Editing Highpander (section)

== Beginnings ==
Highpander was created by [[Hildreth]] in August 2013 after playing exclusively in [[UGC]] for [[Unbelievably Brave Sweethearts]] and [[The Syndicate]]. He formed the team with [[Stevepander]] who recommended former Max-Play Highlander teammate [[phromelo]]. Hildreth brought in former teammate Ritalin and after a lot of trials, settled on bringing in 6v6 teammates [[zoob]] and [[furbo]] from the disbanding [[Colony]] plus [[Nijoonen]], [[Dr.kaka6ka]] and [[Fearboy]] who were playing in a Premiership team for the first time. The first competition Highpander entered in was the Wireplay Season 11 which contained many of the best European teams. Highpander managed to finish top of the league in the regular season, setting up a playoff final against ETF2L champions [[DAROUTOUTOU]]. In a very close best of three series, Highpander managed to win on [[cp_steel]] 2-1 in rounds, winning their first competition. Meanwhile during ETF2L Season 5, Highpander managed to finish first place again in the regular season, beating former champions [[SNSD]] and [[DAROUTOUTOU]] on the way, lining up a final against [[Kill Switch]]. In a DDoS affected match, Kill Switch ran out clear winners, taking both Highpander's map picks cp_steel and [[cp_gullywash_final1]].