Announcing: ETF2L Highlander S10 Map Test Cup!

Hey, folks!

With Season 10 looming on the horizon, we feel it’s time to shake things up. There’s always some dissatisfaction with map pools in Highlander, and so we’d like to offer our community an opportunity to have a real voice in how things will play out.

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With that in mind, here’s the details:
The cup will be separated into three tiers: Open, Mid and High. Each tier will have multiple groups of four teams, based on the signups. The teams will battle it out in a simple round robin system, and the winner of each group will get a nice, shiny pixel trophy to flaunt on their team page. Additionally, we’ll be hosting a single elimination cup aimed at the current Prem teams, and any teams that may want to test their mettle against the cream of the crop of the Superior Gamemode™.

We are opening signups from the time this is posted until the 9th of March. This should give you plenty of time to get your team together and prepare.

The games will be played on the following dates for the Open, Mid and High tier groups:

• Saturday 12th 19:00 CET
• Saturday 12th 21:00 CET
• Sunday 13th 19:00 CET

Please ensure you start on time so there’s no delays to the consecutive rounds. You may claim a default win if your opponent isn’t able to play at 15 minutes past the scheduled match time. Unplayed matches will be decided by coin flip. Also, please try to verify your matches as soon as possible. Each of the games will be a best-of-three map match. The maps that we will be testing, to be played in the following order, are:

1. cp_alloy_rc1b
2. pl_borneo
3. koth_coalplant

Alloy and Borneo will be played as Best-Of-One – no ABBA! This means you get to do a heavy fist fight if you can’t agree on the sides! Koth_coalplant_b7 will be played first to 3, as per usual.
To make this clear: we are mostly interested in feedback on the first two maps, so koth_coalplant_b7 is to be played only as the third, decider map.

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Premiership specific:

The premiership group will be played in a single elimination tournament style. The maps and rules are the same as for the rest of the cup. We’ll allow a maximum of 8 teams to participate. The matches will be played in the following time slots:

• Round of 8: Saturday 12th 19CET
• Round of 4: Saturday 12th 21CET
• Third Place Match: Sunday 13th 19CET
• Grand Finals:Sunday 13th 21CET

The champion will get 18 keys and the runner up will get 9. These are provided by Wiethoofd of TF2Pickup.net and whitelist.tf

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Rule set:

We will be using this whitelist. The changes from Season 9 are: banning the Razorback and Pomson, as well as allowing the Phlogistinator.
Please, do keep in mind that this might not be the whitelist that we will use in Season 10: it is simply some changes that we’d like to see tested in real-world game play. We will be providing stuck threads in the Feedback & Requests sub-forum for you to discuss the maps and unlocks after the tournament is finished.

Additionally, please use the cvar tf_spawn_glows_duration “5”. We’d like to see how that affects gameplay, in particular with regards to spies and re-grouping with your team mates after re-spawning.

As per usual, we’ll be using the standard 5CP, stopwatch and KOTH configs available here.

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Have we missed anything out? Feel like posting some memes? Want to share your actual opinions? The comment section awaits!

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Cheers,
Byte The ETF2L Team.