After getting to see new players step in to the battlegrounds that have gotten many hours and days of playtime, we proudly want to announce the winners of this event to you and show what teams managed to have the best line-ups of new players that we have seen!

All top 3 teams had strong performances and close matches against each other but making their way to win all matches of the Fresh Meat Challenge we have Poland-Lithuania (National 6v6 Team) proving themselves as the best team made of new players to competitive with their Fresh Meat Challenge title, securing themselves 60 keys in the process.

The winning squad is comprised of:

• .xio (Medic)
• seba40 (Demoman)
• elcyg (Soldier)
• Nikit700 (Soldier)
• S4m (Scout)
• wakai (Scout)

  Adventures of Eggy Bread earned 2nd place, winning 22 keys and We Eat Snack won 3rd place, securing 24 keys.

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Teams and Captains

Groups and Fixtures are now out and can be accessed from the competitions tab.

The 24 teams and captains are listed below:

•   Turkiye – Canlock
•   England – Gezz3h
•   Denmark – Toast
•   Poland – STiNGHAN
•   Israel – JackyLegs
•   France – Kaylus + Big Papa MattJ
•   Czech Republic – gedu
•   Ireland – Crayon
•   Estonia – TheNewbie
•   Kitchen nightmares – vocey
•   Netherlands – Nightmare
•   Germany – mezzo
•   Lithuania – Spreijer
•   Hungary – Reoccurring
•   Belgium – Aoshi + Synrise
•   Norway – Vetleaks + Yxxo
•   Ukraine – Detoed.
•   Russia – Pahan
•   Finland – Bloodis + Raipe
•   United States of America – Exa_ + Bowl
•   Italy – croix
•   Portugal – Fuxx + Spanns
•   Greece – Harrow
•   Scotland – I stole your bees.

All leaders should be in their respective teams by now, equipped with the proper rights to form the rosters.

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Down below are this season’s provisional tiers. If you can’t find your team it could be due to you recently changing your team name.

Unhappy about your place? Feel free to contact us over at https://etf2l.org/support/ or in our Discord Server. These tiers are still subjected to change if teams make a good case as to why they should be moved.

We have decided to take a harsher approach to sandbagging this season and have made every player class restriction for each division public in this thread. If you feel like you have been unfairly treated or believe other players should be restricted please contact us in our Discord Server.

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Highlander Season 18 – Wrap-up

The playoff games have ended and the winners have been crowned. The main season of Premiership was shown to be very promising and competitive, and in the end it was proven to witness former champions reclaiming their throne back.

We want to give big congratulations to   Strong Opinions as the winners of Premiership! With   Feila finanzieren durch DROPS proving themselves to be the best second place team for another season. And finally we see   inVision having a fantastic season placing 3rd.

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Staff Changes and an open position on the Anti-Cheat team: Apply now!

We’re glad to announce that  AlesKee has completed his trial and is now a part of the staff as a League Admin.

We’re also glad to announce that  Samus has been promoted to Head Anti-Cheat admin.

Now with the good news out of the way we are sad to announce that  Capu is leaving our Anti-Cheat team. We wish him all the best in his future endeavours.

This leaves an open position for anyone interested in working for a league free from cheaters. Anti-Cheat admins ensure fair competition in the league by analyzing submitted evidence for signs of cheats and issuing bans to confirmed cheaters. Submitted evidence is rarely clear-cut – most cases are challenging and involve a fair bit of “forensic work”.

Anti-Cheat staff need to have a good sense of trust and morality, additionally be excited by detective work and technical aspects of the source engine that come with demo viewing and cheats and such. It’s also important to have no bias and be respectful of the democratic process on voting.

Please don’t be intimidated to apply, it’s a position that you can really only improve on with real experience.

For more information on how to apply, click here.

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