BSFL - pre-season update

Season 4 - STARTING SOON

• It will start on 04.03. and probably last until end of July (20 weeks or so).
• We have 16 teams per Divisions 1 and 2 (15 rounds, 1-legged competition + the Cup and playoffs) and an undefined number of players in Division 3 so far (around 20).
• In case we have 20 or less people in Division 3, we will probably have a single Division 3. In case we have more, we'll probably have Divisions 3A and 3B again. We'll announce the full format of Division 3 on Sunday - that's the sign up deadline.
• Divisions 1 and 2 will not be expanding this season again – meaning that Season 5 will have 16 teams in Division 1 and 16 teams in Division 2. We like this format and feel it is optimal for now, but might expand leagues again for Season 6 so we get a single Division 3 with 18 teams.
• This season there won’t be a Division 4, but that does not mean that the following one we won’t have it.
  If we do go with Division 4, Division 3 will have 16 players as well and all lower placed players will be relegated to Division 4 (all spots below top 8 if we go with 2 Division 3’s).
• It is more likely that we’ll continue having 2 Division 3’s, in that case there won’t be relegation and we’ll keep filling the Div3 spots with new players.
• There will be 3 or 4 players relegated from Division 1 to Division 2 (3 direct, 13th from Div 1 will play directly against 4th from Div2 for the last spot in Division 1.
  Therefore, 3 or 4 players will be promoted from Division 2 to Division 1 (3 direct, 1 potentially in playoffs (4th team from Div 2 to play 13th team from Div 1).
• There will be 3 or 4 players relegated from Division 2 to Division(s) 3. 3 players from Division 2 will be relegated directly and the 13th player from Division 2 will play a H2H game versus a yet undefined Division 3 team.
  We will announce the Division 3 promotion format once we define whether we go with one or 2 Division 3's.
• We have introduced a 1mBTC buy-in for Division 2, while Division 1's buy-in was decreased from 2,5 to 2mBTC.
• The reward pool will therefore be 7.000$ in sponsorship from SB (we will transfer it to BTC when we receive it) and 48mBTC collected from buy-in fees. We will have standard freebets rewards pool as well to add to the rewards.
  The approximate rewards according to Division placement will be shared in the next few days.

There are some new rules we are introducing.

Late submission penalties

• In case of late submission, the player loses the duel with a score of 3-0 and gets 1 'total points' penalty - it is the same rule that we had so far.
• To add to that, if a person has 1 missed submission at the end of the season, his reward will be reduced by 20%. If he has 2, the reward will be 50% less and 3 means automatic disqualification and no reward at all.
  The deducted rewards from such players will go to the next season's budget.

Evil fee

• In case a member got disqualified in any of the previous seasons and wants to join again, he is returning from the lowest possible Division.
  The initial penalty for participating again is a 1mBTC 'evil fee' that is returned to the player at the end of the season if the player submits the answers for all rounds on time.
  If he fails to do so, evil fee is kept and shared between all the teams that secured promotion from Division 3 in that season.
• If a player gets disqualified again, the each subsequent time the evil fee is doubled, so becomes 2mBTC, then 4mBTC etc.

I'm tagging all disqualified members so that they are aware of the new rules - in case they want to rejoin.