Season 19 powered by Tt eSPORTS – Week 2: La Berrichonne de Châteauroux vs maincall.tf

Week 2 continues with two matches tonight. In the first one Awsomniac take on SUAVE. The frenchies have gone through some roster changes after their first game, placing Tek on scout with Captainhax taking up the duty of playing pocket. Judging by PCW results this change hasn’t swayed their overall strength as a team to any major direction and they should be equally strong tonight as last week. For their opponents, SUAVE, this is the first real challenge of the season and will go a long way in determining whether they can live up to their potential and take the first place so highly tipped for them. SUAVE go into tonight’s game as the favourites but Awsomniac will be sure to not go out without a proper fight.

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Season 19 powered by Tt eSPORTS – Week 2: 4-25 vs Fenneks eSports by SimRai.com

Week 2 kicks off for the premiership with an exciting contest between 4-25 and Planet Express. For both teams this is the first real challenge of the season after 4-25 beat their compatriots, Lethal Weapon, in the first week but after them dropping have no points on the board before tonight. On the other hand, Planet Express breezed through their week 1 match taking all six points on offer and have looked very promising in their preseason outings after making the jump up from division 2. The teams faced each other before the season in the TF.TV Invitational when Planet Express suffered a narrow 4-3 defeat on process. With that match being so closely contested we should be in for a close game tonight as well!

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You’ve all been waiting for it, the cast of the Highlander Open Grand Final is now available for viewing! Join Heavy Is GPS & CeeJaey on BlackOut TV for an adventure through a 3-map safari with Sick Marmalade, Grandpa! against "Balkan" All-Stars (formerly Divide & Conquer) as your fighters.

In a shocking turn of events ETF2L Season 19 week 1 fixtures have actually been played in week 1 giving us an easy to start to this season’s weekly (maybe) summary of events. I’ll be looking at the Premiership teams through a statistical magnifying glass to produce a regular report card, it’ll be unstable and surprising to begin with but will settle down over time. In this first round of reports we discover who deserves a gold star and who needs to be sent to the headmaster’s office. Read on… Read the rest of this entry »

The end has come on one of the largest TF2 events of our time. We’ve have the good times and the bad. 256 teams – one record number for Highlander in recent times. I just want to take this time to thank all that participated in this massive competition despite the problems faced, you are the people that made this cup special. If you have any constructive feedback on how we can improve for a possible HLO 2 in the future, feel free to talk about it in the comments or in IRC.

A massive thank you the TF2Pickup.net for providing the prizes to the top 3 teams, PurePings for providing the extensive amount of match servers to keep the cup running,  nognade for creating the amazing trailer, Queenie for organising the logo creation, nabique & Brd for constructing our beautiful medals and to ETF2L for hosting the cup on their site.

The Winners

A big congratulations to our top 3 teams on their victories!

Sick Marmalade, Grandpa!

2 months TF2Pickup.net donator + 9 backpack expanders + 9 killstreak kits

  "Balkan" All-Stars

1 month TF2Pickup.net donator + 9 strange weapons

  Fruit Force

2 weeks TF2Pickup.net donator + 9 cosmetic items

Prizes should already be distributed. Medals are on their way, if you haven’t received your participation medal, please contact an admin via IRC.

Media

You can catch the casts of the finals on BlackOut TV. VODs are available on YouTube. STV Demo cast of the Final will be released soon.

Thanks to you all for participating!
– Jon