Announcing Season 26 powered by Tt eSPORTS

First of all congratulations once again to Season 25 winners, Se7en. With the first round of games from the preseason cup are underway we are pleased to announce Season 26 powered by Tt eSPORTS. Signups are now open until 20th of January 21 CET.

Premiership signups will close on the 14th of January at 21:00 CET.

>>> Sign up now! <<<

Sign-up process

Make sure to choose your desired tier when signing up. If you created a new team, feel free to apply for the tier you believe you deserve you should be in. To prove you are capable of the tier you applied for, we require you to submit screenshots of results from your recent practice matches or tournaments where you scored decent results against teams that play on the level you aim for. The quantity is not the most important factor in this case, it’s more of a helpful measure for us to figure out if your team will be able to keep up with the pace. There is no magical, minimum or maximum number of screenshots that you have to submit.

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HOLY ****! Its 2017 and finally the Season 11 Playoffs for Highlander are finally upon us tonight with the first match punching its way out to the centre with Tourettes Chessclub battling against Budget Toucans for a early lead in these double elimination brackets. Both sides feature similar results through the season with comparable wins and losses but when it came down to it in Week 4, Tourettes Chessclub took 6 points for their own from Budget Toucans on koth_coalplant and cp_process, with Coalplant featuring in tonight’s lineup along with Product and Gullywash. All that remains is the action to unfold later so don’t forget to tune into BlackOut TV with CeeJaey, sigafoo & Jon for all the frags from 21:00 CET!

Match Overview
Tourettes Chessclub vs Budget Toucans
Round 1 (Premiership)
Sunday, January 8th 21:00 CET

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3 - 1

koth_product_rc8

2 - 3

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5 - 2

OVERALL
Tourettes Chessclub [6:3] Budget Toucans

The fixtures for the Season 26 Preseason Cup are now released and can be seen here along with the groups.

The knockout stage trees can be seen under the competition tab.

In the Premiership and High groups all 4 teams will advance to playoffs with the Semi Finals taking place on Monday 9th at 21:00 with the finals on Tuesday the 10th at 21:00.

For Mid and Open the top two teams from each group will advance to the playoffs. Mid will have the Quarter Finals take place at 19:00 on Monday 9th with the Semi Finals following at 21:00. The finals will then be scheduled at 21:00 on Tuesday the 10th.
Open will have the first knockout round take place on Monday 9th at 19:00 with Quarter Finals at 21:00, then the Semi Finals will take place at 19:00 on Tuesday the 10th with the Finals being played at 21:00.

Reminder that the knockout games are to be played on koth_bagel, cp_edifice with cp_warmfront as the decider.

The Winners, second, and third place teams will all receive pixel trophies on their profile.

The Highlander Season 11 powered by Tt eSPORTS has seen many surprises, changes and just the right amount of premiership drama. The regular season is over – as is the TF2-year 2016 for that matter – but we do have one last treat for all you bored gamers out there who do not know what to do with all their spare time between the holidays.
Join the host of tonight’s talkshow, our very own DCS, and his guests Clark (SDCK), Maccy (Budget Toucans), CeeJaey (Strong Opinions) and Synrise (Chessclub) with Jon on production, who are going to talk about the regular season and its tops ‘n’ flops as well as give you a little preview of what awaits us in the premiership playoffs which start next week.

Tune in at twitch.tv/blackoutgamingtv at 22:00 cet for the approximately one hour long discussion!

As 2017 draws to near we are pleased to announced the ETF2L Season 26 Preseason Cup. The focus of this cup will be to test three maps. yrr‘s new map koth_bagel_b3a that was recently tested in ozfortress, cp_edifice_rc1 an attack defence map by phi, and cp_warmfront a 5cp map was last seen in 6v6 way back in season 9.

>>>> Sign up for the Preseason Cup here! <<<<

Signups are open until Saturday 7th 20:00 CET! Any 6v6 or Fun team that has at least 6 players on the roster at the end of Signups is eligible to play. If the deadline has passed you may still be able to participate if the initial groups have not been published.

A group stage will run on Sunday 8th, followed by knockout stages on Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th.

Sunday 8th January.

• 19:00 CET: Round 1 on cp_warmfront
• 20:00 CET: Round 2 on koth_bagel_b3a
• 21:00 CET: Round 3 on cp_edifice_rc1

The knockout rounds will be played on Monday 9th January and Tuesday 10th January with at most two rounds per day depending on how many rounds are needed. All knockout rounds will be played on koth_bagel and cp_edifice with cp_warmfront as the decider. The exact schedule will be announced after all group games have been played.

Teams will be seeded first come first serve. Signing up late just before the deadline will not guarantee your team a seed if there aren’t 3 other teams to create a bracket.

Rules/Whitelist

The 6v6 Season 25 rules apply in this cup, the Global Whitelist will be used.

Prizes

Every 1st team will receive a pixel trophy on their team page and the rights to brag about their achievements.

Feedback

There is a feedback thread on the forums to leave feedback about any part of the cup be it maps, schedule, etc.