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(On Season 5 used as a reminder post for HGL teams; for Season 6 this post will be reserved for same, or alternatively for HGL-PL use)

Schedules and my box score post have now been published on HGL Scores Season 6 Official Thread.

Please create an own box score post for your team, by responding to this post: (332268.22).

Like normally, you edit it as needed, and add match links to it when matches have been created by you and your opponents.
Again, if you have # in front of your team name in schedule posts (17 Rounds of matches), it's your responsibility to send the correct Pickup match challenge.

As usual, some essential instructional posts and posts including team links and official match times can be found already (links below), even though Season 6 Threads are still under construction:

What everyone who participates to Season 6 of HGL needs to do now-post: (332268.19).

Announcement 29.7.2026: We're ready to organize all Regular Season matches for HGL Season 6-post: (332268.2).

Links to participating teams-pages for easy match challenging, and official HGL match times for each team: (332268.18).

I have now sent a match offer/request to all of you, and this is the correct match time for HGL Season 6.
Send and accept Pickup matches only at this same time you see our match (vs. Wagner College) match taking place.

Everybody playing on HGL Season 6, please proceed to match organizing process immediately, as we have only 12 days until Season 6 starts.

If you have questions, please send me BBMail or ask them on HGL Threads.

Hi everyone, I tried to send invitations through my phone, yet every single one got wrong. I strongly suspect there's some bug involved, for the mistake is consistent: 14.30 (Italy's, where I'm now, time) turns into 16:30. I may try once again, yet I strongly ask everyone to check my invitations twice.

kecal

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.)