I was happy to see a prem HL article up yesterday, detailing how the ETF2L playoffs would go.

I'm not sure who wrote it otherwise I'd thank him, but the fact that TFTV is going to do more highlander coverage (which was lacking the past few months) was good news. I'm sure there are other people available too, to write these highlander articles, just have to ask!

This morning I felt like adding some clarification to the comments, but for some reason the article seems to be broken.
I get an error when visiting the article www.teamfortress.tv/30914/etf2ls-highlander-season-9-playoffs-begin
It doesn't show up on my comment history anymore either. Seems like a really weird bug

Mind looking into it? you guys doing more top level HL should always be encouraged so my excitement is a bit bummed by this

YOU HAD ONE JOB

Added the highlander EU vs NA showmatches:

Highpander vs Dunning-Kruger Effect

Round 1: Vanguard EU server– 1st to 5 or most points at 30 min
Round 2: Barnblitz EU server (EU RED, NA BLU then swap)
Round 3: Barnblitz NA server(NA RED, EU BLU then swap)
Round 4: Vanguard NA server – 1st to 5 or most points at 30 min

Round 5: Product – server all players had the best average ping to – first to 3 (OPTIONAL: based on time & if the teams want to play it)

Note that round 5 will be nullified if it's not going to be played, which will return all items to their owners.

There's a boy who loves playing Team Fortress 2. On his birthday, his long-time crush asked, "What's the sound that you hear most often when playing Team Fortress 2?"
Wanting to impress the girl, he answered, "Of course it's the domination sound!" The girl heard it and left. After a few days the girl asked the boy to lend her his computer, for his birthday gift.
The boy finally got back his computer played a Team Fortress 2 game immediately. When the game started he realized that the girl has replaced all the in-game sounds with recordings of her own cute voice. Years passed. The boy and the girl are no longer in contact.
When the boy finally got a domination for the first time in his life, he was overwhelmed with regret. Because that was when he heard, "I love you". The moral of the story, is that.. HIGHLANDER PLAYERS DON'T DESERVE LOVE.

WASP are given a 3 point handicap

hmmm, so winning 1 round will grant them the victory on saloon. Knowing Russians like to do unpredictable stuff on steel, it's worth to gamble. Even if it's against chess.

I would've said this is a match between the bottom feeders, problem is that both teams managed to snoop points. Experiment to win imho

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=567595413

This is going to be fun trying out dx9

If anyone is serious about helping with this, let foungi, stinson or me know. We're able to scale it up to 24 teams. Just need to find the proper management for it.

Hmm, I hope so Sideshow. The way it looks like now, is that geel saved the day yet again by providing the entire(?) prize pool and another sponsor just riding on that. I can imagine this invitational (or TF2 LAN for that matter) being hosted at another LAN and having the same amount of exposure. Even more if you look at travel options if moved to mainland EU. I really hope I'm wrong and your sponsors will step up and put a hefty prize pool in the game or provide suitable accommodations for the teams.

Wanted to put the matches up earlier this week, I've been asking sideshow if he could give me more info on the matches.
haven't gotten a response from him yet.

From past experiences I too think you just can't go to LAN without condom if you want to avoid sideshows dribbles

Added the first Season 22 powered by saloon.tf: Premiership Tier Playoff game!
Epsilon eSports vs Full Tilt

Match scheduled: 22 Nov 2015, 19:00 CET!

as expected, comes with the name EleGiggle

Were those underdogs? If there aren't any items left after paying off the bigger bets you're out of luck. Which happens when the already favorites win.

On another note, I added ETF2L Highlander Season 9 Premiership Week 3 matches -
A game that should be really close if Stacked can bring their main lineup:
Fair Enough vs Stacked

stacked recently beat Fair Enough in the ETF2L and in another RETF2 cup

BUT in season 6, season 7 and in season 8 Fe managed to beat stacked by a comfortable margin. Will this be the case tonight as well?

All other matches have big spreads:
Wednesday we'll have Tourettes Chessclub vs Unpoppable. UPP will win on saloon if they take one round.

Thursday it's going to be Highpander vs The Experiment. Spread means The Experiment will win on saloon if they win one round.

Last but not least is between the other russians vs PAPA CARLOS, aka Strong Opinions vs WASP. Also 3 points to the underWASPs.

Hmm, is it really difficult to understand how points are being split in officials? I could imagine it for stopwatch but for 5cp/koth?