SCL Season Kick-Off Info

NHLGamers,

Today marks the start of the SCL! The regular season starts today, Tuesday 16th of April, 2019 and will end on Sunday, the 12th of May, 2019. We're issuing this announcement in order to secure that everyone is up to speed with some crucial info and therefore this will be something of an info post. There's a few different things we'd like to go over so get ready for the barrage:

SCL Rulebook

First off, we'd like to announce that the SCL rulebook is now available by clicking here. We ask all team captains to familiarise themselves with the rulebook as soon as possible. The rules have been altered from the ECL format.

Season Schedule

As stated, the regular season ends on Sunday, the 12th of May and marks the start of the playoffs the next day. The playoffs will be played in a best of 7 manner (we reserve the right to change the semifinals into BO5  to the schedule at Birdie) except for the Bronze Game that will be decided in one game. Here's the playoff schedule:

Round 1: 13.5-19.5 (Online)
Round 2: 20.5-26.5 (Online)
Semifinals: 31.5 @ Birdie
Bronze Game: 1.6 @ Birdie
Finals: 1.6 @ Birdie

Prize Pool Division

You might have noted that the SCL will feature a prize pool amounting to a total of 65 000 SEK. This prize pool has been divided into 50 000 SEK for SCL 6vs6 and 15 000 SEK for our Swedish 1vs1 Championships that will be hosted at Birdie. The 50 000 SEK will be divided between the top 3 teams of the SCL as follows:



1vs1 sign-ups will open during this week.

Mandatory License

We would also like to remind all Swedish and Finnish players to obtain a license from their countrys respective esports association.
Swedes: SESF
Finns: SEUL

Transfer Window

The SCL will include a one week transfer window at the start of the season in order to allow teams to make some minor adjustments to their squads. With this being said, transfers can be made until Tuesday, 23rd of April, 2019 at 23:59 CEST. Please note that trades are not allowed - only picking up free agents.

Tonight's Broadcast

Tonight's SCL Broadcast will be live at 20:00 CEST at twitch.tv/NHLGamer, featuring Borgarbracka HC vs Cannonieris and Stayhard Stallions vs Northern Stars Tonights games will be commentated by Adam "@esdor" Ericson and Kenneth "@Kenu" Lehtinen.