Provisional Tiers

A big congratulations to Feila finanzieren durch DROPS for winning the preseason playoffs and earning themselves their spot in prem. Along the way the did not only manage to beat 3 teams but also kill 2 of them thanks to their crushing strength!

If you are unhappy with where your team was placed please contact the admin team on our support channel.

ETF2L Highlander Season 12 is around the corner, and with it comes the second edition of the BlackOut TV Highlander Invitational! This time it will bring together 8 of the absolute best European Highlander teams to dish it out against each other to take a shot at the growing £100 prize-pool.

Invited Teams:

1. Strong Opinions
2. Tourettes Chessclub
3. Super Dickmann's KANNONEN!
4. Budget Toucans
5. Super Dickmann's JUNIORS!
6. Lucrosa inVision was replaced by Lucrosa
7. open_squad
8. Feila finanzieren durch DROPS

Tune in to BlackOutGamingTV as early as 16:00CET on Saturday 25th & 16:00CEST on Sunday 26th of March to watch every bit of action casted by sigafoo, jakeowaty, Beater, Heavy Is GPS, chando & Buck824 with legendary Wiethoofd and Jon on camera.

As of now the prizepool is under development, and at the moment of writing stands at £30 and 35 Mann Co. Keys. Everyone who would like to contribute to European Highlander can do so by donating to the BlackOut TV fund here. Perhaps that old, wretched festive is of no use to you? If that is the case and you would rather chip in via items, you can do so here. All donators will be given shoutouts after the winners have been crowned on Twitch.tv.

: 180 euros + 18 keys

: 90 euros + 9 keys

: 18 keys

4th: 9 keys

Format & Maps

The format this year is a little different than last time. On Saturday a Round-Robin stage will be played where every team will play each other on one map. Top 4 of the group will automatically get placed in Winners’ Bracket while bottom 4 will have to fight their way in Losers’ Bracket on Sunday.

The tournament will be running the ETF2L Season 12 maplist, which consists of pl_upward, cp_gullywash_final, koth_product_rc8, pl_borneo, cp_steel, pl_badwater as well as koth_coalplant_b7.

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With an incredible display shattering nerdRage, the Foxes go on to an even bigger upset opportunity: beat Se7en and they will be the first team to win a playoff game vs them in two years. Maros looked well-integrated in the team in their previous game, but schocky and feeling were the stars of the show, with impact, frags and damage that simply overpowered their French rivals. Can these brilliant individuals outplay the ruthless efficiency of Se7en? Or will the squad of champions prove they don’t just have the best system, but can match any firepower EU has to offer as well? This is truly a season-defining game.

Match Overview
Se7en vs Arctic Foxes
UP Final (Premiership)
Sunday, March 19th 21:15 CET

cp_gullywash_final1

4 - 2

cp_reckoner_rc1

5 - 2

OVERALL
Se7en [6:0] Arctic Foxes

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The Highlander Season 12 preseason playoffs have been announced. The single elimination bracket can be viewed here. inVision and open_squad will receive a bye to the semi finals. Default mercs may only be of high experience, any player with more than 3 games in prem cannot default merc and must be approved.

Each game will have a two day period in which they must be played.

• Quarter Finals: 19/3 – 20/3
• Semi Finals: 21/3 – 22/3
• Grand Finals: 23/3 – 24/3

The map pool for the preseason will differ slightly from the map pool of the main season as koth_coalplant_b7 will be added to bring the total amount of maps to 7 to allow for easier map elimination.

• pl_upward
• cp_gullywash_final1
• koth_product_rc8
• pl_borneo
• cp_steel
• pl_badwater
• koth_coalplant_b7

The whitelist will remain unchanged from season 11, the whitelist.tf preset has been updated accordingly.

Tell me if this sounds familiar, you are new to competitive TF2 and:

• You want to play competitive TF2 but you are afraid you’re not good enough.
• You want to play competitive TF2 but you find it hard to find a team.
• You want to play competitive TF2 but you have no idea what you’re doing.

Back in 2015, we helped run a little thing called Archimedes Cup, where we encouraged new to competitive TF2 players and gave them the opportunity to play some organised games for prizes (Thank you Scrap.tf) with the help of a Buddy to coach them along, if required. It is long overdue, but now the opportunity has arisen for ETF2L to host a second Cup designed mainly for those NEW TO COMPETITIVE TF2. However those who are long-standing members of ETF2L, we need your help as well, there will be hundreds of new players in need of guidance and we’re calling on you to be the ones to offer them insight on how to play the 6v6 format.

Prizes

There will be $600 worth of giftcards generously provided by Scrap.tf and Marketplace.tf. This will be split as follows:

• 1st Place: $300 (6 x $50)
• 2nd Place: $180 (6 x $30)
• 3rd Place: $90 (6 x $15)

There will also be a frag movie competition based around this competition with the competition winner being awarded with the remaining $30. The frag movie contest winner shall be decided by a public vote at the end of the tournament. Each movie must contain the following:

• Must have the ETF2L Introduction (Download Link).
• Must have sponsor logos (Download Link).
• Must be submitted in the official forum thread by the 27th of May.

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