Season 2 6v6 is now using logjam, instead of cardinal.

Next question. Should we use prolands instead of badlands?
http://www.strawpoll.me/13106417

Prolands info - http://www.teamfortress.tv/41308/cp-prolands

Here ya go - http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-3091550/turn-game-bar-windows.html

Are you using Windows 10 by chance? Try disabling the game bar thing. When that auto-enabled for me with the creators update, all third party overlays stopped working. Even the steam overlay would glitch every so often.

Just wish it was under better circumstances.

Alright, so the maplist for 6v6 Season 2 is not yet set in stone. We may make some changes here and there depending on community feedback.

For starters, do you guys want us to include logjam or cardinal? Currently it's cardinal, though if there's demand for logjam, we can swap them around.
http://www.strawpoll.me/13097322

I mean, Open was basically said to be around $1k right? Are we looking at the same prize, or something bigger/smaller now that we merged?

Can't wait to see you there, Citric.

Alright, so since people seem to be cool with a seasonal ultiduo without prizes, I'll give it a go.
Season 3 is officially a thing, and it's ready for signups now. Kinda not going all out with this, and also going to use some newer maps outside of simply baloo. Figure if there's an actual seasonal league doing ultiduo, we may as well try to experiment with what maps work, and what maps don't.

The current S3 structure is 6 weeks, and 6 matches. Playoff is undecided, but ultimately depends on how many teams we get. Default time is Saturday at 8:00 PM Eastern. Depending on how this season goes, and how people react to the no prize thing, I might turn this into an actual seasonal structure moving forward, and maybe even introduce divisions to it. Also, there will be medals, as always.

Speaking of medals, still no major ETA on when they'll be live. Doing some final touches on them and will submit to workshop when it's done.

I'm not going to promote this very much, so its success depends entirely on the community. If you guys want seasonal ultiduo, sign up and have fun. This is really just a test to gauge its popularity.

http://tfcleague.com/bracket/ultiduo-season-3/
Edit: to join, create a team, and add it to the S3 bracket. This is a manual registration bracket.

(fixed link)

Adding this to TFCL Ultiduo S3

We're only looking for subs now.

Flank Scout: Sidular
Combo Scout: Twigs
Roamer: Abridge
Pocket: vixws
Demoman: Snorty
Medic: Health_Hazard

Alright, I'll update the whitelist so it mirrors the UGC whitelist. Like I said though, the current TFCL whitelist was made a fair while ago. I recall people at a lower level complaining about the razorback ban, even though players at a higher level were fully in support of it. I've even talked with a few platinum council members (that still a thing?) and they all expressed their concern for the razorback. Perhaps it's because I never used it, and never got to experience the issues firsthand? So I may be a tad biased towards that.

But anyway, I'll get the whitelist updated tomorrow so it's a mirror of UGC. Though I'm going to be upfront here. I'm not going to stick with UGC's whitelist forever. I want the TFCL players to come up with their own smart and fair changes to the whitelist. Odds are, these will be very similar or even identical to whatever UGC uses, given the shared community. But at times, TFCL players could vote for something that UGC votes against. My concern with copying UGC's whitelist forever, is if they make a major mistake or a controversial change, TFCL will have to follow through with the same change. Which means if they get hate, we get hate.

Which is why I want to have the TFCL community vote for the changes in the future. When the quickfix was included in the global 6's whitelist, pretty much the entire community was very heavily against that. It nearly tore the idea of a global apart, with some leagues looking at alternative options. I just don't want something like that to happen with TFCL, and highlander. Doing a direct mirror of UGC opens TFCL up to that risk.

Anyway, I'm babbling. It's 4 AM and I've kinda not slept yet. So, I should call it a night.

Long story short though. Yes, I'm gonna mirror the UGC whitelist for the season. Will update it tomorrow after I wake up.

The whitelist was from late 2016, and I kinda never got around to updating it. Though I believe the logic back then for allowing the razorback, was that the lower and mid level teams wanted it to be allowed, and they vastly outnumbered the platinum level teams at the time. This was back when the we first announced (and never actually did) the alpha season, so getting as many teams on board as possible was the goal, not so much the top teams. Quantity over quality. Banning the razorback was also controversial at the time, so I decided to be "good guy Sidular" and keep it unbanned. To make the silver and lower players happy.

I honestly haven't looked at the changes made to UGC's whitelist for the current HL season. I want to mirror it as much as possible, but there also isn't a universal standard when it comes to highlander. I'm likely going to experiment a bit with the whitelist, and just see what sticks, and what doesn't. Since the razorback ban wasn't universally well received by all divisions, I figured it was worth testing again. If it works, it works. If it doesn't, it's gone.

Either way, this season of highlander is really just a pilot for TFCL. The whitelist isn't perfect, and things might break along the way in regards to format management on an administrative side. I'm honestly still in the testing phase for a lot of this stuff, and just want to see how everything plays out.

Also, I'm open to last minute whitelist changes. I don't want to mirror UGC's whitelist at this time, so if you (or anyone) have an idea for a weapon that should or should not be banned, I'm all ears.

http://www.strawpoll.me/12989433

So, quick question. If I were to host Ultiduo as a seasonal thing, but without a prize pool, would anyone here still play in it?
It'd still have medals.

They also opted to use neither of the two images provided, and instead grabbed the video on the home page. Guess it was more neutral or something.