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Hay fever be gone!

Stop sneezing and start gaming. Spring '25 Highlander is here and what better way to round out 2025 than with some action packed Highlander. While we are not quite ready to reveal the changes coming to the season, we are ready for you to sign up your rosters! So get excited, and buy some tissues.

Signups

You can sign up for Highlander Spring '25 from today (Wednesday the 24th of September) up until Friday the 10th of October at 11:59pm AEDT. With this in mind we'll aim to have seedings out by Sunday the 12th or Monday the 13th of October at the latest with the Season starting on Wednesday the 15th of October.

SIGNUP NOW · SEASON PAGE

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Changes on the way

Our boys in the lab have a lot of data to go over, so we'll be making a separate post in the coming days once we have all our facts sorted. This post will contain any Whitelist and Map Pool alterations coming for Spring '25, so keep your eyes peeled. In the meantime... I don't know, scrim Product, its not like that thing is going anywhere.

Staff Changes

After being with us for 5 seasons redja will be departing from our Highlander Admin team. Redja's impact was nothing short of substantial during his time as an admin. He has allowed us to have some of the best seeded and ran competitions in recent Highlander history thanks to his rigorous and meticulous planning ahead of time and his tireless work behind the scenes crafting tiebreaking metrics that combat our websites current limitations. Don't worry, he'll still be behind the scenes bossing around our current staff but his time in the spot light has come to an end. Thanks brew (bro)! You helped us run a skux league, we wish you all the best and we hope you enjoy all the fush (fish) and chups (chips) life has to offer you aye!

Cryo will also be stepping down as a league admin moving into Spring '25. With life catching up to him we'd like to also thank him for his contributions to our staff team. While he wasn't around for the longest time, Cryo provided a multitude of level headed takes behind the scenes and even took time out of his busy schedule to assist us in running the recent Experimental Highlander Cup. Truly a great guy and nothing but an incredible asset to our team and the entire community. Thank you Mr. Cryotech, we hope you thrive in 2026 and the years to come!

Despite being down 2 we're still up 4 with Pulse, woozy and myself (Sperkle) sticking around. Furthermore, our very own indy and her jones will be staying on with us now, having graduated from Trial Admin status to a fully fledged Highlander Admin!

We'll be letting you all know of all the changes as soon as we can, so keep your eyes peeled!

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Two weekends of action are done and dusted, kitchen is closed folks. Thankyou to all who competed in Experimental Cup 4 and congratulations to all the Division Champions Leap of Faith, Household and 9 Reasons Not To Play TF2.

Below are the Final Rankings, Awards and Prizes for Experimental Cup 4. Individual awards as well as Prizes for the Clip contests have been decided by Highlander Administrators and Advisors. We have also included two surveys. The first survey focuses on the maps featured in the cup and whether or not you (the players) would like to see them included in the upcoming Spring '25 Season as well as any fixes or changes that could be made to the maps to make them preform better within a competitive setting. The second, provides a space for players to share their thoughts and opinions on the other aspects of the cup such as the inclusion of ABBA for every match, the whitelist changes, etc.

• Experimental Cup 4 Map Survey

• Post Experimental Cup 4 Survey

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Congratulations Division 1 winners Leap of Faith!

Placements

- Leap of Faith
- projected rank silver 2
- 9 men 1 child policy
- Demon Slayer Corps (DSC)

Grand Final Map Scores

Match

• Keylog: 3 - 0
• Divulgence: 2 - 0

Bronze Final Map Scores

Match

• Valor: 3 - 1
• Keylog: 3 - 0

Awards

Best Scout: krollic
Best Soldier: nurf
Best Pyro: brodie escobar
Best Demoman: Striker & turris
Best Heavy: Trash
Best Engineer: redja
Best Medic: remorse
Best Sniper: maz
Best Spy: Andyroo

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Congratulations Division 2 winners Household!

Placements

- Household
- Highlander Experimental League Lovers
- The Beatles
- AsiaFort Dropout

Grand Final Map Scores

Match

• Valor: 3 - 0
• Divulgence: 2 - 1

Bronze Final Map Scores

Match

• Govan: 2 - 3
• Divulgence: 2 - 0
• Valor: 3 - 0

Awards

Best Scout: Aswero
Best Soldier: aly
Best Pyro: Destiny
Best Demoman: noemie
Best Heavy: Ro1and
Best Engineer: crese
Best Medic: reeee.vol 2
Best Sniper: aldeixisto
Best Spy: MonsterGunner0v0

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Congratulations Division 3 winners 9 Reasons Not To Play TF2!

Placements

- 9 Reasons Not To Play TF2
- TNP
- Morb Fortress 2 - Morbheads
- Lake Fairy Crew

Grand Final Map Scores

Match

• Govan: 3 - 2
• Valor: 3 - 1

Bronze Final Map Scores

Match

• Divulgence: 2 - 0
• Govan: 3 - 2

Awards

Best Scout: lillybit_0
Best Soldier: Whitefang2360
Best Pyro: SpicyHipJesus
Best Demoman: newspice
Best Heavy: Mr. Venom
Best Engineer: AuroraEchoes
Best Medic: Peteydog
Best Sniper: Grvyrd
Best Spy: Hobby_Sr

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Prize Recipients

Due to us receiving a limited number of submissions we have modified the prize distributions. Below are the winners and prize recipients.

Best Overall Clip

Andyroo - 10 keys
Grvyrd - 5 keys
skyhigh - 3 keys

Best Loch n Load Clips

newspice - 10 keys
APVC - 5 keys
Striker - 3 key

Best Holiday Punch Clips & remaining submissions

Due to us receiving no submission for our Holiday Punch clip contests we will be handing out 1 key per person who submitted clips that didn't win a prize in the categories above so congratulations to the following;

• Matty
• violet
• Jay5815
• bunstie
• Reeee.vol 2
• MonsterGunner0v0

We will reach out soon with instruction on how to claim your keys with in the coming days. Congratulations to all!

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Sixes has Sprung

It's sweltering and we're barely a month into Spring. Wait it's Spring? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRH!!! Well with the start of Spring comes our next season of Sixes. With a lot of the same as last season we're gearing up for a fantastic competition so don't miss out on the last Sixes league of 2025!

Signups

You can sign up for Sixes Spring '25 from today (Monday the 22nd of September) up until Wednesday the 8th of October at 11:59pm AEDT. With this in mind we'll aim to have seedings out by Thursday the 9th or Friday the 10th of October at the latest with the Season starting on Sunday the 12th of October.

SIGNUP NOW · SEASON PAGE

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Whitelist and Map Pool

There are no changes to the Map Pool or Whitelist this season. That's it go home. With the positive reception of last season's Map Pool we have decided to run it back. For those of you who weren't the biggest fan's of Granary this season will give you another chance to become "accustomed" to it. As for the Whitelist, no changes have been made with nothing standing out as problematic from the Winter season just gone.

Staff Changes

Our beloved Chili will be stepping down from his position as Head Sixes Administrator. Chili came back as a league admin for Autumn '24 Sixes and took over as the head admin mid-season due to the disappearance of one who shall not be named. In his time Chili has been an integral member of staff and has always put his best foot forward. Doing this for not one, but nearly tuah years isn't easy. Thankyou Chili for all you've done and we wish you nothing but the best in all your future endeavors.

Also departing from our Sixes staff will be Omni. Omni came on last season as a Trial Sixes Administrator. But as life often does, it caught up with him. Thank you Omni for taking the time to volunteer and we hope life treats you well going into 2026!

So where does that leave us? Well you still have the triple threat of mashiro, emgee and inStinct as your regular season staff don't you worry about that. As for the next Sixes Head Administrator and additional staff coming aboard, we'll be making a post in the coming days detailing all changes within our Sixes team. But if you're excited about competitive Team Fortress 2 and think you'd be a good fit please don't shy away from filling in one of our Staff Applications!

We'll be in touch soon, but get excited for the final Sixes season of 2025! We can't wait to see this competition get underway!

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Transfer History

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Post-Winter '25 Survey Results

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Post Experimental Cup 4 Survey Results

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Player Restrictions

The number of restricted players allowed on one roster this season is to be determined

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Key Dates & Transfer Windows

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Key Dates

Signups & Seedings Dates

Wednesday 24th of September 2025: Signups Open
Friday 10th of October 2025: Signups Close, Rosters Locked for Seedings
Sunday 12th of October 2025: Seedings Released
Wednesday 15th of October 2025: Season starts

Regular Season Dates

Wednesday 15th October - Sunday 19th October 2025: Round 1
Wednesday 22nd October - Sunday 26th October 2025: Round 2
Wednesday 29th October - Sunday 2nd November 2025: Round 3
Wednesday 5th November - Sunday 9th November 2025: Round 4
Wednesday 12th November - Sunday 16th November 2025: Round 5
Roster Lock applied Wednesday the 19th of November
Wednesday 19th November - Sunday 23rd November 2025: Round 6
Wednesday 26th November - Sunday 30th November 2025: Round 7

Playoffs Dates

Wednesday 3rd December - Sunday 7th December 2025: Playoffs Round 1 / Page Playoffs
Wednesday 10th December - Sunday 14th December 2025: Playoffs Round 2 / Semi-Finals
Wednesday 17th December - Sunday 21st December 2025: Playoffs Round 3 / Grand & Bronze Finals

Transfer Windows

Wednesday 15th October - Sunday 19th October 2025: Transfer Window 1
Wednesday 22nd October - Sunday 26th October 2025: Transfer Window 2
Wednesday 29th October - Sunday 2nd November 2025: Transfer Window 3
Wednesday 5th November - Sunday 9th November 2025: Transfer Window 4
Wednesday 12th November - Sunday 16th November 2025: Transfer Window 5
Wednesday 16th July 2025: Roster Lock

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 2 Player Transfers are processed in each window.

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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

DIVISION ADMINISTRATORS

• woozy
• indy and her jones
• Pulse

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

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Map Schedule

TBD

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Map Pool

TBD

Changes to the Highlander Spring '25 Map Pool

• TBD

Please note: ---, ---, ---, ---, ---, ---, --- and --- 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.

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The users below are banned from playing a certain amount of rounds in both Sixes and Highlander during Winter '25. Users can receive round bans when accruing Player Behaviour Infractions or League Penalties. See these pages for more information each.

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Winter'25 Round Bans

• Uncharted Banned for rounds 1 & 2 of Winter '25 Sixes and Highlander.
• g57x Banned for rounds 1 & 2 of Winter '25 Sixes and Highlander.
• skyhigh Banned for rounds 1 & 2 of Winter '25 Sixes and Highlander.
• Spealot Banned for rounds 1 & 2 of Winter '25 Sixes and Highlander.
• qwert Banned for rounds 1 & 2 of Winter '25 Sixes and Highlander.
• R bong Banned for rounds 1 & 2 of Winter '25 Sixes and Highlander.
• Grimsby :^) Banned for rounds 1 & 2 of Winter '25 Sixes and Highlander.
• Alternate Machiko Banned for rounds 1 & 2 of Winter '25 Sixes and Highlander.
• Practice Banned for rounds 1 & 2 of Winter '25 Sixes and Highlander.
• Lovely Banned for rounds 1 & 2 of Winter '25 Sixes and Highlander.
• inStinct Banned for rounds 1 & 2 of Winter '25 Sixes and Highlander.
• fsh Banned for rounds 1 & 2 of Winter '25 Sixes and Highlander.
• ♥ Emily the Goldfish ♥ Banned for rounds 1 & 2 of Winter '25 Sixes and Highlander.
• wampy Banned for rounds 4 & 5 of Winter '25 Sixes and Highlander.
• J Banned for rounds 4 of Winter '25 Sixes and Highlander.
• silent* Banned for rounds 6, 7 and Round 1 Playoffs of Winter '25 Sixes and rounds 5, 6 and 7 of Highlander.
• aly Banned for rounds 6, 7 and Round 1 Playoffs of Winter '25.