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    IMPORTANT UPDATE: ECL ’26: Spring - All Abilities Banned

    Hi Gamers,

    As communicated previously, the League Administration has come to the decision that once the current ECL season has finished (end of day Thursday), any subsequent tournaments will be played with all X-factors banned. 

    We have come to this decision based on community feedback, as well as examining the current trend of EA Sports themselves, with the battle pass becoming more and more pay-to-win - an idea that we at SportsGamer vehemently disagree with. 

    Furthermore, a key aspect that we weighed up was the potential pros and cons of instituting a variable ban list depending on community feedback, and which traits they viewed as overpowered and which ones they viewed as underpowered. While in a perfect world we would of course like to allow players to play with minimal restrictions and be more in line with what EA envisioned for the game, we felt that considering the murkiness of some traits, and the general lack of information provided by EA as to how each trait fundamentally works (as well as interaction with others), that any discussions down the line would become prone to misinformation and negativity towards other players.


    As we head into the upcoming tournaments, we’d like to share a quick reminder of the current passwords to use when applying for daily competitive training games:

    • ECLPro – for Elite / Pro and Pro / Elite Qualifying teams
    • ECLLite – for Lite / Core teams
    • ECLNeo – for Neo teams


    While we understand the desire to challenge yourself and want to play tougher teams, please respect the divisions as mentioned above for use with each password. The whole point of the password system is diminished if, for example, Core teams use the Pro password, and so on.

    Please also remember to avoid using abilities and special builds when playing these training games. This helps ensure fair and consistent gameplay across all divisions. Information about the upcoming ECL '26: Spring season will be available soon, so now is a good time to start thinking about your updated line-ups, if you haven't already.


    Thank you for your cooperation — and have fun out there!

    Thanks,
    League Administration

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    antoniomannen004
    8 minuter sedan, iSvamp säger:

    Let’s hope Macklin Celebrini cuts down to 68 kg so he can beat Connor McDavid in the next speed run at the skills competition- if it really is just about body weight when it comes to being fast.

    😡

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    saagssy

    So i played lot of games in different levels now from neo to pro, and even some game in elite scrims.

    On the start i felt that we are pretty shitty when there is no abilities, game is bad and so on. But i put a lot of effort in my build, in my relearning game mechanics a bit and it feels amazing now. I would say for goalies game without abilities Sportsgamer give us second wind to fly and be good and enjoy games. Games also can go 5:1 and 1:1 or 10:1 the same, shutouts happens also, but if you put 2 identical team, its finaly esport gaming with skills and mistakes, that its fun(Goalie experience and skills now matters more then ever).I had some of the greatest game nights when playing pros vs pros with similar skill based teams, in years i didnt have so much fun. There is some goals what is still miracly scored, but its less a lot less. now we can actualy stop shots what we should stop everynight and be better with practice and skill.

    Skaters need to work harder, because beat frontal goalie is not so easy now, so need to look for passing, onetimers more, then just crash the net. Actualy now goals only goes if you beat goalie with pass or some awesome moves, not randomly.

    So i dont know about you all  but i think its more fun , and we need to keep going with ban it all trend. There someone said that it will be easier to play with less defense, and its wrong, its actualy harder to play now as goalie if you team cant d, but if they play good hockey and other opponents play good hockey, its the best experience in the last 2-3 years. you actualy come down to situations where 1 goal will make difference, and your skill as team defense and goalie will do this difference. Its feel similar like 24 nhl start or 23nhl. 
    Ofcourse if you meet team who is lower then your level its can be disaster oneside hockey, and goalie dont need even sweat because of easy shots, but its actualy how it should be.

    Im enjoying now to play this game again. Also now positioning and depth matters again (because there is no abilities to cover our mistakes on positioning and depth), so its time to hit the practices rinks again and make your moves perfect.

    Edited by saagssy

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