As we all know, Sunday is the best day to play videogames! Tonight we will have a lot of matches starting with Denmark against Israel. Israel had an easy way through the Group Stage, not losing a single game, while Denmark lost 6 points to Sweden. Both teams look very strong with many famous names like quad, F2, Natural, p0Le, Retsh0ck and matnuN and each team is a mix of high-tier players but undeniably, Israel is the favourite to advance to the next round.

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Lineup Team  Denmark

• Scout: quad
• Scout: helberg
• Soldier: Natural
• Soldier: crizzl
• Demoman: Dr. Phil
• Medic: F2

Lineup Team  Israel

• Scout: tba
• Scout: tba
• Soldier: tba
• Soldier: tba
• Demoman: tba
• Medic: tba

The Portuguese team has many players from the ex-premiership team eQuilibrium, while Belgium is the home of the successful map maker Arnold and some other TF2 pro’s like Luzzu and droso. We might not see Portugal in its full glory yet because they managed to play only 1 game in the Group Stage, however having such a good previous game history, they have no reason to be scared of this match.

The Latvians had a hard time in the Group Stage gathering players and obeying all the rules, maybe now they can turn things around and show that they can defend their national pride and fight for the win against Finland who have a team capable of making 2 premiership teams out of their players.

The Americans had a bit of a hard time during the Group Stage because they could not field a team for their match against Croatia. With players like enigma and harbleu they had no problem to win the rest of their matches, of course. Spain have some big names as well, counting HarryHook, sraam and Jan. They obviously stand a chance winning, deathmatch will be the key to success in this match.

Another big game of the 6v6 Nations Cup Round 1 is between France and Netherlands. France being the favourite for this match, the Netherlands have a lineup of several veterans as well who are eager to advance into the Quarter Finals.

Tonight we will see the very first game of the 6v6 Nations Cup Playoff Stage, starting with Russia and Sweden. Both teams have big names in their roster, starting with uV Gaming on the Russian side and ending on Zebbosai and wltrs. Unfortunately Sweden still let’s their div 4 medic, TheSucker, play in officials.

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Lineup Team  Sweden

• Scout: Nace
• Scout: Beavern
• Soldier: Zebbosai
• Soldier: jukeboks
• Demoman: Lynx
• Medic: TheSucker

Lineup Team  Russia

• Scout: Reko
• Scout: Redzzzz
• Soldier: Forsak3n
• Soldier: Ordinator
• Demoman: gdk
• Medic: wg

Germany had an easy way through the Group Stage, annihilating their opponents each match, will they continue their win-march through the Playoffs? How will Poland respond to this? Lately they have added Nor, one of the best Polish scouts of his time to their roster, maybe that’s the change they needed to face the Germans with their premiership players.

Lineup Team  Germany

• Scout: Thy*
• Scout: .stefan
• Soldier: KLar
• Soldier: ipz-
• Demoman: ThUn
• Medic: flix

Lineup Team  Poland

• Scout: wonder
• Scout: Fasssadin
• Soldier: siesta
• Soldier: nislem
• Demoman: JHWH/Gameton
• Medic: `natty

Today we see France facing off Finland for the right to challenge Germany in the Highlander Nations Cup finals. Both teams did exceptionally well in their own Groups as well as throughout the playoff stage. Finland is sporting Highlander pros like zoob, letku and SabaSaba in their lineup, so they certainly have experience on their side. France’s lineup looks more promising deathmatch-wise, consisting mainly of players from DAROUTOUTOU, with strong support classes in Flippy and Daff. Who will prevail in this battle of experience vs aggression, strategy vs deathmatch?

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• French cast: Eclypsia

Lineup Team  France

• Scout: Plapla
• Soldier: T-Mac
• Pyro: Bobo
• Demoman: Pognon
• Heavy: Tek
• Engineer: Mista
• Medic: Flaoua
• Sniper: Flippy
• Spy: Daff

Lineup Team  Finland

• Scout: Santtu
• Soldier: zoob
• Pyro: yonus
• Demoman: Setlet
• Heavy: Crux
• Engineer: letku
• Medic: Diegoo
• Sniper: MInd
• Spy: SabaSaba

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The clash of two giants! Sweden and Germany are both fancied to win the title. This will, without any doubt, be an interesting match to watch! Rumor also is that the next dropped uber by  TheSucker will be his 99,999th! VanillaTV is casting the match with Hildreth and Comedian, starting at around 21:15. Those who would rather kill eSports and not watch the stream but the STV can use that as well.

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Lineup Team  Germany

• Scout: basH
• Soldier: KLar
• Pyro: ipz
• Demoman: Thy*
• Heavy: bsh
• Engineer: ThUn
• Medic: Homer J.
• Sniper: stefan
• Spy: Bighomer

Lineup Team  Sweden

• Scout: furbo
• Soldier: wolve
• Pyro: s3
• Demoman: Zebbosai
• Heavy: ALX
• Engineer: ZyZo
• Medic: TheSucker
• Sniper: jukebox
• Spy: ashkan

Firstly, a reminder to all teams that are top 2 in their groups. The playoff tree will be generated as soon as tonight’s match results are submitted. Please start talking to your opponent’s leaders already and schedule the match tonight, if possible, and let an admin know as soon as possible (i.e. until tomorrow) if you have any problems reaching your opponent or scheduling your match. The playoffs will contain the following match ups in the round of 16.

•  Sweden vs.  Russia
•  Israel vs.  Austria,  Denmark or  Scotland
•  Portugal vs.  Belgium
•  Finland vs.  Latvia
•  Lithuania,  Croatia,  United States of America or  Norway vs.  Spain
•  England vs.  Lithuania,  Croatia,  United States of America or  Norway
•  France vs.  Netherlands
•  Germany vs.  Poland

Scotland is still sitting on zero points, having lost against Sweden and Austria. Denmark took both maps off of Austria and still has a good chance to enter the playoffs. All they need is one more point. Scotland has to win both maps with a high difference in captures to overtake Austria. Will the motherland of the demomen pull of this little wonder? On the Scottish side we have a new found star in Sheepy, will he be able to deal with the famous quad? It’s not only him though, Danish team is full of SdX RED members like their pipe deliverer  Dr.Phil.

Group E is lagging a bit behind due to the i46 exhibition matches featuring many players from Team USA. Norway only played one game out of 3 so far. Tonight’s the night to win the spot in the playoff stage by gaining points from two matches. Anything can happen, Norway is sitting on 5 points at the last spot of the group. The currently first placed team from Lithuania has only 7 points though. With a win in this match Norway will (temporarily) take the lead. Having a team consisting of players like Dr. Leon and torden, a win against Croatia should is compulsory.

VanillaTV will stream this match, starting at 20:00 CEST.

As mentioned before, Norway is going to play 4 maps in one night to secure the promotion to the playoffs. The Americans had to give away 6 points to Croatia for a default loss but took both maps off of Lithunia. With a win in this match they will win the group and play Spain in the Round of 16 in the playoffs. TLR, enigma and clckwr are only few names from this team and they all are the top-tier players in their country – if not the world. Do not count out Norway yet though, they have many players from the legendary  broder in their lineup and the Season 10! premiership rookie, crouton. This is gonna be a great game, a game between two teams who are able to get the lead in this Group.

VanillaTV will stream this match, starting at around 21:15 CEST.