Sunday special is nearly here! Join CeeJaey, Atomicus & Jon on BlackOut TV with the Scandinavian derby between Sweden in the east and Norway on the west!

nijoonen leads the charge from Sweden once more with a roster full of history (and talent), once such moment being the victors of last year’s Nations Cup where they took home the prize over England in the Grand Final. So far this cup they’ve haven’t had a challenge with 6-0 victories over Czech Republic and Netherlands but when facing their neighbours will such results come home?

On the other hand, Norway have only really had one official played (sorry Scotland) against United States of America where we saw a 6-0 win going to the yanks. Was the team we saw last year still alive or did it all go down to seeding? Ace‘s team have tonight to prove themselves as a loss will mean the end of the road.

Tune in from 19:00 CEST for all the action!

In our match of the evening last year’s finalists England take on Finland. England strolled through their group, taking first place, but rarely were pushed out of 1st gear. Hildreth has organised his squad with a mix of experience and new talent, who have shone so far – but how will they cope against a much tougher opponent? Finland on the other hand struggled to shine in their group, dropping points to both Austria and Italy. However the Finns have always reached the Semi-Finals of this competition – finishing 4th twice, and 3rd last year. Can Toba lead stars such as Qnai and tonmas one step further this time, or will it be the end of the line – and end of their streak?

Join in on the action from 20 CEST on BlackOut TV!

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Dustbowl!

The playoff  bracket is out and can be found here!
If you have any criticism towards the cup you can leave it in the feedback thread over here.

Apart from that we would like to specify something for the rest of the cup.

Turbine and any other capture the flag maps that would still get played are played BO3.
In the case Dustbowl comes back in the finals. It is meant to be played BO1.

Schedule

Tuesday, August 18th – Knockout Stage

• Round of 32 – 20:00 CEST – cp_bazillion_rc5
• Round of 16 – 21:00 CEST – ctf_turbine_pro_rc4

Thursday, August 20th – Knockout Stage

• Quarter-Finals – 19:00 CEST – cp_freight_final1
• Semi-Finals – 20:00 CEST – cp_warmfront
• Grand Final – 21:00 CEST – Best of 3 maps: cp_prolane_rc4, next 1/2 map(s) loser´s pick out of the mappool of the cup

Our good friends at  Thermaltake & Tt eSPORTS agreed to make predictions for the Highlander Nations Cup 4 a bit more exciting by providing us with a sick prize pool that you can win.

Ok, what’s the deal?
We have two competitions, one on ETF2L, one on twitter.

Predict who is going to win each round on ETF2L!
Predict who is going to win the event on twitter!

Rules are simple:

ETF2L competition:

• Submit your winners of the matches in a post in this thread (a new post per round or once in the beginning, doesn’t matter)
• Submit the total number of airshots in the grand finals
• No editing your posts! (I will ignore edited posts)
• Only results submitted before the match goes live are counted
• If two players tie on points, the player with the best airshot predictions will win
• Each correct match winner prediction will render you one point.

Oh and the most important one – Predictions for your own matches are not allowed

>>>> Submissions go in this thread <<<<

Prizes for the ETF2L competition:

 1x Tt eSPORTS Ventus mouse

for the player with the most amount of prediction points at the end of the cup.

 3x Thermaltake Riing fan

(colour and size /12cm/14cm of choice; red, blue, white, green, orange, possibly yellow) for the runner up

Twitter competition:

• Submit who you think is going to win the cup to either twitter account!
• Use the #HLNC hashtag
• Follow the specific channel you’ve tweeted at in order to win

Send your tweet @ttesports in order to win the Tt eSPORTS Ventus mouse!

Send your tweet @thermaltake in order to win three Thermaltake Riing fans (size 12 or 14 cm, red, blue, white, green, orange, possibly yellow)

Per example:

@thermaltake Germany #ETF2LHLNC

Winners of the twitter events will be randomly selected from the group who submitted the correct predictions before the day of the finals. Drawings will be held the first week of october.

Thanks to our partners  Thermaltake & Tt eSPORTS for making this happen!

Do you feel overwhelmed by the plethora of Highlander Nations Cup games being casted and feel like something different? Look no further than our friends over at teamfortress.tv who are covering an 8 team inivtational tourney spanning two days and featuring the best Europe and North America has to offer. Including the top 4 teams in Prem as well as North American champions Froyotech. This is the first stop on the i55 hype-train, so get on board. All information can be found here, and don’t miss Beater’s trailer for the event.