May 11, 2018May 11, 2018 Jamppu_Fi Weekly News

BCL NEWS W19/18

The mystery around the next Battlefield game is close to be solved! The “Zombie Room” Easter egg was finally cracked and in the solution there was again some Morse-code that spelled out to an URL http://ea.com/neverbethesame The message on that page is quite clear

Like with BF1 there will be a reveal event on 23rd May, where they will show the first trailer of the next battlefield. There are some references to May 28th too in the javascript code on the page, but nevertheless the next Battlefield will be revealed in May!

Dice just loves being mysterious. In the “zombie room” that opens by pressing buttons in Fort De Vaux there is a white horse painting on the floor. For a web page one can set a “featured image” that shows when you paste a link to a some social media. For the EA link above the featured image is this white horse (you can test it by pasting the link to i.e. Discord).

The painting must be somehow related to BF2018, but who knows how?!? But still – the wait is over in just in couple of weeks we will know what the next Battlefield is all about!

Leagues

We have had good progress on the leagues. T8 FL league is finished and we have our very first T8 Champ. Also new T5 leagues are starting. We have already started T5 for PS4 and XB1. The PC league is more complicated, since it looks like PC clans stopped playing the previous season. There are lot’s of pending fixtures and the league doesn’t seem to be advancing. Admins are trying to sort this out and figure out if the league could be continued or if it needs a restart.

Incursions has landed and that has been mostly positive thing. The negative is that teams are dropping from other leagues due to concentrating into Incursions. The following teams have dropped from ongoing leagues:

DZ46 DOM T5 EU S4 D3 B (replaced with LGLS)
Ya DOM T5 EU S4 D1 B (replaced with eXn)
TRB DOM T5 EU S4 D1 B
GW DOM T5 EU S4 D1 A
GWv DOM T5 EU S4 D2 A

Big thanks to both Dz46 and Ya for letting us know they are dropping way before the league started. We managed to replaces those two teams, but with all the rest of the dropouts are just free 4-0 wins to their opponents.

T5 DOMINATION

We started already a week ago the EU PS4 league and this weekend the XB1 league is finally starting. In the PS4 EU league there was a round of fixtures and Battle Epic casted the opening match between HS and MaD

Other first round matches included

iACE vs. HzD 2-2, tight match between two top teams. Both teams ended up taking one map, but the mid rounds 2 and 3 were extremely tight ending up in only 2 and 3 ticket difference
Apex vs. FPH 4-0, Apex gave a fair warning to D1 by beating FPH with clean sweep
RoR* vs. DtcH 3-1, The newcomer in D2 DtcH got a worm welcome to the next division by RoR*
FWS vs. Grox 4-0, FWS took it home this time
SyB5 vs. LsRs 0-4 Two newcomers in the T5 league fought it off and LiRs was the better team this time
ParE vs. LGLS 0-4 a newcomer and a replacement LGLS took it home this time
MaD vs. HS 4-0 another newcomer MaD took the big W from the returning HS

T8 FRONT LINES

The very first Front Lines league has came to it’s end and we have a brand new champion: Gloria Victis.

Upcoming leagues

Incursions seems to be quite popular in the comp scene. BCL is preparing it’s first Incursions tournament. We will open the registration soon.

T8 Front Lines was relatively popular and I would assume there is still enoug interested teams to have a new season of T8.

T12 Conquest is a big question mark. Many teams have dropped, but is there still enough teams for a new season?

We will probably open registration for both T8 & T12 and see how many teams are interested. If enough teams register we will kick off a new season.

April 26, 2018April 26, 2018 Jamppu_Fi Info

How to play Incursions

The new exiting competitive game mode Incursions is finally out on all platforms as a “FIRST LOOK” preview. It’s intense 5v5 war in three different game modes. BCL will soon start League on Incursions too, but while waiting you should familiarise yourself to the details of this new kind of war.

Get the game

First step to get into the game, you would need to download the game. It’s not part of the Battlefield 1 and it’s not available on store by default, you would need to activate Incursions in the game menu to get the DL.

Start up your Battlefield 1 base game
Go to the “More” tab on the main menu Select “Battlefield 1 Incursions” Follow the on-screen instructions
“Battlefield 1 Incursions” will become available in your games collection Download and install the separate game client for “Battlefield 1 Incursions” via the PlayStation Store/Xbox Marketplace
Launch “Battlefield 1 Incursions” from your console’s home screen

It’s not plug’n’play

If you are a lone wolf playing the game is quite easy, just pick your game mode and start to rock and roll. But we here in BCL are used to play competitive, with our team – that’s when it gets tricky.

In incursions there is this idea that PSN party joins the game in it’s entirety, but for some unknown reason Dice allows only party of 3 to apply for a game. If you have more than 3 in party you cant join any of the public games.

Public games

If you want to join a public game (ranked or casual) just make sure there aren’t more than 3 in your party, when you are trying to join. All members of your party must be in the Incursions game and when the leader of the party selects the match making you will all join the same game.

I don’t know what Dice was thinking when they made this limitation of max. 3 in a party. It must be some kind of random protection to avoid competition teams totally own random teams. I can only hope this is different when the final game releases.

Private Matches

This is what we want. In Incursions anyone can set up a private game. You need 10 players to kick off a private game. One of the players is the game organiser (GO). This is how it’s done

GO selects the private match option in the main menu
You can select some parameters here – like server continent and game mode.
Make sure all participants are out of any party on the console (joining seems to fail more often if any of the players are in a party)
GO needs to have all players (own and enemy) in he’s friend list to be able to invite all players to the game
When players accept the invite they became visible in the game. It’s GO’s responsibility to put players in corresponding teams
When all 10 players are set to teams GO must select start game
If everything went well, all the players joins the game and you start picking up your kits. At this point you can use either the games own VOIP or join a party for better quality communication channel.

If any of the players fails to join the private match on phase 5. the server will disconnect and you would need to start all over.

Stranger Kits

The kits one can use in any of the Incursions game modes are quite limited. They are often mixtures of the main game classes and you can select only from a few choices. Most of the kits have some variation in the load out, but just some. Usually it’s two weapons to choose from.

In a match of incursions there can be only one Squad leader, one vehicle operator and one of the each available kit. Here is the outline of available kits

Squad Leader

Name	Primary	Secondary	Gadgets	Grenade
Raid Leader	Ribeyrolles 1918 Factory 12g Automatic Extended	Mle 1903 Bull Dog Revolver	Medical Crate Spawn Beacon	Impact Grenade Smoke Grenade
Control Leader	Autoloading 8 .35 Factory SMLE MKIII Marksman	Gasser M1870 Mle 1903	Flare Gun, Spot Crossbow Launcher, SMK	Incendiary Grenade Light Anti-Tank Grenade

Vehicle Operator

Name	Primary	Secondary	Gadgets	Grenade
Battle Mechanic	M1911 Extended C96 Carbine	Howdah Pistol Mle 1903	Bandage Pouch Repair Tool	Smoke Grenade Light Anti-Tank Grenade
DemolitionDriver	C96 Carbine Pieper M1893	Bull Dog Revolver Mle 1903	Ammo Crate Dynamite	Frag Grenade Smoke Grenade

Soldier

Name	Primary	Secondary	Gadgets	Grenade
Mortar Support	MG15 n.A. Suppressive Madsen MG Storm	Repetierpistole M1912 No. 3 Revolver	Ammo Pouch Mortar — HE	Mini Grenade Light Anti-Tank Grenade
AT Assault	MP 18 Experimental M1907 SL Sweeper	BTaschenpistole M1914 Mars Automatic	Anti-Tank Grenade Limpet Charge	Frag Grenade Smoke Grenade
Shock Assault	BAR M1918 Trench 12g Automatic Backbored	Bull Dog Revolver Mle 1903	Crossbow Launcher — HE Anti-Tank Mine	Stick Grenade Incendiary Grenade
Trench Surgeon	Autoloading 8 .25 Extended Mondragón Storm	P08 C93	Bandage Pouch Medical Syringe	Smoke Grenade Light Anti-Tank Grenade
Proximity Recon	MP 18 Trench Russian 1895 Trench	Frommer Stop Bodeo 1889	Helmet Decoy Anti-Tank Mine	Impact Grenade Light Anti-Tank Grenade
Combat Sniper	Gewehr M.95 Marksman Russian 1895 Sniper	Gasser M1870 Mars Automatic	K Bullets Mortar — AIR	Mini Grenade Impact Grenade

April 26, 2018April 27, 2018 Jamppu_Fi Weekly News

BCL NEWS W17/18

We are back with some cool stuff to share!

The rumours on the next Battlefield game are all settled to the Battlefield V – a WWII game. No new rumours on the topic. But the latest hot topic has been the Royale game mode that is rumoured to be part of the next Battlefield. Could we really see a survivor game mode in the next battlefield game!

Also interesting rumour from the CoD camp, it’s said that the next CoD game – Black Ops 4 – is not, and I repeat is not, going to have a single player campaign at all! Even thou most of the CoD players play the campaign only once and keep on playing the multiplayer for yers, the cinematic campaigns has been the signature content in CoD games for decades. It’s going to be interesting to see if they really dear to leave the campaign out.

Leagues

Leagues are moving on. Many teams has set their mind to the next Battlefield already and we have lost some teams to the eternal pit of inactivity but there are still plenty of teams fighting in BF1.

T5 DOMINATION

The next season is scheduled to start on 4th of May. The kickoff will be simultaneously on PS4 and XB1. For PS4 this is already our 4th season of Domination. During the past seasons we have managed to fine-tune our rules to almost perfection. But still for season 4 there are some minor changes, like

Incendiary Grenade has been banned
Most of the optical LGMs are banned

You can view the rules in the rules section of the news site.

Playstation 4

We have 24 teams fighting in 3 divisions and six groups – two groups in each division. The teams in each division are based on past performance and judgement from the admins 😉

Div 1

Group A

iAce
Hazard
ProLegion
Guerrilla Warfare Gaming

Group B

Apex-eSports
Finish Publa Heroes
::YaHooLiGaN’s
Tribe eGaming

Div 2

Group A

Killerclowns
Guerrilla Warfare Vanguard
Tribe eGaming Team Two
PORTUGAL SQUADS

Group B

RoR* eSports
Dutchies
German Fight Machines
KING POLSKA

Div 3

Group A

Flyswatters
Grox squad
Symbiosi5
Limitless Rules

Group B

Paratrooper Elite
Dz46
MaD Players
Hardsnugglers

There are still some unclear teams we might add, so there is a slim chance of updates still…

XboxOne

The T5 for XB1 has been pending for a while. The main reason has been the lack of teams. We have now bunch of teams in the XB1 league and we are trying to kick off XB1 league as well. The main concern is if all the attending teams are still active.

PC

PC league is struggling too. Teams are dropping out and fixtures are pending. The only advice we can give is that if a match doesn’t happen you can take a free win, just mark each round 100-0 to the system. Usually if your opponent is active they will dispute the match. This way we can both move the league forward and get reaction from potentially inactive teams.

T8 Front Lines

The first season of Front Lines is coming to it’s end, we have just the final left. Unfortunately we had some dropouts in the knockout phase, two teams in the same bracket went inactive, but in the end GV and RoR are fighting in the final.

Good Luck to both teams to the finals, let’s see who is the champ!

T12 Conquest

In the last issue of Weekly News we closed all divisions of T12 with new champions. T12 haven’t been the most popular game mode in the past. We are considering if there will be another season of T12 anytime soon. For time being there is no T12, but after some while we might open registrations for it and see if there are enough teams to have a league.

T5 Incursions

Many teams has started training the new game mode. BCL is preparing to launch a T5 INC league soon. If you are not yer familiar with this new Battlefield competitive game mode there is a short introduction to Incursions in this very site.

Once we have started the T5 DOM leagues we will start focusing on Incursions and what needs to happen to launch an incursions league. So you better get your team ready for some incursions.

April 12, 2018April 13, 2018 Jamppu_Fi Weekly News

BCL NEWS W12-14/18

Hello fellow soldiers and welcome back to the newsletter. I was away for a while and I missed a week, I apologise for that, but what a two weeks it has been!

Incursions is finally here. It just launched on the consoles also. For more information check this awesome Reddit. Finally we have the ”competitive” game mode of Battlefield – BCL will soon open registration to the first season of Incursions!

Leagues

The ball is rolling and leagues are moving forward as planned. Leagues has ended and new ones are about to start.

T5 DOM

The registration to the next season of T5 just ended and we have started the council work to fix the details about the season. About half of the attending teams have nominated their representative to the council. It’s totally ok to leave the details to other teams, if your team is not interested in the council work, but I would strongly recommend all participating teams to have that one representative in the council. All the decisions about the season is made in the council and it would help us all to have a balanced season if we have a council with good coverage over the participating teams.

To nominate your council representative post the name of your representative for the Domination Council to the #registration channel on the BCL Discord. Use the following format:
[TEAM TAG] #dom-council representative @discordnick

We are now building the divisions and groups for the next season. Also the council work will take some time, but we hare hoping to get the next season started in next couple of weeks.

PS4 T5 Season 3 EU has finished on all Divisions. Last time the Div 1 & Div 2 already had their champs, but the final match in Div 3 Between DtcH and KC was still open.

Now we have champs in all three divisions – BCL congratulates!

T8 FRONT LINES

Frontlines are in the knockout phase and the semifinal teams are shaping up.

RoR took the first spot on semis by defeating Tribe
oX took the first semifinal place in the second bracket by defeating ZDiv

Both teams are waiting for their opponents from the matches 2eZy vs. Epic and GV vs. FPH

T12 CONQUEST

The Conquest league on EU PS4 has reached it’s end. In T12 we had two divisions, Div 1 & Div 2. In Div 1 we had two groups and had a full tournament series, with group phase, semifinals and the final.

The Div 1 final was between Gloria Victis vs. ITS TOO EASY BRO.

In the Div2 we had only one group. Therefore there was not knockouts just the group matches and the final standings are the group end standings

After a colourful season of T12 Domination we have two new champions:

BCL Congatulates Gloria Victis for their Division 1 Victory. Also Big hand for Team D3TH for taking the Victory in the Division 2.

TEAM DEATH MATCH

BCL started a T5 TDM League ages ago. Most of the teams bailed from the league and in the end the league virtually died on our hands. But from the ashes of the dead league, two teams rises to fight for the BCL TDM Championship!

BCL TDM Final 28th April 2018 9pm UK
Loz Manoz vs. Killerclowns

March 21, 2018March 22, 2018 Jamppu_Fi Info

T5 New Seasons are Starting

While we are getting new champions from the Season 3 we are starting the next season. The registration is now open for

T5 Season 4 PS4 EU
T5 Season 3 PS4 US
T5 Season 3 PC EU
T5 Season 1 XB1 EU

You can find the registration from the main menu of the BCL website on the top menu under the ”Leagues” and selecting your platform. To apply to a league you must be logged in to the site.

After registration to a league I would also suggest you to post a name of your representative for the Domination Council to the #registration channel on the BCL Discord. Use the following format:
[TEAM TAG] #dom-council representative @discordnick

Each attending team is entitled to 1 position on the council. The council makes all the important decisions regarding the season setup and rules. It’s important to have a good coverage of the teams to participate on these decision – after all this is a community league 😉

On the next seasons we are still setting the teams in Divisions, where applicable. The promotions and demotions from previous season applies. New teams divisions are decided on case by case basis. We might require a new team to scrim a match or two against teams of our choice to help us decide the correct division.

March 19, 2018March 20, 2018 Jamppu_Fi Weekly News

BCL NEWS W11/18

Here we go again. No news about the BF2018, not even any new rumours! Incursions seems to be a mystery too. One might wonder how close to the BF2018 publishing date it would still make sense to publish Incursions to all platforms. It would still make sense, but if it’s not out latest at summer, it wouldn’t make any sense.

But the BCL keeps going. We are seeing new teams joining, but also heard from many teams, that they are going to retire from BF1 after this season.

Leagues

Concentrating on PS4 EU leagues. Still looking for volunteers to cover US or any other platform. Come on guys, I’m sure there are some talented writers who are playing other platforms or in US. It would be so cool to have a wider coverage of the of the league on this newsletter. Unfortunately I have only limited time to compile these newsletters – help would be appreciated.

T5 Domination

Season 3 is almost done. T5 in different divisions are having their finals done and we are good to go to Season 4. Registration will open soon, so watch those #announcements in Discord!

Division 1

The Division 1 final, the match for ultimate champion of the season, was on Sunday. In the final we had the best two teams in the league, iAce and Revelation.

And we have the new champion

Division 2

In the final HzD faced Ya and the champion is…

Division 3

The D3 final between DtcH and KC is scheduled for 22nd March 2018 at 8pm UK. Match is going to be casted on Battle Epic Twitch

T8 Front Lines

The first season of Front Lines is moving to the Knockout phase. There are no division, but there are plenty of groups. We still have some pending matches, so the knockout games will need to wait for conclusion of those matches. From the Admin perspective it looks like they are all more or less due time or pending a dispute, so it’s likely we will start the knockouts next week.

If you are in T8 and still have a match that is not played, you should act on it now. The last day to conclude your T8 Group match is 25th March.

T12 Conquest

We have two divisions in T12. The D2 has only one group, so the group standings are the final standings. In D1 we have two groups, what means the semi-finals. Based on the group phase success we are promoting and demoting two teams from both divisions. The last team in both D1 groups is getting demoted to D2 and the top two teams from D2 is getting promoted to D1.

Division 1

The division is moving to semifinals this weekend. Here are the teams

Division 2

There are three fixtures without results in the D2 group. Without these matches there are no official results. All of the matches are older than the set 2 week limit. If any of these matches is not completed by 25th March, it will be an admin decision. The default decision is 0-0, no point to either of the teams. The missing matches are

MOT – D3TH
MOT – Gwar
IRA – ZBIR

March 8, 2018March 8, 2018 Jamppu_Fi Weekly News

BCL NEWS W10/18

Yet another exciting week in BCL. In many leagues group phase in coming to it’s end and we are moving to next phases. Depending on the league it’s either te semifinals or the knockout games.

Latest on the Battlefield front is the rumours about the next Battlefield title. Until now the most viable rumour has been Battlefield Bad Company 3, but that’s yesterdays news. Due to some assumed leaks today the most popular rumour is Battlefield V – a WWII game. There is even a ”screenshot” of the development version of the next Battlefield’s title screen, but it’s not really giving anything away and who knows if it’s just a nice piece of Photoshop artwork by a fan.

Wildest rumours suggest that DICE is developing two games simultaneously. DICE Stockholm is concentrating in Battlefield V, The WWII game that will be released in Oct 2018. DICE Los Angeles is developing Battlefield Bad Company 3, that would likely be published in 2019.

Discord Server

Many things in the league are arranged and communicated in the BCL Discord Server. During the past couple of weeks Jkniteuk and x5u3x have been working hard to get the membership status up to date in the Discord server. We have made some substantial changes to the access levels of users. The main purpose of the Discord server is to operate as communication channel for BCL teams. We have closed some channels from non-members. We are hoping to serve better the teams playing in BCL and to cut down the unwanted behaviour we have seen in past by external trolls.

Channel Access

There has been some inconsistency during the update process and there still might be some. We apologise any disturbance this might have caused. But we are finally getting there. At the moment all Discord users who have registered with correct nick on BCL site should have the BCL Registered -label on their Discord user. This label opens all the discord channels.

There are some important things we would like to our members to remember

Please keep your nick in BCL Discord exactly the same as your player nick you have registered to BCL website (that should be the same as your in game nick)
The correct format of the Discord nick is [team tag]GamerNick.
You can ask admins to change your team tag and ask for BCL Registered label on #registration channel on BCL Discord Server
- For registered label you must be registered to BCL web site and you must be in a active team with minimum of 5 members
Please do not change your Discord nick from the guidelines above or you might loose your BCL Registered label

#team-reps

We have a special readonly channel for #team-reps. The purpose of this channel is to serve teams as yellow pages of contact persons. Not all teams are in Discord so the list will newer be complete, but we are trying to get the list as comprehensive as possible. Admin team would appreciate if all active teams in Discord would check the list and update/add the missing teams and/or contacts to @Jkniteuk#6592 via DM in Discord. Please help us to get the list up to date. In the end it will help you too, to find the contact for your match 😉

The contact should primarily be the leader and/or captain of the team. If you have a team member without captain status who is your match organiser we can add per request those contacts also, but we would recommend you to promote all match organisers to Captain to help non-Discord teams to find proper contacts for your team.

Leagues

Again one team dropped from the competition. This time we lost a team from semifinals!

RAGE DOM T5 EU S3 D1 PS4

T5 Domination

The EU PS4 semifinals are almost done. We adjusted the division promotions a bit so that the both teams in the final are promoted to next division (if available).

BCL is looking for people for PC & XB1 league coverage and the same for US leagues. If you have proper english writing skills and you feel you could provide weekly updates for a league, please contact Jamppu_FI in Discord. It would be good to have proper updates about all the running leagues!

Division 1

Unfortunately we had to replace RAGE in the semifinals, what has caused a little delay in the league. GnS v iAce should happen in next few days and after that we can have the final.

The semifinal match between FPH and REV was what you would expect from a BCL semifinal – a real thriller. Battle Epic casted the match live

Division 2

Division 2 semifinals has already been played and we have the finalists

The HzD vs. Tribe 2 match was also casted, but with some little difficulties. Match is available in Twitch for a while

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/236626623

Division 3

Also in Division 3 the semifinals are done and we have our divisional finalists

Once again, one of the semifinal matches was casted, this time it was the Dz46 vs. DtcH

T8 Frontlines

PS4 EU Frontlines league has still a few matches before we are moving to the knockout games. T8 has been successful, but there has been some complaints about missing divisions. Next season will be with divisions, but we needed a reference season to create a baseline for divisions.

T12 Conquest

PS4 EU Conquest league is almost ready for final matches. We are concluding the last pending match this weekend and hopefully we can move to the semifinals next weekend.

March 3, 2018March 5, 2018 Jamppu_Fi Info

Divisions in next season

We have had the first season with Divisions in BCL and the first Divisional semifinals are ongoing in T5. So what happens with divisions in the future.

Promotions and demotions

We have decided to fine tune the divisions and how teams are moving from division to division between the seasons. Both promotions and demotions are decided by following guidelines

In divisions below the 1st: The two finalist teams both are promoted to upper division
In divisions above the last: Last team from the group will be demoted to previous division

This means that if there are several groups there will be several teams moving between divisions.

T5 Domination on Season 4 EU PS4

In the current season 3 of T5 the promotions in D2 & D3 will be for the teams fighting in the finals.

Promotions

Div 2 -> Div 1
- ::YaHooLiGaN’s! [Ya]
- Team Hazard [HzD]
Div 3 -> Div 2
- Dutchies [DtcH]
- Killerclowns [KC]

Demotions

Div 1 -> Div 2
- Psycho- Intelligen [Psi]
- Band of Brothers [101]
Div 2 -> Div 3
- Starsi Panowie [SPOL]
- Clan Perros Viejos [CPV]

February 28, 2018March 1, 2018 Jamppu_Fi Weekly News

BCL NEWS W9/18

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

FPH vs. REV

RAGE vs. iAce

Division 2

Ya vs. B2H

HzD vs. TE

Division 3

Dz46 vs. DtcH

KC vs. ParE

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!

February 18, 2018February 28, 2018 Jamppu_Fi Weekly News

BCL News W8/18

Again a week full of epic battles is ending. What’s going on in the community.

The new Apocalypse patch has seriously been apocalyptical. The patch broke the game by adding a micro freeze or stuttering into the game each time a player scores points. There are many rumours about how to work around it and what causes it, but until there is more clarity, teams are allowed to postpone their already confirmed fixtures.

Leagues

All leagues are moving onward. We are starting XB1 Leagues soon as well.

Unfortunately the league of dropouts is still growing. I would like the teams to be a bit more solid, before entering the leagues. I’m afraid we would have to re-initiate the minimum point system to enter the leagues. Teams who has left the league

Eternal Victory [eV] F-LINE EU T8 D PS4

T5 Domination

We are working hard to get the final matches of T5 group phase in PS4 done. Teams are eagerly waiting for the next phase of the league, that cannot start before group phase is completed. We have now waited enough and the fights not yet done after the Friday 23rd Feb will be closed. Next step would be the final games and the target is to start playing those from 2nd March.

T8 Frontlines

We updated the T8 penalties into the Community Rules. For each violation the penalty is a loss of one capture point/MCOM station.

I.e if teams play DRAW = at the end teams have equal number of flags on their possession. A player in Blue team used a banned weapon to kill one enemy. The Blue team would loose one flag, resulting in Red team to win. For more detailed information and samples please visit our new FAQ section.

T12 Conquest

The week in T12 has been busy, not only fighting but also disputing and breaking rules. There are some new teams that seem to have troubles understanding the rules or rules are broken on purpose. This will not be tolerated in BCL.

League is still moving on and there are some good fights coming up. The battle for the #1 position in CQ T12 EU S3 D1 B will take place on Sunday 25th Feb when Zdiv faces GV. The winner of the match will take the first place in the group B and will be facing the second team in Group A for the spot in the final. The Zdiv-GV match will be live on Battle Epic Twitch on Sunday 25th Feb 8pm UK.