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.

ETF2L on social media:

 Follow us on twitter!
 Like us on Facebook!
 Join our Steamgroup and invite your friends!
 Use our Discord

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.

Read the rest of this entry »

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!

Read the rest of this entry »

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.

Banner by Doomsday.exe

Announcing Highlander Season 13!

With  Super Dickmann's KANNONEN! claiming their first title, we are pleased to announce our first summer highlander season. All the information regarding the coming Season can either be found in this newspost, or will be released shortly!

The same whitelist as Season 12 will be used, if the pyro/jungle update happens mid season we will update the whitelist. The map pool for the season is the same as Season 12. Matching the change in our 6v6 leagues friday will now be an option for teams to play on.

>>>>>SIGN UP NOW<<<<<<

Season Schedule

• Signups: June 26 – July 14, 21:00 CEST  (Premiership signup deadline is July 7)
• Publishing of Provisional Divisions: July 14
• Publishing of Final Divisions: July 15
• Pre-Season Playoffs: July 8 – July 15
• Main Season: July 16 – August 18 (5 Weeks)
• Playoffs: August 27 – September 10

If you intend to sign up for the Premier Division we encourage you to do so as soon as possible due to the Pre-Season Playoffs. We will only consider teams for the Pre-Season Playoffs that signed up before July 7 21:00 CEST. Additionally we expect teams without a guaranteed Premier Division spot to be able to play all of the days mentioned above.

There will be a week gap between the main season ending and the playoffs starting due to the insomnia 61 LAN taking place that weekend.

The map pool can be seen below

• Week 1: pl_upward
• Week 2: pl_borneo
• Week 3: cp_steel
• Week 4: cp_gullywash_final1 + koth_product_rc8
• Week 5: pl_badwater

Read the rest of this entry »