First, thank you to all players who came out to watch and/or participate in Season XIV's All-Star Game. After trailing 0-1, Juno stormed back and won the match 2-1 over Nascent. Congratulations to this season's All-Star MVP's:

Game 1: Choc
Game 2: Maddux
Game 3: Kobe

Playoffs will begin next weekend, please check the schedule for your squad's scheduled match time.

Secondly, I would like to take this opportunity to announce one of season XV's rule changes:

Season XV will feature smaller roster sizes and re-introduce the use of the bench feature.

Squads will be allowed 16 active players and 4 players on their bench for a total of 20 players per roster. The wait time to activate a benched player will be 8 days. This announcement is being made now to allow all squad captains the opportunity to begin the process of trimming your rosters and for new captains start recruiting new talent. The reason for this change is to spread out the talent from the top-tier and promote new squad leadership.

Good luck to all squads participating in Season XIV's Playoffs/BoTR.

The All-Star Game is this Sunday, September 7th, at 8:00 p.m. eastern.

Here are the lineups!

Juno:

Captain: Ender
Co-Captain: Khaos

Allegiance: Jane, Schism, DarkCloud, Pursuit
Execution: OwN, YoshimoKaraSuto
Lesbians: Leak, Trust
Lowdown: Devil, Lethal, Clown, Un0me
Surgical: Maddux, Seifer, CC, Trisance

Nascent:

Captain: kippa
Co-Captain: Darkseid

Arcane: Samurai, TKO, Archany, Armor
drunk and hot girls: SM, Choc, Killer, Jaluk
Kings: Mecca, Bomb, Gemini, Tactical
kippa: Ear, Josh Justice, Sonic Flare, Pizza
The Untouchables: Mosh, Win, DevilDog186, DoG

Good luck to both teams participating, it should be a fun game to play in and watch. Remember captains [and refs], every player who shows up must play at least one game.

If I forgot to mention something, I'll post in the forums. Have fun this weekend!

Finally, the playoffs have arrived and it looks to be a very good, intense round 1 of matches. Thank you all for a great season. It was long but for the most part, everyone stuck it out and still showed up every week and kept SL active.

I would like to thank my referees here for doing such a good job. Bomb, steve, and shadowclown really stepped up this season and reffed a whole lot of games just between the three of them. They deserve this special mention. A+ work fellas.

The awards are currently being voted for and the winners will be announced after the Championship game. Good luck to all the nominees!

The All-Star Game will take place this Sunday (Sept 7th) at 8:00 p.m. eastern. The lineups will be finalized tomorrow, so look for a post that announces the lineups. If you're a captain and haven't posted your all-stars, please do that by tomorrow at midnight. Ender and kippa have won captain for their respective divisions with Khaos and Darkseid as their co-captains. Lets have a good showing and a fun all-star game!

The first week of playoffs will take place on Sunday, September 14th. The matches are as follows:

HOME vs AWAY
1 Lowdown vs 8 Untouchables - CONFIRMED Sunday Sept 14th at 6:00 pm est.
2 Surgical vs 7 Allegiance - CONFIRMED Sunday Sept 14th at 8:00 pm est.
3 drunk and hot girlsg vs 6 Kings - CONFIRMED Sunday Sept 14th at 7:00 pm est.
4 Arcane vs 5 Kippa from hell- CONFIRMED Sunday Sept 14th at 9:00 pm est.

9 Execution vs 10 Lesbians - CONFIRMED Sunday Sept 14th at 10:00 pm est.

Remember, the loser of 1v8 and 2v7 will be dropped to the BoTR to compete for the shield.

Good luck to all the squads!

Surgical defeats drunk and hot girls 2-0
Kings defeats Execution 2-1
Arcane defeats Allegiance 2-1
Lowdown defeats The Untouchables 2-0
kippa from hell to kill you defeats Lesbians by default

drunk and hot girls defeats Lesbians 2-0
Arcane defeats Execution 2-0
The Untouchables defeats Allegiance 2-1
Kings defeats Surgical 2-0
kippa from hell to kill you defeats Lowdown 2-0