Highlander signups open now!
It is an action-packed off-season for Sixes, but no so much for Highlander, however that changes now! Welcome back, Highlander Spring '23 is just around the corner and we hope you are as ready for it as we are.
You can sign up for Highlander Spring '23 from Saturday the 23rd of September, up until Saturday the 7th of October 2023. We aim to have seeding out by Monday the 9th of October at the latest, before the season starts. The season starts Wednesday the 11th of October 2023.
Sixes signups open tomorrow (Sunday 24th September)!
We're back, with a new season naming scheme! There's a bit that we've changed based off of your feedback of Sixes Season 37, and we hope you are excited for Sixes Spring '23 (S38)! In this off-season, we're running our second iteration of the Experimental Cup series, namely Experimental Cup 2. The feedback of the changes being tested in Experimental Cup 2 will directly impact Sixes Spring '23 (S38).
You can sign up for Sixes Spring '23 (S38) from Sunday the 24th of September, up until Wednesday the 4th of October 2023. We aim to have seeding out by Friday the 6th of October, if not Saturday the 7th of October at the latest, before the season starts. The season starts Sunday the 8th of October 2023.
Staff Updates
You may have seen our most recent update post bid farewell to three of our league admins; Bakes, frydog and snazzy. While we wish them the best, we have two new league admin pickups. Please welcome wils to the Sixes team, and Kai to the Highlander team! We're excited to see both of them in their respective roles, and hope you are too!
In the coming weeks and months, we'll be simplifying the names of roles throughout the league to be a bit more intuitive, and more in-line with what most of you would expect. We'll let you know when this happens, don't worry.
Season Branding changes
We outlined it in our previous update post that we were making some changes to the season branding, part cosmetic and part utilitarian for players. The focus of the change is to make it easier for players to recognize or recall a season by the time of the year, rather than a season number. We won't be ditching the season number entirely, but just limiting it to headings and whatnot.
We're also moving away from separate season art for both seasonal leagues, allowing a bit more time for our artists to make one design, or perhaps (small spoiler) for us to work on new teaser content outside of the usual promo images.
Global, Sixes & Highlander changes will come later!
With our Experimental Cup 2 tournament running just over the signups period, there will be some changes from the cup that will come later, however most ruleset updates will be coming in the next couple of days, we're just holding off to ensure we haven't missed anything!
Thank you all
Seasons 37 & 4 for the most part went smoothly, but we want to make sure everyone is aware that we are working on gradual changes to both seasonal leagues to address commonly raised issues, be it; division sizes, bye matches, format changes or something else. Over the coming couple of weeks, there will be a few announcements not related to our seasonal leagues or competitions that we feel players will (hopefully) like, and we are excited for Spring '23 and 2024!
View the whitelist at whitelist.tf
New items added to the game during the season will be banned until the next season. Modification of weapons will be evaluated by the administrative team. Taunts that are silent and/or toggle-able have been banned.
It is the responsibility of the player to not use these weapons in matches. The whitelist not loading or loading incorrectly is not an excuse for using banned items.
TRANSFER WINDOWS
Our transfers system sees transfers approved in weekly Transfer Windows for Highlander. Transfers will be approved between rounds, as such teams should take note of the Transfer Windows in order 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. 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 Sunday of the round before the transfer window.
Transfer Window #1
Wednesday 11th October - Sunday 15th October 2023: Round 1
Transfer Window #1 starts after Final Placements have been released, and close Sunday 15th October 2023Transfer Window #2
Wednesday 18th October - Sunday 22nd October 2023: Round 2
Transfer Window #3
Wednesday 25th October - Sunday 29th October 2023: Round 3
Transfer Window #4
Wednesday 1st November - Sunday 5th November 2023: Round 4
Transfer Window #5
Wednesday 8th November - Sunday 12th November 2023: Round 5
Roster Lock applied Sunday 12th November 2023
KEY DATES
Signups & Seedings Period
Saturday 23rd September 2023: Signups Open
Saturday 7th October 2023: Signups Close, Rosters Locked for Seedings
Monday 9th October 2023: Seedings Released, Rosters Unlocked for Transfer Windows
Wednesday 11th October 2023: Season starts, date dependant upon results of the proposed Match Days changes in the post-season poll.
Season Key Dates
Wednesday 11th October - Sunday 15th October 2023: Round 1
Wednesday 18th October - Sunday 22nd October 2023: Round 2
Wednesday 25th October - Sunday 29th October 2023: Round 3
Wednesday 1st November - Sunday 5th November 2023: Round 4
Wednesday 8th November - Sunday 12th November 2023: Round 5
Roster Lock applied Sunday 12th November 2023
Wednesday 15th November - Sunday 19th November 2023: Round 6 (Premier only)
For more information on Transfer Windows, please see our Transfer Windows page.
Playoffs Key Dates
Premier
Wednesday 22nd November - Sunday 26th November 2023: Page Playoff round
Wednesday 29th November - Sunday 3rd December 2023: Semi-Finals round
Wednesday 6th November - Sunday 10th December 2023: Grand Finals round
Intermediate & Open
Wednesday 15th November - Sunday 19th November 2023: Page Playoff round
Wednesday 22nd November - Sunday 26th November 2023: Semi-Finals round
Wednesday 29th November - Sunday 3rd December 2023: Grand Finals round
Note on Highlander Dates
Please note that in the event a division sees more than four teams, the dates above need to be pushed back one week to allow for seven rounds in the regular season.
Page Playoffs
All divisions will be using the Page Playoff system for their finals.
Highlander S4 Post-Season Poll Results
Below you will find the poll results for all of the non-text response poll fields for the Highlander Season 4 Post-Season Poll. Please note, these results images were gathered 6:30 Wednesday 20th of September, so any responses beyond that time will not be reflected here.
We also put out a followup poll to discern whether or not players would be interested in replacing one of either Proot or Warmtic with a 5CP map, in which players voted to remove Warmtic and add Gullywash.
Season and Administration Feedback
Playable Match Days
Highlander Map Pool
Whitelist / Weapon Restrictions
Playoffs and Divisions
Players and Teams
Follow Up Poll Maps
Pick/Ban Changes (Option 1: Home-Ban, Away-Ban, Home-Ban, Away-Ban, Home-Pick, Away-Pick, Home-Pick)
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.
PLAYER RESTRICTIONS
This page will show all Player Restrictions (players restricted from specific classes in-game) for players in Highlander Spring '23. It will be updated throughout the season with each transfer window.
INTERMEDIATE
- oLae restricted off Demoman
- Bliztank restricted off Soldier, Pyro & Demoman
- strawbunny restricted off Scout, Heavy & Sniper
- peep restricted off Pyro
- max restricted off Soldier, Heavy & Sniper
- bill restricted off Sniper
- Miffy restricted off Scout
- henwe restricted off Spy
- omni restricted off Scout, Soldier, Pyro, Demoman, Heavy & Sniper
- angus restricted off Scout, Soldier, Heavy & Sniper
- donna restricted off Scout
- kbn restricted off Soldier, Demoman & Sniper
- underpressure restricted off Scout & Sniper
- Pipline12 restricted off Scout & Soldier
- Stamm restricted off Soldier
- Disturbed restricted off Scout
- scandalous!!!!!!!! restricted off Scout, Soldier, Pyro, Demoman, Heavy & Sniper
- vice restricted off Soldier & Spy
- hif restricted off Scout & Sniper
- gingacharma restricted off Spy
- smazza restricted off Scout, Soldier, Sniper, Demo & Spy
- fff restricted off Scout & Sniper
- tal restricted off Heavy
- Tissueman restricted off Scout & Sniper
OPEN
- Avo restricted off Scout, Soldier, Demoman & Sniper
- gus restricted off Scout, Soldier, Demoman, Heavy & Sniper
- hive restricted off Pyro
- Uncle Vinnie restricted off Scout & Heavy
- Relz restricted off Pyro
- Annabelle restricted off Scout, Heavy & Sniper
- bappo restricted off Soldier & Demoman
- uber_gamer92 restricted off Scout
- bobo restricted off Soldier
- Rayno restricted off Scout, Soldier, Demoman & Spy
- Dalton restricted off Scout, Soldier, Heavy & Sniper
MAP POOL
Map Schedule
Round 1: pl_upward_f10 & koth_proot_b6b
Round 2: cp_steel_f12 & koth_product_final
Round 3: cp_gullywash_f9 & koth_ashville_final
Round 4: pl_swiftwater_final1 & pl_vigil_rc10
Round 5: pl_eruption_b13 & koth_ashville_final
Round 6: koth_proot_b6b & koth_product_final
Map changes for Highlander Spring '23
For specific percentages, please see the Poll Results linked on the league page.
- Borneo and Warmtic removed.
- Eruption and Gullywash added.
- Proot updated to B6B.
Please note: pl_upward_f10, cp_gullywash_f9, pl_vigil_rc10, cp_steel_f12, pl_eruption_b13, koth_product_final, koth_proot_b6b 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_f10
rcon changelevel koth_proot_b6b
rcon changelevel koth_product_final
rcon changelevel pl_swiftwater_final1
rcon changelevel cp_gullywash_f9
rcon changelevel pl_eruption_b13
rcon changelevel cp_steel_f12
rcon changelevel pl_vigil_rc10
rcon changelevel koth_ashville_final
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