Announcing Highlander Autumn Season 2023 & Preseason Cup
August 10, 2023
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Welcome to our Autumn Season of Highlander!
Summer is coming to a close (sort of), and it is time for highlander again! We are happy to announce that the signups for our Autumn Highlander season are now open until August 24th, 18:00 CEST!
>>>> Sign up now! <<<<
Highlander Spring Autumn 2023 Schedule
- Signups: 10th Aug – 24th Aug 18:00 CEST
-Premiership and Division 1 signups will close early, on Aug 20th at 18:00 CEST - Publishing of Provisional Divisions: Aug 24th
- Publishing of Final Divisions: Aug 26th
- Premiership Qualifiers: 20th Aug – 27th Aug
- Main Season: 27th Aug – 1st Oct
- Playoffs: 1st Oct – 15th Oct
Map pool
The following maps are already confirmed for the season:
- pl_upward_f10
- pl_vigil_rc10
- cp_steel_f12
- koth_proot_b5b (potential to be replaced by b6b if preseason cup feedback is good)
Whitelist
There are no changes to the whitelist for the Highlander Autumn Season 2023 as of now.
Preseason Cup
The cup will have the format of a 3 matches group stage with a playoff stage, and will be played on Saturday August 19th and Sunday August 20th
The map pool will consist of koth_proot_b6b, pl_eruption_b13, and cp_steel (Valve official version)
Schedule
Signups are open from August 10th until August 17th at 20:00 CET.
Group Stage – Saturday August 19th:
- Round 1: 19:00 – koth_proot_b6b
- Round 2: 20:00 – pl_eruption_b13
- Round 3: 21:00 – cp_steel (Valve’s current official version)
Playoff Stage – Sunday Agust 20th:
- Grand Finals BO3: 21:00 – Pick/Pick/Decider
Promotions
Last season’s winners of each Division/Tiers will automatically be promoted to the next higher Division/Tier, unless their starting roster has changed by half or more of their players.
All promotions are open to admin discretion. This is in order to make sure the tiers are as good as they can possibly be. If you are uncertain about being promoted you can follow the below mentioned sign-up process to give additional information about your team.
Sign-up Process
First and foremost you must sign up your team here: https://etf2l.org/wp/wp-admin/index.php?page=comps
An email does not count as signing up to the upcoming season and is only meant to give further information regarding your team and its placement.
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 favored over new teams or teams that request to jump a tier.
Premiership Division
If you intend to sign up for the Premiership Tier we encourage you to do so as soon as possible. Due to the Premiership Qualifiers happening while signups are still open; we will only consider teams for the Premiership Qualifiers that signed up before the scheduled deadline. Additionally, we expect teams without a guaranteed Premiership Division spot to be able to compete on the provided Premiership Qualifier dates.
We expect all aspiring Premiership Tier teams to either send us an email ([email protected]) or directly contact a league admin on Steam or the ETF2L Discord with the following:
– Team name, Division you apply for and ETF2L link
– Roster
– Recent results and logs associated to them
– Reasons why your team deserves to be placed in the the Premier Division
e.g.
Team BIG EXPLOSION, Premiership, https://etf2l.org/teams/1/
announce the roster with the classes5-2 vs Team Aoshis All Stars (Prem) : https://logs.tf/012345
Teams that do not send an email or contact admins risk losing their spot in the Premiership Qualifiers.
Division 1 and Division 2 (High)
If you intend to sign up for Division 1 or Division 2 you must sign up to “High tier” when signing up for the season. We encourage you to send us an email ([email protected]) with the following:
– Team name, Division you apply for and ETF2L link
– Roster
– Recent results and logs associated to them
– Reasons why your team deserves to be placed in the tier you applied for (optional)
e.g.
Team Blood is back, Division 2, https://etf2l.org/teams/1/
announce the roster with the classes5-2 vs Team Permzilla (Div2) : https://logs.tf/012345
Teams that do not send an email or contact admins risk not the be put in the division they hoped for.
Mid (Division 3 and 4) and Low (Division 5)
If you intend to sign up for Division 3 (Mid), Division 4 (Mid) and Division 5 (Low) and wish to be placed in a specific division/tier we encourage you to send us an email ([email protected]) with the following:
– Team name, Division you apply for and ETF2L link
– Roster
– Recent results and logs associated to them
– Reasons why your team deserves to be placed in the tier you applied for (optional)
e.g.
Team Sunny White, Mid, https://etf2l.org/teams/1/
announce the roster with the classes5-2 vs Team niGhtHeaLeR (Mid) : https://logs.tf/012345
Teams that do not send an email or contact admins risk not the be put in the division they hoped for.
Open (Division 6)
If you are applying for Division 6/Open tier (which is our entry division), you do not have to provide any proof that you are capable of playing at that level.
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Double steel season 🙏
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1114191188354924564/1138983608942592211/ceoofwhiteroom.mp4
crazy preseason
Unless there is going to be a map test cup alongside this preseason cup why are you testing 2 new versions of maps people had next to no complaints about over new/returning koth/5CP/CP maps?
People have been asking for focus on the map pool as the koth maps for the majority are shit so why is the feedback to take 2 of the 3 slots for preseason on the maps people were fine with?
Eruption is good but it should be joined by two other maps that need and deserve genuine feedback over a whack version of steel and a koth rework that wasn’t needed anyway.
new proot and valve’s cp_steel have absolutely no business being tested, definitely not valve’s version of steel
Please have more koth maps in preseason (ashville, cascade, lakeside) if you are only confirming a single koth map and have locked in two payload weeks and cp_steel
@brian
the new version of steel and proot are considerably different from the ones we played before, and we are getting the chance to decide if we wanna stick with the old ones or use the new ones. we also voted for the versions currently in play so why not hold a poll for the new ones?
i much prefer this over etf2l not giving us any option and using versions of maps that havent been properly tested yet
as for new maps, pl maps are harder to develop than koth maps, there will always be more koth maps no matter what. there are plenty community pl maps but few of them are of actual quality (vigil, eruption, highwood)
less koth plz, more stopwatch and 5cp
@hondjo
Yeah the new versions can be tested sure they probably should for fairness but over new maps when the pool is feeling very stale? Not so sure about that.
I feel the priority here was for new maps rather than new versions of old maps that are still in a very playable state but it’s fine if peoples opinions differ on that
guys u cant stand on top of doors on cp_steel anymore, lets test it
where’s koth
rest in peace koth