Wake me up when October ends! Why you ask? Because now it is Highlander time and we have a whole hosts of changes in the scene to reflect on and look forward to. Strong Opinions are looking for a 3rd straight title to equal SNSD’s record. Without Highpander or Fair Enough to stand in their way, to the unitiated it may seem like a formality. But it isn’t a straight forward formality for the DeutschLAN winners as we will see the remergance of old names Chessclub (who themselves are seeking a third title) Stacked and GANG (formerly PremTech). You would be a fool to discount SDCK and The Bureau as well as new boys Budget Toucans and XDCK.

Broadcasted live on BlackOut TV, fresh from the afterlife, former Highlander royalty Hildreth will host the show this Friday at 21:00 CET, with Jon on the stream. Guests will include CeeJaey (Strong Opinions), sp (SDCK), Chronos (The Bureau), Maccy (Budget Toucans) and DCS to represent ETF2L.

Topics will include a review of the preseason with playoffs, competitions and rosters as well as looking ahead to this season, predictions and a look at this seasons rules and unlocks.

The final week is here and there are still 3 matches to be played. We’ll be flying right into it.

Danger Dogs vs top5rocket

Last up this week we on Sunday at 21:15 CET we’ll see if  Danger Dogs have a chance to get a playoff spot for themselves or if top5rocket will deny them of it.

Match Overview
Danger Dogs vs top5rocket
Week 7 (Premiership Tier)
Sunday, November 6th 21:15 CET

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2 - 1

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3 - 1

OVERALL
Danger Dogs [6:0] top5rocket

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Made by ZeUberMedic

After discussion both internally and with premiership players we are adding the dead ringer to our whitelist, this means that the dead ringer will not be banned in Highlander Season 11. The whitelist can be viewed on whitelist.tf.

We have also made the decision that players with High experience are not allowed to default merc in mid/high only players with mid or less, to be considered of a divisions experience you must have played 3 or more officials in the last 3 seasons or any matches in the current season. For Season 11 this will mean matches from seasons 8, 9, and 10 will be considered as well as 6v6 Season 22, 23, 24, and 25.

Also if you have not done so please set your teams availability, have your team leaders follow this link to do so.

In the link down below you can find the provisional tiers.

Provisional Tiers

Due to the limited signups we’ve merged High and Mid to get a better working group for Swiss. We’ll be using accelerated pairing to make the first couple of weeks fair.

Complaints about your tier can be done until 22 CEST today.

Clarification: This is unrelated to the ETF2L Highlander Season 11 Playoffs or any ETF2L Competition, it is an independent event hosted by BlackOut TV

It’s this time of the year, folks!

No, not the US presidential election. Although it does have slightly better memes than TF2 community. ETF2L Highlander Season 11 is upon us and that means it’s time for another edition of a HL Invitational Cup (the first one to be hosted by BlackOut TV) with 8 of the juiciest teams in Europe set to participate!

Starting from 16:00 CET on Sunday 30th of October tune in to BlackOutGamingTV for a double-stream action with sigafoo,  jakeowaty, Heavy Is GPS and a surprise caster once feared and respected as the more formidable of the two Irish medics but who is now drinking his life away somewhere in the Westport countryside.

Oh, what’s that again? „What is the prizepool?” you ask? Excuse me, lady, we’re in 2016 and it’s a highlander of all things we’re talking about, there’s no such thing as „prizes”!

On a good note though, there are still nice people in this forsaken land of a gamemode and chando and  Firefly were kind enough to donate 40 British Pounds for the cup winner on Sunday.

But wait! Not only that, BlackOut TV is running a donation fund that can be found here and without a single bit of promotion at the moment of writing it already stands at 33 Mann Co. Keys that will be spread between the Top 3 finishers as shown below:

1st: 150 British Pounds + items donations
2nd: 50 pounds + items donations
3rd: items donations

UPDATE: We received donations of 50 Pounds from both Cronk and Kuferl  which will be given to the cup winner making it 140 pounds in total. Big thanks to them!

The scrap.tf fund is open until the very end of the tournament. Everyone who contributes will receive a shoutout on stream and their nickname written in the ending credits after the Grand Finals. Donate now and help make Highlander great again! (I promised myself not to do this one but I couldn’t help it).

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