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PRELIMINARY SEEDINGS

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Welcome to Highlander Spring '24!

Below you can find our initial Seedings for the season to come. If you have any issues with our listings or with any of the accompanying player restrictions, please reach out to any of our Highlander Administrators or via our help and feedback channel in our discord.

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PREMIER

S.M.
crylander
Significant Otter
rascals
Youth for Christ
Guzman y Gibus
Where no ability meets no effort

MAIN

sejinming fever
Bisexual Lighting
Rich and Grainous
Bürgr
rat gaming
With Blackjack and Furries!
MouseWarriors
funny people

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Premier & Main

We're running it back with a two division season once more! With 15 teams signing up this season and with a large number of newer players jumping into the competition we did look into crafting a competition with smaller division sizes but unfortunately we came across obstacles preventing us from doing so. Firstly the number of newer or "Open" level teams in comparison to the number of other teams and signups as a whole; Bürgr, rat gaming, With Blackjack and Furries!, MouseWarriors and funny people we felt all fit the criteria of "Open level teams". However, a division of 5 teams isn't feasible for fair competition with bye weeks and skipped maps each round. This would mean, that for an open division to work, 4 of the aforementioned teams would compete within an Open division whilst one team would be bumped up into a division were they would likely be outclassed by their competition. With this in mind we opted to include the 5 teams listed above along side sejinming fever, Bisexual Lighting and Rich and Grainous to create the Main division you see before you.

As for Premier, we believe that with the rostered players, there remains plenty of good competition throughout the season. An Intermediate Division was considered between the admin and advisor teams to combine some of the lower seeded Premier and upper seeded Main teams; However we felt the skill gap between both sets of teams was too vast to justify.

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Playoffs

It has been decided that this season both divisions will be making use of the Expanded Page Playoffs. 6 teams from both divisions will progress into playoffs for this season of Highlander with the larger division sizes of 7 and 8 for Premier and Main respectfully supporting this decision. Both divisions will also feature a Bronze Final mentioned in our previous News Post.

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Season Progression

Season will begin this coming Wednesday the 9th of October with team captains being invited to the Team Captain's Discord with in the coming days once we have completed setting up the season.

The regular season will be 7 weeks long for both divisions with only the Premier division featuring bye rounds (1 for each team). Following regular season will be 3 rounds of playoffs wrapping up our final Highlander Season no later than the 15th of December. You can find all the Key Dates including Transfer Windows here.

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