18th Team will join HGL immediately (for Season 4) to replace Svätý Jur Snakers (HAD).
Team is called BC Rajaleidjad (manager Trailblazer), abbreviation in schedules BCR (122619).
He will need to be a bit more active once the League starts.
We should tell him to set a standard lineup, he could repeat my mistake from Season 2 :D
Yes, however, it's even more important to be active before the league starts. We have potentially very problematic match on Round 1, BCR-ALA, 2 new teams facing each other. It's also BCR's challenge responsibility, but maybe I need to ask ALA if they're willing to challenge.
I informed BCR manager that handling this match organization process needs some logins during this week. And still the box score post is missing. If you happen to see Trailblazer (BCR manager) in Discord or somewhere, please let him know we are slowly but surely starting to be in a rush.
And yes, pro-tip from you - once you have enough players and have set a deep starndard lineup, I think it's possible to avoid that kind of mistake. :)
EDIT: now that I took a quick glance at the rules, a clear rule is determined for the situation you faced (too little amount of players in a roster):
"B) not dressing at least 3 healthy players or
dressing less than 3 players to a match in total (whether injured or healthy) for the match:
Level 3 penalty; ineligibility for the current season playoffs."
On the other hand, by a quick glance I didn't found a clear statement to say this would apply to a match that has not been organized at all, but instead it does state in the beginning:
"However, there are practically only 4 additional categories on how one will get penalized:
A) become non-homegrown team during any part of HGL season
B) play too small roster, or cause a forfeit by dressing less than 3 players
C) not arrange or accept a correct Pickup match on time, which would cause match to be cancelled/postponed and/or leave another manager insufficient time to set lineups for match [...]"
And as far as Playoffs matches are concerned, which is another story of course but possibly could be applied here as well(?), it states:
"- If Playoff match is not played and it can be clearly proven which teams' fault this was, penalties will apply.; Level 2 penalty (0-50 forfeit loss) for the team committing the violation"
Again though, even though it's BCR's responsibility to challenge, we could be facing "who's the quilty part"-discussion, due to which I advice everybody to not get into any trouble, as that causes us and myself trouble. (As I've mentioned several times, I really don't want to make this a "prove it by screenshot"-league).
And for some situations, there is also no clear rule if nobody admits that they're guilty (even though always someone is, even though it includes interpretation to some extent especially as it's a special situation as new teams are concerned and as we are very much pressed in time), and I am emphasizing that very strongly in rules; please do follow the quidelines so that we aren't drawn into situations for where there are no rules and penalties set/in place.
Please correct me if I ignored some part in rules (that this possible incident is related to).
Luckily didn't have to visit rules-section all that often, so I can't remember every little detail without checking it out now and then.
Last edited by Wagner at 1/21/2026 6:55:17 AM