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Highlander Autumn '24 Post-Season Survey Results

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Below you will find survey results are from the Autumn '24 Post-season Survey's. The surveys results come from Premier, Main and Advisor surveys.

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ABBA In Playoffs

Advisors

Premier

Main

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ABBA In Regular Season

Advisors

Premier

Main

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Alternative King of the Hill Week of Regular Season

Advisors

Premier

Main

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Darwin's Danger Shield

Advisors

Premier

Main

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Division Sizes

Advisors

Premier

Main

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Fixed Match Days

Advisors

Premier

Main

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Loch-n-load

Advisors

Premier

Main

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Autumn '24 Map Pool

Advisors

Premier

Main

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Map Vote for Winter '24

Advisors

Premier

Main

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Preferred Match Generation

Advisors

Premier

Main

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Natascha

Advisors

Premier

Main

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Pick/ban System

Advisors

Premier

Main

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Pick/ban Completion Time Requirement

Advisors

Premier

Main

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Secondary Match Days

Advisors

Premier

Main

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Soda Popper

Advisors

Premier

Main

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Why don't we show the text responses?

We hide text responses to properly filter and address the feedback internally without the concern of someones response being criticized or judged by the community.

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Congratulations to our respective Premier and Main division winner Musos Deluxe and WE ARE THE WORLD 39 FOR OPEN! Furthermore we'd like to thank you all for participating in our Autumn '24 season of Highlander. We hope to see you all for our future Winter '24 season as well as perhaps a little something after that... but you'll have to wait to find out more on that little secret. Stay active in the off-season, pug hard, scrim hard and work on being the best Highlander player you can be!

Below you will find the the placements for the Autumn '24 Season of Highlander as well as Player and Team Awards.

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Congratulations Premier winners Musos Deluxe!

Placements

- Musos Deluxe
- crylander
- NOT rascals

Grand Final Map Scores

Ashville: 3 - 0
Borneo: 2 - 0
Match

Awards

Best Scout: HUNGRY4EGGS
Best Soldier: Lizrd-Wizrd
Best Pyro: ms. pauling bong fiend
Best Demoman: RAZE
Best Heavy: JP
Best Engineer: Sexy Turtle
Best Medic: remorse
Best Sniper: calski & Flow
Best Spy: Andyroo

Most Improved Player: Stamm
Most Valuable Player: HUNGRY4EGGS & remorse
Most Improved Team: Significant Otter
Friendliest Team: Significant Otter
Best Dressed Team: Musos Deluxe & Significant Otter

Best Caster: turris

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Congratulations Main winners WE ARE THE WORLD 39 FOR OPEN!

Placements

- WE ARE THE WORLD 39 FOR OPEN
- Where no ability meets no effort
- Sharon Keast

Grand Final Map Scores

Ashville: 2 - 3
Swiftwater: 1 - 0
Warmtic: 3 - 0
Match

Awards

Best Scout: Laz
Best Soldier: indy and her jones
Best Pyro: Relz
Best Demoman: Corn
Best Heavy: tom.
Best Engineer: eden
Best Medic: Doctrine
Best Sniper: kbn
Best Spy: hiccups

Most Improved Player: seiran
Most Valuable Player: Pigel
Most Improved Team: rat gaming
Friendliest Team: petrodragonic apocalypse
Best Dressed Team: WE ARE THE WORLD 39 FOR OPEN

Best Caster: freaky

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Player Restrictions

Note: Number of restricted players allowed on one roster is 5

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Player Restrictions

CONNECTICUT KIA BOYZ

Corn Restricted off Scout & Demoman
Susu Restricted off Scout, Soldier, Heavy & Sniper
hef Restricted off Soldier & Demoman
Tenous Restricted off Scout
yons Restricted off Soldier

goblin deez

bambi Restricted off Scout, Demoman, Heavy & Sniper

Tracy Waldron

Laz. Restricted off Scout
rosss3s Restricted off Heavy
aisha💕😘 Restricted off Soldier

Tuah

angus Restricted off Scout
Titan Restricted off Sniper
gingacharma Restricted off Spy
v4na Restricted off Scout, Soldier, Demoman, Heavy & Sniper

Should Be Studying

Mio Restricted off Soldier & Sniper

Dispensers

Rainy Restricted off Pyro & Heavy
Disturbed Restricted off Scout

Previously Rostered Players

bubsdoge Restricted off Scout

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Division Admins

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All communication with Division Admins must occur within the Team Captain Discord. Team Captains will be invited after the conclusion of Signups. If you are not in this Discord, please reach out immediately.

HIGHLANDER HEAD ADMINISTRATOR

• Sperkle

PREMIER ADMINISTRATORS

• Rainy
• hive

MAIN ADMINISTRATORS

• Kai
• woozy
• redja

To see our complete list including Discord handles, see our Staff page here.

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Map Pool

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Highlander Winter '24 Map Pool

Upward
Vigil
Swiftwater
Steel
Product
Ashville
Warmtic

Map Schedule

Round 1: pl_swiftwater_final1 & koth_product_final
Round 2: pl_vigil_rc10 & koth_warmtic_f10
Round 3: cp_steel_f12 & koth_ashville_final
Round 4: pl_upward_f12 (ABBA)
Round 5: pl_swiftwater_final1 & koth_warmtic_f10
Round 6: pl_vigil_rc10 & koth_ashville_final
Round 7: cp_steel_f12 & koth_product_final

Changes to the Highlander Autumn '24 Map Pool

Please see the Poll Results linked on the league page for specific percentages.

• Removed Borneo and Proot
• Upward updated to version pl_upward_f12, previously f10

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Please note: pl_upward_f12, pl_vigil_rc10, cp_steel_f12, koth_warmtic_f10, koth_product_final and koth_ashville_final are custom maps. If you don't already have these installed, please click the links above to download them, and then move them to your ..\Team Fortress 2\tf\download\maps directory.

The following commands can be used to change maps to the correct version. Type or copy these commands into your console to change to that map, as long as you have the correct rcon password.

rcon changelevel pl_upward_f12
rcon changelevel koth_product_final
rcon changelevel pl_swiftwater_final1
rcon changelevel cp_steel_f12
rcon changelevel pl_vigil_rc10
rcon changelevel koth_ashville_final1
rcon changelevel koth_warmtic_f10

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Key Dates & Transfer Windows

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Key Dates

Signups & Seedings Dates

Sunday 2nd of June 2024: Signups Open
Friday 21st of June 2024: Signups Close, Rosters Locked for Seedings
Sunday 23rd of June 2024: Seedings Released
Wednesday 26th of June 2024: Season starts

Regular Season Dates

Wednesday 26th June - Sunday 30th June 2024: Round 1
Wednesday 3rd July - Sunday 14th July 2024: Round 2
Wednesday 17th July - Sunday 21st July 2024: Round 3
Wednesday 24th July - Sunday 28th July 2024: Round 4
Wednesday 31st July - Sunday 4th August 2024: Round 5
Roster Lock applied on Wednesday 7th August 2024
Wednesday 7th August - Sunday 11th August 2024: Round 6
Wednesday 14th August - Sunday 18th August 2024: Round 7

Playoffs Dates for Premier & Main

Wednesday 21st August - Sunday 25th : Page Playoffs
Wednesday 28th August - Sunday 1st September 2024: Semi-Finals
Wednesday 4th September - Sunday 8th September 2024: Grand Finals

Page Playoffs

All divisions will use the Page Playoff system for their finals.

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Transfer Windows

Transfers this season will be processed and approved on a fortnightly basis. There will be three transfer windows for this season of Highlander. Teams should note the Transfer Windows to prevent player issues with their rosters during the season. Transfers can be requested at any point during the season, however, the players in question will only be reviewed during the current or next Transfer Window, depending on when that player was requested. Furthermore, players won't be processed until their team's match has concluded for the current round. The listed transfer windows can be found below.

For applicants to be eligible to play in a particular round, the transfer application must be submitted by 11:59 PM AEST/AEDT time the Tuesday of the round before the transfer window.

Teams are permitted to a total of 6 player transfers into their roster this season. Only 3 Player Transfers are processed in each window.

Transfer Window #1

Wednesday 26th June - Tuesday 2nd July 2024: Round 1
Note: Roster sizes will be increased to 15 during this first transfer window
Transfer Window #1 starts after Final Placements have been released, and closes 11.59PM Tuesday the 2nd of July 2024

Transfer Window #2

Wednesday 17th July - Tuesday 23rd July 2024: Round 3

Transfer Window #3

Wednesday 31st July - Tuesday 6th August 2024: Round 5
Roster Lock applied Wednesday 7th August 2024

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Award Voting

Howdy folks, with the temperature dropping and the winter months approaching it is time we Farwell the Autumn '24 Sixes and Highlander season's with our seasonal award voting. Voting is open from now and closes on the 19th of May 2024 at 11:59pm AEST. Votes will need to be submitted by Team Captain's who team's competed in the aforementioned seasons.

For those who are new or unfamiliar to voting any and all information regarding the process can be found in the links below but to summaries it for all who may be curious;

Team captains vote for players who competed in their teams division for certain categories in which players are nominated in. From left to right players voted will receive 3, 2 and 1 points with the player with the most points receiving the award. All categories require 3 votes with teams and team captains being prohibited from voting for players who were rostered on their team. Votes only need to be done for the division you and your team competed in.

Votes are to be submitted to the admins listed on the voting spaces below.

Sixes Voting

Premier Voting • High Voting • Intermediate Voting • Main Voting • Open Voting

Highlander Voting

Premier Voting • Main Voting

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Post Season Surveys

Finally, with all Autumn competitions complete we are looking to receive any and all feedback you've got through our Post Season Surveys. This time around we are dividing our surveys up to focus on getting feedback from each individual division of play for both Sixes and Highlander. We hope this will allow us to identify the issues effecting each area with more ease as well as still getting an idea of what you, the community, want in future seasons.

Sixes Surveys

Premier Survey • High Survey • Intermediate Survey • Main Survey • Open Survey

Highlander Surveys

Premier Survey • Main Survey

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How to Vote

We've reformatted our voting threads to better enable captains in correctly formatting and submitting their votes to us. Take a look, and let us know if you run into any issues.

1. Putting your votes together

Captains shall select three options from the Nominated Players heading and put them in order of highest vote to lowest vote using the following template. The first name will receive three votes, the second will receive two votes and the third will receive one vote. Voting for your own teammates is not allowed, regardless of the award (this includes Best Caster).

Important formatting - you must copy-paste your vote EXACTLY, and separate votes using commas. Again we are using an automated script to process these votes, and incorrectly imputed votes may not be counted!

Your team name:
Your team division: Main

Best Scout: first-place vote, second-place vote, third-place vote
Best Soldier:
Best Pyro:
Best Demoman:
Best Heavy:
Best Engineer:
Best Medic:
Best Sniper:
Best Spy:
Friendliest Team:
Most Improved Player:
Most Improved Team:
Most Valuable Player:
Best Dressed Team:
Best Caster:

Your completed template should look like this (with the correct players on their classes, the same players have been used for each award in this example for simplicity) without the point allocations after each player name:

Your team name: Your Team Here
Your team division: Your Division Here

Best Scout: /dev/zero (3 points), wiggin (2 points), obla (1 point)
Best Soldier: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Pyro: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Demoman: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Heavy: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Engineer: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Medic: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Sniper: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Best Spy: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Most Improved Player: /dev/zero, wiggin, obla
Most Improved Team: Atomic Affinity, Red Pandas, Musos Deluxe
Friendliest Team: Atomic Affinity, Red Pandas, Musos Deluxe
Best Caster: catfish, core, obla

Remember: Voting for your own teammates is not allowed.

Nominated Players

The following players and teams are nominated for awards:

Best Scout: a festive fish, Laz. Kopz, yons, SEGA Bass Fishing, Pigel.

Best Soldier: strongman, Jdn, zen, twoism, Kaoru, indy and her jones.

Best Pyro: Relz, Pulse, angus, monti, hunoke, Ms. Wizard.

Best Demoman: Corn, akari, Pipelin12, reeee.vol 2, dezi.

Best Heavy: tom., Amatorii, HASHFAN, fraggerung, Asl:3x, ash.

Best Engineer: eden, megascatterbomb, ponyo, fluro, Twifty, Sulu.

Best Medic: Doctrine, Shakey, Emily the Goldfish, sinsa, Saiiiiiiiissy, Miss Squidge.

Best Sniper: kbn, 人, Mint, tej, Mean Bug, seiran.

Best Spy: hiccups, Sully, big maurice, Wergy, Classy Doctor, WinterPizza850.

Most Improved Player: Doctrine, Sully, big maurice, shadi, Kaoru, seiran.

Most Improved Team: WE ARE THE WORLD 39 FOR OPEN, Sharon Keast, Where no ability meets no effort, into the hood, rat gaming, petrodragonic apocalypse.

Friendliest Team: WE ARE THE WORLD 39 FOR OPEN, Sharon Keast, Where no ability meets no effort, into the hood, rat gaming, petrodragonic apocalypse.

Most Valuable Player: a festive fish, strongman, Relz, Corn, tom., eden, Doctrine, kbn, hiccups, Laz., Jdn, Pulse, akari, Amatorii, megascatterbomb, Shakey, 人, Sully, Kopz, zen, angus, Pipelin12, HASHFAN, ponyo, Emily the Goldfish, Mint, big maurice, yons, twoism, monti, fraggerung, fluro, sinsa, tej, Wergy, SEGA Bass Fishing, Kaoru, hunoke, reeee.vol 2 ,Asl:3x, Twifty, Saiiiiiiiissy, Mean Bug, Classy Doctor, Pigel, indy and her jones, Ms. Wizard, dezi, ash, Sulu, Miss Squidge, seiran, WinterPizza850.

Best Dressed Team: WE ARE THE WORLD 39 FOR OPEN, Sharon Keast, Where no ability meets no effort, into the hood, rat gaming, petrodragonic apocalypse.

Best Caster: turris, Rainy, Sperkle, freaky, xobile

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2. Submitting your votes

The votes must be sent through to your division administrator via Discord DMs:

• Kai (@head_empty_no_thoughts)
• Rainy (@rainy26)

Votes need to be submitted to one of the admins listed above by ---- at 11:59pm AEDT. Failing to do this will prevent your votes from being counted.

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FAQ

How is Voting calculated?

We will use instant runoff voting to calculate the results.

Will we not receive in-game medals if we fail to submit our votes?

We only penalize failure to submit nominations, as we believe that every player should have the chance to be voted for.

How long will it take for Awards to be released?

The release of Awards often varies, but you can expect it usually within a week or two of Voting closing.

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Thank you based Valen for their work to improve our scripts used for nominations and voting!