◆ Announcement

The game begins on Monday, August 3rd.

Hey, We have 29 registered teams as of me writing this announcement. That is enough to start playing, sooner than I originally intended. I'm also testing an email feature with this announcement, to make sure everyone is in the know. I promise I won't spam your emails too much. Only the most important announcements, and notifications about your club going idle or being under threat of deletion, will arrive via email. The rest you can read on the front page and discuss on Discord. So. The date is set. If nothing goes wrong, on Thursday, July 30, I will schedule the game's start: the leagues are created, and season 1 is drawn on the spot — every fixture and its announced maps, public from that moment. The world itself opens on Monday, August 3, when the first matches of week 1 play, and training begins to take effect. Clubs are seated by registration order — the earliest founders land in the Proleague, the rest fill the leagues below. I've decided to also add a few extra leagues to make sure that any new players during the first season can join and play right away. With potentially many bot teams filling the blanks, I've tried to make it so that bot clubs never promote. Every promotion spot goes to the highest-placed manager-run club. This might lead to weirdness and bugs, so we have to be vigilant. Hopefully this wont be an issue and we have a healthy playerbase. Players who join after the leagues have created will take over bot clubs- and if they join after Day 1, they will create a fresh team and the old bot team goes to free agency. This ensures everyone starts fresh, since bot teams will train on their own. It should also create some much needed early action on the transfer market. From August 3, the world starts to tick on its regular schedule: league matches at noon (New York time) on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, the junior leagues Tuesday and Thursday, the Starleague every Saturday. First champions will be crowned in week 12. That probably covers it. Fingers crossed I've smashed the worst of bugs. Best Regards from your reluctact sys admin / Claude's errand boy. -Joni / VaultDweller