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Count me in too for season 5

I'll create this post on Season 4 Thread as well, so that we can easily update the list of teams interested in HGL.
(This is basically edited post of these earlier posts, here: (327516.86) and (328546.32).)

Updateable listing of HGL teams that have confirmed their willingness to participate for Season 5 of HGL, which is played during Buzzerbeater season 72:

Team name (manager name), day of announcement

1. Wagner College (Wagner), (May 4th, 2025) ++
2. Les Gueux du Marais (Coach Faz), (May 4th, 2025) ++
3. Elan Demars (demars) ++
4. Lielupes Melnās Sirdis (Monēta), (May 4th, 2025) ++
5. Homegrown Kings (MrJ), (Feb 13th) ++
6. Madrid Chotis (Jotadoce), Feb 10th, 2026
7. Vilniaus „Vilkai“ (kecal), Feb 10th, 2026
8. WiMaOlCa (WiMaOl), Feb 10th, 2026
9. Club Trouville (Chucarro), (May 6th, 2025) ++
10. Freccia Azzurra (ned), Feb 12th
11. Rajdersi (Paul George), Feb 13th
12. BC Rajaleidjad (Trailblazer), Feb 15th
13. BC Eos (LennuK.), (Oct 24th 2025) ++
14. Virtus Portici (SventraCanestri), (June 13th, 2025) ++
15. KK Stihija (Pihija), (Oct 24th 2025) ++
16. Vindicta (Jioshoo), Feb 25th, 2026
17. Hårdboll (Spela), Feb 25th, 2026
18. Alanurmon Rikkaat (M a k e), March 8th, 2026

++=Participates also to further Seasons (in addition to Season 5) = ""AC/Automatic Commitment" given earlier; contact me if you want to withdraw your AC.

Teams playing in HGL Season 4, who have confirmed they WILL NOT participate to Season 5 of HGL:
None.


Possible new team additions/new candidates for Season 5 of HGL:
On this "Possible new team additions"-list I'll be from now on keeping a list of teams, who are interested in participating to Season 5 of HGL (which takes place during next BB season).

San Fernando VR (VR75) (Feb 22nd, 2026)
??London Rams (UK Andrius) (Feb 28th, 2026)??


Other possibly interested teams (likely/possibly joining HGL later but currently preferred starting season hasn't been announced):

1. BC Homegrown (Dutch Farmer), original interest announced April 15th, 2025 ((324689.730))
2. San Antonio Gladiators (Enigma), June 25th, 2025
3. Social Security Kings (IKnowZip), July 30th, 2025


If you´re still not playing in HGL but wish to do so in the future, please let me know either by responding to this post or sending me a BBMail. When you do so, I'll add you to a list based on your preferred starting season.
However, this applies to current and new teams (currently not playing in HGL).
In other words, if you are already playing in HGL, please inform me of your interest to continue playing on next Season of HGL by the start of current Seasons' HGL playoffs, thank you.

Basically, personally I'd like to guarantee a place for all current teams playing in HGL for the next season as well, should they wish to continue playing in it, and I added "day of announcement" above mainly in the case new teams join and if we would need to restrict the amount of accepted new teams (due to sensible league size restrictions) and if we would then use 'day of announcement' as a critical decisive factor in deciding which new teams would be allowed to join.

This, however, hasn't been locked in as a selection method for new teams, as so far HGL has accepted HG teams based on 'first come, first serve'-basis. And when I think of it, if we have "too many" interested new teams wanting to join HGL (and simply couldn't accept them all - currently 'soft cap' might be somewhere around 18-20 teams per season, but that's still under discussion and we might be able to remove that soft cap in the future), then I think some kind of play-in type short league/playoffs structure (that would take place during Season 4 HGL Playoffs) between these teams would be preferable in that case to determine participation rights for new teams.

Last edited by Wagner at 3/11/2026 5:49:46 AM

Season 5 for me (y)

Thank you WiMaOl, kecal, Jotadoce and LennuK. for your excellent decisions - each are easily worth +1, and I'm very glad to see you all on Season 5 as well!

I started to collect HGL Season 5 participants to this post, here: (329501.128).

51 Regular Season Rounds in HGL history so far, during which 414 matches have taken place (if my calculations are correct; 120+120+120+54, right?).

So 500th Regular Season HGL match will be played on Season 4 RS Round 16, unless I'm mistaken.

Looking forward to "some" more matches... :)

Last edited by Wagner at 2/10/2026 4:01:28 AM

I previously said that i will be in for every next seasons ;)

I'm in for Season 5

Me too!

I previously said that i will be in for every next seasons ;)

Oops, sorry demars! I corrected that correct status (++) to the participation confirmation-list.
However, I was kind of under the impression that you're still considering the reindeer stew spiced with xo cognac-offer (with your lawyer) in exchange of your continuous participation-commitment, as I think you might have not replied anything to that message of mine... ;)
(Did you notice, I raised the stakes - it's now xo instead of undefined variety) ;P

Thanks also MrJ and ned for your announcements - great decision and excellent to see you on Season 5, needless to say!

Only 5 current teams have not yet announced their intentions.

Having said that, there's still plenty of time to decide if one wants to participate to Season 5 (until the end of Regular Season). So take your time... It's more important to stick with a commitment decision, than to announce it as early as possible (if one is still feeling slightly hesitant about it).

Last edited by Wagner at 2/11/2026 6:27:40 PM

Thks for the Cognac, next season, I would opt for VSOP ;)

Thks for the Cognac, next season, I would opt for VSOP ;)

Thanks, and that's very humble of you, monsieur demars... ;)

count me in for next season