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The craziest thing, I was double checking for my invitations to be 14:30 Italy time, then they somehow turned out as 16:30, and now I see them as 14:30, once again. Travelling across time zones seems to be a complete mess!

The craziest thing, I was double checking for my invitations to be 14:30 Italy time, then they somehow turned out as 16:30, and now I see them as 14:30, once again. Travelling across time zones seems to be a complete mess!

These kind of problems with manager in question traveling out of their teams' own time zone have actually been reported by other managers as well earlier. We had some speculation earlier with some of the managers why this might happen, but I can't recall what was the "most probable cause" that we ended up with - for now it's safe to just simply agree with what you said; it's unfortunately a complete mess when you happen to travel.

It's good that you sent everyone heads up though, that your match offers might be wrong.

However, I suspect some might not read that and just accept offers as they think "it must be correct time as he sent the offer to me" (which of course is not the right procedure from a team accepting the challenge, like everyone should already know).

Like MrJ also asked, is it possible to delay sending/accepting your match offers ever so slightly, so that you would've already had time to return to your home country by then? Of course you are not forced to respond to such private kind of question, but that was also the most surefire solution I could come up with with such a short notice.

Last edited by Wagner at 8/1/2026 10:04:58 AM

@all HGL managers:

I hope you've all got your match organizing process "rolling" already - we don't have all that much time at all to get all matches organized (and then inspected for correctness, which actually takes way more time than you might think), so let's get things rolling (in the case someone hasn't really even started the match organizing process)!

On a lighter note, now that you've visited HGL teams' team "websites" (when sending PU challenges to teams), as some of us HGL managers are Supporters, us HGL teams do have quite a selection of nice/stylish logos (and banners), don't you guys think? :)
I guess everyone's got their own favorite of all available HGL participants' logos, but I'll just repeat myself here - many of them look quite nice!
In some way it would be cool to organize voting for best logo, but on the other hand it's extremely subjective thing, and it might make someone feel gutted if they wouldn't succeed in it (the voting).

Last edited by Wagner at 8/1/2026 12:47:27 PM

@all HGL managers, about last Season's relegation/promotion voting:

Speaking of voting, the actual, official, important HGL voting on Season 5 ended 8 votes to 8, like some of you might remember.

Two teams that did not vote (nor would've their vote probably shouldn't count, as they are not participating to Season 6, should've they even voted), were Hårdboll and Club Trouville.

In it we were voting about whether or not to subject the team finishing last on league table after Regular Season to a relegation threat (and therefore allow best HGL-PL to face them on relegation/promotion final).

Like mentioned, it was a draw with 8 votes for yes and 8 votes for no.
I voted "no" for change (meaning current system would be continued). Like you've seen, places to HGL can (and likely will) become open by managers withdrawing and/or by becoming dismissed.

Honestly I forgot to take this again into discussion already earlier, as it would've been more convenient to be able to tell this to HGL-PL teams prior to entering HGL-PL what's the name of the game. Season 6 is approaching fast now though.
While this announcement comes late, it's better now than it would've been, if Season 6 would've already started.

Therefore I'll now have to decide, that due to a draw on voting in question (and my vote on "no change") teams won't be dropped out of HGL (in other words, facing a relegation threat) due to bad success during HGL Season 6 Regular Season.

As both of teams entering the league, M.L.S. REICH and San Fernando VR, are on the lighter side of the top8-player budget, voting could've/probably would've turned into a "no for a change" anyway, should they have felt threatened for their league position due to a possible rule change.

Last edited by Wagner at 8/1/2026 1:13:17 PM

I had to send 4 invitations, but the manager of Madrid Chotis for some reason decided to invite me (my bad for accepting purely on it being the right time). That made for 3 problematic ones. Although with Vindicta, it seems that we might finally have the right time, so 2 "bad" invitations remain where I once again see 16:30 Italy's time (!).

To say the truth, I'm not so sure when I will return to my timezone. Should be August 9th at the latest, but maybe a day or two earlier.



Last edited by kecal at 8/1/2026 3:41:47 PM

I had to send 4 invitations, but the manager of Madrid Chotis for some reason decided to invite me (my bad for accepting purely on it being the right time). That made for 3 problematic ones. Although with Vindicta, it seems that we might finally have the right time, so 2 "bad" invitations remain where I once again see 16:30 Italy's time (!).

To say the truth, I'm not so sure when I will return to my timezone. Should be August 9th at the latest, but maybe a day or two earlier.

I don't see any match links in your box score post... Could you perhaps send few here (that you have already organized, and preferably that/those that you consider being played at correct time, so that I could check them out for you, which ones show up as correct time (when I open up the match link), so that you could then organize rest at the same time (as the ones I've confirmed to be correct)?

Of course nothing is absolutely guaranteed to work, especially if BB reacts to your possible time zone changes automatically (when sending/accepting new challenges) but we could try this option, yes?

Other way of trying to solve this is for you to check out what time our match (vs. Wagner College on Season 6) seems to be played, when you see your "regular BB schedule"? This should give you a strong clue of the correct time (but I'm not sure if that's 100% foolproof method in this case).

*EDIT*
Your match against Vindicta (VDT) on August 23rd for example seems to be played at correct time, 15.30EET DST: (139849660).
So two questions:
1. What time does it show up in your regular BB schedule?
2. Does it (VDT-VIV) show as the same time as our match (Wagner College)?

Last edited by Wagner at 8/1/2026 4:04:42 PM

Wagner, I've used help from the WMO manager, who made an invitation at the correct time (many thanks!). I've also put three other links on my boxscore post, all seem normal to me (after having sent invitations repeatedly to FRE and VDT). Other links I will sort out in the coming week. (The process is really cumbersome away from the computer.)

Wagner, I've used help from the WMO manager, who made an invitation at the correct time (many thanks!). I've also put three other links on my boxscore post, all seem normal to me (after having sent invitations repeatedly to FRE and VDT). Other links I will sort out in the coming week. (The process is really cumbersome away from the computer.)

Thanks for an update again, kecal!
I can only imagine how cumbersome it can get, as I've never done it by phone - one probably needs to try to develop some certain optimal method of action by the trial and error, and it's still likely way more arduous than with a computer.

If that's of any help, match times (they show as 15.30EET DST to me) seem to be correct on those matches that you now have available at your box score post.

@all HGL managers:
I´m once again doing a follow up on teams, on how we're progressing on our pre-season 6 match organizing project, here: (332267.17).


Last edited by Wagner at 8/6/2026 5:24:01 AM

HGL Threads should now be (at least mostly) set up.

Please let me know if you find any errors. Too many hours writing, copying, pasting, editing links and such, so I might become blind to my own mistakes... ;)

Good luck all HGL teams with your drafts - according to recent post on BB global, we'll likely be wiser about our draft success in 3 to 6 hours or so!

Last edited by Wagner at 8/3/2026 11:45:21 AM

Still not in HGL, but as a hopeful future HGLer... my draft was a bit deflating... I finished last, so was hoping for first pick (there was a very good player, that is already for sale!! (55847277))... but I picked 16th... suppose it is fair, I just played 3 games...

I got anyway (55847303), 19 years old, PG, a 5/4 A+ (4th in my draft list), perennial allstar, which is one of my best players at 64 (48+16).

My second pick was probably even better... (55847301), 19 years old, 4/4 B- (11th in original list) superstar, also one of my best players at 65 (39+26)

Third one, well, just a body, (55847312). He is my 10th player. I am still short 3 players to be happy... but that will be next draft!!!

edit:
curiously, my newly mint Utopia team, with much less draft information, I got 2 MVP and 1 perennial allstar, picking 7th.

Last edited by Brucehum at 8/5/2026 7:27:02 AM