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considering the Most likely switch to na, its even worse. 2 matchdays (it you cant waste 4 hours on an evening) 1 or most likely 2 scrims, hl official and ho scrim. tell me one person having trace amounts of real life or other things to do managing to play that. i like to play both formats too, but imho that’s too much.

not really a fan of the idea to run it alongside the 6v6 season.

I still wonder why you don´t run HL S5 during nations cup, as the nations cup is affecting like 0.1% of the playerbase, whereas 70% (estimated) of the HL players also play 6s.

Maybe you could also do a “fun-season” with new maps only during summer break (like UGC does every year)

I would like to only play 1 map per week

2 maps a night with multiple rounds takes a very long time for highlander (2+ hours), even longer when you play teams who cant get their shit together and have to wait 30 minutes for subs, pauses, server problems etc. I have had games last 3 hours due to these problems

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on one hand i agree, on the other i dont. playing 2 maps against teams means you wont just get fucked cause youre shit at a certain map or cause the other team outdms you every koth map

this is true, maybe the resolution would be to have it like a football league where there are more weeks and 2 matches are played on different weeks against the same team like home and away

Both leagues at the same time period is a pretty bad idea imo… 2 weeks crossing over each other are OK but more is an opened window to lots of fold, etc…

I feel like if you wanna run 3 HL seasons per year you need to stick with the 6 team format, however a longer season in the current format is a lot more….well necessary as there is obviously a lack of HL played in ETF2L in comparison to 6v6. We do not lack the resources as a community or organisation, however the way we have set up the HL season is so it is organised around the 6v6 season, and players have become accustomed to this therefore the idea of participating in both at the same time wouldn’t appeal to those accustomed to playing both formats.

I can see a few different scenerios:

1) Best players who (mostly) do 6v6 will choose not to participate in the HL due to increased schedule.

2) Teams will end up picking one format to focus on after the other and drop from either HL or 6v6 season.

3) Teams adjust their scheduling around the two seasons, like the vast majority of teams in UGC/ESEA with players that choose to participate in both formats.

Either way, there will be an increase in drops from each format and possibly a decrease in signups.

I think an 8 week season twice a year is the most logistical and easier to manage, with more time dedicated to HL however doing 3 HL seasons per year would be a very good thing for the scene, it would simply be a case of working it around both formats season, we cannot escape the overlap but it is manageable I feel.

I would trial it.

More weeks more maps, (pl_waste plz)

And possibility of hl drama seedeing “team x should have got the promotion over team y”, hell yes.

Longer season sounds good, if 1 or 2 teams drops your left with so few matches.

But to run it along with the 6’s season would become so hectic. I’ve played more UGC than ETF2L and often the playoffs in UGC starts when the start of ETF2L HL season starts. Last season we saw that so many teams dropped out, couldn’t practice for both leagues. Many players just didn’t have the time to play in two leagues at the same time, because of school/university and stuff. And that would be the effect with ETF2L running HL and 6’s at the same time, and as Hildreth said it will lead to increased drops from each format and maybe a decrease in signups.