End of regular season
Final League Leaders
Premiership: 4house
High: nine seals
Mid: Habib's Special Forces
Low: ZOO(V)
Open: OBlock

DRAMAAAAAAAAAAA

prem
lit used the name "letter to my dawg" culminating in a major warning, meaning SCARY OPEN TEAM actually finished last because they had 4 points before the deduction (tied with chudsx4 who are in 5th place)
same thing for cilla black warriors but only a minor warning. still funny tho.

high
cult of buud gave a def win to wicked lotus even tho if they won they wouldve got playoffs gg team not keen

mid
gibus and the gang had a SHOCKING DEFEAT against SBQRRA. Being the strong favourites and tied league leaders going into the match a win was not expected, it was REQUIRED. but... they threw and lost. BIG UP to the italian mafia for the win tho well played.
Last minute, who i really really really though had FINALLY dropped out just refuse to die. They played their official vs xenon without a scout, and where brutally dismembered by the OGs of highlander. 5 mercs were used in the game. absolutely bananas. may they rest in peaces.
Emiel merced for BLEU against Stealing Hearts; Pushing Carts in a potentially playoff deciding match. He ended up maincalling from soldier and had the crashout of the season getting baited in BC by his team. Still managed to get them 2 points which COULD be enough for playoffs OR it could not be, it depends how many teams go to playoffs.

low
team 3Flats where defeated by some russian team idk i dont have the characters to type it. CRAZY 4-2 DEFEAT. However that is not all, as the russian team provided 2 mercs on the match page AFTER the match was played. LMFAO. I have no idea what is going on this is the craziest thing i ever saw.

that is all
good luck in playoffs

THE FINAL WEEK
Current League Leaders
Premiership: 4house & 3AM
High: nine seals
Mid: Habib's Special Forces & Nuke Radio & Gibus and The Gang
Low: Maggiezza Masters
Open: OBlock

high
nine seals receives a major warning for failing to provide demos (2nd time). In both cases it was their scout unable to upload. idk i guess he is probably cheating or something. somehow didnt get banned for not providing demos 2x but whatever lol
as yak mentioned above, piro actually got banned for failing to upload demos. this makes the 5th time he has been unable to provide demos total. this means he has been banned for a total of 25 months and 2 weeks (including this ban) idk bro may be hiding something? LMFAO

mid
last minute's team leader morbus left alongside 2 other players. they have 7 on the roster now. i guess they are dropping out? idk
ronniepickeringsbadbitches lost and has therefore dropped out. idk how that team got mid 3rd last season and now didnt even win a single game. what happened elisio please explain

nothing else noteworthy rly happened. gl every team in the final matches :D!

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week 3 drama
Current League Leaders
Premiership: 4house & 3AM
High: nine seals
Mid: Habib's Special Forces
Low: Maggiezza Masters
Open: VANGUARD & OBlock

Premiership
Cilla Black Warriors (yak's team) played with varnu on scout instead of soldier and still managed to PWN feila. This is what yak had to say on the matter: "We go to feila we change the formation. We play really well. It doesn’t matter if we play varnu scout varnu soldier. We play the different formation varnu shines." lol

High
The daddy team of COLJ (full of drama this season as seen in the post above) Champions of Light used a default merc without showcasing this to the opponents. Truly disgusting behaviour. They therefore received a minor warning, not enough in my opinion. Should be dropped from the season.
The player tw4tter has left his premiership roster ride position to join Champions of Light. It is yet to be seen if this is a main or substitute position.

Mid
Xenon, one of the epicest teams of all time received a DEFAULT LOSS in their week 3 official. How? Well the inital matchup was a golden cap defeat for them on vigil, rewarding them with 2 points after a close match. However, the mandem on "BLEU" team went on the counter attack for those 2 points, crucial if they want to make playoffs this season. Xenon used an unverified player, acoul, who would not have been a default merc for their division. Since they did not request permission this has resulted in a default loss. My heartfeld condolences for the xenon players, however after almost 30 seasons together you would think they would know the rules by now.
In the matchup between two mid table teams, TC and Gibus and the Gang there was a shocking move by the Gibus players. After wasting 15 minutes to ready up because aaron was taking a shit, they decided to so exactly at 21.30 to avoid a default loss (smart move) however they immediately paused without waiting for TC permission. Resulting in a minor warning hahaha

Low
nothing to report

Open
The team Contract In Flames has received a minor warning for not providing the default merc to the opposition. This one is actually really funny because they proposed 6 mercs and somehow he wasnt included in this list.
What should have been an exciting matchup in The Hoonters v Oblock actually ended up being a very disappointing day. The Hoonters failed to show up!!! I mean really, you are top of the league, most of the players for their first season and somehow they cannot manage their time properly to arrange a date where they are able to participate. Shame.
koyaanisqatsi, otherwise known as admiro, has been permanently banned for death threads along side fried chicken of death. Perhaps this explains why the hoonters where unable to show up for their match? They were probably busy preparing a legal defence for their star sniper.

please keep on topic this is strictly huntsman clan business. last warning.

Midweek news its almost hump day :D
Current League Leaders
Premiership: 4house & 3AM
High: BAD DRAGONS & nine seals
Mid: NONCHALANT & Habib's Special Forces
Low: Henry Hoovers & Maggiezza Masters & Nothing Ever Happens
Open: VANGUARD & Unified Frag Command & The Hoonters & OBlock

Premiership
Feila finanzieren durch DROPS (translation: Feila financed through DROPS) has lost their swedish maestro satan. Unsure what his plans are for the season as he has only played tf2center since their week 2 official. Feila on the other hand, seems to have their substitution sorted. Although it is not officially announced, Korra has been playing their scrims so far.

High
Wicked Lotus has added veteran Danish player, Divi, to their ranks. It appears he will be taking the main heavy spot, from Mlody. This actually happened last week but I didn't notice until now sry. This is certainly interesting as divi has not played a highlander season in over 6 years, only returning for the nations cup between now and then.

Mid
As it turns out the mid team with the admins on it has not disbanded, though they have lost all their admins. The team has now undertaken a leadership transferication, with Morbus taking the reigns. However, it is important to note that he still has an *active* recruitment post... Will they complete the season???? How are they allowed to change their entire roster???? Will they win their week 3 official against a team with 0 points??? so many questions, so little time.. tune in to the next edition to find out.
Additionally, Kristof's ban for harrassment has expired, he will assume his previous role as leader of the team and primary demoman player. With steko moving to the bench for now. This is a big change for the undefeated-tied-leaders of the middle division right now, will it be for the better... or WORSE?? tune in next edition to find out.

Low
In Zoo(V)'s matchup against Champions of Light Juniors (both russian teams), the russians were unable to show up. Resulting in a default win for the russians, which russians you ask? thats for me to know and you to find out. This makes 0/3 wins for CoLJ, as they've lost their early week 3 matchup against Finish stack, Tissit. However, there is more to this than meats the EYE. Using my expert journalism decryption skillz i have managed to get a rough translation of the codewords used on the match page. From the intelligence that I have gathered, it seems the players on CoLJ are accusing those on Zoo(V)'s of alting. Which is completely out of character for any russian team to do. Therefore CoLJ decided to not show up to the match in a form of protest, which I believe it is illegal to do in Russia actually. According to Zoo(V)'s players, Apparently a conspiracy is arising, of someone named "Bob" (unclear, perhaps an alias) using methods such as high division alt accounts and "Dudos". I have no idea what dudos means. google says it refers to a jamaican drug cartel ran by a man named Christopher Coke, his name is actually coke and they distribute cocaine into the USA, you cant make this up LMFAO. Apparently bob's personal home was used as a base of operations for these wrongdoings. This player has also made some sort of threat? maybe? about a previous player going against him, and it ending poorly for them. Though im not sure if this is coming from Zoo(V) or from CoLJ as the introduction to each message is @main friends, indicating it is a team discord announcement. Perhaps there is a spy within the ranks of one of these teams, reporting to the other of its ongoings.

Open
The team Rias Gremory Fan Club has recieved a point deduction as 7/9 players used the name "Rias Gremory Fan" during their week2 official against Oblock. Admin abuse in my opinion as this is clearly just their team tag.
Walter Hartwell White, the high school chemistry teacher, has made a SHOCKING transfer to one of the current top seed teams, The Hoonters. Coming from Contract in Flames, who had just lost to The Hoonters, this is truly one of the betrayals of all time. Luis Figo vibes.

End of weekday news
Current League Leaders
Premiership: 4house
High: BAD DRAGONS / nine seals
Mid: NONCHALANT / Habib's Special Forces
Low: Henry Hoovers / Maggiezza Masters / Nothing Ever Happens
Open: VANGUARD / Unified Frag Command

High
2 Blacked Up has lost their star engineer, Tywhip, after losing week2 versus nine seals.

Mid
The aforementioned mid team with the admins on it has disbanded, leaving us with 12 mid teams.
Icewind did NOT drop in his official, lets goooo
Reload has lost their second week match-up against nuke radio. Certainly not the start we expected after a strong preseason campaign.

Low
Nothing Ever Happens has lost their main medic, migala, despite being on a win streak.
Mellz has been banned for attempted fraud until essentially the rest of the season. My team played against his team and got ddossed (allegedly, i am not here to start a witchhunt/rumour even though they definitely did). also look at their team page LOL https://etf2l.org/teams/37232/ deserved ban gg unlucky noobs.

Open
A further team has dropped from the season, taking us down to an even 16.
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i always see this thread for the americans

my thoughts -
prem
pretty dead now (in my opinion) atleast yak is still playing
4house probably will win
korras team lost prem quals and died (big shock on second part did not expect that)
JoeN has changed his etf2l name, news to me!
high
graham gaming back which is cool +rep but they lost their first game -rep so now on equal rep
7 teams cuz prem qual loser died unlucky bye week sucks
mid
there is team that won every season they played called sbqrra. i don’t know what this means but they are italian so it’s probably italian word. let’s see if they can do it again.
some dramas about teams moving div mid season, we are in week 2 right now. this results in 13 teams in mid (with no drops) so bye weeks are prevalent.
Team with etf2l admins on it signed up late and were put in mid and some people were crying about it.
xenon is still playing.
Team colonslash is back! yippee
low
also has odd number of teams so bye week. lol.
architects of doom is playing again, this makes 13 seasons in a row. cool!
just a rabbit same situation, 13 seasons. cool!
open
has 17 teams because a team dropped. this means every division but prem has bye weeks. epic
sorry i don’t know any open drama hopefully some commenters can indulge
fresh
there is no fresh division! this sucks hopefully there is more signups over the next season to allow this. or maybe have open be smaller and let the not as experienced(?) open teams play in fresh

also there was a massive ban wave between around time provisional tiers were released which killed like half a dozen teams lol
as i’m writing this my spy just got banned hahahaha fuck this LMFAO

I can now announce that Arie has also decided to make a contribution to the Team Colonslash Fund. However, as the generous benefactor that Arie is and has been for some time in the TF2 Community... Arie decided to donate strange cosmetics instead of standard issue. The total cost of this for Arie was (to my calculation) £88.2 GBP sterling. It's also important to note the cost of 0mger's contribution, being £7.83. Ducky supplied the giftapults for this, which came to £0.27 and I provided the description tags which came to a cost of £1.62. In total this means that we have raised £97.92. I have therefore done as promised and donated to the Big Issue a sum of £97.92. I hope to do things like this in the future, not for silly cosmetics for my highlander team but instead as a proper "Team Colonslash" charity. I will announce now, that at the end of the season I will be issuing a raffle for an unusual in my backpack, with the proceeds going to charity. Thank you again to Arie & 0mger for their contributions.

https://i.imgur.com/xJjZjL1.png

Thank you to 0mger.
In less than 16 hours we achieved our goal through a single donation from 0mger. Really did not expect anything to happen from this post but I, and the rest of Team Colonslash™, are very pleasantly surprised. All future donations will be sold and put towards the big issue. Which is a UK newspaper that offers employment to the homeless so they are able to reintegrate with society. I will make my best attempt to match all donations for this. If you wish to donate in an alternative route than tf2 items then please see the link below. Thank you again to 0mger and everyone else for reading my terrible post.

https://www.bigissue.com/support-us/

Team Colonslash™ is back to Highlander for the first time in years. Never forgiven, never forgotten but always expected. Team Colonslash™ this time has amalgamated with THE SPY, the top secret organisation, to compete in Season 34 Mid Division. We believe with your support, this could be a season for the history books and an opportunity to support a team in an effort to a grand title.

Our Pledge

Before every Team Colonslash™ scrim, official, discussion or otherwise we always make sure to commit to a pledge.
I, [NAME] promise to try my best in today's comping. I [NAME] promise to do my best to honour those have fallen. I [NAME] promise that nothing will have higher priority than Team Colonslash™. I [NAME] promise to never compete, sabotage or otherwise maloventationly disrupt Team Colonslash™ operations.

What We Need

We are currently requesting funding for our Team Colonslash™ official cosmetic uniformation. To obtain this we will need the following:
9 x Polar Pullover
9 x Bruiser's Bandanna
9 x Manndatory Attire
9 x Mann Co™ Orange Paint

https://i.imgur.com/crIFy89.png

Prizes
The compers in my team are unable to afford this as a collective so we humbly ask the public for donations. Please do not feel pressured to do so, but know that it would be greatly appreciated.
Those who donate will be entitled to one (1) of the following prizes.

• One (1) item signing by a Team Colonslash: the SPY!!!!1!™ member of your choosing.
  
• A Free pyro or engineer demo-review by the Mclane of Team Colonslash: the SPY!!!!1!™
  
• An MGE match-up against a Team Colonslash: the SPY!!!!1!™ member.
  
• A ticket for a raffle to enter a competition in which the winner will be able to partake in a scrim for Team Colonslash: the SPY!!!!1!™

A thank you for reading

Thank you all for reading this message, and I hope you find it in your hearts to support our positive cause for the Team Fortress 2 competitive community. We plan to start an intercontinental LAN in a few years in Colchester, I don't have much more to say right now about that but I can promise It's in the works and the boys are working hard to plan it. So far we have contacted Robbie Cowling for rental prices for the JobServe Community Stadium. This would have a capacity to fit hundreds of teams, which would allow for highlander and 6v6 tournaments simultaneously. It would also have the hospitality means to provide meals, drinks and entertainment for all guests.

Donations Option

Can be either direct items or other items that we could sell to go towards the cosmetic uniformations.

Edit: forgot the trade link
https://steamcommunity.com/tradeoffer/new/?partner=437613693&token=cAF4Fx_0

koth_govan_b10 update

Thanks to RGL for using the map again in an experimental cup. Don't be surprised if there is another update or two in the next few months to iron out some bugs and polish the map up a bit more. Significant developments are on the horizon so stay tuned into this thread for updates. No matter what continent you reside in...

Mid

• Fixed ammopack giving double ammo on BLU side
  
• Made mid bigger (roughly 120hu)
  
• Made right route to mid wider
  
• Removed angled building on the upper area at mid and replaced with smaller objects
  
• Removed drop down
  
• Fixed stickies floating in the air above upper area (check this works)

Staging Area

• Added some beers
  
• Adjusted the area under previous drop down to bring health pack closer
  
• Lowered height of doorway under previous drop down
  
• Improve clipping in the cubby on the left side
  
• Adjusted clipping on hedges on the left side
  
• Fixed hiding spot in previous under drop down area

Spawn

• Improved clipping in spawn area
  
• Made hiding spots more consistent on routes leading out of spawn
  
• Improved clipping on fireplace on upper route
  
• Added archway building to upper route
  
• Removed 1/3 of building on the right of spawn
  
• Moved spawn door further forward
  
• Adjusted detailing inside the spawn room
  
• Fixed misaligned light
  
• Removed window overlooking spawn area in the upper route
  
• Moved spawn points forward

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