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Section 2.0 - Team Structure

2.1 Team Definition

A “team” within the league is defined as a roster of five players. Teams must have a top laner, jungler, mid laner, bot laner, and support at all times. Teams may be permitted to have other personnel, such as drafting coaches, but are not required for the league.

2.2 Team Captains

Team captains will be selected during the time of registration. Every team in the league will have a team captain, who will act as the main point of contact between the League staff and the team entity. At any point, league admins have the right to be in team servers to monitor behavior, as it directly relates to the league perception. Captains will also have extra duties, including but not limited to:

Choosing a team name and logo from our available options-no custom logos or names.

Drafting players on draft night, and following the draft process.

Working with teammates to confirm availability on game nights, and finding substitutes for players who may or will not be available.

Organizing DraftLoL links, client lobbies, inviting necessary players, staff, and production to game lobbies.

Properly reporting match results after a win.

Managing interpersonal team conflict, including trades between players.

Ensuring players on their own and their opponent’s teams are fully eligible for matches and are not in violation of any player eligibility requirements.

2.3 Player Roles and Role Swaps

Players will list their main and secondary roles on signup, and will be assigned a role prior to the first exhibition matches. When players are drafted, they must be drafted for the role that they are listed as. Players within a team are able to swap roles as long as all players who are swapping and the captain agree to swap.

During the draft process, players must be drafted into the role that they are listed as on the mastersheet. Once the draft has been concluded and all teams have been finalized, players will then be able to swap roles within their team.

Ultimately, the players have final say on roleswaps. Captains or other players cannot force a player to swap roles if the player themselves isn’t interested in doing so.

2.4 Trades

Within the league, teams are able to trade players from one team to another. To submit a trade to League staff, a captain must create a support ticket and list the required admin/staff information as listed below.

2.4.1 | Trading Window - The trade window will open following the conclusion of Week 2 games (2/17) and will stay open until 24 hours before the Week 5 games (3/10).

2.4.2 | Trading Consent - Before a trade is able to be confirmed, all parties that are included with the changes of the trade must fully agree to the trade. Typically, these are the two captains on the teams that are trading the players, and the players themselves who are being traded. 

If the players being traded are also being roleswapped within their new team, the players who are being additionally role-swapped will also need to consent to the terms of the trade.

League staff will ask for screenshot proof of all included parties giving consent to the trade before the trade will officially be submitted.

2.4.3 | Trading Conduct - Players are encouraged to ask captains to be traded if desired, however, captains are not required to search for trades on a player’s behalf.

Players found to be making threats or ultimatums regarding trades will face punishment.

Players are able to be traded between the two divisions, on a per case basis. (Admins will review any cross-division trades to ensure there is no drop in competitive integrity)

2.4.4 | Trading Restrictions- Each team may make two trades per split (2 players). Replacement slots cannot be traded for two regular season weeks. Admins will approve all trades.

2.5 Substitutes

Teams are able to find substitutes for any player who will be unable to attend a match, with no penalty being given. A MAX of two substitutes can be used each week. Any more than this, and the team will FF their match for the week. 

2.5.1 | Substitute Eligibility - All substitutes must meet the eligibility requirements listed in Section 1.1 and Section 1.3 to be eligible to sub. Substitutes are NOT subject to elo sitting games. The highest rank of the following two will be considered:

End of 14.3 Rank

Current 15.1 Rank

Both of the following criteria must be met in order to have a substitute approved:

Substitute player’s peak rank must NOT be 100 LP over rostered player’s peak in last 3 splits.

Substitutes will be 50 LP BELOW the rostered player based on the higher of the two ranks listed above.

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2.5.2 | Emergency Substitutes - Teams have until 24 hours prior to the match start time to disclose a sub for approval before losing a ban. If a team submits a sub after this time, they will incur a 1 ban loss every game the e-sub is used. This ban is the first ban of the first rotation, and is NOT waivable. Teams will be allotted at maximum ten (10) minutes to scout any new, last-minute substitutes, but can elect to start matches before this time completes, if desired. If this time extends into the start time of a match, the start time of the match will be adjusted accordingly. After 10 minutes, another ban is lost. Anything over 20 minutes, the game will be counted as an FF for the team missing the players. The time it takes League staff to examine the eligibility of a substitute will not be a part of this ten minutes.

In PLAYOFFS, substitutes will incur ban losses for the team they are subbing for:

Before Friday 8pm EST: 1 ban loss

After Friday 8pm EST: 3 ban loss

2.5.3 | Right of Refusal - While the above regulations outline the eligibility for substitutes in most cases, League staff have the right to refuse any substitutes they reasonably feel would have an ability to compromise the competitive integrity of a match.

2.5.4 | Removal of Gentleman’s Agreements - In previous draft splits, teams have been able to “handshake” a substitute who is a higher rank than the substitute rules would otherwise deem to be ineligible. For this split of BODL, any subs that are higher ranked than the eligibility requirements listed in Section 2.5.1 will not be permitted to play.

2.5.5 | Captain’s Responsibility - Substitutes may be approved hours or days before the match start time on the basis that they will still meet the eligibility requirements at the match start time. It is ultimately the responsibility of the team captains to ensure that players and subs are still eligible at the match start time.

2.5.6 | Good Faith - It is the joint responsibility of both players and captains to ensure that they are eligible for games by completing the elo-sitting clause. Players and captains may face punishment if they are ineligible for multiple weeks over the course of the split.

Whilst League staff wants to see teams be able to field substitutes who match the rank and approximate skill of those they are replacing, any attempt to “rule shark” or find loopholes in the substitute system will be disallowed per Section 2.5.3.

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2.6 Player Replacements

In a case where a player has either been removed from the league, ranked out of the league, or has had to drop from the league due to personal reasons, teams are eligible to find a permanent replacement player.

Replacement players will follow the same restrictions as the substitute rules listed in 2.5.