@Rene said in Harassment in the RGL Community:

@rona, I’ll admit I’ve been a piece of shit, and it’s a shame that you’re going out this way, but you could legit play 6’s. It’s way more fun, but it looks like you’re deadset on leaving. I wasn’t involved in all the IRL stuff that people gathered about you. I actually didn’t even know that was going on, but people fed me certain things, and I was a fool for believing some of it. Highlander went to shit a long time ago, and it’ll only get worse due to the moderating. Everything needs to get reformed to save this dying format.

You’re literally part of the problem. You’ve been harassing my team leader through any means possible. Whether through harassing her on an alt account, harassing her in twitch chat when we were being casted, and even joining our scrims just to harass her in chat. If you could stop “trolling” people, that would be a good first step.

@Rene said in Harassment in the RGL Community:

@Constantly that was jeffdimento though

You mean the alt account you made to harass her, screen shared the whole thing while laughing with your friends about it, and then proceeded to bring up every time you see her? You are part of the problem. Don’t act like you aren’t. Just leave her alone.

It’s that very “meme” you were trying to do “for fun” that’ll push more players out of Highlander. If you actually believe that people need to reform, then start with yourself, and help us keep players from being pushed out. This will be the last time I’ll comment on the subject though.

I wanted to bring it up because a fair amount of times, players in this community will look at a thread like this and treat it like someone else’s problem. Self-awareness is key to mitigate the issue of harassment and pushing players out. People who do this “because it’s funny”, “it’s just a meme”, “I’m just joking”, or the infamous “not my fault they don’t have thicker skin” have actually zero awareness on how it affects the person in question.

Hey, this was a private project I’ve been updating since the start of the season, but never really shared it publicly. Since the regular season has ended, I thought now would be a good time to post it for people that like looking at numbers and boosting their egos. I will not be adding the stats from playoffs.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HInkl-L4sJF294WByFsxMAokSke2XGUqa55OBSLJC3U/edit#gid=1639769440

Most of the numbers were entered at like 3am, so let me know about any inaccuracies in the thread or on discord: Constantly#9508

@Micahlele Based Micahlele

YES. Allowing team leaders–or even regular players–to just be able to switch teams on the same page would be a great quality of life improvement. I am also someone who is a leader on 3/4 of the teams I’m playing on.

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all who celebrate

I hope everyone is having a great 25th!

ggs help!
That match was so sweaty and close and it was absolutely the most fun I’ve had in a long time.
Thank you for such a close match!

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The Season 12 Map Pool (In no particular order):

• koth_product_final
• koth_ashville_rc2d
• koth_lakeside_r2
• cp_steel_f10
• pl_upward_f7
• pl_vigil_rc9
• pl_swiftwater_final1

Regarding Survey Results

We value the feedback of our players tremendously. The answers to each question let us know where to go in future seasons to best serve our players’ interests. For the multiple choice questions asking for feedback on divisions and their admins, I have shared the results with the respective division admins to improve our overall quality throughout each division. For the questions asking for written answers, I have made sure to read each and every response I received, whether it was serious or goofy, short or long. I would like to address some of the more common concerns in a future article but, for now, here are the results of the survey.

Refresh Maps

Both of the maps have received an overwhelming response in favor of running the refresh versions. Both the Steel refresh and Upward refresh maps have their respective threads on the RGL forums to collect feedback and better optimize the maps.

Invite Question

There were no strong responses in favor of the pick-ban system. Because of this, we will be continuing with an assigned map each week within the Invite division. This will be something we continue to poll in the future to re-gauge whether the active Invite player pool is interested in it.

Advanced Question

There was an overwhelming interest in having Advanced take on a Round-Robin tournament structure. Following these results, we plan on adjusting our divisions accordingly. The division below Advanced, known as Main, will be expanded accordingly to accommodate this change. Since the Advanced division will be limited to 8 teams, in order to best include the most competitive teams, a 4-team qualifier will be introduced.

General Map Results

General Division Results

Read this article on our website here!

we’re still talking about tf2 players right

This season stressed me out so I’m looking to take it easy and maybe take a break.

4+ seasons of advanced engineer
Will play anything as long as I have fun with it

Discord: Constantly#9508

https://dl.serveme.tf/maps/

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Important Season 12 Dates

With the added break voted in by the players, here are the adjusted dates for the rest of this season:

• Regular Season: Mon, May 30 – Mon, Jul 18th (7 Weeks)
• Roster Locks: Sun, Jul 10 @ 11:59 PM EST
• Playoffs Start: Mon, Jul 25
• Last possible date for playoff matches: Mon, Aug 29

4th of July Break

Following the survey which was previously announced on June 1st, lasting until June 8th, the results have come in which reflect a strong interest by our community to delay the week 6 matches that were initially scheduled for July 4th. Starting with Week 6, the remainder of Season 12 will be pushed back by one week to accommodate these results.

LAN Break

RGL has a Traditional 6s LAN scheduled to occur the weekend of August 6th and 7th. RGL would like to suspend all RGL matches during this time to give full attention to the event, which means that any matches which would occur concurrently with the LAN will be delayed.

Initially, all divisions from Main and below were set to complete playoffs directly before the LAN would happen. As of now, all divisions with a single-elimination playoff structure will have a break between semi-finals and grand-finals including 3rd place matches. All divisions with a double-elimination playoff structure will have a break between lower bracket semi-finals and lower bracket finals.

Midseason Upward Refresh Update

A new version of Upward has been released to fix a critical bug. While the regular season matches for pl_upward_f8 have concluded, please use pl_upward_f9 in playoffs.

Today! I’m just having someone look at it before I post

@Melon Sorry for the wait! The survey is live right now!
https://rgl.gg/Players/My/Survey.aspx?r=24&s=71

The survey will end Wednesday night at 11:59 PM EST! I encourage everyone to complete the survey and have their voices heard!

@Melon I’ll be able to get it out sometime around Tuesday.
Been busy with work and other RGL things as well. Tomorrow I work then I immediately come home for my own official as well as being general HL support to help people out during their first week of matches, so Tuesday is when I can reliably work on it.

I don’t want it to seem like I’m ghosting the issue–I’m definitely all for addressing it with the survey, and just need an opportunity to get it out!

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The Season 12 Map Order:

Week 1: koth_product_final
Week 2: pl_upward_f8
Week 3: koth_lakeside_r2
Week 4: pl_swiftwater_final1
Week 5: koth_ashville_rc2d
Week 6: pl_vigil_rc9
Week 7: cp_steel_f10

Match Points Readjustment

In past seasons, matches were measured out of 3 points. For King of the Hill matches, fractional values were possible; for example, a 4-1 win would translate into 2.67-0.33 match points, and a 4-2 win into 2.34-0.66. However, the rounding towards the winner of the division by 3 (2.6666… to 2.67, 2.3333… to 2.34) led to issues where teams were 0.01 match points away from each other in the final seeding, and because it wasn’t an exact tie, tiebreak procedures were not invoked. This was especially an issue when the team on top had forfeit wins or a weaker schedule, and the team on the bottom won a head-to-head match-up or would have won by tiebreak procedures, but failed to make playoffs because of the 0.01 point difference.

To correct this issue, all match point values before rounding have been multiplied by three. Matches will now be played out of a total of 9 match points instead of 3. This means that in most cases (the only exceptions being team move-ups or partial match points due to replayed forfeits), teams will finish the season with a whole number of match points, eliminating the potential for small rounding inconsistencies leading to tiebreak procedures not being invoked.

For Stopwatch (Payload and Attack/Defend) matches, a 2-0 win will translate into 9-0 match points, while a 2-1 win will translate into 6-3 points.

For King of the Hill matches, a 4-0 win will yield 9-0 match points, a 4-1 win 8-1, a 4-2 win 7-2, and a 4-3 win 6-3.

Forfeit wins will lead to an immediate 5 points being given to the winner; the two teams will have the chance to play for the remaining 4 points.

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Invite and Advanced Qualifiers

Both Invite and Advanced will have preseason qualifiers for Season 12. This is to ensure that teams are able to compete in the division best fitting for their skill level. Qualifiers for both Invite and Advanced will consist of 4 teams competing in a Round-Robin bracket. There will be 3 matches played, each using ban/ban to determine the played map. All Qualifier matches MUST be completed by Tuesday night.

Here are the default dates for Qualifiers:
Saturday, May 21st, 9:30 PM EST
Sunday, May 22nd, 9:30 PM EST
Monday, May 23rd, 9:30 PM EST

The qualifier ban order will be as follows:
A Bans | B Bans | A Bans | B Bans | A Bans | B Ban

Qualifiers Map Pool:
pl_upward_f7
koth_ashville_rc2d
koth_product_final
pl_vigil_rc9
cp_steel_f10
pl_swiftwater_final1
koth_lakeside_r2

The teams competing in Invite Qualifiers are as follows:

• ##RR
• Relax
• Impostors
• Worst Comp Format

The teams competing in Advanced Qualifiers are as follows:

• China National Team
• yeehaw
• Seductive 9
• nukroo

Updated Staff List

Since the previous article, the Highlander Admin Team has had a change in staffing and we would like to welcome ZoomxZe to our staff team! As such, this is our updated staff list:

Division Admins:
Invite: yogrrt
Advanced: Joey Lemons
Main: Spazz
Intermediate: Xenagos
Amateur: Icy
Newcomer: Kitty

Division Moderators:
Advanced: JohhnyfromCali
Main: vibeisveryo
Intermediate: ZoomxZe
Amateur: asian
Newcomer: Jercer

The staff list is available to view on our website.

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@Kastaling said in Delay the July 4th Match:

Truthfully I don’t see why we can’t have another poll like last time. Just put out an article with the poll explaining what exactly delaying the match by a week would mean for the rest of the season and year. A pros and cons list even. Then just let the players decide what they want by majority.

also just wanna say I love the new transparency and response by the new admin team, off to a great start!

Can definitely do that! I really just wanted to make it crystal clear the effect it would have on the off-season. I had several people express their concerns about how short this off-season is

So when I was looking over scheduling dates for our upcoming summer and autumn seasons, I did notice that the 4th of July fell on a Monday. After discussing it with the rest of the HL staff, we initially opted to not give the week off for numerous reasons.

The biggest one by far is that we’re on a very tight schedule. Many players have been feeling the effect this off-season of our time constraints, due to the Bracket Reset as well as the previous Valentine’s Day break. The time between Grands and s12 is 4 weeks, with a 3-week team registration period and 1 week for any qualifiers, which makes for one of the shortest off-seasons.

Currently I have s13, the autumn season, planned for October 3rd–which is the latest I can possibly go without being Christmas week. Season 12 is currently set to end on August 22nd. It would mean that next season will just be as uncomfortable for many teams if we add the break.

We also have to factor in that we have many players competing from out of the states, including Canada, Mexico, and other out of region countries. Valentine’s Day was observed internationally compared to the 4th of July, which is purely an American holiday.

Also where do we draw the line with holidays? Do we include every federal holiday? Every religious holiday? Halloween is also on a Monday this Autumn. The only way we can take Halloween off is if we move the season forward. If we take both Halloween and the 4th of July off, we will have a 3-week off-season with only a 2-week team registration for the Fall. Are players okay with essentially non-stop seasons? I would imagine it would cause quite a bit of burn-out in the long run.

RGL also already has a break planned mid-season for the RGL LAN. This would mean s12 would have two breaks extending the season.

I would like everyone to factor in the consequences that will impact the future seasons! Utilizing subs and rescheduling matches would be the easiest way for teams to accommodate each other while still giving people ample preparation for the Autumn season!

@TheS4rr said in Can we change invite team fees to player fees instead?:

@Constantly I think without careful planning, this could cause more headaches than it does in 6s. For instance, would subs now have to pay to fully roster as they do in 6s?

Yeah, they would have to pay to be fully paid up. The positive note of that is that it would mean a fair amount of extra money to go directly into the prize pool. Again, It’s not something we would arbitrarily change, which is why it would need the majority of Invite to agree. It’s definitely a topic I’m glad to see some interest in though. It’s the kind of thing I’d like the regauge anyways to see how the current Invite players feel about it!