SuddenlyStarMia — A new year and a new season of Highlander! Can’t wait until ETF2L HL S6 to get your bite of 9v9? Yep, Europe’s oldest Highlander league, Wireplay, has Season 12 coming up. With last season keeping us on our toes as we watched Kill Switch, DAROUTOUTOU and Highpander battle it out in the playoffs for €450 of prize money, with the runner up receiving €225. Division 1 was filled with top teams, such as Kaften and Heppa making rare appearances out of ETF2L. Division 2 was filled with the rest of UGC Platinum equivalent teams (and the lower divisions battled it out for free 20-man TF2 servers), with Tourettes Chessclub emerging victorious, closely followed by Dig Deep and One Round Wonders. The Division 1 finals kept us on our toes, as Highpander and Kill Switch duked it out over one the most intricate maps in the game, as it was casted by HiGPS and jakeowaty on Blackout TV.
Highlander Season 12
Sign-ups for the upcoming Wireplay season close on Friday 21st February, with provisional divisions coming out the next day and Week 1 matches starting on 3rd March. The scheduling system is similar to ETF2L’s with 8 teams per division, 7 weeks of regular season and one catch-up week. Each team gets two wildcards to use throughout the season. The winners of Division 1 receive €200 and the runner-up (alongside all lower division winners) win a 20-man TF2 server. The maplist is still to be finalised, but you will be seeing maps such as Steel and Upward intermingled with the return of cp_croissant and the new improved cp_warmerfront! The number of different divisions depends on the numbers of sign-ups we receive, but expect to see 4-6 divisions.
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Good luck and see you in Wireplay!
Originally published on VanillaTV (vanillatf2.org) on 2014-02-16 by SuddenlyStarMia.
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 All rights remain with the original author; reposted for historical reference.