@all:
Please note the opened voting, and vote within 8 days, thank you. As you all have noticed, I've sent you BBMail about it. Please vote on Official Thread, and not preferably to my BBMail (in order to be able to keep better records of voting results).I just updated "interested teams"-post
(331392.83), and noticed that couple of theoretically interested teams have gone into serious shopping spree, making them currently seriously ineligible for HGL.
So it seems there would be 4-5 participants in our first HGL-PL (HGL Promotion/Participation League), depending on whether or not
A) San Fernando VR for some reason would want to sell their ineligible player to enter HGL-PL, and/or
B) if you guys are aware of some other interested team.
I should likely start contacting these interested teams shortly, to see who would like to use tokens for it this time, as there likely aren't open way for HGL Season 6 available through HGL-PL.
However, as I've just managed to get this part of the project done, as I mentioned, it hasn't been decided if this first HGL-PL also would serve as a valid result in terms of determining which team would get to challenge worst team of HGL after Season 6 (if that would be the result of the currently open voting, to create a one team per HGL Season relegation/promotion-scenario to HGL).I'd like to hear many opinions on this as well, that should we use this result from first ever HGL-PL for Season 7 as well (unless new interested teams apply after start of HGL-PL, that would be interested in Season 7 participation), or only for potential withdrawal scenarios (to potentially replace teams to Season 6).
Remember: even if there wouldn't be direct open spots for Season 6, it has been the case so many times before, that team(s) withdraw "at the last minute", and for those scenarios it would always be good to have "an official pecking order" in which places would be offered to managers, and HGL-PL would provide us just that (in addition to giving managers a chance to play at least a game or few against HG opposition).
However, I'll remind every potential HGL candidate, that HGL-PL isn't just a short league into where one should participate just to be able to play 'few fun games' - the whole intention is to play because you'd be interested in participating to the Season you might be offered a place into. Usually that would mean the next Season only, but as mentioned, it will be announced later whether or not this first HGL-PL is used for determining "best non-HGL team on Season 6" as well (that gets access to the HGL Relegation/Promotion Final match against worst HGL team on Season 6, again,
if such relegation/promotion-scenario will/would be taken into use in HGL; if not, then they would be first in line when looking for replacement teams, if some HGL managers would withdraw voluntarily).
For the benefit of the league though, it'd be good that it'd be possible to create a similar kind of ranking as our typical ORSR (Official Regular Season Rankings) in HGL, to rank HGL-PL teams clearly.
(With partly/complete playoff-format that would be more tricky, but still probably doable with some pre-planning and rules creating - however, if we don't have too many teams, then round robin could be preferable format anyway as it's 100% fair to all).
Last edited by Wagner at 6/6/2026 7:37:51 PM