Ho ho ho! Wait…wrong time of year. Top o’ the mornin’ to ya! That’s better! Welcome one and all to the ETF2L Preseason Playoffs for Season 12 Highlander. Starting out this time we have 2 teams yearning for some action on the fresh battlefields. We’re talking about previous premiership contenders Super Dickmann's JUNIORS! against the High Division winners of Season 11, inVision. Ahead of them is a 3-map soon-to-be massacre of guts and gore on Coalplant, Upward and Steel as the game gets underway at 21:00 CET (16:00 EST) tonight with a selection of lovely casting hosts in the form of everyone’s favourite sigafoo and Highlander vet HartzFartz with the ever venerable Wiethoofd on the camera side of the event all streamed over on BlackOut TV! Who will win? Tune in to find out!

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With Lowpander providing Se7en with an unexpectedly close match earlier this week, all bets are off for this encounter between the French squad under sponsor top5rocket, and the predominantly German Arctic Foxes. The organised and high-fragging combo of Néo and blade will look to prove that the consistency they have displayed throughout the season can outgun the mechanically powerful roster they find themselves up against. The winner of this game will find themselves battling the behemoth that is Se7en, so they’ll need all the practise they can get.

Match Overview
top5rocket vs Arctic Foxes
UB Round 1 (Premiership)
Thursday, March 16th 21:15 CET

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0 - 5

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0 - 3

OVERALL
top5rocket [0:6] Arctic Foxes

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With an unexpected playoff berth following the quick demise of champGG.K!, Politically correct pander will look to prove they deserve their spot with a strong showing versus the juggernauts of Se7en. A harder test in Europe they will not find, but uubers will try his best to be unerred by this intimidating opponent, instead attempting to drop the huge numbers he’s been dumping on nerds all season. kaptain and the boys are probably unconcerned by the change of opponent, and already will have their eyes on the upper bracket game versus either nerdRage or Arctic Foxes . Will this be a casual swatting aside, or can the panders turn heads with a massive upset win?

Match Overview
Se7en vs Politically correct pander
UB Round 1 (Premiership)
Tuesday, March 14th 21:15 CET

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1 - 0

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5 - 1

OVERALL
Se7en [6:0] Politically correct pander

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Announcing Highlander Season 12.

As Season 11 is over with  Strong Opinions claiming the crown once again, we are pleased to announce our next Highlander Season. All the information regarding the coming Season can either be found in this newspost, or will be released shortly!

Due to the slow decline of signups to highlander seasons we are shortening the regular season length from seven weeks to five. Not only will this allow us to return to all three tiers of High, Mid and Open but it will allow for three highlander seasons a year on top of a summer event such as a nations cup. This will mean that the number of teams competing in the Premiership tier will be reduced to six.

The map pool and whitelist for the season are still undecided and will be announced soon

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Season Schedule

• Signups: March 12 – March 24, 21:00 CET  (Premiership signup deadline is March 18)
• Publishing of Provisional Divisions: March 24
• Publishing of Final Divisions: March 25
• Pre-Season Playoffs: March 19 – March 25
• Main Season: March 26 – April 27 (5 Weeks)
• High/Mid/Open Playoffs: April 30 – May 14
• Premiership Playoffs: TBD

The structure of the premiership playoffs will be decided in collaboration with premiership team leaders once the six premiership teams are known.

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 March 18 21:00 CET. Additionally we expect teams without a guaranteed Premier Division spot to be able to play all of the days mentioned above.

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Instead of trying to slowly wean you off the drug that is prem TF2, scheduling has led to three matches in one night, something highly unusual and worrying for broadcasters teamfortress.tv. Dusting off teamfortresstv3 on twitch has been considered, and you now have no excuse to be watching some TF2 this sunday. Annoyingly, all the games are scheduled at the same time, but I’m sure they’ll start a fair amount apart come the hour.

Match one: The reigning champions take on the new old-timers. With the addition of Silentes and spudd into the lineup, Unexpected certainly look like they have the firepower now to go head-to-head with anyone. Getting the whole team to play together in a way that could take apart the incredibly well-drilled Se7en is another matter. Don’t bet against someone like Silentes going crazy and dropping huge frags, but it’ll take a stupendous performance to get Se7en to drop points at the final hurdle before playoffs.

Following Arctic Foxes‘s simple victory earlier in the week, Politically correct pander‘s quest for playoffs has reached its disappointing conclusion. It is a shame, because they seem to have grown on everybody throughout the season, and would certainly bring some spice to a best-of-three series. But this will be their final contribution to prem this season. The best thing they can achieve now is to try and oust top5rocket from their second place in the standings. nerdRage would be mightily disappointed with showing any weakness just before playoffs, so expect to see a fully motivated game from both teams (although it’ll be hard to tell if Lowpander are just messing around with offclasses).

Match Overview
Politically correct pander vs top5rocket
Week 7 (Premiership)
Sunday, March 12th 21:15 CET

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1 - 5

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0 - 2

OVERALL
Politically correct pander [0:6] top5rocket

And last (and probably least), two of the bottom three have come together to play. nunya haven’t even got the chance to surpass their opponents should they win, and the best Lemmings can do is equal Lowpander on 17 points. Although there may not be as much motive to watch this one, if you wanted to watch nunya’s final game and maybe have a laugh, this is your chance.

Match Overview
Lemmings vs nunya
Week 7 (Premiership)
Sunday, March 12th 21:15 CET

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5 - 4 (golden cap)

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2 - 1 (golden cap)

OVERALL
Lemmings [4:2] nunya

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