NCL Season One Looking for Teams (S6 Bronze-Gold) Starting January 7th! 5 Team Slots Open!

If your team would like to participate contact NickToonZ in-game or comment below with your team's information. The rules for the NCL Season One are below and as stated above there are 5 spots open for teams at this moment.

NCL Season One Rules Each Player must have been ranked Bronze 5-Gold 1 or unranked in Season 6 of League of Legends.

There will be 7 weeks of competition in the Regular Season, starting on the weekend of January 7th and 8th and ending on the weekend of March 4th and 5th Bye weeks will occur on the weekends of January 28th and 29th and February 18th and 19th.

Each team will participate in 1 game on Saturday and 1 game on Sunday, 2 games per week, within one of the 5 designated time slots, which are the same for both days, listed below: Game 1 at 3 PM EST/12 PM PST Game 2 at ~4 PM EST/~1 PM PST Game 3 at ~5 PM EST/~2 PM PST Game 4 at ~6 PM EST/~3 PM PST (Game times past Game 1 are estimations)

During Pick and Ban Phase players must go in LCS order which is Top, Jungle, Mid, ADC, and Support.

There will be 8 teams competing in the Regular Season for 1 of 6 Playoff spots. The top 2 seeded teams from the Regular Season will receive a First-Round Bye in the Playoffs. Playoff spots will be determined in this order with these tie-breaking procedures: Regular Season Record Head-to-Head Record (If Regular Season Record is tied) Tie-Breaker Match (If Head-to-Head Record is tied)

Playoffs shall start on the weekend of March 18th and 19th and will continue on the weekend of March 25th and 26th and the Finals of NCL Season One will be held on April 1st all of which shall have the same time schedule as the Regular Season. However the Playoffs will instead have a Best-of-5 Game format with each series lasting a day.

The All-Star Event shall take place on April 2nd with the top voted players, voting will be done by the fans of the NCL via polls on the NEX Gaming Community Facebook and Twitter Pages. The Top 2 voted players per role, 20 players overall, will be invited to the All-Star Event. The events will be announced at a later date.

The teams with the worst 2 regular season records will not qualify for the playoffs and will be placed in one of two categories depending on position. These categories are: Safe Zone – Which will be a neutral zone where teams do not qualify for playoffs but do qualify for NCL Season Two, which will happen sometime later in 2017, this will be for the 7th seed team. Relegation – This will be for the 8th seed team. In order to requalify for NCL Season Two they will have to win a 16 team tournament.

The Relegation Tournament shall be held after the Playoffs and All-Star Event have ended. This is a 16 team tournament with 15 of the 16 teams being new to the NCL, looking to gain entrance for NCL Season Two.

There will be a roster check each week where every team must have their roster locked in by the Thursday before competing. We will allow pre-sub information, so if one person will start one day and another person will start the other day, in these roster checks. A Black-Listed player can be marked by any team who the player has played for and made some sort of negative offense causing the player to be dropped from that team, the length of the player's time on the Black-List shall depend on the offense(s). However for any unmarked sub or Black-Listed player that plays in a game you will lose bans in this fashion: For 1 unmarked sub you shall lose 1 ban. For 2-3 unmarked subs you shall lose 2 bans. For 4-5 unmarked subs you shall lose 3 bans. For playing a Black-Listed player you shall lose 3 bans regardless of being a starter or sub.

Any toxic offenses in the NCL can lead to the League forcing the following actions depending on the offense. These include Black-Listing, Suspension, and Banning which can affect individual players, casters, and team owners.

Team syndication is not allowed in the NCL, this means that multiple teams cannot be owned by.the same person or organization, this only applies to League of Legends cross-game team syndication is allowed, such as organizations like Fnatic. Players are also limited to one team.