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when you create a new team just think these things: 1. Is he a good guy? 2. Is he a good player? 3. Number 1 question again. my only advice

Confirmed: FCM won't finish 16th in ECL Elite this season 🧐

Well your behaviour didnt make the party chat any better, especially rage quitting during ecl games

Kimmo (Dunza) broke the record last week for most shutouts during a tournament Congrats

I have been watching this situation quite closely from the “sideline” over the last few days. One thing really blowing my mind and the reason why I´m writing this lines, is the fact how arbitrary this decision is. If you make the effort to write and introduce rules you got to follow them and respect the wording – even and especially the ones who are carry them out. That is not the case here. Let´s dive into the wording of the relevant paragraphs: „13.3
Teams are allowed to release a player from their roster, provided this doesn’t violate the roster size rule. If a player is released or transferred to another team and thus the roster size is temporarily below the limit mentioned in 2.2, the team has 24 hours to invite a new player to the team to meet the rule again, otherwise it will be disqualified. Released players cannot go back to the team that released them and their next move is considered a transfer from the team that released them. 13.4
Team captains are not allowed to be transferred during a league/tournament. Team assistant captains are allowed to transfer in case the team captain agrees to a transfer. In case the team captain disagrees, an assistant captain is not allowed to be transferred to another team. This paragraph also applies if a team is not able to finish the tournament for whatever reason. 13.8
If a team is disqualified, its managers are banned from the league/tournament. The other roster players are free to transfer to another team, unless they were proven involved in the disqualification of their team, in which case they are also banned.“ As there is no rule embodying something like a “right to reject trades/transfers” for the LA, the following situation played out: Team RAD was falling apart. After the C of RAD decided to shut the team down, the A´s didn’t have a chance to really solve this situation. So, they did what, I think, everyone in this situation would do: searching for an out. The seemingly got one by joining NOR. Now we come to transfer rules. Yes, in general A´s aren’t allowed to change teams midseason unless they have the ok of the team´s C (13.4) – both A´s reached that agreement with their C. So they played by the rules. Next step is 13.3 and 13.8. The captains of a team are disqualified from participation in the on-going season when their team is disqualified. Now the timeline of this situation becomes leading. As the wording of 13.8 says: a decision of the LA is needed to disqualify a team. But at the time the A´s got transferred to NOR there wasn’t any decision about a disqualification of RAD. If the LA wanted to prevent a situation like this from happening, they should have taken this into account when writing the rules. The other option for LA would have been to make a temporary decision on RAD and putting all transfers out of RAD on hold until the final decision is made. They didn’t obviously. What they did is handling the situation pretty sloppy and let time lapse away. Time the two players used to join NOR. Something A´s are allowed to do (13.4). So RAD was still part of ECL Elite by the time the transfer happened. In fact, the two players were already part of NOR when disqualification was vocalised. In my understanding of the rules there is no basis in the rules for disqualifying them after that point. Now one might say: “The rules intended to keep Captains responsibly for their teams.” That argument is not valid here. If you want intentions to be taken into account in legal interpretation, you have to make these intentions publicly and more important by the time the said rule is established. You can´t just say, this was the intention when we wrote the rule back in the days. That´s not how rules work, because if you do so decision can (and almost certainly will) become discretionary. But it is exactly what happened here. The rules got bend in line with the feelings of how this situation “morally” should be handled. Since NHLgamer wants to take the next step into a more professional league and tender cash prizes, situations like this can´t happen – that´s really hacky. Everyone should think twice about handing over money to a league that´s run the way it is at the moment. I strongly recommend that you should re-evaluate those transfer rules and perhaps install something like a “rules committee” that is completely independent from the LA in order to separate jurisdiction from legislation.

Would be nice if players that actually forced our team to quit would get some kind of punishment as its almost impossible to get Elite level players during the season but no... players should show some respect and dedication to their teams and not leave the team if you lose a game or two smh

Dunza in Synergy got like superstats... topnotch!

Thx, these are fun to read, but we haven't played against Dynasty! That "mystery-game" is that one we played in IS Cup finals last weekend. I don't know why it shows up in Elite standings. Kenu knows it tho. Blame him!

Someone isnt happy because didnt get pena and joukki to his team

#justice4dunza

Someone reported the wrong game at eSM - not me! But yes, I forgot to fix it even though you told me about it. Should be in the right season now. The game itself needs some fixing, but isn't messing with your ECL stats anymore.

Sad shit, true story but it is what it is and it cant supprice anyone? Rules are there, lets play by them. But; bla bla bla Meh: bla bla bla Ok

Well i was planned to leave weeks ago during esm games. But i changed my mind after Totalii joined team i thought he would give some more positive mindset for team. Things didnt change and during playing games atmosphere was still toxic in party chat and blaming whoever made mistake in game. I’d rather playing be fun with same time as taking it serious.(you get the point) Losing first elite regular season games didnt affect to my decision to leave the team))

"WE HAVE RULES!!!“

Dont worry bruh you still have place in my heart!! Sad we didnt meet in Esm finals

What do you mean by my behaviour? First of all them wasnt rage quits. After ape got disconnected joukki told atleast 3 times that we should give them WO’s, after 5 minutes ape hasnt said anything and there was akward silence in party chat and it thought we are not going to play anymore

Cant blame my ban length really, but as I was C this mess was completely my fault, why do you have to punish A's as they didnt got anything to do with managing my team. Could you please give me bigger ban that my A's could play on this ECL ? Feels bad for them.