Starting of the new year we have one last thing to do to close out Season 37. Congratulations to Witness Gaming for clinching the title in an exciting game against SVIFT. Below you can cast your vote for the Season 37 Award Polls!

The polls will be open until Friday 22th of January 20:00 CEST

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Announcing Highlander Season 23 and Preseason Cup!

All the information regarding the coming Season can either be found in this newspost, or will be released shortly!

The tier systems that we use will be fully dependent on the final signup numbers.

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Hello everybody,

We’re quite excited to show you the progress of the data recreation. Welcome to the finalization of phase one out of two! phase one included gathering up all recorded pages within archiving websites such as archive.org and parsing these pages back into actual results on the site. This has granted us the return of 1800 matches! While this dataset is obviously still missing a lot of data this will allow for further completion later on. Next to the regeneration of the matches we also remade all competitions and teams.

Phase Two

The main thing missing from this dataset is which players played in what match. We’re looking into a system that would allow users to complete or correct the data set through logs.tf. The development of this has started but will take quite a while to make so please be patient with us. If you already want to prepare for this phase then looking up the logs.tf pages of your previous officials and save them for once phase two is completed.

We will have a full newspost dedicated to this system once its been completed.
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This is a provisional schedule therefore dates are subject to change.

This is the schedule for the next 4 months of ETF2L seasonal competitions.
The schedule will likely look as follows:

Highlander Season 23

Signups: 4th January – 20th January
Main Season: 24th January – 26th February
Playoffs: 28th February – 14th March

6v6 Season 38

Signups: 21st February – 12th March
Main Season: 14th March – 2nd May
Playoffs: 16th May – 4th June

Our current idea for the 6v6 Nations Cup #8 is to have it after Season 38. This due to season 37 being quite experimental with plugins and us wanting some time to reflect on these plugins first. The highlander nations cup that would normally be happening in 2021 is currently also still being kept in mind but no concrete plans about it have been made yet. Details about these events will be published once we’re closer to them and have a better timeline for the later parts of 2021.

Hello everybody,

We’re here again trying to clean up our stance in regards to community moderation. We’ve taken the past few months to get a solid internal policy setup in order to have more consistent handling of cases. We believe to have finalized this setup. While doing so we’ve looked at a handful or reports to use as an attempt at making a baseline. However, we do expect that over time this baseline can shift as we get more experienced in dealing with these types of reports. We want to aim at making this community inviting to new players which has not been possible due to the rampant harassment, racism, toxicity and so forth. It is truly disheartening to see this happening to a community that we love so dearly.

Before we get into the baseline cases that got mentioned above there are a few things we would like to ask of the community.

Firstly, to help us with the growing process of trying to further improve our moderation. While we’ve tried open communication on this topic in the past, the feedback that we received was people just insulting admins which leaves us none the wiser and if anything more distant from the community.

Secondly, we want to ask you to be patient. No platform has a perfect community moderation process and ours will be no different. People make mistakes, this includes both players and admins alike. This is where we hope to gain experience and insight in order to apply fair and balanced punishments. However this will take time to get right. From staff member changes to the difference in both background and views of these staff members as well as cultural differences between the many nations that ETF2L hosts makes it a very difficult task.

For those that read this, I want to thank you and hope that you will be able to support us while we try to grow.

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