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AUSTRALIA’S PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL ESPORTS LEAGUE
WHERE ESPORTS BEGINS!
Welcome to the 2023 High School League season 4 for Rocket League. Be part of the premier competition for competitive Australian high school esports providing the best competitive platform for your school to succeed and be recognised on a national scale. Open to all skill levels!
Up to 2x Team Registrations Per School. This registration should be completed by School Teacher’s only. To confirm your school’s team’s spot for Season 4 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 only be purchased / ordered by Schools. Not for the direct public or students themselves. Schools can either pay with a Debit or Credit Card when we send a Xero Invoice or use our Invoice details to prcess a EFT Transfer, this can be done during/post season. Please ensure you enter your school’s correct information on the billing page at the checkout. This information will automatically be used to generate an invoice for your school & sent to you post registration by our staff.
REGISTRATION INFO
The registration fee covers the overall HSL program, giving your Schools access to:
FEE: $200 Per Team Per Season
- This covers the stanard roster of 3x players for a team.
- There is no extra fee for any substitutes your team/s have and use during the season. We typically only allow 2x substitutes active at a time per team.
- You can use the same subs for each team if you have two teams as long as the rank difference isn’t too significant such as two 1-2 different ranks above or below.
- We prefer teams to let us know who their substitute players are when they fill out the JotForms so new players aren’t being brought onto a team during a season unless required.
- If any additional new player is brought onto a team during the season, they cannot be ranked higher than the current highest ranked player on the team or we will refuse the request for them to join. IE: attempting to bring a higher ranked player onto a team for finals or etc. to gain a competitive advantage.
SIGN UPS CLOSE: 12th October
- This could possibly extend depending on registered teams
HSL23 NATIONAL LEAGUE
- All skill levels welcome!
- The HSL23 National League includes: Swiss Stage > Group Stage (Division 1 & 2) > National Division Finals.
- Champions and Runners up from both division one and two will win prizes and trophies.
- Matches are every Monday afternoons, starting from 4:20PM AEST
- Selected matches will be broadcast from the Group Stage and Finals.
- Each school will play up to 2 matches in a best of 5 format, each week. Unless your team’s group has a Bye each Round
SEASON 4 DATES
- REGISTRATION PERIOD:
- Current day – until 13th October
- REGISTRATION CLOSES:
- 13th October 5PM
- PRE-SEASON PERIOD:
- 3rd October – 13th October
- All registered schools & players need to submit their JotForms by 15th October 5PM.
- All players and teachers must submit a role-ticket in our official HSL Discord Server by 15th October 5PM
- This is to ensure all players are ready to go on Monday afternoon at 4:20PM 24th July.
- We aim to create the season schedule during this period so rely on all JotForms being submitted on time.
- SWISS STAGE WEEK-1:
- Monday, 16th October
- 4:20PM – 6:00PM AEST
- Best of 5 Games Format
- Swiss Format
- SWISS STAGE WEEK-2:
- Monday, 23rd October
- 4:20PM – 6:00PM AEST
- Best of 5 Games Format
- Swiss Format
- SWISS STAGE WEEK-3:
- Monday, 30th October
- 4:20PM – 6:00PM AEST
- Best of 5 Games Format
- Swiss Format
- DIVSIONAL GROUP STAGE WEEK-4:
- Monday, 6th November
- 4:20PM – 6:00PM AEST
- Best of 5 Games Format
- Single Round Robin Format
- DIVSIONAL GROUP STAGE WEEK-5:
- Monday, 13th November
- 4:20PM – 6:00PM AEST
- Best of 5 Games Format
- Single Round Robin Format
- DIVSIONAL GROUP STAGE WEEK-6
- Monday, 20th November
- 4:20PM – 6:20PM AEST
- Best of 5 Games Format
- Single Round Robin Format
- DIVISIONAL FINALS WEEK-7:
- Monday, 27th November
- 4:20PM – 7:20PM AEST
- Best of 7 Games Format
- Single Elimination Bracket Format
SEASON 4 STRUCTURE & FORMAT – NEW!
SEASON 4 SWISS STAGE – USED IN SEASON 3!
This brand new stage is being introduced to pit all teams together to battle it out and sort out over each round of matches the top and lower teams. At the conclusion of all Swiss rounds we will be dividing teams up from their results instead of ranks and placing teams into two separate divisional competitions. Allowing for a more, overall fair playing field and giving more school teams in the middle to lower experience level opportunities to take out the title of champions for their division!
- Up to 24 teams maximum.
- New stage to determine experience playing standards for the Group Stage.
- Teams will play either 1-2 rounds each week for the duraiton of the Swiss Stage.
- Each match will either be a Best of 5 Games or Best of 7 Games if time allows it for each week of the Swiss Stage.
- At the end of the Swiss Stage, teams will be divided into either Division One or Division Two based on their performance and results.
SEASON 4 DIVISIONAL GROUP STAGE – USED IN SEASON 3!
DIVISION-1
- We will be placing our top 6-12 teams from the Swiss-Stage into Division One
- The top 4 teams at the end of the Group Stage will qualify for Division One Finals.
- This will be a single round robin instead of previous seasons of double round robin. Teams will only verse each other once so make it count!
- One match from Division One will be selected to be streamed & casted live each week on our Twitch Channel: www.twitch.tv/xpesportstv
DIVISION-2
- We will be placing our lower 6-12 teams from the Swiss-Stage into Division Two
- The top 4 teams at the end of the Group Stage will qualify for Division Two Finals.
- This will be a single round robin instead of previous seasons of double round robin. Teams will only verse each other once so make it count!
- One match from Division Two will be selected to be streamed & casted live each week on our Twitch Channel: www.twitch.tv/xpesportstv
SEASON 4 DIVISIONAL FINALS – USED IN SEASON 3!
Battle it out for the rights to be called HSL Division 1 or Division 2 Champions!
DIVISION-1 FINALS
- The top 4 teams from the the Group Stage will compete in the Division One Finals.
- Single Elimination Bracket of: Semi Finals to the Grand Final.
- All matches will be a Best of 7 Games series.
- This will be run over one week.
- One semi-final may or may not be streamed and casted live on our Twitch Channel, to be determined in the week of finals.
- The Division One Grand Final will be streamed and casted live on our Twitch Channel: www.twitch.tv/xpesportstv
- The Champions & Runners-Up will be announced live on our stream and then posted later on our social media pages.
DIVISION-2 FINALS
- The top 4 teams from the the Group Stage will compete in the Division Two Finals.
- Single Elimination Bracket of: Semi Finals to the Grand Final.
- All matches will be a Best of 7 Games series.
- This will be run over one week.
- One semi-final may or may not be streamed and casted live on our Twitch Channel, to be determined in the week of finals.
- The Division Two Grand Final will be streamed and casted live on our Twitch Channel: www.twitch.tv/xpesportstv
- The Champions & Runners-Up will be announced live on our stream and then posted later on our social media pages.
PRIZE INFORMATION
- Prizing will be awarded to the Division One and Division Two Champions and Runners-Up.
- If your school is within the SE-QLD region, our XP Team could come out to deliver and hand out the prizes, trophies or medals live in person to your school team.
- Technology prizing will only be available and awarded to our Division One.
DIVISION-1 PRIZING
- CHAMPIONS:
- Trophies for the core 3x players & if you had 2x sub players so 5x total.
- Technology Equipment prizes provided by Computer Alliance (Exact prizing to be a surprise)
- RUNNERS-UP:
- Medallions for the core 3x players & if you had 2x sub players so 5x total.
- Technology Equipment prizes provided by Computer Alliance (Exact prizing to be a surprise)
DIVISION-2 PRIZING
- CHAMPIONS:
- Trophies for the core 3x players & if you had 2x sub players so 5x total.
- RUNNERS-UP:
- Medallions for the core 3x players & if you had 2x sub players so 5x total.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- It’s up to each school how your team will compete in their matches each week, live from your school if your network & PCs allow it or students competing remotely from home or another location to join up online.
- Every team must have at least one teacher staff member.
- Team’s are welcome to have a coach apart of their team and in our Discord Server (This can be a school staff membe, a external coach you’ve found and have helpeing your team/s or even a graduated student.)
- Teams will at least compete in 1x Match a week in either a Best of 5 Games series or 7 depending on the staget. Each game in a match last for 5 minutes at the minimum, plus overtime in some instances until 1 team scores in Overtime, or if teams are scoring 5-10+ goals this can pro-long the duration of the game & match longer than 5 minutes.
- Players can join matches we host on either of these platforms: PC (Steam or Epic Games Launcher), Xbox Live, PlayStation Network or Nintendo Switch.
- We ask that each student player competing uses either 1x or up to 2x games accounts for the season and use these for the duration of the season, these must be provided by the student on their JotForm for the season.
- Rocket League requires each player to use a unique account so account sharing isn’t allowed unless students are using schools accounts from their schools.
- Rocket League is now F2P – free-to-play thanks to Epic Games now owning it.
HSL23 ON TWITCH & YOUTUBE!
- In Season 4, we’ll be live streaming matches from both Divisions each week of the Group Stage as well as selected matches for the Division Finals.
- We host all of the match lobbies and record these, to edit and then upload to our YouTube channel for you all to be able to watch for your enjoyment and or training/coaching purposes. Match-Videos are posted live up to 2x days after the match day.
- Our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/xpesportstv
- Our Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/xpesportstv
HSL23 COMMUNICATION PLATFORM
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 codes, post highlights and organise scrims. Teachers are required to create a Discord account so they can be added to the XP HSL Server.
FAQS
Rocket League have two great YouTube Playlists for new players and current players to give a watch to learn a few things about the game and more.
