jr and a few others in Tourettes Chessclub

We now have our brand new champions in the highest level competitive European highlander has to offer

Congratulations to the champions: Tourettes Chessclub !
They will be taking home €500 and the chance to defend their title in Season 8

The winners are:

• atomic- – Scout
• uubers – Soldier
• Scissors – Pyro
• quintosh – Demoman
• BreakfasT_Jr– Heavy
• B4n4n4m4n – Engineer
• Spreijer – Medic
• tracker – Sniper
• Khazul – Spy

Congratulations to the teams that got top 3 in the Premiership Division:

•   Tourettes Chessclub – 500€ Prize
•   PremTech – 350€ Prize
•   Highpander© – 150€ Prize

Highlanders season 7 Awards

Of course we can’t close off a season without having an award show, this season the public voted on the following players as the top of their respective categories:

•  Scout of the Season: sorex
•  Soldier of the Season:  ShaDowBurn
•  Pyro of the Season:  Steve!
•  Demoman of the Season:  Hildreth
•  Heavy of the Season:  BreakfasT_Jr
  
•  Engineer of the Season:  quintosh
•  Medic of the Season:   Kissakala
  
•  Sniper of the Season:  Tseini
  
•  Spy of the Season:  polar
  
•  Most Valuable Player of the Season:  ShaDowBurn
•  Premiership Debut of the Season:  ShaDowBurn
•  Caster of the Season:  CeeJaey

You can catch all VODs casted by BlackOutGamingTV here.

Who won your division?

The following teams have reached the top of their division, thus granting them a guaranteed promotion to a higher division for the next season. In the case of division 6, second place also guarantees a promotion:

•  Division 1: WASP
•  Division 2:  UKIP
•  Division 3A:  GODL MEDEL!!
•  Division 3B:  Chessclub JR
•  Division 4A:  Gun Art
•  Division 4B:  The Complete Bankers
•  Division 5A:  Team Colonslash: Frosties
•  Division 5B:  Saukot
•  Division 5C:  Banter Bus Boys
•  Division 6A:  Lesk
•  Division 6B:  Vier // Green ° Highlander
•  Division 6C:  r/ip and  Team Delta Pigs
•  Division 6D:  Spanish Bastards
•  Division 6E:  Ricefields' Dudes
•  Division 6F:  White Storm

Pixel trophies have been given out, and in-game medals will be awarded to winners and participants once they are added to the item schema. Medals will be issued to players who were on team rosters at the time of the roster lock, so you may now change your roster as you see fit.