Week 7 has arrived with an entrance like always! Highlander players get to enjoy Upward and Ashville this week, while 4v4 are taking a trip to Maple Ridge.
If you need to download any of the maps make sure to check our map downloads page.

With week 7 underway we will see roster lock beginning this Monday (extended). Make sure you process all of your roster changes before Monday 18th November to make sure any changes you need to make can be processed. Please use this last chance for transfers to ensure you are able to field a roster for playoffs if you are aiming to make it that far, as forfeiting in playoffs can result in punishment. For any further questions about roster lock or the transition in to playoffs, feel free to reach out to any of our staff members in our Discord.

Check your Match Communications page for information specific to this week's game.

Welcome back! This season Highlander will be featuring two maps per week in the regular season, with 4v4 remaining at one map per week. This week's maps for Highlander are Warmfront and Badwater, with Product for 4v4.

As per our recent post in our League Discord, we are releasing further information regarding League Pugs soon, with the goal of having pugs going before the end of the month.

For further information about this week's match refer to the Match Communications page.

The user below accrued a total of 120 Infraction points within the Respawn League. In the spirit of upholding standards upon our league and it's players, we will be mirroring this user's ozfortress ban for the full duration, which after this period their ban will be reviewed. This ban covers League Participation and other Respawn League services. We are mirroring the ozfortress ban as we feel it is important to provide consistency in punishment across our region.

League Ban

lightning STEAM_0:1:150649939

This player has accrued a total of 90 ozfortress infraction points. As
such, the player has been banned from ozfortress.com, the community's
competitions, and all other ozfortress properties for a period of 2
years, after which time the persons will be on permanent probation. If
they are found aliasing during their competition bans, their ban
duration will be extended.

Source: ozfortress ban: lightning - https://warzone.ozfortress.com/forums/threads/286

Avoiding our Bans system is something we do not encourage, as you can see above.

Welcome back! This season Highlander will be featuring two maps per week in the regular season, with 4v4 remaining at one map per week. This week's maps for Highlander are Upward and Proside, with Bagel for 4v4.

Please remember to record POV demos, as we will be performing random checks during the season. Failure to provide a demo for a random check will result in a penalty.

For further information about this week's match refer to the Match Communications page.

We want to thank the prior season participants and captains, without your involvement the league wouldn't be what it is today.

Below are the seedings for AUS/NZ Highlander Season 4 and you may have questions regarding the grouping, let us clarify this. Originally two divisions were going to be run under the condition that enough teams signed up; however, as the requirement wasn't met, we will continue with a single division.

Changes outlined in our previous posts are still in effect except for those mentioned above. The regular season will consist of two maps with win condition being best of 1-half. Our rationale behind the adjustment is to give teams a better opportunity to play a map they prefer.

1. Red Pandas
2. Aim on Point
3. cute little bunnies
4. Sanctum
5. the boys ft. shy and cows
6. GruCCi Gang
7. Furry Fury
8. Antifa Super Soldiers
9. 0% Kodyn
10. France but Smaller

We will release further information in both our first Weekly Post and in the Match Communications of your first week matches.

After considering all of the feedback given to us on our feedback polls over the previous seasons, along with a considerable amount of internal feedback, we are trialing a large amount of beneficial changes that will hopefully improve every format, while putting more focus back on our roots, which is Highlander. All of the changes can be found on the season pages, and are also documented on a lot of our recent posts.

Due to the delay on signups this time around, we are adding an extra week to signups, and pushing the entire season back a week. This is only really possible because our seasons are now 4 weeks shorter. These new dates can be seen below:

• Signups open > 15th September
• Signups close > 4th October
• Regular Season starts > 7th October
• Regular Season ends > 22nd November
• Playoffs Season starts > 25th November
• Playoffs Season ends > 13th December

https://respawnleague.com/leagues/14
https://respawnleague.com/leagues/16
https://respawnleague.com/leagues/15

Before we get started, the Respawn League staff team would like to thank everybody for the previous season. Without your participation the league’s growth wouldn’t be possible. There is a lot of new and exciting changes on the way for this season, which means this post will be packed with information. To cater for this, we will be doing a small stream tonight (30th) at 8PM AEST to clear up some confusion, an edited version of this will also go live on our YouTube.

Tune into this over at twitch.tv/respawnleague

Division Split

We have received questions regarding splitting the division of AUS/NZ Highlander since the inception of Respawn League. To shine a light on the topic, AUS/NZ Highlander will be split into two divisions for this upcoming season - provided 16 teams sign up. ASIA Highlander, along with all other formats, will remain one division. The divisions will be named Premier, and Main, respectively. Premier will feature a Round Robin format over the traditional Swiss System. Main will remain under the Swiss System, but we are introducing new scoring and weekly match changes to improve upon our current system.

Season Structure changes

Amongst the changes, the length of the Regular Season and Playoffs Season will be shortened to reflect Division and System changes. The Regular Season will now run 7 weeks rather than 8, and the Playoffs Season will be shorter as only the Top 4 teams will get into Playoffs. There will no longer be any mid-season breaks either, so with all of these changes the entirety of a season will now run for 10 weeks over the original 13 weeks.

Scoring, Brackets, Matches & Match Days, etc.

With the changes in season length and divisions being split, we have made additional changes to how each match will be played, the Tiebreakers we use, as well as how we award points. All changes beyond this point will apply to every format. A summarisation of the changes can be found below:

• Tiebreakers are now Median buchholz, Round score sum and Round wins in that order
• Official matches will now feature two maps, which have the possibility to end in draws
• Playable Match Days are reduced from 6 to 5, with the available days being Monday-Friday
• In hopes to decrease the amount of disputes regarding scheduling matches, the default match day is now Wednesday 8pm
• A/D and Payload will have one round played in a match
• KOTH will be first to 3 Round Wins
• 5CP is capped to 30 minutes, highest rounds wins by time limit or golden cap scenario
• Max roster size is being lowered from 17 to 15
• Mercenary rules are being made significantly more lenient, for example: the new mercenary limit per season is 10
• All mercenaries are required to have registered league accounts

What is happening to 4v4?

Following the post-season poll, there was an even split among all of the options. So, going into this season, 4v4 in AUS/NZ and ASIA will be combined to 4v4 APAC, and the games will be played on Perth servers. Server choice is negotiable provided the teams are based in the same region (e.g. 2 Australian teams can play on a Sydney server)

Off-Season Tournaments

After this upcoming season of 4v4, we will be investigating other seasonal league, or tournament options. More information will be released at a later date.

Highlander Map Pool

With Highlander in both regions having two maps per match each week, we have added some more maps to the pool, the schedule can be seen below:

W1: Upward, Proside
W2: Logjam, Badwater
W3: Badwater, Vanguard
W4: Vanguard, Borneo
W5: Swiftwater, Product
W6: Product, Steel
W7: Upward, Ashville

Whitelist changes

Highlander:

Unbanned Pomson 6000
Unbanned Natascha
Unbanned Vaccinator
Banned Sydney Sleeper

4v4:

Unbanned Bazaar Bargain
Banned Sydney Sleeper

Common Name/s: Josh / Chase That Feeling
Ban Period: 2 year Community and Competitive ban
Steam ID: STEAM_0:0:46628319
Discord ID: 204490020914987008

The above user has been found to infringe on our Competitive and Community rulesets, along with our Infractions, which has resulted in a 2 year Community and Competitive ban from Respawn League. Furthermore, they will be placed on permanent probation henceforth.

Breaches:

• Clause 3.9: Associated Punishments of the Competitive ruleset
• Clause 2: Community guidelines
• Accumulating over 120 infraction points

Should ANY team or user be found trying to harbour this user for the period of their ban, they will receive equal or worse punishment. Respawn League will not tolerate this level of poor behaviour and lack of compassion.