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    ECL 5 - Pro Finals & Relegation Faceoffs

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    Hey NHLGamers,

    the ECL 5 Pro semi-finals have come to a close, and here are the final results:

    • Falun Coal Miners |2:4| Unlucky Boys HC
    • Pata Hellalla |0:4| Evolution

    This means Unlucky Boys HC and Evolution will fight for the ECL 5 Pro championship in the last playoffs series this Pro season:

    • Evolution vs. Unlucky Boys HC

    Both finalists are already promoted to ECL Elite for ECL 6, however having that ECL 5 Pro championship trophy in your collection is something both teams will continue fighting for fiercly. NHLGamer Staff already sends out congratulations for the promotion accomplishment and is looking forward to the very best ECL Pro hockey this season!

    The first two games of this intense matchup begin at 20:30 CET tonight and will be covered at the NHLGamerTwitch channel

     

    Furthermore, the Relegation Faceoffs between the two teams that finished in spots #13 and #14 in ECL Elite and the two ECL Pro semi-final losers will be kicked off as well. Unfortunately, ECL Elite team Nordic Nightmare already decided to disband after a dissapointing regular season, which means they will not participate in these games.

    Thus, they will also automatically lose their ECL Elite spot for ECL 6.

    This leaves us with two ECL Pro teams and just one ECL Elite team for the Relegation Faceoffs. Now, the whole point of playoff seeding, as constructed in our rules, is to assign the highest rated teams with the "easier" matchup as defined by the opposing teams performance. As such it would be illogical to give the easier opponent to the team that performed "worse", in this context.

    By applying our playoff seeding rules, the ECL Pro playoff team seeded as #1 for the Relegation series is Falun Coal Miners due to their two semi-final wins (= 10 Pro playoff wins in total). ECL Pro playoff seed #2 with 0 semi-final wins (= 8 Pro Playoff wins in total) is Pata Hellalla.

    As Nordic Nightmare have disbanded, they are not seeded (or considered seed #2 as they are the "easier" opponent due to not actually playing the games), which per default makes TIKI TALK ECL Elite seed #1 for this Relegation series. This leaves us with the following matchups:

    • Pata Hellalla (Pro #2) vs. TIKI TALK (Elite #1) 
    • --- (-#) vs. Falun Coal Miners (Pro #1)

    As a result, Falun Coal Miners will be promoted to ECL Elite for ECL 6 automatically. TIKI TALK and Pata Hellalla will play for the last remaining ECL 6 Elite spot.

     

    FRAMEWORK (FINALS & RELEGATION FACEOFFS)

    • Teams mentioned on the right side have their home game first, left = away.
    • The Pro Finals and the Relegation Faceoffs are played in a best-of-7 series
    • Both rounds start TONIGHT, and all games must be completed before December 20, 23:59 CET / December 21, 00:59 EET.

     

    Good luck to everyone for the final Elite and Pro games in ECL 5!

    @gzell60 for NHLGamer.com

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    Totalii

    So in case where Pata Hellalla would win Tiki Talk in relegation series and MUKIMIEHET would not participate in ECL season 6, is there going to be some 5th Pro team to be promoted to Elite?

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    Crisu_rottis
    1 minuutti sitten, Totalii kirjoitti:

    So in case where Pata Hellalla would win Tiki Talk in relegation series and MUKIMIEHET would not participate in ECL season 6, is there going to be some 5th Pro team to be promoted to Elite?

    By playoff wins like rusty blades, i'd imagine

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    Jnmxxx

    Uhm did you even consider that you play against #15 (synergy) for your spot or is it somehow automatic that synergy and NL has to get relegated and give more spots to pro teams? Now when Mukimiehet is also out i think its really weird that you rather promote pro teams than let those elite teams fight for their spot.

     

    Grats to all promoted and good luck to both finalists!

    Edited by Jnmxxx
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    Totalii
    17 minuuttia sitten, Jnmxxx kirjoitti:

    Uhm did you even consider that you play against #15 (synergy) for your spot or is it somehow automatic that synergy and NL has to get relegated and give more spots to pro teams? Now when Mukimiehet is also out i think its really weird that you rather promote pro teams than let those elite teams fight for their spot.

     

    Grats to all promoted and good luck to both finalists!

    This kind of possibility would very reasonable to add to rules atleast on future tournaments, because there are going to be team's falling apart here and there for sure.

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    MCH_98

    Maybe Pata should get Mukis free spot and best quarter-finalist (NS or Gotham if i'm not wrong) plays against Tiki Talk? Pata is in a win-win situation right now. Or let Synergy play for their spot.

    Good luck Unlucky Boys and Evolution! It's gonna be a good series :)

    Edited by MCH_98

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    gzell60
    1 hour ago, Jnmxxx said:

    Uhm did you even consider that you play against #15 (synergy) for your spot or is it somehow automatic that synergy and NL has to get relegated and give more spots to pro teams? Now when Mukimiehet is also out i think its really weird that you rather promote pro teams than let those elite teams fight for their spot.

     

    Grats to all promoted and good luck to both finalists!

    Yes, it is something we were thinking about. As for now, we decided not to go down this route because the way we promoted Pro teams to Elite ahead of ECL 5 was similar to today's decision. As we did not announce any changes beforehand, we didn't want to implement any last minute solution.

    Now, this is a case we weren't prepared for when we developed the divisions framework, so this left us with a small surprise. We all agree that Elite should always feature the very best teams, and to accomplish this, we will think about carrying out a mini tournament between the remaining teams in case a team cannot participate in the relegation games. That needs to be added to the rules first though (together with everything else division-related), so expect an implementation for ECL 6.

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    Totalii
    9 minuuttia sitten, gzell60 kirjoitti:

    Yes, it is something we were thinking about. As for now, we decided not to go down this route because the way we promoted Pro teams to Elite ahead of ECL 5 was similar to today's decision. As we did not announce any changes beforehand, we didn't want to implement any last minute solution.

    Now, this is a case we weren't prepared for when we developed the divisions framework, so this left us with a small surprise. We all agree that Elite should always feature the very best teams, and to accomplish this, we will think about carrying out a mini tournament between the remaining teams in case a team cannot participate in the relegation games. That needs to be added to the rules first though (together with everything else division-related), so expect an implementation for ECL 6.

    Nice to hear!

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