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Nobody has seemed necessary to reply to my suggestion of checking out the new schedule for Season 4 (which was triggered by very likely addition of 17th team for Season 4), so I'm still waiting for this day if someone wants to do that, as it goes well in line with LennuK.'s schedule as he mentioned he'd have time later today to undertake the marking of challenge responsibilities to new schedule-project, therefore we couldn't publish new schedule before that either, so we do not lose time here.
Having said that, unless somebody wants to look at the new schedule (which I can send here on S3 thread, like mentioned) and find out problems with it, or if LennuK. seems necessary to run a manual double-check on it today and would find problems for it), we could accept 17th team to HGL Season 4.

Practically I find it highly likely that we can add his team for Season 4, so I have made preparations having that in mind. (While Season 4 threads seem empty, content is actually mostly finished already, but there isn't much point to publish them as schedule isn't yet published and addition of 17th team isn't quite 100% confirmed).

If everything goes as planned, and no reports of faulty schedule (which again nobody but LennuK. and myself have seen so far; if you want to see it, reply to this ASAP and I'll send it here on official thread!) are made, I'm looking forward to publish new schedule with challenge responsibility markings on Season 4 Scores Thread likely tomorrow.
That of course means, that we can and should start Regular Season match organizing process as soon as schedule is published on Season 4 thread.

Here is an updated table on the countries' stats participating in the HGL after season 3. The table after season 2 is found here: (328546.57). Only regular season games are counted towards this statistic.

Rank__Country__NoT_GP__W___L___PF/G___PA/G__PD/G__WLR
1______Slovakia____1___45___43___2___112.5____86.5____+26.0___0.956
2______Argentina___1___15___14___1___117.5____80.9____+36.7___0.933
3______Poland_____1___45___33___12___107.9____98.4____+9.5___0.733
4______Sweden____1___30___22___8____99.1_____93.6____+5.5____0.733
5______Bosnia i H.__1___30___19___11____92.3_____85.5____+6.8___0.633
6______France_____3___135___79___56__103.1____96.9____+6.2____0.585
7______Italy_______2___60___32___28___89.7_____84.8____+4.9___0.533
8______Finland_____2___90___45___45___100.0____97.7____+2.3___0.500
9______Lithuania___1___15___7____8____103.9____105.9____-1.9___0.467
10______Spain_____1___45__15____30___89.1_____94.0____-4.9____0.333
11_____Latvia_____1___45___15___30___99.3_____104.5____-5.1____0.333
12_____Australia___2___45___12___33___84.8_____112.8____-28.0___0.267
13_____Estonia____1___30___6____24___97.9_____107.2____-9.4____0.200
14_____Uruguay___1___45___9____36___90.9_____105.4____-14.6___0.200
15_____USA_______3___45___8___37___85.3_____111.5___-26.2____0.178

Bosnia i H.=Bosnia and Herzegovina

NoT=Number of distinct teams, GP=Games played, W=Wins, L=Losses, PF/G=Points scored for per game, PA/G=Points scored against per game, PD/G=Scoring difference per game, WLR=Win-Loss-Ratio

Countries in italic font have currently no active teams in HGL

Last edited by LA-LennuK at 1/12/2026 6:56:31 PM

Better than USA, not so bad, jaja.

@all:
I'm looking forward to start adding content to Season 4 Official Threads very soon, after which I ask all of you to proceed with Pickup (PU) match organizing process soon, because there will be only about 12-13 days before Season 4 begins and all Regular Season matches need to be organized before Season starts!

For those of you to whom go through this process for the first time, I remind that we don't have that much time to send and accept challenges; that time means that you need to have added those match links to your own box score post (that you will create for your team, on Season 4 Thread, by replying to my team box score post), and I need to have verified well before Season 4 starts that all match details are correct.

To quote my earlier message, I now confirm that HGL Season 4 Official Threads are now full of typical HGL information, mostly on typical locations (only some minor changes from Season 3) such as schedule, and an instructive posts on how match organizing process goes.

As a match organizing/off-season memory refresher, one can read for instance:
"What everyone who participates to Season 4 of HGL needs to do now" (329502.13)
and announcement "We're ready to organize all Regular Season matches for HGL Season 4!" (329502.2)

I want to remind and ask everyone participating to HGL Season 4, that please proceed immediately with creating your own box score post on HGL Scores Season 4 Official Thread, by responding to this message: (329502.20) and then sending correct match challenges to your opponents (that you see from HGL Season 4 schedule on HGL Scores thread, as usual).

We have only 12 days before Season 4 starts to complete the whole process including verifying matches, so there's no time to waste.

(Don't wonder where my challenges are - I won't send them yet as I'm being way too exhausted now, working for this project for the last 8-9 hours straight.. So likely tomorrow you'll see some match challenges from me on your BBMail/friendlies-page.

Important note on organizing Season 4 matches:

I have already noticed two matches being organized at a wrong time, so in the case this would be a wider problem, I remind you all again that you use official designated match time for each team (official local time, meaning your local time) when organizing matches.

This will change for 1 hour from season to another, depending on Daylight Savings Time-cycles.
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When DST is not observed in EET time zone when season begins, Official HGL match time is your local equivalent of 14.30PM EET (Normal Time) which is the case for Season 4.
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When DST is observed in EET time zone when season begins, match time is 15.30PM EET DST (Daylight Savings Time).

I quote my Announcement posts:

For each team an Official Local Time is provided, which they use when sending PU match invitations. Found (before team name), here: (329502.12).
Use only this time given to your team specifically, and nothing else, when organizing (also when accepting!) Pickup matches!

Let's take one example that I saw:
- VPO-EOS is organized at 15.30 a.k.a. 3.30PM EET; this is 1 hour too late, it needs to be reorganized.
Note: if you have sent more match requests at that faulty time, please cancel them now so tokens are not lost.

- when either of team takes a look at above link (with match times), they notice this time is not correct, as they should send and accept challenges only at that time, that is designated time for their team:

- in other words, LennuK. (EOS) should send and accept Season 4 challenges at 02.30PM (and see those accepted matches being played at that time, when they look at their teams' "regular BB schedule" or friendly matches-page, in where pending match offers can be seen).
For VPO on the other hand, this local time that they see in the friendly matches-page (and eventually on regular BB schedule) would be 01.30PM, because they are 1 hour behind EET time zone.

Example:
When I send challenge, I send it on Season 4 at 2.30PM my time (which is time that I see on post #12 that is linked above and below).
When for example VPO sees it in his friendly matches page, this time appears to him as 01.30PM, which would be correct, because
A) this is the time that he sees in this table (and in participating teams-posts): (329502.12)
B) it's also logical because Italy is 1 hour behind EET time zone, which is a reference time zone in HGL.
(Your local time differences compared to EET time zone are represented in participating teams-posts on both threads, 3rd posts, before the team name and = sign; however, use time on that table, or table linked on A) above when you organize matches.

Always ask if you're unsure of the time, so that we don't end up losing lots of tokens.

Last edited by Wagner at 1/14/2026 6:28:51 AM

@ 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.

Salary benefit for HGL teams on Season 3-post published, here: (328546.4).