Announcing ETF2L Highlander Season 8 Powered by Tt eSPORTS: Signups open!
March 18, 2015
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With 
Tourettes Chessclub as our fresh premiership champions, we venture forth into a new season. Highlander Season 8 will be kicking off soon and we want all of you to join in on the fun!
You can ONLY sign up by clicking the link above. Any signups via mail will be ignored.
Make sure to choose your desired division when signing up. If you created a new team or feel you can jump a division, feel free to apply for the division you believe you deserve you should be in. To prove you are capable of the division you applied for, we require you to submit screenshots of results from your recent practice matches or tournaments where you scored decent results against teams that play on the level you aim for. The quantity is not the most important factor in this case, it’s more of a helpful measure for us to figure out if your team will be able to keep up with the pace. There is no magical, minimum or maximum number of screenshots that you have to submit.
Since the new tier system is not yet implemented, there is a crossover period between divisions and tiers. Please continue to apply using the division structure, and we will seed the tiers based on these division applications. If you want to be more specific about a tier you request, send an application to [email protected] (details listed below). As a reminder here is the division to tier rough conversion:
- Premiership – Premiership
- High– Division 1 and Division 2
- Mid – Division 3 and Division 4
- Open – Division 5 and Division 6
Please note that the success of your request also strongly depends on the free slots in the tier you aim for. Established teams will be favoured over new teams or teams that request to jump a tier. The screenshots have to be uploaded to an online image storage service (for example, you can use imgur or Dropbox). Keep in mind that any email attachment will be ignored – keep it clean!
Also helpful for us, but not a must however, is adding who the opposing team is in each screenshot (and maybe even the division they played in the last time). That makes it easier for us, because sometimes it can be quite hard (especially in the lower tiers) to figure out who the teams in the screenshots are.
If you are applying for Open (which is our entry division), you do not have to provide any proof that you are capable of playing at that level.
Please send your application to [email protected]. The division assignment request has to include the following information in order to be considered. Incomplete applications will be ignored!
- Do not use HTML in your e-mail. If you want to add a link, just paste the link in the e-mail as you would enter it in your browser.
- Team name
- Team link on ETF2L.org
- Tier/Division you apply for
- Link to the online photo album
- Reasons why your team deserves to be placed in the tier you applied for (optional)
Season Schedule
Signups: March 8 – March 19
Publishing of Provisional: March 20
Publishing of Final: March 21
Pre-Season Playoff Week: March 16– March 20
Main Season: March 22 – May 7 (7 Weeks)
High/Mid/Open Playoffs: May 10-21
Premiership Playoffs Round 1: May 17
Premiership Playoffs Grand Finals: May 24
Anyone signing up after March 19th can still be seeded into the season, although this depends on teams dropping or other teams signing up.
Unlocks
Banned weapons:
- Reserve Shooter
- Baby Face Blaster
- Crit-a-Cola
- Pretty Boys Pocket Pistol
- Pomson 6000
- Short Circuit
- Vita-Saw
- Bazaar Bargain
- Darwin’s Danger Shield
- Diamondback
- Enforcer
- Red-Tape Recorder
You will be able to find the whitelist under the official whitelist.tf hub soon, for now it’s whitelist #3250
Maps
- Week 1: pl_upward
- Week 2: koth_warmtic_rc4 + cp_process_final
- Week 3: pl_barnblitz_pro6
- Week 4: cp_gravelpit
- Week 5: pl_badwater
- Week 6: koth_viaduct_pro5 + cp_sunshine_rc5
- Week 7: cp_steel
Prizes
Prizes for this season will be announced later on.
If any player or organisation wants to contribute to the season 8 prize pool, please contact our staff in IRC, send a mail to [email protected] or add 
kKaltUu on steam.
Feedback
If you have any questions or feedback, please leave it Here
Posted by kKaltUu in Highlander, League
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GRAVEL PIT LIVES.
where the fuck is gully
No gully, but no lakeside and still GPIT. Permzilla’s deathgrip is still wrapped tightly around the throat of ETF2L Highlander!!!!
process is cancer
gullywash back please asap
map list looks great this season.
also why are the maps in a similar way to the weeks in last season? why no badwater on first week and upward on 5th week or something for example?
Gullywash is an awful map for Highlander; Process, whilst far from perfect is a much better map for HL.
thank you all for not being dumb and banning the pocket pistol, shame about dropping gully but the map list looks nice in any case
Process is shit for HLGully is way better for HL
Awesome maplist, great work admins ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡9)
Gully mid fights are beyond a clusterfuck, and the congestion that the two ways of pushing second offers almost guarantees stalemates between two evenly matched teams. Whilst Process can also be stalematey, at least there are 3 avenues to attack from as opposed to just two. Same with Sunshine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G3_kG5FFfQ
Listening to this in tears while hoping that Permzilla was here saving highlander with bringing lakeside back
lol hl
process is life process is love
permzillas reaction to Yes’ post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqajUg85Ax4
Gullywash is only stalematey if both teams have no idea how to play. Sad to see it gone because contrary to popular beliefs, playing agressively on Gullywash is very rewarding.
Beggars allowed \o/
Cool maps
Nice maps season looks great
BEGGARS????!?!?!
g0d maplist
bazooka allowed for real? ridiculous
beggars?
unreal tournament 4 boiis?!?!?
rip lakeside ;( i cri erritim
Sunshine hype
Process is an awful map for Highlander; Gullywash, whilst far from perfect is a much better map for HL.
Process mid fights are beyond a clusterfuck, and the congestion that the two ways of pushing second offers almost guarantees stalemates between two evenly matched teams. Whilst Gullywash can also be stalematey, at least there are 3 avenues to attack from as opposed to just two. Same with Sunshine.
i sincerely hope you’re joking with that second comment uubers.
process midfights really are beyond a clusterfuck and pushing points is nearly impossible with evenly matched teams so most of that comment is serious.
Oh god the Beggars allowed. Well, gravelpit is great though.
gravelpit barnblitz and steel 8)
also even if there are 3 avenues for attack in process its still easier to push in gullywash with just 2 avenues. and sunshine is just shit for hl just like process
Process has a certain flow to its midfights; control containers and sightlines to the best of your abilities to allow combo to push through. Gullywash mid on the other hand is literally just a case of “get frags” in Highlander.
People underrate sewer so much on Process. It’s a great route for the flank to hold, and potentially pick any over-extenders from the other team.
sunshine (((
To be honest, 5CP in Highlander is mostly pretty poor anyway.
For me, everything is perfect in the most beautiful world. Mappool is great, gravel pit and steel still present, and I still got my loch n load to make people mad on TF2center. S8 Best season
no SVF ban?
shoutout to kkaltu for allowing loch n load
rip lakeside it really sad
Highlander FailFish
no reservoir??????
lol ubrs shut the fuck up u teamless faggot
Please replace Process with gullywash. Then the map rotation is pretty much perfect. When Sunshines in there, why put process in aswell? They place exactly same :(
gullywash?
good?
decent in any manner?
What in God’s name are you guys smoking?
I love process and gully for 6v6 but both of them are absolutely horrid and downright undoubtedly awful for highlander. The gameplay is horrible, midfights are horrible, overall dynamics are horrible, everything always devolves into a clusterfucky mess, the list of sins go on. The fact that finally one of these maps have been removed is a step in the right direction, as these maps are simply not compatible with HL.
My suggestion is that you go watch some good old 6v6 streams (Epsilon vs Broder, etc.), note the amount of precise coordination and smoothness regarding the entire playstyle and then think “How can I achieve the same thing for Highlander? What maps are best suited? How can I make it interesting for people to watch when it’s casted?”
Then you will come to the conclusion that Gully and Process simply will not do, as is the case with most other 5cp maps tried so far. Gpit, while far from perfect, at least achieves those things. Plenty of payload and KOTH maps and especially Steel do satisfy the conditions necessary.
I’m pretty much playing devil’s advocate for Process, since it’s a better alternative.
just because u dont know how to play gully doesnt mean its bad =]
wow trader season soon
Can merc gravelpit week ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡9)
Perfect maps, except for the shit of Process.
Beggars allowed, Loch n Load allowed, Process instead of gully.
S8 confirmed werst season 8^)
please add a DL link to barnblitz pro6. Thanks :)
All of the 5cp are shit for hl, they were always added for the sake of “variety”. This is like dustbowl and 2fort being in a 6s mappool in early days of etf2l – bad as they are but good in the context of a little quantity of maps to choose from. There is just not enough pl/ad/koth maps to fill all the slots
Weird, I thought it was clear that everyone thought that beggers should be banned… Did somebody pay you? :D
swiftwater anybody B)
also smokeyridge, most a(ttra)ctive map maker and king of the valley is dank B)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqcLjcSloXs
Saw warmtic and was happy. Then I saw Sunshine and became sad again.
B E G G A R S B O Y S
some people actually don’t think 5cp is the best gamemode
top
fucking
lol
xdd
Sunshine is clearly best map for HL
^ 5cp map* ^
Please stop looking for replacements for lakeside and just get rid of viaduct pls.
i really cant see how process is a better choice than gully
also rip lakeside :((
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c’mere
for me process is better than sunshine, sunshine is a lot smaller map for hl
Why not Intermodal ? I think it’s a great map, we had fun playing on it during the previous nations cup…
Will the playoffs be casted, and will the list of teams that want prem be published?
love that banner, great work ygg!