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It is time!

32 Days after the first game of the 6th Highlander Nations Cup, we’re on the horizon of the final and facing the prospect of crowning a brand new champion. We’ve seen it all – reverse sweeps, parachute bombs, trickstabs & a multitude of shock results.

The first team to ever win two Nations Cups;   Sweden? Not even participating. The defending champions United States of America? Didn’t make it out of the groups. Top seeded sides England, Denmark & France? Couldn’t even win a map in the playoffs. This has been one of the most chaotic, surprising and down-right exciting Nations Cups in memory, and tonight we have two countries battling for the honor of winning the title for the first time in their history.

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Announcing Highlander Season 19!

All the information regarding the coming Season can either be found in this newspost, or will be released shortly!

For tiers we’ll be aiming to run swiss again for Open and Mid. This is still potentially subjected to change depending on the final signup numbers.

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Season Schedule

• Signups: 11th July – 26th July 21:00 CEST (Premiership signup deadline is July 19th 21:00 CEST)
• Publishing of Provisional Divisions: 26th July
• Publishing of Final Divisions: 27th July
• Premiership Qualifiers: 20th – 27th July
• Main Season: 28th July – 17th August (3 Weeks)
• Break for I-Series 65 LAN. No games will be played between 17th – 25th August
• Main Season Resumes: 25th August – 7th September (2 Weeks, Roster Lock active on 1st September at 00:00 CEST)
• Playoffs: 8th September – 29th September

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With Season 18 wrapped up, it is time to move forward to Season 19! This one night cup will focus on testing 3 maps and a new whitelist!

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Whitelist changes:

• Banned the Wrangler
• Banned the Fists of Steel (due to an uber building bug)

The whitelist for this cup can be found here.

Maps:

• cp_propaganda_b16
• koth_clearcut_b10a
• pl_badwater

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With the conclusion of the group stages, the remaining 12 teams move onto the playoffs to fight for their chance of being crowned Nations Cup Champions!

You can find the full playoff bracket here, with the fixtures of the first playoff round listed below:

A #1 vs F #2 –   Poland vs Ukraine
C #2 vs D #2 – Finland vs Netherlands
B #2 vs A #2 – Israel vs Lithuania
F #1 vs E #2 – Germany vs Scotland

England, Russia, France and Denmark get a bye in Round 1 for being the highest seeded teams to win their respective groups.

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This week(end) will see the culmination of the Highlander Nations Cup #6 Group stages ending in Round 3 on Gullywash and Product, changing the pace from Stopwatch maps to Control Point & King of the Hill. So far there have been close fought games in this competition throughout the first two rounds, so it all comes down to this last round for Nations teams to make it to the playoff matches!

Group A

Americans need to fight for the playoffs in Group A, after   Lithuania‘s default win against the Greece and 6 point victory on Steel over United States of America in the 2nd round it has definitely spiced up the group standings. Resulting in Poland being forced to scrape together at least 3 points in their next match against the group leading Lithuanians to earn themselves a guaranteed playoff spot; although some variance of a golden cap could possibly lead to a 10 point total tiebreaker match with USA, hotting up the competition even further. This final round 3 game between Lithuania & Poland is covered on KritzKast on Monday at 21:00 CEST.

Group B

Between Czech Republic in third place and group leaders  England is only a 4 point difference in Group B, the Czechs need at least 3 points when facing the English to have any chance of a playoff spot. After Israel‘s 6 point victory over Kitchen nightmares this group has a closely contested 2nd place spot. The match between Czech Republic and England this Saturday, 22nd of June @ 21:15 CEST would have been casted, but got defaulted because the Czechs were unable to field a full roster.

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