Highlander Season 16 Premiership Qualifiers, Whitelist & More!

The Highlander Season 16 Premiership Qualifiers are hereby announced. open_squad and Lucrosa will keep their Premiership spot based on last seasons performance, Tourettes Chessclub will be granted a Premiership spot for winning the High tier last season. Based on the applications received and past results we have decided that Feila eSports finanzieren durch and Strong Opinions will both be granted a spot into the Premiership Division.

This leaves inVision and Weed Cake Sellers to face off for the last spot in the Premiership Division.

The game will be a best-of-3 match. The Premiership Qualifying match must have results submitted before 21st of July, 23:59 CEST, or before the Result Deadlines on the match page.

Default mercs may only have high experience; players with more than three games in Premiership over the past three seasons cannot be used as default mercs and must, therefore, be approved by your opponent. Also worth noting that following the Premiership only rules is not enforced, but is suggested.

If teams are having any issues regarding game scheduling please contact the admin team.

Map pool used for these matches will be the same as for the Main season.

• pl_badwater
• koth_coalplant_b8
• koth_product_rc9
• cp_steel
• cp_gullywash_final1
• koth_warmtic_b6
• pl_upward

Whitelist

Following the preseason cup we have decided to make some changes to the whitelist for the coming season.

Bans:

• Machina
• Mad Milk
• Jarate
• Scorch Shot

Unbans:

• Mantreads

The full whitelist can be seen here.

We are aware of the current bug present with the Jetpack, If this bug is abused during any official ETF2L match please report it to the admin team.

Rule Change

Seeing as the Highlander season only runs for 5 weeks now instead of the previous 7 we have decided to change rule 1.4.1 reducing the number of times players can merc for teams in official matches from 3 down to 2.

1.4.1 Perma-mercs are not allowed

A player can only be used as a merc 2 times for one and the same team per season (regardless of the player being an approved or default-merc). If a player has been used as a merc 2 times for a team already they aren’t allowed to join the team in question. After the third match as a merc for the same team, the player is considered a perma-merc.
If a player is caught or reported perma-mercing, we will review the case and decisions made will be at the full discretion of the admin team and all circumstances will be taken into account. Note: in accordance with General Rule 2.3, only one team change per competition is tolerated.

With this change a player cannot merc more than half of a main season for a team before being considered as a perma-merc.

Scoring Change

We are making a change to the way KOTH scoring will work this season. From now on a scoreline of 3-2 on any KOTH map will be considered a Golden Cap win/loss. This change is an effort to divide points fairer as in the current system there is no difference from a 3-2 loss and a 3-0 loss on KOTH maps. Please remember when submitting results to check the Golden Cap box if your match had a scoreline of 3-2.

This change will only effect Highlander Season 16 and not the current Nations Cup or 6s Season 30.

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