Tonight will be the night that decides who wins the TF2Center Archimedes Cup powered by scrap.tf

The top three teams will battle it out for the following prize pool (generously donated by scrap.tf):

• 1st place – €500
• 2nd place – €350
• 3rd place – €150

But that’s not all, during the finals, viewers will be able to enter raffles linked in the stream chat to win amazing in-game prizes.

Schedule

The 3rd place tiebreaker between revive and The Essentials will be played at 19:00 CEST
The Grand Final will be between Jona Lewie and Sprinkler Kids and will be live at 21:00 CEST

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Season 20 powered by Tt eSPORTS – Week 1: LEGO vs Ze Knutsson Rollerbladers

It’s time for another season and what better way to start it than a match between the newly promoted LEGO and last season’s runner-ups, Ze Knutsson Rollerbladers. The previously full Danish side of LEGO has gone international picking up sorex and Josh on scout and roamer respectively. Last time they were in the Premiership back in season 17 they lost all their games so with these new additions they’ll be looking to make amends and finish in a more respectable position this time around. However, their opponents tonight will not go down easily. With zappis departing to the promised land of CS:GO, Ze Knutsson Rollerbladers have picked up Starkie on roamer. This swap doesn’t seem to have swayed them much so they look like the favourites to win tonight. Can LEGO pull of an upset or will it be the first step in another bad season in the Premiership for them?

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Highlander Season 7 Wrap Up

After a season split up by the holidays, we can finally reflect back on one that was filled with action. From the pre-season upsets during the TFTV Invitational to the very last games in the Premiership Grand Finals. The days that SNSD won every season are long over.

After a promising 3rd place in the TFTV HL Invitational Cup, Voodooh faced tough opponents, but got a break by barely securing a win over hePPa. But apparently they lost their drive as the season went on, and won’t be guaranteed of a premiership slot in Season 8.

hePPa had a rough season too, but winning a map in week 2 placed them in a relegation slot, and were going to battle over their premier spot against ResidentSleeper. However, the latter forfeited the match, giving hePPa a secure spot in next season’s Premiership Division.

The Highlander Season 5 champions Kill Switch were unfortunate to undergo big roster changes, that eventually led to them trailing off from week 4 and onwards.

Yet again Fair Enough barely missed playoffs. This team is held together by the power of friendship and HartzFartz yelling, Qnai telling him to shut up, and Blooddrunk clicking on heads. But four wins and three losses was not enough to move on.

The team that did make the playoffs was Stacked. the team led by the Irish Youtube superstar b33p had a decent season, but ended it by getting a default win from  Kill Switch.
However they forfeited a point by accumulating so many minor warnings that it stacked up to a major warning.
This tied them with PremTech where a tense playoff game sadly left Stacked on a 4th place.

Ending on second place in the regular season, Highpander© had to defend their title no matter what. But holidays happen and roster changes meant that Hildreth couldn’t continue his habit of playing in the grand finals.

Moving on to the team that ended up fulfilling their promise of making top 3, PremTech made it to the grand finals.
The team with an American powerhouse with  Nursey on medic and Kresnik on heavy tried to show how TF2 should be played. They got really close but they had to acknowledge that there was one team that bested them in the end.

On top during the main season, and eventually winning the grand finals was BreakfasT_Jr and a few others in Tourettes Chessclub

We now have our brand new champions in the highest level competitive European highlander has to offer

Congratulations to the champions: Tourettes Chessclub !
They will be taking home €500 and the chance to defend their title in Season 8

The winners are:

• atomic- – Scout
• uubers – Soldier
• Scissors – Pyro
• quintosh – Demoman
• BreakfasT_Jr– Heavy
• B4n4n4m4n – Engineer
• Spreijer – Medic
• tracker – Sniper
• Khazul – Spy

Congratulations to the teams that got top 3 in the Premiership Division:

•   Tourettes Chessclub – 500€ Prize
•   PremTech – 350€ Prize
•   Highpander© – 150€ Prize

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Grab your popcorn and charge the soundboards, its time for the results of the ETF2L Highlander Season 7 award results! Join host CeeJaey as he takes a trip through the past 3 months of Highlander with guests Hildreth of Highpander©, Spreijer of Tourettes Chessclub, b33p of Stacked and  Nursey of PremTech where the final results of all the polls shall be released from 20 CET!

Season 20 powered by Tt eSPORTS – Provisional Tiers

The signup count for Season 20 powered by Tt eSPORTS is 295 teams (we had to remove a couple of teams because they did not have enough players). The divisions may still be subject to change, there is no guarantee for anyone except those teams who earned promotion or stayed comfortably in the middle of their division.

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Swiss System Changes: How to prepare for Week 1

The Swiss system has finally hit the main site, and we’re ready for teams to submit their available playing days for Week 1. Usually you would have more time to submit these, but it’s been a squeeze to get this out in time – so bear with it for Week 1 please!

Every team signed up for Season 20 (except for Premiership teams) needs to submit their available playing days by Saturday 23:59. You can do that through this page and selecting Edit Availability for your Season 20 team.

• Select between 1 and 3 consecutive days through the dropdown.
• Select a preferred time and time window for each day.
• Click Save Changes! You’re done!

That’s all there is to it for now, this should get you started for Week 1. There will be a “Swiss System FAQ” page listed on the site sometime when the system is 100% completed and we can guide new players through in-depth.

Premiership Fixtures have been created, please schedule the games as you would normally with the Week starting this Sunday. (Because of the late notice, default dates will be delayed so it would be much appreciated to add the enemy leader asap and get it scheduled fast!)

Final Tiers will be released tomorrow night, and fixtures will be created on Saturday at 23:59! HYPE!