Welcome to the 3rd Season of the BSFL!We’re thrilled to inform you that BSFL’s season 3 will start on October 15th (when you will receive questions for the week ahead).
General rules won't change much and you're all aware of them by now.
You can read them here for a quick reminder. Almost all the members have played at least 1 season so they know what to expect.
There is 1 significant rule change, though. Late submissions will mean automatic loss – so please don’t submit in the last seconds.
We also won’t be sending reminders for submission on Tuesdays. There's also a slight change in how we'll calculate the freebet round winners.First criteria will be total points, and only the best answer in the league will be able to claim the H2H point.
Second criteria will be all the H2H duels in that round between the tied players. If the player already claimed a point for the best answer in the league in a H2H question, that one will not be counted.
Third criteria in case there is still a tie after the H2H questions will be the time of submission - earlier submission will win the freebet.
Season 3It will start on 16.10. and probably last until early March (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 (probably 24 or more).
Don't take the end date for granted – it might be a week or 2 earlier or later – depending on how we do the Cup and playoffs.
Regarding Division 3 - We have 1 player that withdrew and 1 player that won’t be near his computer for a few months due to personal reasons so had to withdraw as well.
Unfortunately, that is our Division 3B playoff winner Ozymandias_DZ – who deserved his promotion to Division 2. The spot will be taken by his playoffs opponent vivekdhyani1.
Considering that his reason for absence was valid and unavoidable, if at some point Div2 will be expanded again, we’ll probably give him some sort of an advantage in Division 3 that won’t be harmful for the competition.
We have 2 new players arriving so far (Brahim012 and shogun47) and will probably keep the same format of Division 3 going forward with 12 clubs in Divs A and B – but might decide on something else entirely.
We might even get more people in until the official start of the season.
What we can surely say is that the Divisions 1 and 2 will not be expanding this season – meaning that Season 4 will have 16 teams in Division 1 and 16 teams in Division 2.
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 other 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 Division 3 playoff loser.
That will be defined in paragraph below, so please read it.
4 players will be promoted from Division 3 to Division 2. Division 3A winner and Division 3B winner will be promoted directly, and players placed on positions 2, 3, 4 and 5 from both Division 3’s will enter a cup-style playoff format.
Out of these 8 players, only 1 will secure direct promotion. The loser of the final game of this promotion bracket will have 1 more chance though – he’ll play the 13th team from Division 2 for a spot in Division 2 next season.
Visually, promotion/relegation system will look like this:
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2.) Please submit your answers on time.
Failure to submit on time in this season means instant loss.3.) Please submit all the answers, and submit them with possible outcomes. When you give free points in your H2H questions to your opponent, it isn't fair to all other league members.
4.) To deal with the situations from points 2) and 3), we are forced to introduce some penalties.
Each team that fails to submit answers on time or submits the answers in a way that is not in accordance with competition rules will receive a 1 point deduction – not for that round but from total points won in the league.
We think the penalty is fair to keep the league competitive, and you can always ask in the thread if you don't understand some of the questions.
5.) If you repeatedly fail to submit the questions on time and in correct format, there's a high chance that we will be forced to remove you from the competition.
The competition is becoming more serious and with the plans Sportsbet has for it going forward, we all need to do our part to make it fair and exciting. You were doing that most of the time in Seasons 1 and 2 so we aren't worried, and we thank you for it.
RewardsSportsbet was kind to increase rewards again. We feel we’re in a good place now both with the rewards amount and with the number of players in top 2 Divisions, so in the next few seasons we’ll probably make only some small corrections when/if needed.
Total budget for the Season 3 will be in excess of 7.500$. Sportsbet will provide 6.750$ in BTC and we have already collected 40mBTC from Div 1 participants.
We will once again have a big freebets budget to add to that – 900$ total for final placement and 1.250$ for weekly rewards.
In total, that is close to 10.000$ in total prize pool.Rewards distribution looks like this: (will be rounded to BTC rewards at the time of receiving the funds)
Good luck to everybody participating and let's have more fun!
Disclaimer - OP will be slightly changed in the coming days to reflect all these changes.
