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I agree, it's probably more exciting to change the schedule every season

I think that can change.

Thank you Hadár, WiMaOl, demars and Coach Faz for your responses on this! So far in a way 5/15 of us (excluding myself) have given their opinion (given that LennuK. from BC Eos likely favors change as well).
At the moment it seems change in that matter is preferred for Season 4 (and possibly afterwards as well).

I'm still waiting for new opinions, so please voice out your opinion on this (altering RS schedule, compared to first 3 HGL Seasons) if you have any opinion on it.

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Another thing that needs to be verified prior to Season 4 Regular Season Schedule publication is, that do any managers want to lessen their Pickup match challenge duties?
If so, please respond to me by BBMail or by posting on this thread as soon as possible.
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We are not too far away from Season 4 preparations starting, so let's get this decided as well.

The thing is, that we haven't changed much of challenging duties during first 3 HGL Seasons.

I have some new volunteers (who have announced their willingness quite recently), that are ready to use more tokens for HGL match organizing, so if needed, I could adjust challenging duties (token usage by team) a bit from Season 3 usage levels.

So if you want to use less tokens for HGL match organizing on Season 4 (or somehow have strong opinion on this for one reason or another), please let me know, preferably as soon as possible.

I understand if someone wants to lessen usage, but I believe (if my memory serves me) that I have never received a direct request on this from anyone, so I haven't seen it necessary to change it.
(For instance I have no plans to withdraw from being a token usage volunteer, as I have plenty of them, and I believe many of us have the same situation).


Last edited by Wagner at 1/3/2026 7:15:12 AM

My team has no issues with tokens.

Normal tokens for me. Not 'lessen'.
Been on the upper parts of token usage.
So asking for normal will be the same (high usage)?

Regarding tokens, I can challenge every game as far as I'm concerned.

As for schedule change, I don't care, but for the sake of competition, count my vote as IN FAVOR OF change!

Hi,

new schedule please, plenty of tokens available.

You can keep me as a volunteer for challenging matches, I still have plenty of tokens, so I could easily challenge all games if necessary.

Regarding the changing schedule: I personally don't really have a strong opinion about it. Although, I do believe that some change into the reoccurring pattern of opponents everybody has season by season could provide interesting results and different approaches from coaches. So, yes, if I had to choose, I would welcome a changing schedule, if it doesn't add lots of extra work.

I have no problem with the proposed change. I just hope it doesn't make organizing the tournament more difficult for Wagner, who already has a lot of work to do.

It's thanks to Wagner that this tournament is going ahead; he's a great commissioner with a lot of passion.

That is a good point. I think that the change would be nice to have, but not at the expense of Wagner's overextension.

Normal tokens for me. Not 'lessen'.
Been on the upper parts of token usage.
So asking for normal will be the same (high usage)?

Yes, your team has definitely used lots of tokens compared to many other.
In your question, I guess it's a matter of determining what's "normal" amount of usage, but we don't need to determine that here.

So my point really was, that if for example you (you have been using more than average amount of tokens during last Seasons) or any other HGL manager feels like they can´t/don't want to use as many tokens (as they have been using during last Seasons), I can manually do some changes to HGL Season 4 schedule.

To put it in other words, I can even try to minimize your HGL token usage, if you need to have that done? Some teams are using very little amount of tokens, so "normal" or "low" usage of tokens would be less than what you have used.

(Like I mentioned, actual amounts for high, normal or low usage have not been determined, but we can alter challenging responsibilities depending on exact requests by managers - if one for example says "could I please only use 5 tokens per HGL Regular Season", then I'll try to change some challenging responsibilities. So far I have not received any such clear requests).

Last edited by Wagner at 1/5/2026 7:47:40 AM

That is a good point. I think that the change would be nice to have, but not at the expense of Wagner's overextension.

Thanks very much for your message, I definitely appreciate you being so considerate (which is not the first time - it's a joy to have managers like you in our community!).

I think the consensus on schedule change (RS match order change) seems to be so strong, that it would be good idea to change schedule a bit for Season 4 (see "1.", below).
It shouldn't be too difficult (or hopefully turn out as an arduous) of a project, however, it still needs to be done methodically and precisely, so that I'm not messing up the whole schedule.

Also, LennuK. have earlier offered his help on schedule based duties, if necessary. This time around (once again) it seems 16 teams will participate for Season 4, so complete overhaul of schedule (basically creating completely new one) isn't necessary, but we can only change place of match blocks, which will effectively shuffle the HGL schedule.
Of course new team, Alanurmon Rikkaat (from Finland) will join us for Season 4, and Suuret Muinaiset will exit HGL (at least for now - I hope they'll join HGL again later!), but replacing 1 team with another can be quite easily implemented.

Thank you all managers that have commented on both questions,
1. HGL schedule change for Season 4 (match block changes to different Regular Season Rounds, compared to first 3 HGL Seasons)
2. Token usage requests for Season 4, and possibly beyond that (confirmation that their teams' token usage for HGL Regular Season doesn't need to be lowered)


Everyone are still encouraged to comment on both questions.

And I remind everyone, that if you don't want to use as many tokens for HGL Season 4 match organizing, now it's time to tell us/me about it that change(s) on challenging responsibilities can be made to HGL schedule in time.

An mentioned earlier, many on us have good situation with tokens and are willing to keep on being "token/challenging volunteers", and it actually would enable us to edit those Pickup match challenging responsibilities so that one could participate to HGL Season with only very/quite low token usage (if needed).

Last edited by Wagner at 1/5/2026 8:13:28 AM