Looking at the communities response to our scheduling update published yesterday we feel the need to clarify certain topics further as they were not explained thoroughly in the initial post. We will not be leaving you without any competition in the fall of 2020, we apologize if yesterday’s post felt like that would be the case.

Why did we decide to delay season 37?

To open up room for testing a handful of community projects. If we had filled in the open slot with a 6s season there would have been no time for this. Secondly, if we would have scheduled in a season with an appropriate break after season 36 it would have ended around the middle/late December. However as we are hopeful for Copenhagen Games being able to happen in 2021 we want to make sure we have a season that leads up to that event for teams to solidify. The season would have to start late January to match up with that schedule and thus in a best case only leaving slightly more then a month break for playoff participants.

tl;dr We want to be able to test some things community members have been asking for as well as avoid back to back seasons without decent downtime.

A sidenote as well, the nations cup schedule as mentioned is a draft. This event also does not impact other ideas we have for the majority of the 6s playersbase.

What are we trying to plan for the fall of 2020?

We’re currently working out how we exactly want to approach the time frame as there has not being something of this sort within recent history. As referenced in the above a section it will most likely be spent and trying out new things.
A couple of the idea that have been considered but not properly analyzed yet are:

• A number of shorter cups in which things like maps, plugins, promod, whitelist, … changes can be tested. If you have a great idea for a short cup feel free to inform a league admin about your idea.
• A multiple week scout speed/Promod cup: This multiple week spanning cup will gave both the player base and the admin team a better understanding of the impact of these changes on the game. This extra gathered data will help us setup S37, with a ruleset that a majority of the community agrees on.

If these ideas were to fail we will do our best to fill it up with a replacement. This might be a long cup/mini season or something else along the lines. We hope to have more details in the near future so teams can adjust and schedule accordingly.

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As you all know the 2020 calendar has had to adapt due to both the CoVid-19 crisis as well as the data loss. This has led us to review our planned schedule for the whole year. Many of you have asked us when the next Highlander season was going to start and whether or not we were going to host the 8th edition of the 6v6 Nations Cup.

Provisional Schedules

Highlander Season 22

Signups: 31st July – 26th August
Premiership Qualifiers: 21st August – 30th August
Final divisions: 29th August
Main Season: 30th August – 2nd October
Playoffs: 4th October – 23rd October

6v6 Nations Cup #8

Captain Application: 25th September – 16th October
Final Groups: 17th October
Group Stage: 1st November – 29th November
Playoffs: 29th November – 18th December

Note: Dates are still subject to change.

As of right now we are planning to have the next 6v6 season after the conclusion of 2020. Our reasoning for this decision is twofold – we wanted the next 6v6 season to occur before Copenhagen LAN and scheduling the seasons this way allows for a break between seasons which enables the league to run cups in the gap between the Highlander and 6v6 seasons.

Rules Update

Modified

• 2.2.3. Offensive messages, nicknames and avatars are not welcome:

We do not tolerate offensive team names/nicknames, avatars and messages regardless of where they are posted – this includes (but is not limited to) the forum, match comments, and in-game during official matches. Any form of offensive behavior, including offensive bind spamming in the in-game chat, is not allowed. Admins reserve the right to contact the players involved to have their name changed and will change offensive names on their own if the players are uncooperative. All cases are reviewed individually. Penalties may vary based on the severity of each offense, with any decisions being made at the discretion of the admin team. All circumstances will be taken into account.

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Highlander Season 21 – Wrap-up

This post is long overdue but got heavily delayed by the troubled times the site went through lately. Nevertheless winners were crowned and should be remembered.

We want to give big congratulations to   Super Dickmann's KANNONEN! as the winners of Premiership! With Feila finanzieren durch DROPS improving on their previous season and reclaiming the second place. And finally after going through qualifiers we see inVision having a fantastic season placing 3rd.

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Down below are this season’s provisional tiers. If you can’t find your team it could be due to you recently changing your team name. We are still looking for an 8th Premiership team, if any of teams currently in Division 1 want to move up you can contact an admin.

Due to the recent data loss we lost a lot of information on player experience, we tried our best placing teams but we obviously don’t know all players’ experience by heart. If you feel like you can help us by pointing out some oversight you can contact us on our Discord Server.

Unhappy about your place? Feel free to contact us over at our Discord Server. These tiers are still subjected to change if teams make a good case as to why they should be moved.

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Just going to keep this short but due to various reasons we’ll be delaying the season by another week. We apologize for the inconvenience it may cause for teams.

The exact reasons for the delay?

A couple more technical issues have appeared. This includes, but isn’t limited to:

• Verified statuses of players on rosters not always updating properly
• User information not being updated
• API setup being funky

We also had one of the originally planned premiership signups retract their placement. If any teams are interested in applying for this spot please contact an admin.

We want to spend some additional time on making sure everything on-site is ready for the season to avoid any issues during the actual season.

Together with this various teams have stated that they’re not adequately prepared for the season starting so shortly after the site came back online.

Schedule

• Signups: April 28th – June 4th, 19:00 CEST (Premiership signups closing June 2nd at 23:59 CEST)
• Publishing of Provisional Divisions: June 4th
• Premiership Qualifiers (In case we get multiple applicants): June 3rd – June 7th
• Publishing of Final Divisions: June 7th
• Main Season: June 7th – July 26th (Roster Lock will be active starting from July 19th, 00:01 CEST)

This obviously throws a bit of a wrench into the schedule for the remainder of the year but expect a more thorough write-up on how this will be dealt with in the near future.

Configs

As briefly touched upon in the previous newspost there has been an update to the configs. The exact added commands are listed below.

etf2l_9v9.cfg

Removed:

tf_tournament_classlimit_scout 1
tf_tournament_classlimit_soldier 1
tf_tournament_classlimit_pyro 1
tf_tournament_classlimit_demoman 1
tf_tournament_classlimit_heavy 1
tf_tournament_classlimit_engineer 1
tf_tournament_classlimit_medic 1
tf_tournament_classlimit_sniper 1
tf_tournament_classlimit_spy 1

etf2l.cfg

Added:

tf_birthday_ball_chance 0

etf2l_6v6.cfg

Added:

sm_deterministic_fall_damage 1
sm_fix_ghost_crossbow_bolts 1
sm_fix_slope_bug 1
sm_fix_sticky_delay 1
sm_remove_halloween_souls 1

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