cozenHighlander isn't even that bad. A lot of people get a bad impression of highlander because there are not enough top teams. I believe the players that call highlander bad have really only interacted with the steel players who were just casual pubbers not long ago. The steel or iron or plastic players are obviously not very coordinated. I can say from experience that playing on a top plat team feels like im playing on an open team. Theres a lot of scrims, strat talking, and map overviews. The big problem with doing ESEA HL is that there is simply not enough top plat teams. In my opinion, the only players that would pay are the ones on the top 5 teams in plat because, like i said, they actually scrim, practice, and care about competing like an open team. The rest of the players are just casual gamers who decided to try out competitive. It could possibly happen in the future but there would have to be a sudden increase of players who want to get better and want to commit to being a top team or more players from top 6s transfer over to hl and make their own teams.
dont kid yourself, top 6s players dont like playing highlander because of the format- not because of the league