BCL is going strong and again we have some exciting games played and more to come.

The lag bug from the Apocalypse DLC has been fixed on all platforms. Leagues should go forward as usual.

What about the next game in Battlefield franchise? We all know the new Battlefield game coming up in Oct 2018. There is huge speculation what that could be. Will Battlefield continue with history theme and come up with a WWII game or are we coming back to modern days or even go to the future? Personally I think the time would be right for Bad Company 3 – but that’s just me 😉

There is still lifespan left with BF1 and the big question is what will happen with the Incursions? Are we still getting the competitive game mode to BF1 or is the current Incursions PC Alpha-test just preparation for the next Battlefield game.

Leagues

One team has partially quitted the league. It’s partially, because they are out from the US league only. EU leagues continue as usual.

• Team Hazard [HzD] DOM T5 USA S3 PS4 (Please note the EU team is still in game)

The the first the season in BCL with divisions. Depending on the league we are having several different Divisions for teams with different skill levels. The idea of Divisions is to provide the community teams with more equal opponents and in that sense more even matches – it looks like divisions work well.

The true champion of the season is of course the winner of the Division 1. On lower divisions the teams are playing for promotion to upper divisions or staying on the current one. The champion of a lower division is getting promoted to upper Division and the last team in a Division is going to be relegated to a lower division – if there is one.

T5 Domination

T5 EU PS4 is moving to semifinal stage. All divisions have now their semifinal fixtures scheduled for next Friday the 2nd March.

Battle Epic Will cover the most exciting matches of the finals. Keep looking at the #live-now announcement on BCL Discord and subscribe to Battle Epic to get informed when cast is live.

The semifinal pairs are

Division 1

Division 2

Division 3

The winners of these matches will be fighting in the Division Final.

The decider in Finals

The Finals and the Knockouts are a little different from the group phase fixtures. In the group phase teams are hunting for points and there doesn’t need to be a clear winner – it can end in a draw. In Knockout/Finals the teams are playing for the victory. In the event of 2-2 draw a tiebreaker round is played in Giant’s Shadow map where teams play one round – winner of that round wins the match.

In past the sides of the tiebreaker map has been random, the game has decided who’s German and who’s Brithish, but since there might a a some difference on the starting spawns there is a new option in the rules.

The team getting most tickets on the first four rounds can select the sides for the tiebreaker (German Empire /British Empire). The hosting team must be notified immediately in the beginning of the tiebreaker if the sides must be changed. The hosting team is responsible of making the side changes.

Confirming the semi-final match

Each semi-final match is scheduled on the BCL site. If you are the leader of a finalist team you can find your match schedule under My Clan -> knock out fixtures. From there you can do the regular match confirmation, map selections etc.

T8 Front lines

This is the first season of Front lines in BCL. We don’t have the Divisions on Front lines this season, but obviously the results of the first season is providing us the tools to start with Divisions on season 2.

Since all the participating teams are fighting in the same big Division, there are quite a lot of teams. There are four groups of 5. I have to say I’m surprised how popular Front lines is.

There are quite a lot of FL games still to be played so I would say it’s too early to start speculating about the qualifiers. But what we have seen so far there are some groups with a team with clear lead already while other groups are more equal. Lot’s of familiar names from other game modes on the top positions. You can see the current league situation from the PS4 Leagues page.

T12 Conquest

The season 3 of Conquest T12 EU on PS4 is on it’s final matches of group phase. The group leader boards are building up and we are starting to see who’s moving on to Finals and who are potentially getting promoted to next division and who are going to be denoted.

The outcome from D1 Group A is quite clear already. ITS TOO EASY BRO [2eZy] is going to be the winner of the Group A and second position is taken by Ownage Extreme [oX]. These two teams are moving to finals and face the top two from Group B.

The Group B is not as clear as Group A is. I had a luxury of casting the fixture between the current top two teams and it was an interesting fight.

Zdiv v Gloria Victis

The last match of Group B is still open and the end result of the group is depending on this last fixture, where the German Fight Machines [GFM] is facing the BEGA Élite PS4 [BEGA]. If the GFM wins the match 4-0 they would rise up to second position of the group and drop Zdiv from the finals. If GFM plays 2-2 draw they would be on 6 points, the same as Zbir and the team with higher combined ticket count would go to next phase. If GFM loses the match Zdiv would move forward to the finals. Exiting isn’t it!