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I have 13 matches arranged, I did my part with challenges, if I don't receive challenges in a couple of days, I'll challenge the rest myself.

Gongratz, great to hear that the promotion worked out in the end!

Well, I am proud of my decision not to break my HG status just to promote. I lost the finals, but because I went 21-1 and had the second-best point differential of all Australian Div III teams...I'm promoting to Div II. :D

I probably won't win many games, but the promotion bonus, bigger economy and the arena boost will all make my efforts worth it.

Meanwhile...

...the Homegrown Kings continue to train!

You should be, that's the real HG(L) spirit!
It all tastes so much sweeter, when you have taken the hard path and succeed.

I have 13 matches arranged, I did my part with challenges, if I don't receive challenges in a couple of days, I'll challenge the rest myself.

Thank you for info, it's good to hear from multiple managers where we stand currently.

Now that people have started creating (and partly filling) their own box score posts for Season 5, that'll also help us to see the progress.

The match inspection process though hasn't been started, and if someone wants to take part of that (and think that they're very careful/precise person and know how to do it correctly), they can let me know. We could for instance do certain RS Rounds per manager.
But it's possible for me to handle that myself as well, it's just good to know beforehand what's the case.

As I mentioned though, it's arduous process that requires concentration and there's zero room for error, so everybody please only lift your hand if you think you can handle (part of) that Season 5 match inspection process with precision. :)

Sorry for my late :
- I had some time (at last) yesterday, but the game was down for a whole 24 h :(
- before that, I had few time, but received invitation just before I was about to create them !!

- so, for the 3-4 missing games, let me do the job please (I'll do it tomorrow ;)

Sorry for my late :
- I had some time (at last) yesterday, but the game was down for a whole 24 h :(
- before that, I had few time, but received invitation just before I was about to create them !!

- so, for the 3-4 missing games, let me do the job please (I'll do it tomorrow ;)

Same with me - as we're bit late this time, 24h stretch was a very much uninvited guest for most of us.

Especially now that we are pressed in time, I don't mind if someone else sends correct PU match challenge (other than person responsible of doing so in the first place), as long as all match details are correct.

Remember, match time is the same time that you see on your BB schedule our match (vs. Wagner College) being played at. This same advice goes with all HGL managers.
For me it shows 15.30 for Season 5, and for you for instance it should show as being played 14.30 (02.30PM) because France's time zone is one hour behind Finland.

((Im not sure if BB would allow any "advertising" of websites, but one more way to ensure correct match time would be to use reliable online time converter website to find out what's the time difference between my and your time zone. However, we are on safer waters I believe, if everyone just checks out their BB schedule to see what's the time they are playing against my team (Wagner College)).

Last edited by Wagner at 4/29/2026 12:27:23 PM

@all HGL managers, important:

EDIT May 1st: I just checked it and 14 managers have created their own box score post for Season 5.

This means 4 managers have not yet done that.

Season 5 starts in about 3 days, and I have lots of things to do, including finishing and publishing rest of Season 5 posts.

Nobody should wait for all those to be finished before starting their work; please proceed immediately to
- creating your box score post
- accepting correct PU match challenges and sending challenges what you need to send
- add all those matches to your own teams' box score post.

Teams that have not yet created their post as of 1st of May, in alphabetical order:
- ALA
- FRE
- VPO
- WMO


Please also remember, that I/we (if there will be volunteers) need to inspect each and every one of these links, which will take considerable chunk of time.

Our schedule is tight even if they all would be 100% correct, so please try to make sure you send and accept only correct challenges!

Last edited by Wagner at 5/1/2026 6:15:10 AM

@ all HGL managers:

Quick action is needed in order to ensure Season 5 will start in time.

Season 5 Threads have now been practically completely been established, here:
Home-Grown League (HGL) Season 5 Official Thread: (331392.1)
HGL Scores Season 5 Official Thread: (331391.1)

As for how to proceed, I believe all of you have a good grasp what needs to be done with match organizing, as nothing has changed from Season 4, other than being in a major rush.

There are typical informative posts available though if you're feeling unsure, for example this post (331392.16) and one above it, here: (331392.15).

Also posts on Announcements-sections on both Official Threads (second messages of Threads) do give you some memory refreshers on how you should now start to function.

I do strongly emphasize that we are very pressed with time, so I ask everybody to act immediately.

One of the challenges are that
A) I can't spend tons of time in BB every day, including tomorrow
B) I haven't had time to check a single match link some managers have provided
C) 10 out of 18 managers haven't created their box score post; is this due to not just having copied it from their device to Season 5 Thread, or have they not even started creating one?
D) I can't still know if all matches have been organized or not
E) I don't know if someone wants to help with part of the match specs inspection process or not (in verifying match specs are correct)
F) EDIT: it seems to return some kind of error-page, if I try to click any match link from box score posts - probably it's related to this BB server migration process somehow. Inconvenient though, if goal is to verify all links.

As I said, my BB access tomorrow will very likely be minimal.

So I ask and expect everyone to proceed with match organizing process for Season 5 RS "with full steam", and I'll reply as soon as possible (but I'm sure also some active HGL managers might be able to help you, if I'm not online at that moment).

Last edited by Wagner at 4/29/2026 6:42:23 PM