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Congratulations to the Spring '23 Highlander Champions Musos Deluxe, Team Wahoo! and goblin deez!

This time around we've tried something a little different with the awards. Thanks to the very talented dezi, this graphic has been created to eloquently display all award winners from Spring '23 Highlander. You can still read the full list of award recipients via the link below.

As for our Highlander team, we're working towards having signups for Autumn '24 (S6) open on Wednesday the 24th of January. With sign-ups opening soon, we'll be bringing you more information about the upcoming season, such as new rules coming into effect, staff changes and more.

Congratulations to all the award winners, all participants of the last season. We'll see you very soon for the first season of Highlander in 2024!

You can view the full Highlander Spring '23 awards here.

Congratulations Premier winners Musos Deluxe!

Placements

- Musos Deluxe
- DANDENONG DINGERS ⚾🧢🔴
- rascals

Grand Final Map Scores

Gullywash: 5 - 0
Steel: 2 - 0
Match

Awards

Note: The Premier division saw three-way ties in all best-in-class award categories due to low team count, therefore we won't be including these awards.

We would like to acknowledge the players on DANDENONG DINGERS ⚾🧢🔴 and rascals for achieving 2nd and 3rd place respectfully. Congratulations to Musos Deluxe for winning the division and becoming your spring ‘23 highlander champions.

We would also like to congratulate Andyroo, maz and strongman for receiving the MVP awards as the vote wasn’t affected by the smaller division size. Furthermore we’d like to congratulate freaky, foodeater, strongman and tal who received the best caster(s) awards which were also not impacted in the voting process. We will be looking to improve voting in smaller divisions for future seasons, as losing one team means the complete destabilization of this process.

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Congratulations Intermediate winners Team Wahoo!

Placements

- Team Wahoo!
- Significant Otter
- PEEPLINGS !

Grand Final Map Scores

Eruption: 2 - 0
Steel: 0 - 2
Proot: 3 - 0
Match

Awards

Best Scout: bill & eunsoo
Best Soldier: strawbunny
Best Pyro: Styxs
Best Demoman: multi
Best Heavy: oLae!™
Best Engineer: Trash
Best Medic: hobo
Best Sniper: TUX
Best Spy: Speedy

Most Improved Player: TUX
Most Valuable Player: multi
Most Improved Team: Team Wahoo!
Friendliest Team: Silent Tennis
Best Dressed Team: Team Wahoo!

Best Caster: freaky & turris

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Congratulations Open winners goblin deez!

Placements

- goblin deez
- worms on a string
- Shark Attack :3

Awards

Best Scout: a festive fish
Best Soldier: Annabelle
Best Pyro: fléchette
Best Demoman: hive
Best Heavy: ash & mothhman
Best Engineer: eden & Train_Smash
Best Medic: Miss Squidge
Best Sniper: manglemonster
Best Spy: hiccups

Most Improved Player: Train_Smash
Most Valuable Player: a festive fish
Most Improved Team: worms on a string
Friendliest Team: Norb Fortress 2 - Norbheads & worms on a string
Best Dressed Team: worms on a string

Best Caster: freaky

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Highlander Staff Updates

While our staff team will remain mostly the same as last year, there will be a few changes moving into the first season of the year. To start, we would like to welcome our newest Highlander admin hive. He has played on a variety of teams at varying skill levels. From winning intermediate to creating and leading a new highlander team in open this past season we believe his experience and insight will be of great benefit to our admin team.

Unfortunately, it comes with a heavy heart that bird, will be stepping down as the Highlander Head Administrator and Member of the Staff Team for ozfortress. Bird has been the Head Highlander Administrator since the format was brought over to ozfortress in 2022. Prior to this she was the Head Admin for RSL for its last season with years of administration work with in the league prior. Without her input, impact and commitment over the years the format would not be were it is today. Thank you for your service bird and best wishes for the future. o7

From Autumn '24 (S6), I (Sperkle) will be stepping into the role as the Head Highlander Administrator and look forward to continue contributing to the league.

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New Rules Coming into effect

You can find the full thread of changes here if you're curious. However, the ones below specifically pertain to Highlander and will be coming into effect as of this season.

Secondary Match Days:
- Secondary Match Days fall on Monday and Tuesday for Highlander. These days are now considered playable match >days if both teams agree to play on them and do not need any admin approval as would be needed for an extension. >However, teams are not required to play on these days and may select to prefer the primary days (Wednesday - >Sunday).

Class Restriction Limit:
- We haven't yet to decide if we will implement a Class Restriction Limit for rosters outside of Premier. However, once > seedings are finalized we will retroactively add a Class Restriction Limit if need be.

Individual Player Transfer Limit:
- A player may only be allowed to change roster twice during an active season.

Reasonable Mercenary Requests:
- A player who is completely unrestricted in a division below that in which a match is being played is considered a
reasonable mercenary request and should be approved without any restrictions.

Reasonable Mercenary Requests:
- The class restrictions of a player still apply when accepted as a mercenary. They are prohibited from playing those > restricted classes in divisions below where the restriction was set.

Minimum Players in Matches:
- Teams are expected to play with a full roster (9 players).

Out-of-Region Players:
- In-game ping limit for out-of-region players has been reduced to 180. Stipulations apply.

Class Restriction Non-Compliance:
- Players playing as a class they are restricted on during a match will receive a Tier 2 infraction.

Inbound Transfer Limit Per Season:
- Rosters may only transfer in a maximum of 6 players during the season.

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Highlander Spring '23 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 Spring '23 (S5) Post-Season Poll. Please note, these results images were gathered on Monday the 22nd of January 2024, so any responses beyond that time will not be reflected here.

We also conducted a follow up poll which acted as a map vote between Borneo and Eruption to join the season map pool as the 4th stopwatch/payload map. Borneo won the vote which is displayed below.

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Season and Administration Feedback

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Highlander Map Pool

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5CP and Gullywash In Highlander

Whitelist / Weapon Restrictions

Playoffs and Divisions

Players and Teams

Map vote

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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 Autumn '24. It will be updated throughout the season with each transfer window.

Pending the finalization of seedings, a Restricted Player Limit may be put in place.

Player Restrictions

Sharon Keast

maz Restricted TO Medic
jennierubyjane Restricted off Soldier
Exquizit Restricted off Scout & Heavy
Striker Restricted TO Pyro & Medic
人 Restricted off Spy

Where no ability meets no effort

angus Restricted off Scout & Sniper
Pipelin12 Restricted off Scout, Soldier & Sniper
big maurice Restricted off Soldier
gingacharma Restricted off Spy
scandalous Restricted TO Medic

WE ARE THE WORLD 39 FOR OPEN

Doctrine Restricted TO Medic
kbn Restricted off Scout
Pride Restricted off Scout, Soldier & Demoman

into the hood

eunsoo Restricted off Soldier & Spy
monti Restricted off Scout
Wergy Restricted off Scout
yons Restricted off Soldier
fluro Restricted off Scout & Sniper

petrodragonic apocalypse

noemie Restricted off Sniper

Maddie's House Highlander

Rayno Restricted off Scout, Demoman, Heavy & Sniper
mira Restricted off Sniper
n1co Restricted off Sniper

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Map changes for Highlander Autumn '24

For specific percentages, please see the Poll Results linked on the league page.

• Removed Gullywash & Eruption
• Added Warmtic
• Added Borneo

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Please note: pl_upward_f10, pl_borneo_f2, pl_vigil_rc10, cp_steel_f12, koth_warmtic_f10, koth_product_final, koth_proot_b6c-alt2 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_b6c-alt2
rcon changelevel koth_product_final
rcon changelevel pl_swiftwater_final1
rcon changelevel pl_borneo_f12
rcon changelevel cp_steel_f12
rcon changelevel pl_vigil_rc10
rcon changelevel koth_ashville_final
rcon changelevel koth_warmtic_f10

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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. 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.

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Transfer Window #1

Wednesday 14th February - Tuesday 20th February 2024: Round 1
Transfer Window #1 starts after Final Placements have been released, and closes 11.59PM Tuesday 20th February 2024

Transfer Window #2

Wednesday 21st February - Tuesday 27th February 2024: Round 2

Transfer Window #3

Wednesday 28th February - Tuesday 5th March 2024: Round 3

Transfer Window #4

Wednesday 6th March - Tuesday 12th March 2024: Round 4

Transfer Window #5

Wednesday 13th March - Tuesday 19th March 2024: Round 5
Roster Lock applied Tuesday 19th March 2024

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Division Admins

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All communication with Division Admins must occur within the Highlander Autumn '24 Team Captain Discord. Team Captains will be invited after the conclusion of Signups. If you are not in this Discord, please reach out to an admin immediately.

HIGHLANDER HEAD ADMINISTRATOR

• Sperkle

LEAGUE ADMINISTRATORS

Premier

• hive
• Oldcustard

Main

• Kai
• Rainy

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

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