The Russians (or Ukrainians or whatever) are organizing a European Haxball League, which is a sort of a cross between a regular championship and the Champions League.

It's a regular championship in the sense that the teams are divided into conferences/divisions and each team has to play loads of games against each other (at least 18 matches + play-offs).

It's similar to the CL in the sense that it's international and only the best teams of each country qualify, which means that, considering the scope of this thing (10-15+ countries, 30 teams), this might turn out to be the most epic hax tournament EVAR.

The teams are going to be seeded based on geography (Spanish teams in the same group with other Southern European clubs, Russian teams with Eastern European ones and so on), so ping shouldn't be a major problem.

IHL is going to start after a week or two and it's going to run through April/May and also June (if you qualify for the play-offs), so this is probably also a nice way of continuing competitive haxing after the end of S3.

More info: http://ruhaxball.org/?p=2090&lang=en

P.S. no naabs pls

UK not invited -.-

It's just a preliminary list that doesn't mean anything.

Once someone from the UK (or Luxembourg or Iceland or Vatican) is going to apply, a flag will be added.

Oh, and the format is 4on4 obv. Most likely big easy with 7 min halves.

#TEAMLYNCHY will represent da uk snm

Girgensons - "The Russians (or Ukrainians or whatever)"

^bit of casual racism there girg

I've entered Cathletico. ON IT.

There's only 1or2 spots for UK so if more apply we have to fight it out?

Yes MUCK

UPDATE:
UK+Ireland+Benelux has 2 slots in IHL.

It would actually make the most sense if the FM admins decided on how to organize the qualification.

The IHL admins recommended that the 2 leading teams in the league should automatically qualify, but I don't know if that's the wisest thing, considering we still play 3on3 in the league.

MADDUDE?

Have a cheeky little qualification tournament

CHEEKY JOE

Play OFF!

Seeing as we only have 2 slots open the logical choices would be the League winner and the Cup winner with the League runner up coming in if the cup winner happens to also be the league winner. This way we have our theoretical 'best 3v3' and 'best 4v4' teams representing us.

The only other way of doing it is assigning two captains and putting together two all-star teams of 10 so 20 players would be eligible.

dat sensible ghose inb4 we get a team of 4 tts

Girgensons has said that he doesn't think you can do the random teams bit and also it starts before the season ends, so League and Cup winners wont be do-able.

First come first serve imo. Cathletico already entered. gg wp no re

*SUKH has joined
*SUKH was banned (y u so racist?)

If I'm not in at least one of the 2 teams i'm mad mad mad mad

The Netherlands are in it

to fucking dominate it.

opc wrote:First come first serve imo. Cathletico already entered. gg wp no re

Have you even asked the rest of your team if they can/want to play in it yet?

Ghost's idea makes the most sense, as we cannot submit 4v4 teams on merit as it'd be unfair to select just 2 teams from the 8 that are left in the cup.

Plus, the teams would be mostly random anyway as we only have rosters of 5 but for the IHL we'd have much bigger rosters and therefore would have to include other players anyway.

Finland's making an all star team for the exact same reason (a draft system + very small teams), so that's an option, yeah.

16 team 4v4 qualifying tournamnent, two winners go to IHL

Aero Ghost Maddude pls.

Put your thinking hats on, 4 days left.

Or don't send the 2 best teams available -> become the whipping boys of the tournament again (they'll get the teams from UK/ROI/NL that already have applied).

And I don't think I need to remind you what happened in the CL.

Right here's my thinking.

Team A

jonnynooj(captain)
Sukh
Deer
Maddude
TTom
Cookies
echsehh
Edgar Davids
Aaron
Ghost


Team B

Cathalio11(captain)
Cheese
Fabregas
V-11
Rvilla
Ogre
Klinsa
Aidan
Rising Star
CircleBoy




Two squads of 10 players, of whom both could field two very strong 4v4 teams. I tried to balance the teams out by who I think would play best with each other. Obviously if any of the players in that list are representing their other leagues teams then we can switch them out for another player. It's the only way I can think of doing this in such short notice that would best represent our league.

Ogre should be in one of those teams IMO.

Constantinople wrote:Ogre should be in one of those teams IMO.

If it was up to you, every player in FM would be in the team.

Rachel wrote:

Constantinople wrote:Ogre should be in one of those teams IMO.

If it was up to you, every player in FM would be in the team.

Haha.

I've never seen him play 4v4, tbh. At such short notice we don't have time to hold trials and tournaments to find the best players so I can only list those who I know are actually good at 4v4. Though to be fair by the time everyone in the list would be able to respond and confirm if they want to play or not the deadline would have passed and we'd be out of the league anyway.

The way I see it is that because the league allows cuts & signs, it allows us to put those teams in now and we'll still have time to cut & add new players later on.

Constantinople wrote:Ogre should be in one of those teams IMO.

yeh


ogre over xmaster in team b imo, or maybe put cookies in team b and ogre in team a

Thanks for the love, but I'll try to get into this thing through the Latvian qualification (we have 1 spot together with Estonia I think).

If someone from these 2 teams can't make it/doesn't want to play (bear in mind that every team has to play at least 18 matches through April and May), post it here or inform your captain or something, so the lists can be finalized. Kthx.

Wait, I don't see X (Nino) or Ogre in any of the Teams?

>no v-11 or X

Or V-11/ I thought the squads are up to 10? Edgar in team A? lul

International haxballer bro. u mad?

I'm mirin bro

v-11 for x-master
x (or rising if he's in some other team) for girgensons
griffin/tanzim for fabregas
CB for me

au revoir poisson

naa Girgenson in one team, X in another and Ogre in both teams lol or atleast one team.

Me, X-master, timmy and X got a dutch team already.

gg wp no re

Try get Redboy!!! pm him or sumink asap
also rising star <3 he deserves a spot imo

Ghost, Ogre, V-11 and Someone else should replace Timmy, X-master and Beast as they're in the Benelux team in the IHL

Well if X-master and Timmy and Beast are in The dutch team then they can't play for the FM Team B, so replace someone with them 3 and let the qualifying commence...

questions why i am not included

What days are matches is the key question here really?

needs more banks

Maddude wrote:What days are matches is the key question here really?

It depends on how many leagues will be represented. The IHL will try not to hold games when any other participating league has them. So I'd guess it won't be Wednesday/Thursday or Sunday.

Maybe Monday/Saturday. Or not. :> It's not decided yet.

Mondays & Tuesdays, same as how the CL is/was would probably be best.


Two modified rosters based on suggestions from joe public;

Team A

jonnynooj(captain)
Sukh
Deer
Maddude
TTom
Cookies
echsehh
Edgar Davids
Aaron
Circleboy


Team B

Cathalio11(captain)
Cheese
Griffin
V-11
Rvilla
Ogre
Klinsa
Aidan
Rising Star
Socrates



Filled each with 10, adjusted a couple for added balance. Think both sides look really strong and a wide variety of lineups could come from both squads. Some of the foreigners may be questionable due to their other league allegiances, but they should be easily replaceable.

no x?

He's in Beast's squad

Ghost wrote:Mondays & Tuesdays, same as how the CL is/was would probably be best.


Two modified rosters based on suggestions from joe public;

Team A

jonnynooj(captain)
Sukh
Deer
Maddude
TTom
Cookies
echsehh
Edgar Davids
Aaron
Circleboy


Team B

Cathalio11(captain)
Cheese
Griffin
V-11
Rvilla
Ogre
Klinsa
Aidan
Rising Star
Socrates



Filled each with 10, adjusted a couple for added balance. Think both sides look really strong and a wide variety of lineups could come from both squads. Some of the foreigners may be questionable due to their other league allegiances, but they should be easily replaceable.