Recent League Administration rulings

Greetings NHLGamers,

In the last few days the League Administration has had to make multiple rulings. Here's a quick summary of the most critical cases.

PRO REGULAR SEASON DEADLINE

On Wednesday evening, at around 22 CET, EA PSN servers went down. Due to this multiple teams weren't able to play their games. Since this server downtime wasn't part of a scheduled maintenance, we gave teams one day more to play their games by extending the Pro regular season to Saturday, 24th of March. That said, there won't be any delays  - the Pro playoffs are still scheduled to start on Monday, 26th of March. Expect a news story about that shortly.

SYPPERSTAARS DISQUALIFICATION

Sypperstaars have been disqualified and removed from the ECL 6 tournament. The team had massively fallen behind the default game schedule and their captains weren't responding to inquiries by their opponents, nor by the League Administration. As such, the team is disqualified and its captains (@Artuzio, @Nieppii and @PekkoWP) have received a ban covering the end of ECL 6, Summer Cup 3 and a 10 game suspension in ECL 7 in addition to a full season ban from being able to take a role of a captain/assistant captain during ECL 7.

PRO RELEGATION

Due to three Pro teams dropping out (aforementioned Sypperstaars, disqualified Inter Iceland and The Beagle Boys who are disbanding after having finished this season) we are forced to adjust the Pro relegation system for this season. The current rules state that each season 8 teams participate in a relegation series out of which 4 teams from the Pro division are relegated to Lite.

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 4.5 --- Teams that finish in places 9-12 will neither play in the playoffs nor be subject to relegation. All ECL Pro teams that finish in places 13-16 in both conferences will play a cross-seeded playoff-style series against each other, where all losers (4 total) are instantly relegated and will play ECL Lite during the upcoming season.

For this season only 1 team from Pro division will be relegated to Lite. As such, here's the adjusted rule:

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 4.5 --- The two ECL Pro teams that finish in the regular season with the lowest PPG (points per game) will play a relegation series against each other, where the loser is instantly relegated and will play ECL Lite during the upcoming season.

GOAL POST COLORS

Our rules have previously defined that the color of the have to be dark red.

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10.5
The following customization options are currently banned from being used in league/tournament games:

• Arena -> Goal post color: Goal posts need to remain in solid, dark red colour. Teams are advised to immediately quit and entirely restart a game if any misbehaviour is noticed.

We have seen some teams use other colors and our options were to punish these teams or to adjust the rule.

After further consideration, we have decided to only ban white post colors and from now on officially allow other colors besides red. As such, here's the adjusted rule:

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10.5
The following customization options are currently banned from being used in league/tournament games:

• Arena -> Goal post color: Goal posts cannot be white or another bright color that makes it harder to distinct from the ice color. Teams are advised to immediately quit and entirely restart a game if any misbehaviour is noticed.

- League Administration