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.