Welcome everyone to the conclusion of the 33rd season of ETF2L 6v6 for Open, Low, Mid, Division 2, Division 1 and Premiership.

We hope you enjoyed the matches, and for the teams that made it through, congratulations.

All tiers will have playoffs, all playoff matches will be using the Map Elimination system. Due to the map pool now containing 9 maps each team will get to ban an additional map at the start of the map elimination process. This will additionally clarified on the matchpage. Note that all dates are estimates and teams are able to negotiate other days by scheduling with their opponents.

Read the rest of this entry »

The Highlander Season 19 Premiership Qualifiers are hereby announced.   Weed Cake Sellers and inVision will keep their Premiership spot based on last seasons performance. Based on the applications received and past results we have decided that BANK HEI$T, Super Dickmann's KANNONEN! and Lucrosa will receive an automatic spot. This leaves two teams to fight for one spot in a single elimination bracket. Read the rest of this entry »

Banner by  soda| Written by   CeeJaey

It is time!

32 Days after the first game of the 6th Highlander Nations Cup, we’re on the horizon of the final and facing the prospect of crowning a brand new champion. We’ve seen it all – reverse sweeps, parachute bombs, trickstabs & a multitude of shock results.

The first team to ever win two Nations Cups;   Sweden? Not even participating. The defending champions United States of America? Didn’t make it out of the groups. Top seeded sides England, Denmark & France? Couldn’t even win a map in the playoffs. This has been one of the most chaotic, surprising and down-right exciting Nations Cups in memory, and tonight we have two countries battling for the honor of winning the title for the first time in their history.

Read the rest of this entry »

Announcing Highlander Season 19!

All the information regarding the coming Season can either be found in this newspost, or will be released shortly!

For tiers we’ll be aiming to run swiss again for Open and Mid. This is still potentially subjected to change depending on the final signup numbers.

>>Signup Now!<<

Season Schedule

• Signups: 11th July – 26th July 21:00 CEST (Premiership signup deadline is July 19th 21:00 CEST)
• Publishing of Provisional Divisions: 26th July
• Publishing of Final Divisions: 27th July
• Premiership Qualifiers: 20th – 27th July
• Main Season: 28th July – 17th August (3 Weeks)
• Break for I-Series 65 LAN. No games will be played between 17th – 25th August
• Main Season Resumes: 25th August – 7th September (2 Weeks, Roster Lock active on 1st September at 00:00 CEST)
• Playoffs: 8th September – 29th September

Read the rest of this entry »

With Season 18 wrapped up, it is time to move forward to Season 19! This one night cup will focus on testing 3 maps and a new whitelist!

>>>Signup now!<<<

Whitelist changes:

• Banned the Wrangler
• Banned the Fists of Steel (due to an uber building bug)

The whitelist for this cup can be found here.

Maps:

• cp_propaganda_b16
• koth_clearcut_b10a
• pl_badwater

Read the rest of this entry »