Highlander Experimental Cup #9: Home

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As promised, due to the scheduling issues with Highlander and Sixes, we are organizing an experimental cup in order to provide highlander players an opportunity to play, as well as testing maps that could potentially be featured in an upcoming season.

Map Pool

• pl_cornwater_b7c_fix
• pl_borneo_f1
• koth_cascade_v2_b6
• koth_product_final
• pl_problitz_rc2

Schedule

• Signups: 16th January – 3rd February
• Matches: 6th – 17th February
• Playoffs: 20th – 27th February
• Playoffs stage 1: Sunday 20th February 20:30 CET, Best of 3
• Playoffs stage 2: Thursday 24th February 20:30 CET, Best of 3
• Playoffs stage 3: Sunday 27th 20:30 CET, Best of 3

Map Rotation

• Match 1: 5-8th February, pl_cornwater_b7c – ABBA+GC
• Match 2: Sunday 10-13th February, pl_borneo_f1 – ABBA+GC
• Match 3: Thursday 14-17th February, koth_cascade and koth_product_final

Whitelist

The whitelist does not have any changes compared to the Highlander Season 25. It can be found here: https://whitelist.tf/etf2l_9v9_s25

Plugins

• New fix for uber use pause after picking up another medigun. (sm_fix_post_pause_state 1).
• Mediguns that are dropped while the ubercharge is active will be emptied. (sm_empty_active_ubercharges_when_dropped 1).
• Iron Bomber pipe hitbox size to match other grenade launchers (sm_override_pipe_size 4.0).
• New fix for preventing players from watching their killers from a deathcam almost endlessly after death (sm_inhibit_extendfreeze 1)