It’s Quarter Final time, the business end of the competition and for both Denmark and France, both will be harbouring title ambitions but only one will reach the last 4 and play England. Join CeeJaey, Jon and Danish substitute turned caster, Beater are here on the mics to bring home a keenly contest matchup live on BlackOut TV tonight at 21:15 CEST.

Denmark last made it to the Semi-Finals in 2012 and lost out to England, and most of their squad that day feature tonight, looking to relinquish the painful memory of 4 years ago. France meanwhile are the holders, but feature a completely new team to the one that won the gold in 2014.

The history in TF2 for these two nations is great, but how have they compared so far this tournament? Strangely the best way might be to measure their performances against Iceland – France‘s only map loss this tournament was a 4-2 loss to Iceland in the groups, where they needed to win a close tiebreaker to determine their first seed. Denmark meanwhile strolled the group stages, winning every map 5-0 and overpowered Iceland in the last 16, taking two maps 4-1 and 2-0 to set up this meeting.

Ultimately it is sure to be a closely contested game, based on performances against other opponents Denmark might have a slight edge but it’s so close it doesn’t matter for the game itself.

Season 24 powered by Tt eSPORTS: Award Polls

Shortly after the Highlander Season 10 Award Polls it is also time to decide the Season 24 awards.

Best Player of the Season has been decided already as, besides our winner, no other candidate managed to reach the minimum amount of nominations to even be considered for this award. The winner will be revealed in the Season 24 Awards Show.

Will this be the first time since Season 15, when ThePledge won over the most decorated caster to this point Admirable that we are going to see someone else as Caster of the Season than our bald Irish caster extraordinaire or  Sideshow? Both only covered just enough games to be considered for this season’s awards. Opening the door for new and upcoming casters to show their talent by casting a lot of matches in an attempt to win this prestigious trophy. It is in your hands…

The knockout phase is well and truly underway, we have already seen England, Denmark,  Czech Republic and Germany book their Quarter Final places and tonight we have a contest between Poland and Finland, casted live by CeeJaey and Beater, with Jon on the camera.

Poland scraped through the group stages, needing to win a tiebreaker versus Norway book their spot, having already been declared out in a previous ETF2L newspost, the Polish side have fought back from the dead and are still fighting for their lives. Still, with captain Graba leading the charge, anything is possible!

Finland meanwhile registered a fairly comfortable top seed finish, a 100% record and they will be expecting to continue that tonight. The star studded side has bags of experience and talent in their ranks, but will the infamous Finnish curse of recent nations cups strike again?

Tune in at 21:15 CEST – On BlackOut TV, with the winner facing off against Germany in the last 8.

Are you letting patriotism get in the way of just enjoying TF2. With people competing over the internet as well as in Rio. Maybe you want something where Nations are not fighting for supremacy. Maybe you want a showmatch! Well as you most likely already figured out, you clever rascal you, there is one tonight. Two of the top teams in all of Europe are battling to raise awareness of the upcoming Insomnia 58 LAN event. Yeah, the big one! Se7en and Full Tilt face each other for your enjoyment and to raise funds for Full Tilt. You can find out more and donate here. Casters are CommanderX, Bren and DavidTheWin handling production. Oh and while you’re here, how about scrolling down a bit and voting in the Awards polls.

The Highlander Open #2 Powered by Essentials.tf and Whitelist.tf: Playoffs

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The playoff fixtures for The Highlander Open #2 Powered by Essentials.tf and Whitelist.tf are now out, the bracket can be found here, or under the competition tab. The playoffs will proceed as bo3 single elimination however please remember that stopwatch maps are to be played as bo1 for that map, for more information see the FAQ.

All matches during the playoffs will have a default date of either a Tuesday or a Saturday however the teams have a few days of flexibility for each round. A change to the date must be agreed by both team leaders, if a reschedule cannot be agreed then the default date is to be used.

The maps for each round of the playoffs are to be decided by map elimination, all teams are considered of equal seed for the map elimination process. A full explanation of how this is to be carried out can be found on our general rules page. Once the maps have been decided post the decision on the match page along with any agreed mercs, please add your opposing teams leaders asap.

The map pool for the competition is as follows

• Badwater (pl_badwater)
• Upward (pl_upward)
• Lakeside (koth_lakeside_final)
• Borneo (pl_borneo)
• Viaduct (koth_product_rc8)
• Gullywash (cp_gullywash_final1)
• Process (cp_process_final)

If you have any questions please contact an admin on IRC.