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NHLGamers! We're rolling on with the ECL 8 Lite Playoffs and now we've come along to the second round, where also the top 16 seeded teams get to jump in on the action. At this point, the 32 best teams of ECL 8 Lite remain to battle for Pro division spots in ECL 9. The second round of the playoffs will start today on Thursday, February 14th, 2019 and end on Wednesday, February 20th, 2019. According to section 5.6.1 of the ECL 8 Rulebook, the ECL 8 Lite Playoffs will be played as follows: In ECL Lite, the top 8 teams from each of the 6 groups will make the playoffs. For each group the top 2 teams will have a bye round and advance directly to round 2. All remaining teams will be seeded according to the tiebreakers mentioned in 11.3. The top 4 teams of these seeded ones will also advance directly round 2. This leaves 32 teams playing in round 1, where the top seed plays the 32nd seed, 2nd seed will play 31st etc. The winning teams will be merged with the bye teams and play the 2nd round, making a total of 32 teams competing in round 2. Tiebreakers (ECL 8 Rulebook 11.3): Wins (including OT-wins) Head-to-head record (points in mutual games) Goal difference (across all games played) Scored goals (across all games played) After the first round, all remaining teams are again re-seeded. Every series are played in a best of seven manner and the higher seeded team will play the first game at home. (10.7.2 ECL Rules). Here are the matchups for round 2 of the ECL 8 Lite Playoffs: (2.) Old Farts vs. Poston Fruits (36.) (3.) Dystopia vs. SKA Hokurit (35.) (5.) Blackdawgs vs. Club Savage (33.) (6.) Last Period vs. Western Express (31.) (7.) Perttilan Kommandot vs. LammasLauma (28.) (8.) Nearbird Fighters vs. Beast Hockey (27.) (9.) Elamam Kiekko vs. Farminaattori (26.) (10.) Puck Panthers vs. Me Carvoset (25.) (11.) We Kings vs. EV Fuessen eSports (24.) (12.) Saucer Hockey vs. Kaukosen Luistin (23.) (13.) The Dudes vs. Reaperr (22.) (14.) Oton Letkutemppu vs. Finnish Hockey Legends (21.) (15.) N0 Name vs. Vesa Pompa HC (20.) (16.) Cheers Hockey vs. Suomen Sonnit (19.) (17.) Mighty French Roosters vs. Chatbox (18.) League Administration rulings in Round 1: Dynamic Due to the team not being able to put 6 players on the ice for the rest of this season, they will be disqualified. This result in the best seeded team from the regular season (Prowlers) moving on to the 3rd round of the playoffs. (You can read more about the events that led to this here.) Suomen Sonnit vs Stayhard Stallions: LA got the information about Suomen Sonnit goaltender (cyberg-kzn) switching traits during a disconnected game and the new one that followed. This is not allowed according to rule 11.11 Player Disconnects This will result in a 1 game ban for the goaltender (cyberg-kzn) and it will be served during their first game in Round 2. The trait switching was only reported 3 days after the game was reported and the score of the game will stand. Atomic Hamsters vs Mighty French Roosters: In this case Atomic Hamsters had several games with connection issues and decided to not play the final games of the series on Wednesday. This day was also the deadline for the 1st round of the playoffs. Roosters were still available and wanted to finish the series on this night. LA member Hennisch, who is a member of Atomic Hamsters, was excluded in all discussions and voting related to the decision in order to come to an unbiased view of the situation. According to rule 11.9 Connection Issues This rule wasn't followed in this case, Hamsters continued to play their games past the 2 minute mark even though connection issues had appeared. In the end, this resulted in 1 walk over win to Mighty French Roosters, which resulted in their team going to the 2nd round. Play hard and fair out there, see you on the ice! Your NHLGamer Editor, @jahajaha93

The end of the season has kept the League Administration (LA) very busy. Below you will find the descriptions of all the recent cases that LA has handled. We apologise for the slow public communication regarding these matters and are working on processes that will make it quicker to get the information out. To make the LA process clearer for the users, but also for LA itself - based on community feedback - we will now follow the following procedures during LA cases* that are sent in: LA lets the teams in question know that we're working on the case. LA decides a verdict on the cases internally. LA informs the teams and the community of the result simultaneously. * Not all cases that are sent in to LA are serious enough to be solved by LA, but will be solved by Support. Additionally, we want to address appropriate and inappropriate reactions towards a decision. If you disagree or in any other way question LA's decisions, you are of course allowed to voice your opinion and discuss the topic with fellow NHLGamers, but it needs to be in a mature and constructive way that is rewarding for the community. In order to reduce inappropriate behaviour, LA has the right to suspend users who: Bully or publicly shame LA members (because of a decision or otherwise) This is all according to rule 4 (code of conduct) Below are the League Administration cases that have been recently solved: 1) Walkovers agreed by teams mostly among themselves. Savo Bears handed WO’s to Polarbears HC Redline Bandits handed WO’s to HC Slapshot Midnight Owls handed WO’s to Puck Panthers Blueline Bandits handed WO's to Saucer Hockey The Everblades vs. Czech Infamous. Points split as per team agreement. KulmalaHengaus vs. Western Dynasty. Points split as per team agreement. LA would like to point out that all teams should finish their season fully, no matter if they have a chance to make the playoffs or not. DEG eSports gave one WO to Korpens Finest Short simplified summary: DEG were allowed to scored a goal while their own player was frozen, as Korpens Finest were expecting DEG to clear the puck. LA asked the teams to continue the game from the point of when the freeze happened, but DEG said they don't have the time to play that game. 2) Walkovers to Saucer Hockey over Dynamic LA awarded Saucer Hockey WO's to over Dynamic as one of the Dynamic players didn't show up for game time and they were unable to replace him. 3) Disqualifications in ECL Lite: Devils in Disguise Grey Werewolves Men of Mysteries While we're always against quitting, we applaud the captain of Men of Mysteries for contacting both LA and all teams that they were still to play that were going to be affected by Men of Mysteries being disqualified. A big reason behind the team quitting was their goalie's PS4 breaking. 4) Style vs Reality Check HC - Unability to play regular season matchup League Administration has decided to award Style with two walkover wins (5:0) over Reality Check HC. The ruling is based on all information which LA had on their hands when preparing the decision. Besides that, LA member Panarinz, who is a member of Style, was excluded in all discussions and voting related to the decision in order to come to an unbiased view of the situation. After analyzing all available content, the decision was made based on the following facts: Style was taking the active role trying to set up the games to get them played. Looking over all of the communication available to LA, Reality Check HC was in almost all communications only reactive rather than proactive. In addition, Reality Check HC several times made a comment that they are reluctant to play during the beta tuner period. This is not a valid reason to postpone and refuse playing games. Especially as this was the only date where both teams could have played the game based on common availability. Both teams had several ongoing conversations for scheduling the games, in most cases being proactively initiated by Style. In some of those Reality Check HC didn’t respond to the actual suggestions, but rather suggested game days and times that had already been mentioned as non-functional in the previous message. Reality Check HC also failed to ask LA for help until it was too late, despite LA contacting them earlier to ask if they are able to handle the scheduling. LA analyzed the whole communication in depth and built a complete overview to come to a decision. A full disclosure of the communication can be made publicly available if requested by both teams. 4) Team Dynamic internal issues League Administration (LA) was contacted to clear up a dispute between the captain, assistant captains and other members of the team Dynamic. One Assistant was claiming the he wants to overtake the team with its current record from the captain Balkanrocket and that he has a lot of support within the team. LA got insights in the case by reaching out to both main guys in this dispute and got provided different angles of this case. As it stands in point 5.8. of the rulebook, teams can't switch their primary captaincy during the season. As there was an ongoing dispute inside the team which got heated up every time BalkanRocket and JaromirSniper had different opinions, we had to make a decision what will be the further steps to clear this dispute. As also written in point 5.8 of the rulebook, the captain is considered the owner of the team. This captain is BalkanRocket and therefore he is the guy which is allowed to make the final decisions for the team and be responsible for it. LA has formed the opinion that if JaromirSniper will still continue as a member of the team, this dispute will never end and therefore decided that BalkanRocket has the right to drop him off the roster. After he made this decision, we removed JaromirSniper from the roster. BalkanRocket promised us, that he have enough guys ready to play and support him as the captain, that Dynamic will be finishing the season. BalkanRocket has to name two new alternate captains and has to finish the season. If he's not be able to do it, we have to disqualify team Dynamic and he will receive a GM ban for further tournaments (the amount has still to be decided). Furthermore JaromirSniper has to be aware that he has no right to detract the team of finishing its season. 5) Dynasty vs Deadly Phantoms HC - Fight between gzell60 and jumalpeku The League Administration (LA) has reviewed the case opened by Dynasty regarding the fighting incident in the game between Dynasty and Deadly Phantoms HC. LA member Mannheimer1938, who is a member of Deadly Phantoms HC, was excluded in all discussions and voting related to the decision in order to come to an unbiased view of the situation. LA came to the conclusion that there will not be a ban for the player gzell60, nevertheless he was given a warning. The reasoning is as follows: From the video footage it is pretty obvious that gzell60 tries to initiate a slash towards the Dynasty player but has no intention to actually accept the fight, which was initiated by the Dynasty player shooting the puck into the net late after the whistle. Unfortunately this slashing leads to immediately accepting the fight, which can be seen in the footage as well. This was taken into account to issue a warning only as LA considers this an accidentally accepted fight. Nevertheless we are going to make changes to our rules in the future (not now) that will consider the following aspects: Actions that are leading to a fighting challenge will be disallowed as well as the fighting itself, including: Challenging a player to fight after the whistle Slashing players after the whistle Late shots on goal which bring the fighting challenge up Therefore we asked both teams to NOT perform any of the above mentioned actions for the remainder of this series. We also would like to point out that any further infraction of this rule will lead to a 1 game ban. LA would also ask the community for feedback on whether or not you would like us to forbid some of the mentioned actions that cause penalty instigations: Respectfully, The League Administration Edit: Please note, the changes to the fighting rules have not been made and we are asking you - the community - for feedback on how you would like to see the rules on fighting.

Hi NHLGamers, We are back with a small look into the fith and last week of the Pro division regular season. This season we are doing a player of the week segment, to highlight an individual and his team because of their success during said week. We will also do a small interview with our nominee and try to get to know the person better and get some insights of the team and the league in question. Without further ado we would like to present you our fourth Player Of The Week: PSN-ID: iLLu_8 Team: Bellizzi Position: Left Defenseman (original Center) Games played this week: 6 (vs Cowabunga Hockey, Pata Hellalla and Racoon Rampage) Goals: 1 Assists: 5 Points: 6 +/-: 2 To cap off the week, @Panarinz had a short chat with the man of the hour: After a terrific week for your team, with 5 wins in 6 games you are now playoff bound! How does that feel? - It feels really good! We already felt playoffs were out of our range. But here we are! You played center for your team in a tough start for your team, but ended the season as a LD, why did you change your position and what do you think the change resulted in? - The start of the season was really hard for us. We felt like we needed more skill to our offense so we decided to try this kind of move. We're glad it worked well for us. With 6 points in 6 games this week, you clearly helped your team get that final playoff spot. What would you say was the reason for this weeks success? - Our defense was really solid with the most entertaining goalie of the league Matti ”the cat” (@Proffa- ) leading the way. We were able to take advantage of our opportunities in the offensive zone. Will we see an upset in the first round of the playoffs when your team is facing the mighty #1 seed TIKI TALK? - All the pressure is on their team. If our gameplan works and we get them to play our kind of game I think we will have a chance. And finally, which team will win ECL 8 Pro? - Bellizzi Signing off for now, ECL Pro writing team @Panarinz & @Mannheimer1938