On week 19 of 2019 the first ever Ladder really kicked off.

SCQ Ladder

Rule Changes

Rules has been updated to version 1.1 Change summary of 1.1. rules

• Fjell 652 map messed up competitive matches a bit. Now we have even number of maps in the Squad Conquest. It brings couple of challenges that needed some attention. New section added to the rules “2.1 Switching the sides“
• The new Medic Bolt Action Carbines Commando Carbine and the Tromboncino M28 didn’t get much love from the community and both of the new guns were banned 1.1.4 Bolt-Action Carbines. The latest Finnish addition to the game Lahti-Saloranta M26 is added to allowed guns as is the Selbstlader 1906 what was forgotten from the initial vote.
• The latest P08 Carbine (Recon) is still on the table. It’s not banned nor allowed for time being. If a gun is not specifically allowed, you are not allowed to use it in the comp matches.
• Added a short “2.5 Entering the result” entry to outline how the score is recorded

Read the rules carefully and take note of the new side switching policy.

Playing the ladder

Teams has been struggling a bit with challenging other teams. The whole community is learning the new Ladder system, admins included. The initial intention was the challenges to be more serious in that sense, that once a challenge is made, it can’t be declined – except by forfeiting. It’s a challenging task and teams can’t be forced to play on short notice or on absurd times. We are driving the challenges to a direction where challenge must be accepted, but the timing is still negotiable. More about that once we have concluded something.

We are working on the site system to make the site tool better support our intentions. While we are improving the site, I would ask teams to work together for better ladder experience

• Don’t challenge a team with a short notice. Give enough time to your opponent to arrange the game.
• To make the ladder smoother you should pre-agree with your potential opponent. Agree timing and make the challenge to the system after you have agreed the details with your opponent.
• If you get challenged try to react to the challenge as soon as possible. Contact the challenger if the timing does not suite you and if you can’t play nor reach the opponent decline the challenge to free up both teams for other challenges.

Matches

The Ladder start to shape up as teams are playing the matches. It’s definitely not there yet, but we are starting to see a pattern.

The ladder games from last week

Congrats for the winners!

Teams

We have quite a lot teams attending already. Several new teams joined just the past week. We also lost another team when ParE decided to step down.

There are 23 teams fighting for their positions on the ladder! Most of the teams have not fought yet. The ladder will show some real positions in coming weeks when more matches has been fought.

SCQ League

Qualification for the league is through the ladder. Play with your team to Rank on the ladder and on the 30th of May your team will be placed in the league division. Of the current 23 teams already battling it out on the PS4 ladder, 11 of these have yet to apply to the league. If your team wish to merely use the ladder as a scrim tool this is fine and of course is one of the uses for the ladder, however if your team wishes to compete in league division you will also need to apply for the league. The teams on the ladder are not automatically in the league. Without the clarification by applying your team could miss out.

Format

The League format will comprise of divisions of 8 teams. This means that the highest ranked teams on the the ladder on the 30th of May who have applied to the league will make up the 1st division. The next 8 will qualify for the 2nd division , as we move forward with more teams joining we will add more divisions where needed. These 8 team will be divided into two groups of 4. The teams in the groups will play each other once, giving them 3 matches to play in the group phase of the division.  The teams finishing in the first two places will qualify for the knockout phase of the league.  This gives us two semifinals with the winners of these going through to the final playing to become division 1 season 1 Champions.

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.

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 😉

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

Another week has passed and a lot has happened. Teams come and go and lot’s of fights has been fought.

Leagues

There are lot’s of newcomers in the leagues and we ask patience from the ”veteran” teams with new teams learning the system. Please help the newcomers the best you can so we all will have a smoother league experience.

There are some dropout teams and there are some teams in queue waiting for a spot in leagues, but we are still struggling with the replacements. If a team replaces a dropout they don’t want to start with some lost matches already on their score. At the same time existing league teams usually don’t want to play a match that was scheduled to an earlier time and points were earned.

The following teams has recently dropped out from different leagues, for various reasons

• 1810 – DOM T5 USA S3 PS4
• 8Pz – DOM T5 EU S3 D1 A PS4
• PLG – DOM T5 EU S3 D1 B PS4
• ParE – F-LINE EU T8 D PS4
• 1B – DOM T5 EU S3 D3 B PS4
• D3TH – F-LINE EU T8 D PS4

We will not replace any of these teams. The matches against dropout teams will be forfeit for the teams still in the league.

T5 Domination

The leagues group phase in both EU and US is coming to it’s end and we are moving to semifinals. There are still a few matches that need to be played. The window for playing these matches closes on Friday the 16th Feb, that is the final day group matches can be played. If there are matches still unplayed after that date, admins will decide the fait of them on case by case basis. If one team has actively tried to schedule the match and the other has been dodging or not answering at all we will rule it to the more active team. If both teams are equally inactive it will be a draw. If you are planning to have a late match please discuss with admins. We all want to move to the next phase ASAP.

T8 Frontlines

The new game mode in BCL has started quite well. Each group has 1-2 matches played so it’s too early to say who are the top dogs in each group.

We have been having a lively discussion in the T8 Council about the penalties of rule violations. As playing teams know the result of a T8 match is recorded as one of three choices:

1. Team 1 Wins
2. Team 2 Wins
3. Draw

That’s all we know about the match, the winner or draw. If a rule is broken what should be the penalty? This is shaping up slowly, but it’s a tough nut to crack. At the moment it looks like council wants to have teams manually keeping up the actual flag count of each round and rule violations would deduct flags from the end situation. So the teams are not only responsible of proving the violation, but also the ticket situation at the end of the round.

The penalties in T8 is not decided yet, therefore we don’t resolve any of the disputes in T8 yet.

T12 Conquest

After the restart of T12 we have divisions in T12 also. In D1 all the teams have managed to play one gam. In D2 we have only one group and all the teams have played two games already. There are still many matches to play and it’s too early to start speculating the outcome of this one.

Other topics

Disputes

There is a growing number of complicated disputes in many leagues. It is extremely important to dispute the match using the dispute button on the fixture page. Please do not send your disputes directly to any of the admins. It is impossible to keep track of dozens of DMs. Also please check the rules carefully before the dispute and remember that only a dispute with clear evidence of the violation can result to penalties. If you don’t have solid video and/or image evidence, don’t dispute it.

Rules

All the rules are visible to all players in the league page under the ”View League Rules” and ”Community Rules” buttons. You can find the same rules from this news site from the top menu.

• Community rules The rules of clans, agreeing matches and penalties
• T5 Domination the domination game mode specific rules
• T8 Frontlines the frontline game mode specific rules
• T12 Conquest the conquest game mode specific rules