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Remember it was our first season of Highlander, we didn’t have too much to previously go on. I personally spent a good 5-10 minutes looking at every team that signed up (along with other HL admins) trying my best to assess your skill level using whatever tools available. These were things like 6v6 experience we could find on ETF2L, HL experience from the HCC + CommFT/UGC. It did involve checking least half the players on the screen, it gave me a feel for what sort of team/community background each team came from.

Of course we got some things wrong, not every team could be placed in the right division. We didn’t know how many new teams we’d have, how many teams we should put into Div 6 – what the skill ceiling was for Div 2, Div 3…etc. When signups closed we had a criteria for each team, noting experience + performances. We divided teams into divisions that way even if some applied 1 or 2 divisions (some cases 3) too low or too high.

What I am trying to say is whether or not you applied for Division 5 or 4, we spent time assessing your teams skill, checking your players history and everything and made a decision. Therefore it wasn’t really too important last season.

However this season coming – Brand New to comp TF2 teams apply for Division 6, I imagine low 6v6 teams would be placed in Div 5, mid skilled teams Div 4-3 depending on what level they were in 6v6. Higher level mix teams we would put in Div 3-2-1 depending on their experiences. Same applies for newly formed HL teams.