Meanwhile in North America, I have been flexing my weedy arms across the ocean to organise in partnership with TeamFortress.TV – A Highlander invitational double elimination tournament to help raise funds for UGC Prizepool. The action is due to start tonight, around 11pm CEST with the 8 best Highlander teams in North America facing off in a one night wonder. Though this will be late for many Europeans, some are more manlier than others when it comes to needing no sleep, enter to the fray Ryushi on casting duties alongside Kip to guide you through the tournament up until stupid o’clock in the morning, with a little help from Dash on cameraman duties (who am I kidding, A LOT of help). I don’t think this little blurb will do justice to the articles on TeamFortress.TV right now, click the link and read it you cart pushing fools, here is a section of it quoted below:
Welcome folks, this is going to be the first ever Highlander tournament of it’s kind as 8 of the best teams from North American Highlander are coming together to raise funds for UGC, all live on TeamFortress.TV from 5pm EST; that being 11pm CET for us Euros or 7am AEST for those Kangaroo lovers down under. Bringing the stream coverage for you will be dash alongside the Queen of Highlander casting , Kip of KipTV fame joined on the microphone by Ryushi also known as The Teenage Admirable. These Highlander loving nutcases will be on stream all night to bring you the best possible coverage as we try to raise some nickels for our favourite Highlander team (well second favourite, I am a Wireplay boy myself). The introductions are over, lets have a look at the rules, maps, brackets and the seedings below:
Rules + Maps
So the tournament is going to be double elimination, just like the ZOWIE events of the past couple of months but with a slight twist as this is 9v9 mode baby and you got 4 different gamemodes to play. The first two rounds of the upper bracket plus the first round of the lower bracket will see slightly shorter matches due to time constraints. Therefore for Payload and Attack/Defence maps, we will only see a best of one round affair, until we reach the mid stages of the tournament (Upper Bracket Final + Lower Bracket round 2). Also King of the Hill maps will be best of 5 rounds throughout the tournament whilst the favoured 5 capture point maps will be timelimit 30, winlimit 5 throughout the event.
For the maps, leaders were asked to vote for their 7 favourite maps to play in the event. The ones that did selected 7 maps, which I have listed below:
pl_badwater
pl_upward
cp_process_final
koth_pro_viaduct_rc4
cp_gullywash_final1
koth_lakeside_final
cp_steel
For each game up until the final, it will be best of 1 map decided by each team through map elimination. The higher seed will decide who picks first and then both teams will eliminate 3 maps each in turn until one map is left, then the teams will play this map and the winner will progress with the loser knocked to the lower bracket. Teams will do the same right up until the Grand Final, giving each side a chance to eliminate something they do not feel strong on so we have the best possible match on the most even map for both sides. When the Grand Final comes along around 9.30 EST , it will be best of three maps with the upper bracket winner deciding the first map and then the loser of each map will decide the next one until we have a winner (the same as the Losers Pick system in ETF2L).
Read the rest of the article HERE on TeamFortress.TV.
Originally published on VanillaTV (vanillatf2.org) on 2014-02-09 by Hildreth.
Recovered from the Internet Archive (archived copy) as part of tf2esports.com's preservation of VanillaTV's TF2 coverage. The original site is no longer online. All rights remain with the original author; reposted for historical reference.