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Highlander Season 3

Welcome to the landing page for ETF2L’s 3rd season of Highlander! The Highlander league is a recurring appearance after the success of the ETF2L Highlander Community Challenge with over 800 participating teams in 2010.

Signups

Signups for Season 3 are now closed.

Format

Every team is placed into a Division that matches their skill level, with 6 teams per Division. The lowest ranked division is Division 6, and the highest is Premiership. Teams from one Division will meet each other once. There will be 5 regular season matches, with playoffs for the top 3 of the Premiership Division and potential tiebreakers for other divisions. There will be secondary playoffs for the bottom 3 teams of Premiership and the top 4 teams of Division 1 as well.

-[ Hall of Fame | Secondary Playoffs ]-

Prizes

Players in all divisions will receive in-game medals for winning the group, as well as participation medals for finishing the season. Additionally, the Premiership Division and the Secondary Playoffs will have money prizes.

Premiership playoffs:

  • Winner: €1,035
  • Runner-up: €630
  • Third Place: €405

Secondary playoffs:

  • Winner: €360
  • Runner-up: €135

Schedule

The regular season has 5 match weeks, followed up by two weeks of title playoffs in Premiership or two weeks of potential tiebreakers for other divisions. The Secondary Playoffs will take 3 weeks. Here’s the full schedule:

  • Signups Closed: October 24
  • Division Seeding: October 24 – October 29
  • Schedule Week: October 30 – November 3
  • Main Season: November 4 – December 8 (5 weeks)
  • Catch-up Week: December 9 – 15
  • Tiebreakers & Playoffs: December 17 – January 1 – 20

Maps

  • Week 1: pl_badwater
  • Week 2: cp_steel
  • Week 3: pl_upward
  • Week 4: cp_granary + koth_lakeside_final
  • Week 5: cp_gravelpit

Playoffs and tiebreakers

Schedule

All Tiebreakers must be played before January 1st. Matches without results will be coinflipped.

The deadlines for the Playoffs are as follows:

Secondary Playoffs:

  • 1st round: January 6th
  • Semi Finals: January 13th
  • Final/3rd place: January 20th

Premiership Playoffs:

  • Semi Finals: January 13th
  • Grand Final: January 20th

Maps

All Tiebreakers and Playoff matches will be played in a Best of 3 format. However note that Badwater, Gravelpit, Steel and Upward should be played only one round each. Granary and Lakeside will be played with the usual rules.

The maps for each tiebreaker and playoffs match will be decided by map elimination. A step-by-step breakdown of the process can be found on the Rules page

Unlocks

ETF2L Season 3 will now use the same banlist for unlocks as UGC Season 8, in order to improve experience for players involved in both leagues. The only difference between the two whitelists is the High-Five taunt – it remains banned in ETF2L, as it allows players to peek through walls on certain maps without the downsides associated with regular taunts.

The full list of banned items is as follows:

  • The Vita-Saw
  • The Enforcer
  • The Pomson 6000
  • The Phlogistinator
  • The Holiday Punch
  • The Cleaner’s Carbine
  • Pretty Boy’s Pocket Pistol
  • The Red-Tape Recorder
  • The Huo Long Heatmaker
  • Bombinomicon
  • The Jingle Belt
  • The Bootie Time
  • High Five Taunt
  • The Familiar Fez
  • Ol’ Snaggletooth

Note that Polycount set hats are now allowed, with the exception of the Spy and Sniper hats. The Vita-saw is no longer allowed.

You can discuss the new unlock rules in the Feedback forum [here].

League rules and configs

Complete list of Season 3 and general rules, as well as server configs and whitelists can be found in the [Rules Section]

Feedback and Suggestions

If you have feedback or suggestions regarding Season 3 or any other aspect of ETF2L, we now have a separate forum for that dubbed [the Idea Box]. The forum is currently standalone and has a placeholder theme, but will be visually redesigned and integrated into the site at a later date.

Hall of Fame

Full History of all ETF2L Community Awards