With JFF numbers trickling downward, some adjustments need to be made to the Team structures. With an EXTREMELY shallow free agent pool, a number of teams are struggling to field a competetive team of seven active fighters.
That said, the 2018 TeamGP will occur with the following changes:
-Teams may compete with only 5 rostered fighters. Teams stay at a max of 7 fighters.
-ALL Team matchups will be 5v5. 1-2 fighters per team will be sidelined for that event.
-Captains will still select the matchups between the teams' respective opponents.
-After matchup are made, if a team has 6 or 7 fighters rostered, 1 ALTERNATE may be chosen by the opponent captain to replace 1 fighter that may miss weight for any matchup.
-Captains will have until pick deadline to post their matchups, or Strez will determine them for you.
-Higher seeded team gets to pick the FIRST 2 matchups between teams
-Tiebreakers
-tiebreaker 1. Total team points
-tiebreaker 2. Total fights picked correct
-tiebreaker 3. Highest individual score
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*CHANGES TO THE 2019 IJFL SEASON*
At the completion of the 2018 Team GP, which will end @UFC 232 on 12/29, ALL TEAMS WILL HAVE TO DROP TO A MAX OF 5 FIGHTERS PER ROSTER.
This needs to happen (tentatively) by Jan 31, 2019.
2019 IJFL will be 4v4 with 1 Bench alternate.
2019 IJFL will start (tentatively) late Feb/early March, depending on card strengths around that time.
Strez and I realize that cutting friends/teammates is a shitty thing, but for the sake of the league, and the possible future of team events, we feel this needs to happen.
To compensate, we are looking at allowing more 5 man teams to form, allowing (possibly) up to 10-12 teams into the IJFL regular season. More hammered out details pertaining to these changes will come closer to the start of IJFL.