Description
Australia’s Premier High School Esports League
Where Esports Begins!
Welcome to the 2023 High School League season for Farming Simulator. Be part of the premier competition for competitive Australian high school esports providing the best platform for your school to succeed and be recognised on a national scale.
Up to 2x Registrations Per School. This registration should be completed by your School Teacher’s only.
To confirm your school’s team’s spot for Season 2 2023, you will need to place & complete an order to secure your School a team spot or two! Team spots fill up fast for HSL Rocket League so don’t miss out!
This registration is to be only purchased or ordered by Schools. Not for the direct public.
Schools can request an invoice in the checkout for payments to be made before, during or after the season. Please ensure you enter your school’s information in the billing page at the checkout. This information will automatically be used to generate an invoice for your school & sent to you after post-order by the HSL administration team.
Registration
The Registration Fee covers the overall HSL program, giving your Schools access to:
- FEE: $100 Per Team Per Season
- This covers the core 3x players of the team.
- Plus additionally any substitutes you wish to include in the team we allow for up to 2x subs.
- We only provide game installation keys/codes for the Core 3x players on the team and those codes are activated & tied upon installaton to that specific PC.
- SIGN UPS CLOSE: 24th April
- This could possibly extend depending on registered teams
NATIONAL LEAGUE
- Up to 16 teams maximum per season
- Schools will be divided into 2x Conference groups of up to 8x teams
- Groups will compete in a double round robin format for up to 7 weeks
- Top 4 teams from each Conference Group will secure themselves a spot into the National Finals
- Matches are every Tuesday afternoon, starting from 4:00PM AEST
- Each school will play 2 matches in a Best of 3 games format, each week
- Each game in a match is 18 minutes long so anyway from 40 minutes for a 2-0, up to 1 hour per match for a 2-1.
- 2x Matches each week will be selected to be streamed & casted live on www.twitch.tv/xpesportstv
CONFERENCE GROUP STAGE
- Up to 2x Conferences in total for PER SEASON
- Conference Matches start from 4:20PM AEST each week
- Conferences have a maximum of 8 teams
- The top 4 teams from each Conference proceed to our National Finals
NATIONAL FINALS
- Single Elimination Knockout Bracket – Quarter Finals, Semi-Finals, Grand Final
- Selected final’s matches will be streamed & casted on www.twitch.tv/xpesportstv
HSL FARMING SIMULATOR SPECIFICS
- Each team will either play from their school or from a remote location and join up online.
- Each team must have a teacher.
- Each team may have a coach (can also be the teacher).
- Teams will play 2 matches in a best of 3 games format.
- Each game in a match is 15 minutes long and a team needs to win by 2 games.
- This can only be played on PC so all players need to be able to play from a PC.
- Each player will need to use a separately licensed copy of the game.
- We provide license keys for the core 3x players of teams. If you require more you will need to purchase these from the Developers website.
- If teams require additional competitive DLC mode keys please let us know.
HSL23 ON TWITCH
- We stream up to 2x matches each week selected by our admin team at the start of the season.
- These are commentated by our famed caster “Max Formal” – https://twitter.com/formalcasting
- Below is a screenshot from our Season 1 this year of Downlands College starting to harvest their field & bale the wheat, competing against Forest Lake SHS
SEASON 2 2023 DATES
- Registration Period: Wednesday 8th April – 3rd May
- All teams must be finalised & submit their JotForm’s by Monday 30th January (5PM). This is to ensure the smooth successful execution of the season.
- Pre-Season Period: 24th April – 5th May
- All players and teachers must submit a role-ticket in our official HSL Discord Server by February 3rd, 2023 (5PM).
- This is to ensure all players are ready to go on the 1st Tuesday afternoon at 4:20PM 7th February.
- Round 1: Tuesday, 9th May
- 4:00PM – 6:00PM AEST
- 2x Matches of Best of 3x Games Format
- Round 2: Tuesday, 16th May
- 4:00PM – 6:00PM AEST
- 2x Matches of Best of 3x Games Format
- Round 3: Tuesday, 23rd May
- 4:00PM – 6:00PM AEST
- 2x Matches of Best of 3x Games Format
- Round 4: Tuesday, 30th May
- 4:00PM – 6:00PM AEST
- 2x Matches of Best of 3x Games Format
- Round 5: Tuesday, 6th May
- 4:00PM – 6:00PM AEST
- 2x Matches of Best of 3x Games Format
- Round 6: Tuesday, 13th June
- 4:00PM – 6:00PM AEST
- 2x Matches of Best of 3x Games Format
- Finals: Tuesday, 20th June
- 4:00PM – 6:00PM AEST
- 3x Matches of Best of 3x Games Format (Possibly Best of 5 if time allows it)
- Single Elimination Bracket
- Top Teams from the Conferences battle it out for Champion / Runner-Up title & prizes.
PRIZING
Prizing is for the top 2 teams for the whole season overall determined from the National Finals.
CHAMPIONS:
- Trophies for your core 3x players
- Technology Equipment Prizing provided by Computer Alliance (TBC)
RUNNERS UP:
- Trophies for your core 3x players
- Technology Equipment Prizing provided by Computer Alliance (TBC)
YOUNG FARMERS CUP 2023
The top 4 high schools from the 2023 season will be invited to the Young Farmers Cup 2023, hosted live at The Ekka! Queensland’s biggest show!
- Live at The Ekka (Brisbane Showgrounds).
- 400,000 foot traffic over 10 days.
- Streamed and Casted live on www.twitch.tv/xpesportstv
- Segment interviews with students, teachers and more.
- Live location setup: staging, projector screen, speakers, lighting, and more.
- Content to be shared via all EKKA and XP Esports channels.
COMMUNICATION
Discord will be used as the main point of contact for each team where they can talk to the XP Esports team, other schools, access lobby names & passwords, post highlights and organise scrims/practice matches between schools. Teachers are required to create a Discord account so they can be added to the XP HSL Server.
FAQS
Click here to see our FAQs or Contact Us if you have further questions.
Farming Simulator is a paid game and if you require additional game licenses, these can be purchased directly from Giant Software’s Website, the developers of Farming Simulator. If your team requires additional DLC license keys for the multiplayer mode, please let us know.
What is Competitive Farming Simulator?
Young Farmers Cup 2022 Live Stream
