Sixes signups open now!

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 the off-season, we ran our second iteration of the Experimental Cup series, namely Experimental Cup 2. The feedback of the Progressive Ruleset / Pro Ruleset Timer plugin we tested in that tournament will directly impact Sixes Spring '23 (S38).

Signups

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.

SIGNUP NOW

Sixes S37 Poll Results

Sixes S37 poll results are now live, you can find them here or linked on the league page. Some of the results were fairly close, so we'll be adding some followup questions in the Experimental Cup 2 poll, which should be out prior to Grand Finals matches, and will close shortly after Grand Finals.

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!

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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.

SIGN UP NOW

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!

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WHITELIST/UNLOCKS

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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.

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TRANSFER WINDOWS

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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.

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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 2023

Transfer 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

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ADMINISTRATORS

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HIGHLANDER HEAD ADMINISTRATOR

• bird

LEAGUE ADMINISTRATORS

Premier

• Sperkle

Intermediate

• Rainy

Main

• Oldcustard

Open

• Kai

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

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KEY DATES

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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

For more information on Transfer Windows, please see our Transfer Windows page.

Playoffs Key Dates

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

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.

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Page Playoffs

All divisions will be using the Page Playoff system for their finals.

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Highlander S4 Post-Season Poll Results

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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.

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Season and Administration Feedback

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Playable Match Days

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Highlander Map Pool

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Whitelist / Weapon Restrictions

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Playoffs and Divisions

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Players and Teams

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Follow Up Poll Maps

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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.

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PLAYER RESTRICTIONS

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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

MAIN

OPEN

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MAP POOL

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Map Schedule

Round 1: pl_upward_f10 & koth_proot_b6b
Round 2: pl_eruption_b13 & koth_product_final
Round 3: cp_gullywash_f9 & pl_swiftwater_final1
Round 4: cp_steel_f12 & koth_product_final
Round 5: pl_vigil_rc10 & koth_ashville_final
Round 6: pl_upward_f10 & koth_proot_b6b

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.

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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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Sixes S37 Post-Season Poll Results

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The images below are the results of the Sixes S37 Post-Season poll in order of where they were in the poll. There is a summary at the bottom which discusses some discrepancies between divisions, we've included some charts to illustrate that further. The poll result images below were gathered on Sunday the 24th of September 2023, the division comparisons at the bottom were collected on the 19th (as the data was used for our meeting originally, and we wanted to put forth what we discussed in our meeting to you).

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Experimental Cup 2 poll + Followup poll coming soon

We are aiming to release a poll for our Experimental Cup 2 tournament soon which will also include some followup questions for subjects we polled in the Sixes S37 poll, as there were a few areas when reviewing the results where we want to seek some player clarification. For example, Premier and Open were confident approvals for the Progressive Ruleset, but Main was a three way split between Yes/No/Indefinite, and High and Intermediate had a majority voting No, so we'll be asking what players do and don't like about the ruleset. We've seen more result variation from Premier compared to every other division, so we'll be reaching out to Premier during Sixes Spring '23 signups and having chats regarding some potential changes.

We've included some graphs below to show the breakdown of voting per division for non-map or whitelist questions, and please note that if you haven't seen anything about a change happening or not happening, it doesn't mean that it won't - but it also doesn't mean that it will. Some changes, in particular the map pool size, require changes to other established systems/rules/etc, or we aren't confident in a narrow lead in results on a question so we may opt to poll it again in the future.

Please note that the charts below were made on the 19th, and there has been five more responses since then (58 > 63), however they are more to illustrate why regardless of which side of the line it favours slightly, that we want to check in with players and teams alike.

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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