WARNING TO ALL CAPTAINS
TONIGHT is the final night for PRO TEAMS to
make up your NGA Spring League 2013 regular season games! Any games
not played in their entirety AND SUBMITTED by 11:59pm Pacific time
tonight will not be accepted and will not count towards your team's
seeding in playoffs.
We are extending the overall deadline through Friday
night, however PRO TEAMS ARE STILL BOUND TO PLAY BY TONIGHT.
Your opponent may choose, if they wish to do so, to play tomorrow
or Friday - but they do not have to be nice about it.
AMATEUR TEAMS your official make-up day has been moved to this
Friday, since we did not warn any of you in time for last week!
If you need any help getting games setup, please feel free to
contact one of our admins through our chatbox or a private message
on XBox Live.
For those teams who are facing opponents that just aren't
showing up, you can now submit forfeit win requests by following
the instructions on the Submit Game page at Grifball.net
So, here's the Rules for Make-Up
Week:
- You are required to have a full team of at least 3 players
(you may not play with less than 3 on the court) online and ready
to go during the entire 3-hour window on the day you are normally
scheduled to play (for Pro teams, this is TONIGHT 9pm-Midnight ET,
for Amateur teams this is FRIDAY 9pm-Midnight ET).
- If one team has less than four players, the other IS NOT
required to sit out a player to have even teams.
- You MUST play your opponents when they invite you to do so,
unless you are already playing another NGA game at that time, in
which case your opponents must wait for you.
- Normal neutral host rules apply - neutral hosts are not
required, unless one team requests one, in which case it does
become mandatory but it is their responsibility to find one in a
timely manner, and only if they can do so. If the neutral host
process will cause the game to be delayed and thus unplayed, the
team requesting the neutral host would receive a forfeit
loss.
- Captains should have their party play at least one game in
matchmaking so that there's a record that you were online, and it
would be ideal to all send me (shadowxtc) a PM on XBL just so that
there's proof of exactly what time you were all online, in case the
team you're requesting a forfeit win over decides to claim they
were there and it was in fact your team that did not show up.
- You may negoatiate with the other team and decide to play on
either Thursday or Friday instead - but ONLY if the other team
decides to allow it. BOTH captains should inform the league
that you have agreed to do so, or it will be counted as a no-win
after 11:59pm PT tonight.
- As always, substitutions require permission from our
administrators and are very rarely approved, please don't ask.
ONCE MAKE-UP WEEK IS OVER...
Immediately at 11:59pm PT this Friday, game
submissions will be disabled, and ROSTERS WILL BE LOCKED. Make any
changes to your team's lineup or team name BEFORE that time!
Full details about this season's Playoffs and an overview of the
rules will be posted on Saturday along with the playoff
brackets.
SO WHO NEEDS TO PLAY?
All teams should have 12 regular season games. Four weeks each
with two scheduled games, plus four inter-division games that were
up to captains to schedule amongst themselves.
Unfortunately, no team has yet reached 12 games. This is not
much of a complain, so much as it is a warning - I know things
don't always go as planned in real life, and this is just a game.
Even my team has only played 4 games at this point. We have a busy
night ahead of us, and will be lucky to get even half of them
played in the time we have available. This is why I'm sending you
all a warning through E-Mail.
Here's a list of how many games each team still has to play (or
report as a forfeit) before the deadline (Tonight, 11:59pm PT for
Pro teams, Friday 11:59pm PT for Ammy teams):
TEAM NAME - CAPTAIN - UNPLAYED GAMES
Orange Crush - UltimateMystery - 1
Relapse - USA Perfection & inf3ktion - 2
The Rifball Grapists - Gastric Timmy - 2
GCW - xSHMOLExNEMOx - 3
On the Fence - four to oh - 3
Greatest Hits Vol. II - Crusader0102 - 4
Fame360 - Perfect Demise - 4
Turquoise Jeep - Ezy08 - 5
Rage Quitting Pussies - ixSnarf - 6
Ailuridae I'm Hustlin' - TheAlphaTurtle - 6
A Righteous Kill - KID TONGA 1 - 6
Grif's Angels - BrittanysBack - 7
Paradoxical Bumble Bees - PoisonxPoptart - 7
Team Cyan - enRGsword - 7
Melons - WafflMelon - 7
Reckless Fire - Keith829 - 8
Clutch Betrayal - SquirrelBurrito - 8
We Need Host - LikeaLostPuppy & x352x Piggies - 8
IN DANGER OF EXCLUSION
These teams have not specifically said to us either way what
their plans are, and might only have played so few games because
their opponents were not available. Unless we hear from them, they
will be assumed to be forfeit factories as well - ideally only
teams with 4 or more games would even be considered for
playoffs.
So if you're on one of these teams and your plan is NOT to drop
out of the season, you should let one of us know!
G-Dots - HENSELMAN - 9
Top Hats and Monocles - Mr Saintz98 - 9
Business Decision - Oh My Godless and Taylor Cann - 10
Astronaut Scuba Divers - stage53 - 10
The Abusement Park - Mr Crobar - 11
Super Smash Bros. - Sneezedip - 11
Coons - Oarganic - 12
DROPPED OUT
These teams have officially informed us that they are dropping
out of the season - if you have unplayed games against them, you
should submit them as forfeit win requests. There is no need to
bother these captains any further.
The New York Pineapples - SlimJimX50 - DROPPED OUT
Silent Strike - Mikee0085 - DROPPED OUT
Splashing Spartans - GrievousGooosh - DROPPED OUT
Dropping Plates - CrippledDebater - DROPPED OUT
Thunder Thighs - El1te Cheese - DROPPED OUT