Good day, humans of the desired gender, it’s Premiership Highlander time again! With Season 13 right around the corner, only 4 teams have so far secured their spot in the highest division of European HL with two more up for grabs. Tonight will decide who will get the first one with the match-up between Super Dickmann's JUNIORS! and  kiti s bakenbardami.

Super Dickmann's JUNIORS! have been a premiership team for two seasons straight, disappointingly finishing last in S12 and wanting to climb back in. Adding the likes of an Italian scout sensation sorex and a long-time spy veteran Grenja to their roster will certainly serve as a huge boost, whilst the team leader – German sniper Nate continues to show great form. kiti s bakenbardami on the other hand are not planning to give up so easily. Mid-season roster changes saw a Belorussian legend and S11 sniper of the season tracker joining the team alongside arguably the best Russian scout today – Mon. Pahan‘s boys look menacing and itching to prove they deserve the spot.

Can kiti s bakenbardami cause an upset or will Super Dickmann's JUNIORS!‘s experience prevail? Tune in to BlackOut TV with  CeeJaey & chando and Wiethoofd on camera tonight at 21:00 CEST to find out!

-Written by  Clark

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The Highlander Season 13 preseason playoffs have been announced. The following four teams will play through a modified double elimination bracket for two spots, kiti s bakenbardami, Super Dickmann's JUNIORS!, Lucrosa, and Cult Of Ivan.

Lucrosa and  Cult Of Ivan will start in the lower bracket. The bracket can be seen here.

Default mercs may only be of high experience, any player with more than three games in prem over the past three seasons cannot default merc and must be approved.

• Upper Round 1: Sat 8/7 – Tues 11/7
• Lower Round 1: Sat 8/7 – Tues 11/7
• Lower Round 2: Wed 12/7 – Sat 15/7

There is a significant amount of flexibility with the scheduling of the games, if you are having any issues with scheduling of your games please contact the admin team.

The map pool for the main and post season will be the same as season 12. For the preseason playoffs a slightly reduced map pool will be used to allow for easy unseeded map elimination.

• pl_upward
• cp_gullywash_final1
• koth_product_rc8
• cp_steel
• pl_badwater

The whitelist will remain unchanged from season 12, if the update including the teased rebalances occurs mid season the whitelist will be updated ASAP.

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After getting to see new players step in to the battlegrounds that have gotten many hours and days of playtime, we proudly want to announce the winners of this event to you and show what teams managed to have the best line-ups of new players that we have seen!

All top 3 teams had strong performances and close matches against each other but making their way to win all matches of the Fresh Meat Challenge we have Time Bandits proving themselves as the best team made of new players to competitive with their Fresh Meat Challenge title, securing themselves $300 in the process.

The winning squad is comprised of:

• oJ (Medic)
• _gar (Demoman)
• HOI (Soldier)
• tiram (Soldier)
• ombra (Scout)
• Freud (Scout)

Louis van Gaal's Academy earned 2nd place, winning $180 and Backyard Bullies won 3rd place, securing $90.

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Written by TurboTabs

Another day, another cast, another last minute panic from myself noticing that teams have changed their match date. We’ve all broken into our routines. One of which at this point; is consuming some ETF2L Premier action which is into its sixth week so far! We’re nearing endgame for all these prem gamers. For ANTIC, it’s looking like a much easier road from here on out, with their remaining matches being up against teams predicted to end at the lower table of ETF2L, however with how the season how gone for them so far, and playoffs out of the question for them, will they have the motivation to take this game seriously? and more importantly. Can the underdog team in this match nunya capitalize on that?

Join ever_x, TurboTabs on the mic and Beater on the, erm production–machine..thing…tonight!

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The groups have been played and we’re left with a final ongoing tiebreaker. In the meantime lets get onto the bracket. It’ll be a bit of a tight schedule so we encourage the teams to actively work on their schedules.

You can find the full bracket over here and a listing of the round of 16 matches down below.

We’re also adding in that in the case your Nations Cup match is getting casted you’ll have to use your ETF2L registered username. This mainly to make it easier for the casters and viewers.

England vs Lithuania
United States of America vs France
Group 5 Winner vs Hungary
Poland vs Germany
Denmark vs Austria
Belgium vs Ukraine
Italy vs Sweden
Russia vs Group 5 Runner-Up

Players who play in casted matches must use their real nicknames

All players who play in a casted match must play with their ETF2L nickname. Team tags are allowed but the nickname must be the same as the nickname on ETF2L, letter for letter. The nickname should be easily recognizable at a glance. Each incorrect nickname will warrant a punishment.