Hi! I’m a member of the youtuber, ‘FishStickOnASticks’ discord server. We also host a rebalance server and are looking for a couple of players to more consistently schedule out and test out our rebalanced weapons in a competitive format; particularly Highlander. As such, there are no weapon bans in place and any discussion around weapon balancing is oriented around constructive changes rather than outright bans. This is highly experimental and so we are having difficulty organizing games despite our active community and consistent playerbase. If this sounds like something you are interested in, I implore you to either DM me on discord or join the FSoaS server (https://discord.com/invite/43sycEQ) for more information! Thank you ^^

Mori https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/698059930971930689/1078041229574557846/PwFYQRU4QXMdYudp.mp4

Hello, I’ve been playing this game for a while, and as well as competitive, but I just cant seem to improve! so I’m now looking for a mentor, one who could just teach me some new tricks and tips that could watch how I play and give me feedback! if you do end up mentoring me, thanks in advance, my discord is BlueAnimated#6413.

RGL Spring Staff Applications RGL Highlander and 6s will be opening up division administrator and moderator positions. If you are interested in working to help improve our formats, then we encourage you to apply.

If admin positions are filled, we may contact you to potentially join the staff as a moderator instead.

In addition to the above, we are also looking to recruit experienced and talented individuals in the following categories:

Anti-Cheat - As an anti-cheat admin, you are responsible for preventing and punishing cheaters that play in our league. You will utilize tools and methods to detect the usage of cheats, review and analyze demos, log alternative accounts, request demos of suspected cheaters, lead investigative work to find evidence and connections in cases, and more.

Developer - For the RGL site, we are looking for those with mid-level experience in C# to help with the current site codebase. For the RGL API and any new RGL projects, mid-level experience in React, Node, or any tech stack are skill sets that we are looking for. If you have programming or technical experience in other languages, please apply and specify in your application. If you have any potential project ideas you may also be able to contribute to, please specify those as well.

Developer - SourceMod - As a SourceMod developer, you will be using C++, and Git to help maintain the RGL.gg SourceMod plugin on GitHub as well as creating SourceMod plugins as needed. Prior exposure to SourcePawn is an asset, in addition to any active SourceMod development projects.

Discord Moderator - As a moderator, you will be tasked to monitor the chat and deal with issues as they come up. A thorough understanding of the rules is necessary for this area. Candidates will be using our moderation tools (depending on either the forum or Discord) to effectively moderate our chat platforms.

Guide Writer - As a guide writer, you will help with the RGL guides project. This may consist of helping with writing guides for new players, editing guides, tutorials, or doing voice-overs for videos. Players are recommended to have previous competitive experience at a high level or have played TF2 for a long time to help with producing these guides.

PUG Runner - As a PUG runner, you should be able to run PUGs once every two weeks and are expected to act mature and approachable while maintaining a fun/healthy environment for players.

Voice Caster - As a caster, you will have to speak constantly through every cast, this requires you to have a microphone that can transmit your voice. The higher the quality of your microphone the better because this is what the viewers will be listening to.

Cameraman - Being a cameraman requires having fast and stable internet on a platform, you need to be able to stream at 720p 60fps (with a minimum of 7-8 Mbit) on any streaming service such as Twitch. Players are expected to have previous competitive experience at a high level or have played TF2 for a long time to develop a game sense to help with the observation. A computer that can run TF2 at 60-100fps WHILE live streaming the games you will be observing is also required.

Video Editor - As a video editor, you will be using programs like Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, and other software to help edit and produce videos on the RGLgg YouTube channel and clips to feature on our RGLgg Twitch channel, whether this is highlight reels, introduction videos, or frag clips.

Experience in these fields is preferred. Feel free to apply again if you have applied for any of these positions and have not received a response or been selected.

If you would like to apply, you can fill out a form #### here from there we will go through the submissions and potentially ask for a follow-up. If you have any questions regarding positions feel free to open a ticket in our Discord.

Global Rule Updates

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[3001.9] - Progressive Ruleset is being added to clarify how the progressive ruleset works in Sixes.

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[3001.8] - Pauses and [1008.9] - Pauses is being added to clarify the number of pauses in the progressive ruleset announced before Season 11 of the Sixes Season.

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[1005.4.4] - Player Aliases is being updated to clarify that alias changes may occur if the player is not playing in an active season or RGL event.

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[1003.3] - Game Exploits is being updated to clarify mods not allowed by the RGL AC team.

Bans

These bans were enacted before the release of this article. If you would like to file a report, you can do so on our site here. Appeals can also be found on the same page.

NOTE: We only look at user-submitted reports. If you do not file a report, then there is a good chance we have not seen it and cannot deal with the situation.

Alting

The following alternate account(s) have been caught connected to existing accounts in RGL by the RGL Anti-cheat team and will be banned:

E1NE

Benny

ilovewhitewomen42

Probation

The following players have been banned and placed on probation:

Recon - Violation of [1004.4.1] - Permanently banned players in a scrimmage (2x). - 2 Weeks

pengu.G2 - Violation of [1004.4.1] - Permanently banned players in a scrimmage (2x). - 2 Weeks

gus - Doxxing of player(s) in the community. - 1 Year

Update on the player(s) that have been banned while on probation:

One-Man Cheeseburger Apocalypse - Violation of [1004.4.1] - Permanently banned players in a scrimmage. - 12 Weeks (3rd ban inside of RGL, 1st ban on probation)

starstar - Violation of [1004.4.1] - Permanently banned players in a scrimmage. - 12 Weeks (4th ban inside of RGL, 2nd ban on probation)

cellophane flowers - Violation of [1004.4.1] - Permanently banned players in a scrimmage. - 108 Weeks (5th ban inside of RGL, 4th ban on probation)

Jacob - Continued violation of [1004.4.1] - Permanently banned players in a scrimmage to enable permanently banned players to harass players during scrims. - Permanent (5th ban inside of RGL, 2nd ban on probation)

After the minimum period has been served, the player(s) can appeal to have the ban lifted if they can show that they’ve improved themselves and how they interact within the community.

League

captain planet - Violation of [1004.4.1] - Permanently banned players in a scrimmage. - 1 Week

Adam - Breaking RGL’s player code of conduct. - Permanent

Sportsmanship and Spirit

The following player(s) have/had been suspended for 1-6 weeks for their usage of racist slurs, homophobic or transphobic language, excessive toxicity, flaming, or derogatory language on our platforms. Repeat offenders will get longer ban lengths.

^_^ - Use of a racial slur during an RGL match. - 2 Weeks // First Offense Demos

The following player(s) have failed to provide a requested demo. The first offense during the regular season will be a warning. A second offense during the regular season or the first offense during playoffs will lead to suspensions.

Kuroo - Failure to Submit Demos: 2nd Offense (Offseason ban delayed for HL Season 11) // 2-weeks

Samitch (res’ brother) - Failure to Submit Demos: 2nd Offense

VAC Ban

The following account(s) have been banned for having VAC bans that may be affecting TF2. If you have a VAC ban for a game that is not TF2, please contact an admin to get the ban removed.

xFlaiko

You can read further details and context about each player’s bans by viewing their discipline history on their RGL profile.

*In order to prevent unfair multiple entries, you must have at least 1 season of Invite experience if you are going to list yourself as such on your response.

*If you have already submitted a response prior to the giveaway announcement, you will still be entered into the giveaway.

*Also, not counting any referrals that have my own name, obviously.

Thank you everyone who has played in the public alpha so far! I am very proud of the work we’ve done so far and have received a lot of good feedback that we have both already added and will implement down the road. Since the last update, we have added the option to sub a player on your team out, along with being able to view pugs currently running. Note that it requires either 3 players to vote for a sub or the player to sub themselves out for it to go through and the pug will be killed if two subs are needed at the same time. Our next priorities for this week are highlander PUGs and a separate captained advanced-invite queue. One thing we would like to think about is the classic lack of medics in a pug problem, and we would like your help in doing so! For the next week, we are going to run a poll to gather opinions on the best way to handle it. If there is enough demand, we will implement an auto-draft for a while and gather further feedback afterwards.

Here is the link to the poll: https://strawpoll.com/polls/e2narE0DMgB
You can choose multiple options or create your own.

Thank you again for all of the feedback you’ve given so far, and feel free to contact me/post here if you have any questions.

Hey all, I’m coming up to a release version of my koth map, Empire! I had a friend suggest to me that I try to spread it around some comp scenes, so while I don’t know a lot about what makes a good comp map, I thought I might as well take a shot! It’s a relatively smallish map featuring a lot of emphasis on flanking action. Sightlines are impactful without being overwhelming difficult to contest, and I believe its pretty well balanced, at least in the 12v12 casual format!

If any of you want to take a look and see what you think about it, feel free to post feedback or thoughts about it here. I’d love to see what players of your ilk think of the map! Hope you enjoy 🙂

download here: https://tf2maps.net/downloads/empire.13094/

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Let a little firepower clear away the icy blues of winter this Sunday with the ETF2L Highlander Winter 2023 Premiership Grand Final! Reigning champions SDCK! face their eternal nemesis, Feila eSports, in an explosive best of three maps.

Be sure to catch all of the action live on

this Sunday starting at 21:00 CET (13:00 PDT)!

Via: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/440/view/3669909326185603442

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Banner by Raos Playoffs Adjustments

Our HL Admin team is constantly observing the health of divisions and making adjustments as necessary to keep a competitive environment. One measure we take is to adjust the playoff structure to reflect the current number of competing teams in each division. Considering that teams disband mid-season, this is especially important to reflect on near the end of the regular season. For most of the divisions, we emphasize keeping a playoff structure that reflects half of the division size or less, demonstrating that the best teams within the division can compete for top placement.

Note: Playoff structure is determined before the end of the season to avoid last-minute changes; late team disbandments may not affect it.

Season 14 Playoff Structures

Invite: 4-team double elimination

Advanced: 4-team double elimination

Main: 6-team single elimination

Intermediate: 6-team single elimination

Amateur: 4-team double elimination

Newcomer: 6-team single elimination

Tiebreakers Should there be a tie in match points, the tiebreakers for rank are (in this order):

1. Head to Head Winner (if teams played each other prior in the season)

2. Quality of Opponent / Strength of Schedule

Median-Buchholz (used in Swiss Divisions)

Sonneborn-Berger

Tiebreaker Score

3. Rounds Won

Demo Requests During Playoffs

Due to the competitive nature of playoffs, we will be more strict during playoffs regarding the requirement to record demos. Any missed demos during playoffs will immediately result in a ban instead of a warning for a first offense. Furthermore, all players participating in a division grand finals must submit their demos.

Players have the responsibility to double-check their demo files to make sure they are the correct ones before submitting them to an admin. Submitting the incorrect demo will be considered a fraud attempt for falsification of demos, and will receive an additional penalty.

Should you need to provide a demo please upload it to Google Drive, Discord, OneDrive, Dropbox, Mega, demos.tf, or MediaFire. Other methods will be ignored.

Mothership that’s fair thanks for the input on the discussion! 😄

New episodes inbound, taking requests for scheduling/interviews again.

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An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

Added missing Summer tag for Workshop maps

Via: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/440/view/3675538191993676399

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

Added check to URLLabel to prevent invalid URLs

Added new Workshop tags for Summer, Player Destruction, and Community Fix

Added check to ensure bullet effects are not duplicated (community fix from mastercoms)

Deleted some unused Steam API queries to improve client perf (community fix from mastercoms)

Fixed exploit related to using the td_buyback command during Mann vs. Machine matches

Fixed Stat Clock cancelling out ÜberCharge and self-illuminating materials on weapons using War Paints (community fix from makaroffilya)

Fixed not seeing the correct inspect image for the Red Rock Roscoe after previewing another paintkit item

Fixed missing/incorrect style strings for a few items

Reverted the previous change to the equip_region for the Cranial Cowl

Updated cp_gravelpit_snowy to adjust clipping throughout the map

Via: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/440/view/3675538191993122777

i’m a fan of this map, but i’d implore people seeing it/playing it for the first time to remember that this is a new map with an active map maker that’s grown by leaps and bounds in the past year. a lot of players think it’s already better than upward, but even if you don’t, if it’s remotely close to upward (or any other PL map in rotation!) you should be looking forward to testing and improving the map. your time is an investment - all of the other PL maps in rotation will remain largely stagnant, but eruption has the potential to go through massive growth and end up better than any of them.

Micahlele said in What the Heck is Happening with the RGL Discord Pugs?:

pajaro said in What the Heck is Happening with the RGL Discord Pugs?:

The forum mods/admins delete anything that can be construed as “controversial” or “off topic” which COMPLETELY shuts down any discussion beyond “yeah, I agree OP!” like the UGC forums definitely had their issues, but at least the forums were ALIVE most of the week because the moderation would give people freedom to talk and allow discussion to flourish. It’d be very fitting if this thread gets locked or majority of the posts (including mine) get deleted.

spu genuinely thinks big rgl is stompin out the little guy on the forums. I do not think the forums being dead is because of too harsh moderation, I think forum boards in a community that has a closed off top level playerbase and a lower level community that was probably brought into competitive tf2 or games in general through discord compared to other sources really doesn’t point towards the forums being a place of discussion compared to the rgl discord.

This is heavily off topic, but this is pretty much the major reason. Forums and Discord have such a huge overlap that most of what either provides is made redundant by the other. Which means that use will be dictated by ease of use and accessibility/features. Which discord will always win because everyone has discord and you can go from memeing in your friend’s discord, to your team discord, to shitposting in the RGL discord in a one minute timeframe. That is excluding the fact you can DM people.

Remember how people used to add eachother on steam and use steam chat for their primary form of communication? I only get steam messages from people I havent talked to in years, before they ask for my discord ID and we move to talking on there.

Forums across the board have been dying for years. If you just look at comp tf2, tftv has seen way less traffic than it probably ever has. Activity only spikes when there is drama threads.

The only thing that forums have over discord is discord really sucks at long format discussions. Which is the one niche that I centered the RGL forums around. Everything else is made redundant. Discord has recruitment which newer players exclusively use, they don’t even look at the forums. They have feedback/tickets/support which the forum could have, but is pointless when everyone is already in the discord. We also have the RGL news and update threads and the TF2 blog post threads. But unless there is something controversial, no one comments anyways so it ends up being less visible than the discord where everyone that signed up to receive notifications through roles will see it.

There are other reasons that are exasperating the issue. However this is neither the time or place to get into such discussions. At the end of the day, I operate these forums at a loss just so people can have a platform to discuss competitive tf2 and hold RGL/anyone accountable for their actions and decisions.

Thought I would bump this in case anybody has feedback for the map. We will still have a write-in question on the survey to give feedback straight to the developer, but this is in case anybody has something fresh in their mind

vorboyvo also I meant weapon bans so my bad on that

Just to be clear. I haven’t been the owner of TS for over 5-6+ years now. This must be a second sale after I sold it.

If you’re looking for an alternative, I have started SwiftyServers. Check out https://swiftyservers.com/ and join the discord for any questions, support, etc.