Join Ryushi, Sideshow and Jon for a four-map spectacular of Season 18 powered by Tt eSPORTS Premiership action tonight on TeamFortress.TV. We have double bill featuring  4-25 against Week 3 rivals Saints and Week 4 rivals Awsomniac back to back baby! Starting at 20.00 CEST, the crazy russians face their opponent Saints in a match which could dictate the fate of the swedes in their end of season result with 4 maps down already and 0 points. Next, at 21.15 CEST,  Awsomniac will be wanting to claim all 6 points in order to chase down Epsilon eSports propelling themselves into poll position at this half way point in the season but will 4-25 cause a potential upset to Awsomniac‘s plan? Who will win these amazing matches? Tune in to find out!

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Edit: Teams are reminded that they can use up to three mercs by default for this cup.

Experimental Highlander Cup #5

Thirty two brave teams have signed up for an adventurous night or two on some untested maps as ETF2L bring you the Experimental Highlander Cup #5! The brackets for this cup have now been released, teams are to play to the schedule outlined below. Dropped teams are to contact an admin in IRC so a replacement team from the waiting list can step in.  

Brackets

>>> [ High | Low ] <<<

Note: If your team name is not on the linked brackets, you'll be on the waiting list. It is recommended to teams on the waiting list to be ready to play and replace dropped teams. The earlier you signed up, the more likely you will be needed to play. To ensure the cup goes smoothly, teams are reminded to make sure they have the most up to date version of the maps installed on their servers. These are:

• koth_fuel_a4 (Feedback Thread)
• cp_intermodal_rc3a (Feedback Thread)
• pl_rust_b7 (Feedback Thread)

Schedule

• 20:00 – Ro16 - koth_fuel_a4
• 20:45 – Ro8 - cp_intermodal_rc3a
• 21:30 – Ro4 - pl_rust_b7
• Grand Final – Best of 3 played by Thursday 12th June 23:59.

Bracket Finals

All matches leading up to the final will be played over a single map using the ETF2L Highlander Season 6 ruleset (HL Season 6 Rules & General Rules). However, the final will be a best of three using the three maps from this cup. Teams will pick one map each with the third map left as a decider map. Teams are free to schedule these matches to a date that suites them although these will have to be played by Thursday 12th June 23:59. Finals which have not been scheduled by Monday 9th will be defaulted to Thursday at 20:00cet.

Rule Update

Teams are advised that there is a bug on pl_rust_b7 where a blue player can get into the red forward spawn. Teams caught using this bug will be instantly disqualified from the cup. As a general rule, teams are reminded these are maps in development so there maybe other bugs within the maps. ETF2L recommends teams who find an issue with a map not to use them to gain an advantage or else they risk having their results in this cup void. Anybody who finds a bug please leave them in the feedback thread so the map author is aware.

Feedback

Players are encouraged to give feedback and include match records like POV/STV demos and logs in the individual map topics linked above. Even if the feedback is quite minimal, anything constructive can go a long way helping the author make their map better.  

Join HYS, .kr4tos and Jon on TeamFortress.TV for the Week 4 match of Season 18 powered by Tt eSPORTS with Fenneks eSports by SimRai.com [season 18 against Lethal Weapon. At a glance,  Fenneks eSports by SimRai.com [season 18 have yet to play their Week 3 match with the inclusion of Turbine against Awsomniac whilst Lethal Weapon are riding high after a much needed victory over Politically correct pander. However despite Lethal Weapon‘s slight advantage with Turbine Fenneks eSports by SimRai.com [season 18 could make a victory out of Process and grasp a potential draw or more with their opponent making them equal with both Russian teams competing in Premiership this season. Who will win? Tune in at 21:15 CEST to find out!

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Experimental Highlander Cup #5

Highlander Experimental Cup #5 features three largely untested maps, koth_fuel_a4, cp_intermodal_rc3a and pl_rust_b7. The Cup will be held on one night – Thursday June 5th with the final of each bracket played by Thursday June 12th. We invite Fun Teams  and Highlander teams of all skill levels to sign up! Teams will be grouped into brackets of similar skill where applicable, the number of brackets depends on the number of signups.

>>>Sign up here<<<

Signups will close at 23:59 on Tuesday 3rd June, with brackets published at 19:00 on Cup Night.

Schedule

• 19:00 – Brackets Posted
• 20:00 – Ro16 – koth_fuel_a4
• 20:45 – Ro8 – cp_intermodal_rc3a
• 21:30 – Ro4 – pl_rust_b7
• Grand Final – Best of 3 played by Thursday 12th June.

Maps

• koth_fuel_a4
• cp_intermodal_rc3a
• pl_rust_b7

All maps should be played with the same ruleset as during Highlander Season 6.

Whitelist

• The Highlander Season 6 whitelist will be used. The list of blacklisted weapons can be found here.

Highlander Season 6 powered by Tt eSPORTS: Awards

For only the second time ever, the Highlander Season has Awards. Players participating in the Premiership Division this season were asked for nominations in various categories. Now you have the chance to vote for the best players this season! The categories and nominees for the respective categories are as follows:

The polls will be open until the Awards Show hosted by BlackOut TV on Sunday 8th June.  More info on that to come!