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@ all managers, important notice:
I've noticed some confusion on match times on Season 4.

Please see which time your match is being played by referring to this post:
(329502.12). You would be able to find the same information also from "participating teams"-posts.

This information has been mentioned in official threads probably for tens of times over seasons on different posts, and has been part of the Official Rules since March 2025.

Few of the possible remedies for the future are:
A) check time from those places season by season without making assumptions
B) maybe I could send everyone first round of challenges (I send challenges to all of my games), so that people would then get a correct match time for that season.

Please don't send challenges to Hadár (Svätý Jur Snakers, abbreviation HAD) at the moment as he is likely withdrawing from Season 4.

Last edited by Wagner at 1/14/2026 8:38:38 AM

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Hey all, unfortunately, I have messed up some match challenge times. I have sent everyone new challenges. Sorry for this misunderstanding.

Hi all,
I'm away with limited possibilities.
I should be back on monday and take care of everything.

Sorry for delay.

Hi all,
I'm away with limited possibilities.
I should be back on monday and take care of everything.

Sorry for delay.

Thanks for letting us know, I appreciate it.
We should be ok, as long as those matches have been organized at the right time (14.30EET=13.30 Polish time), and don't need to be organized again!

Please correct me.

At my place in sweden I should always see the challenge with the correct time for me?

I get some 12:30 and 14:30 so I send them time is wrong.

I should always see the correct challenge as 13:30?

Please correct me.

At my place in sweden I should always see the challenge with the correct time for me?

I get some 12:30 and 14:30 so I send them time is wrong.

I should always see the correct challenge as 13:30?

Yes, on Season 4 where Regular Season match time is 14.30 EET, you should see all challenges at 13.30 your time (because Sweden is 1 hour back from EET time zone).

This is exactly what time in front of your team name on participating teams-posts (third post on both official threads) and this following post refers into: (329502.12).
In other words, whenever you send challenge, you send it at that time that shows in front of your team name.
Also, whenever you receive a challenge, same goes with that - you need to check that time in that received challenge is same as what you can see before your team name (and not in front of your opponent's team name).

This way we all play at the same time, just like it's supposed to be.

(For Season 5 for example this will once again change into 15.30 EET DST, because of Daylight Savings Time will be applied when Season 5 is started, but that's a different story - I'm just reminding of all of you about that already).

Spela, now that I checked (January 16th at 12.30PM), all your challenges show up at the correct time in your box score post: 14.30EET, a.k.a. 02.30PM EET.

Like I mentioned, one of the ways that could lessen the confusion for further seasons could be to wait that I send all challenges, and then you can check what is the exact time that you see in your schedule for our match; this will be the correct time for all your that Season RS matches (unless I make a mistake myself, of course).

Another necessary remedy is to check out participating teams-posts before every Season's match organization process, and I've also had a habit of adding the same condensed information on these posts, Season after Season: (329502.12).

Last edited by Wagner at 1/16/2026 5:58:39 AM

As for a Season 4 pre-season update:
Almost all teams have created a box score post for themselves, and some even have added all match links.
As usual, I haven't added match links to my own post as long as everyone has created their own post.

As for amount of participating teams for Season 4, Hadár (Svätý Jur Snakers, HAD) announced on 14th of January, that he won't be joining for HGL Season 4.

And it's been 3 days and Hadár hasn't cancelled his withdrawal notice (by sending me BBMail),
so as for now, we are either going to:

A) run HGL Season 4 with 17 teams (current opponent of HAD would not play on that round=BYE), or

B) hopefully will get a replacement team as soon as on Season 4; negotiations have been going on, but the manager in question hasn't yet logged in after my recent participation confirmation request. Or

C) IF option B) fails, and IF Hadár would for some reason end up canceling his withdrawal from Season 4, then we can proceed with organizing matches against HAD. If C) fails, then we end up choosing A).


I would be cautiously positive that we're able to add a new-to-HGL team for Season 4, and whenever that is confirmed, I'll let all of you know about it.

If we're able to add 18th team, then all of you would challenge this new team on the same day when you should've met HAD in the first place, so please be ready to send/accept match offers soon for that day, if situation changes (participation is confirmed by new team).

As for challenging responsibilities for the possible new team, I'm unaware (but have asked) about his current token amount, so those would also be clarified later.

What we need to consider though, is that how many matches did Hadár already organized for Season 4 at 14.30 EET. This could be important because if we replace HAD with another one, then those matches against new opponent can't/shouldn''t probably take place at the same time (it might not work/could cause problems if simultaneous PU matches are played).

I know he accepted my request at 14.30 EET, but the question is, did he accept other ones as well at that same time (of course on appropriate days).

Last edited by Wagner at 1/17/2026 9:42:03 AM

"Spela, now that I checked (January 16th at 12.30PM), all your challenges show up at the correct time in your box score post: 14.30EET, a.k.a. 02.30PM EET.
"

Well I have not accepted the one that say 12:30 for me. Written the lad. See if changed.

"Spela, now that I checked (January 16th at 12.30PM), all your challenges show up at the correct time in your box score post: 14.30EET, a.k.a. 02.30PM EET.
"

Well I have not accepted the one that say 12:30 for me. Written the lad. See if changed.

Well done, that's exactly right. And then especially if we at some point start to be pressed on time - I now use this as an example situation - one can also alert me about it (just as you have done) that there´s still problem with the challenge.

Update on pre-season progress: only 1 HAD's match is organized currently at 14.30EET (the other one that he had organized is played at 15.30EET, based on information I received today), so only my match would need to be rescheduled slightly (against myself and BC Eos) if we get an 18th team to join HGL for Season 4.
(Still no login from a manager that has received a request/suggestion to join for S4, but I'll keep you guys updated).

Last edited by Wagner at 1/17/2026 2:33:56 PM