fnatic is a british org, but yeah your point still stands. Their very successful csgo team has found a lot of success with their swedish lineups so that might be what you were thinking of.

it isnt about doing the best players it is about doing the players who have been around and have some history of which their are plenty im sure, i can think of more than 5 for just europe.

For example in the csgo ones they did tarik recently, who neither plays on a top tier team nor been around as long as some players. According to liquidpedia he has only been active in the pro scene for 2-3 years.

For nations cup tf.tv will not have all the casts listed as blackout tv will cast some of the games. The first casts are tonight with italy v sweden at 20 cest and scotland v israel at 21:15 cest.

I dont think ronin are playing next season

UGC did a highlander event like that
http://www.ugcleague.net/forum/showthread.php?48415-Region-Wars-Signups

If you want a 6s one why dont you run it. If you put enough effort in events can be very popular even if they arent run by a "big" league. Just look at the current 2v2 cup going on.

I got an AOC G2460FQ for about £140 last black friday, which isnt the best monitor but for 30% less of the cost of a xl2411z it was well worth it.

I agree pyro needs no nerf, but spy would probably be most teams 1st class they would remove, denying ubers is good, even though that is the only thing that pyro can do

Richard lewis the csgo analyst/journalist came 3rd at i32 with xciteuk TF2

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/4pzw86/hi_im_richard_lewis_veteran_jouranlist_and_desk/d4p3fy1

I knew posting a highlander event on a 6s forum wouldnt go down well but I didnt expect this much hate. Play video games have fun, the point of these cups is to introduce people to the fun that can be had with comp tf2. if people check this thread and see a bunch of salty arguments i dont think they will feel inspired to sign up to any form of tf2. Let alone which kind you think is "better". This event is happening, 6s events will happen in the future, please dont try destroy one gamemode because you support the other.

The whitelist is based on ETF2L season 10. If there are any balance changes either before or during the event then the whitelist will be reviewed. But unless that happens the ETF2L whitelist will be used.

You dont have to play medic for the team you mentor, you can help them in other ways demo reviews map talks etc. If a buddy wants to play however they are limited to medic.

While the Archimedes cup did get more than 40 teams it got 128, it got less teams than the last highlander open which had 256 teams and more signup that did not get to play. Not to say that a 6s newbie cup will not do well, but people saying if we did a 6s event it would be more successful are not looking at the evidence.

This combined with the fact that we did a newbie 6s event mroe recently than a highlander one are the reasons why this summer we are running a Highlander event.

Remember there will be plenty of 6s over the summer for players new to competitive tf2 and veterans to watch with i58 and the nations cup.

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Small point the season isnt over and the two teams havent played each other, yes nameless has lost points but two of their three losses were on product, which is apparently a weak map for them now, and reckoner a new map.

I dont know which team was the favourite just pointing out a few errors and giving context for your statement.

Or which ever team has the least sideshow

Does the winner of the upper bracket final get an advantage over the team that came up from the lower bracket, like a map advantage in the best of 5?

Edit: I see on the toonament page that the winners bracket team gets to do both map bans.