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Promotion and Qualifier matches will begin soon, but teams can sign up throughout the process. Expect to see some matches assigned in the next few days. Teams will have several weeks to complete these matches. No forfeits will be awarded for Promotion/Qualifier matches. However, if your team folds entirely, please post in the match comms and we will kill the match. 

These matches will be played under Season 5, so be sure your team is signed up for the new season. If you were in Season 4, your team will need to sign up again for Season 5 and your players will need to add to the new roster. They will not need to add steam IDs if they already have them. If your team members are new, they can read how to add steam IDs here: http://www.teamwarfare.com/forums/showthread.asp?forumid=570&threadid=435623 

Each Promotion and Qualifier Match will be best of three maps, each map being played for 30 minutes. Teams will take turns eliminating maps from the map pool until only three remain. The team in the higher division (Promotion) or current TWL team (Qualifier) will eliminate the first map. Once three remain, that same team will pick the first map, the other team will pick the second map, and the third map will be the tiebreaker. The map pool will be the 8 maps that were played in the Season 4: granary, follower, well, badlands, yukon, gravelpit, waste, and freight. The correct configs to run for best-of-three matches are twl_push_bo3 and twl_stopwatch_bo3. You can download the TWL League configs here: http://www.teamwarfare.com/files/dl/TF2/twl_league_configs.zip 

Teams will be placed into Season 5 Divisions soon, but know that these placements are temporary! They will be based on teams' positions at the end of Season 4, and will change considerably before Season 5 begins! So don't worry if you see that your team is in Division 3 and you think you deserve Division 2, or vice versa.