What time is it? Season 9 kick off time! Break out those “LOLHL” memes and pray to your Hildoge god as we begin with Week 1’s matches. Tonight will feature Fair Enough pitted against WASP across pl_upward to have a chance in bagging some early season points. Spearheading the charge for everyone at home will be CeeJaey & sigafoo with Jon on the production duties on BlackOut TV. Tune in from 20 CET / 14 EST tonight to see all the action unfold!

Match Overview
Fair Enough vs WASP
Week 1 (Premiership)
Monday, November 2nd 20:00 CET

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1 - 0

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1 - 0

OVERALL
Fair Enough [6:0] WASP

First let us start off with congratulating Strong Opinions and Feila finanzieren durch DROPS of winning their respective matches in the Highlander Season 9 Premiership Qualifiers. We wish them the best of luck this season.

Rules Update

Seeing that there was some misunderstanding last highlander season regarding this rule we’re slightly editing it to hopefully make it more clear.

3.5 Switching line-ups or hijacking teams is not allowed

A team may not be replaced in a competition by a new team or lineup without admin permission. Teams can be qualified as ‘new’ if half or more of their active roster get changed since the start of the competition. Cases will be reviewed individually, and decisions made will be at the full discretion of the admin team and all circumstances will be taken into account. Please contact an admin if your team is facing extreme line-up changes.

Together with that rule we’ll also be adding in a additional one regarding mercs in highlander.

1.4.1 Perma-mercs are not allowed

A player can only be used as a merc 3 times for one and the same team per season (regardless of the player being an approved or default-merc). If a player has been used as a merc 3 times for a team already they  aren’t allowed to join the team in question. After the fourth match as a merc for the same team, the player is considered a perma-merc.
If a player is caught or reported perma-mercing, we will review the case and decisions made will be at the full discretion of the admin team and all circumstances will be taken into account. Note: in accordance with General Rule 2.3, only one team change per competition is tolerated.

Staff changes

Lazybear has, after a period of inactivity, re-joined the ETF2L staff. Welcome back!

It was the end of Spring when Tourettes Chessclub edged out Highpander© to be crowned Season 8 champions, both leaders are back with new look rosters to fight it out once again. Scissors from Tourettes Chessclub and Hildreth from Highpander© will be joined by the legendary and controversial b33p from Stacked, who are looking to fill in the incumbent spot of title contenders, a hole left by the departed PremTech.

Hold the presses though, DeutschLAN runners-up Fair Enough will have a say in it, we have that begging bandit Clark ready to jump in and tell us about their new roster, whilst there will be representation from Russia’s finest as Klefsas will be here to tell us about his WASP side and their chances, you know since Russian teams occupy ¼ of next season’s Premiership. Finally to fill in the numbers and host the show will be caster of the season CeeJaey, who will be back to keep everything in order and fulfil his hidden agenda, to promote his own side Strong Opinions who are making strides themselves.

With a whole host of topics under discussion fresh off a batch of pre-season Playoff matches. We have everything ranging from new rosters, to controversial kickings, to rumours and gossip with a smidgen of unlock debates and scrutiny or appraisal of the map pool thrown in, it’s going to be a bumpy ride. So get your Samsung Galaxy smartphones out, prepare your “LOLHL” memes and join BlackOut TV with the omnipotent presence of Jon leading the production, this Sunday 1st November at 22 CET!

Season 9’s start line is just around the corner. Between us and then is the final match to decide who will be the 8th premiership team for the season. Fighting for the chance is Lotus Munching Angels led by 80x vs. Feila finanzieren durch DROPS from Hutchy and his squadron so don’t forget to join in the action tonight from 20 CET with CeeJaey, Admirable and Jon on BlackOut TV!

Match Overview
Lotus Munching Angels vs Feila finanzieren durch DROPS
Final
Saturday, October 31st 20:00 CET

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1 - 3

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1 - 0

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0 - 1

OVERALL
Lotus Munching Angels [3:6] Feila finanzieren durch DROPS

Epsilon esports by fragnet networks vs. reason gaming

With the standings in the table the way they are this is a potential grand final preview. Epsilon eSports has given up a map and a golden cap point so far while Se7en remain undefeated. Se7en will be facing their old teammates KnOxXx and Mike from last season. Both teams will have first hand experience on how the others function. But these are all experienced players who have fought for glory versus each other for many seasons. With Zebbosai making a comeback to play roamer for Se7en this roster change could be something for Epsilon eSports to use to their advantage. But there is immense talent on both teams making this is a game you wouldn’t want to miss. Casted by Admirable, Maks and DavidTheWin taking care of production.

full tilt vs. danger dogs by tf2pickup.net

Meanwhile on stream two we have .kr4tos’s bottom placed team Danger Dogs looking to cause an upset against playoff potentials Full Tilt to keep themselves hovering above the relegation spot. With both Sideshow and skeej being prone to greetings and deaths, you can expect twitch chat to update its memes once this game is under way. Tune in with Ryushi, TurboTabs and Brodogs.