Bay Area HeroClix League

Overview (Detailed rules will be posted below)

Sets: DC 75th and Justice League

Draft Day: Saturday January 8th

Assassination Round

Everyone removes one character slot from the draft pool

Snake Draft

Players draft characters in order for odd rounds then draft in reverse order for even rounds.

Teams

500 points

No feats, ATAs, BFCs or special objects.

Everyone starts with unlimited commons, 125 in uncommon points, 25 in rare points and 0 in super rare points.

Games

55 minutes

Round robin schedule

Promoting up

KOs count their points toward the next higher rarity with super rare KO points split in any category.

Bonus Draft

After half the games are played the last place team may draft one character from the original post-assassination pools.

Trading

3 maximum trades, trading ends after Bonus Draft.

Playoffs

Yes, there will be playoffs

Proxy Players

In rare cases were two players cannot meet to play a game a proxy player will be used in order to complete the game in a timely manner.

Detailed rules explanation

Draft Pools

For each set; 3 of every common, 2 of every uncommon, 1 of every rare, and half of the super rares which will be randomly chosen and posted some time before draft day.

Assassination Round

Players will chose a character slot to remove from the draft (i.e. if you chose a common character all 3 will be removed from the draft).

Snake Draft

Players will draft characters in order of their position. After a full round, drafting is repeated but in reverse order of position. This process is repeated until there is not enough characters to finish a round. Example: player in position 1 drafts first in every odd round and last in every even round.

Second Set Draft - Justice League

The assassination round and snake draft are repeated for the second set, but players positions' start reversed (i.e. if you went drafted first in the first set you draft last in the second set)

Trading

You may trade up to three characters. You may not trade for a character that you traded way. All trading ends after the Bonus Draft.

Build Restrictions

Teams may only contain characters that have been drafted. You may not play more of character than what was drafted (e.g. if you drafted 2 Zamarons you may have no more than 2 on your team), and in cases where a character may be substituted for another character (e.g. Beast Boy's Morph special power) you must have also drafted the character that is being brought in, and the character must not exceed your available points in that rarity slot.

Promotion Points

All players start with Unlimited common points, 125 uncommon points, 25 rare points and 0 super rare points. Your team cannot exceed these limits for each rarity. For example in game 1 you will not be able to play any Super Rare characters or Rares as no available rare character is 25 points or less; you could play as many common characters as you can fit in 500 points; and you could play any single uncommon character that is 125 points or less (e.g. Osiris 101 points) or any number of uncommon characters whose total points does not exceed 125 points (e.g. Warlord 50 and Nightmaster 69 = 119).

Gaining Promotion Points

Every opposing character that is KO'd has its points added to your promotion points at one rarity higher (e.g. KOing a common Crimson Fox adds 44 points to your available uncommons). When super rares are KO'd the player may divide up those points in any rarity desired, this choice must be made within 48 hours.

Bonus Draft

After half the games are played (rounded down), the player in last place (per division) will get to draft one character from the original post-assassination pool of characters. This character can not be used in the play-offs.

Proxy Players

The proxy system should be used as a last resort. Sanctions will be applied to players who abuse the system.

There will be a 2 week count down starting from when the next game is announced (the proxy day will be part of the announcement). If the game hasn't been played by then a player will be recruited to play the game. Ideally, the proxy player will come from the other division and must be of the same ranking or lower (if available). The proxy player will be chosen by the present player. As an incentive for the proxy player, if the proxy player wins they get one free theme team re-roll to use in a divisional game.

Ranking

Done by win-loss record then points then promotion points (SR and down)

Divisions

Provided there are at least 12 players we will spilt into two divisions. Drafting and schedules will be separate. You will not be able to trade across divisions.

Schedule will have everyone playing everyone in their division twice with promotion points being reset at the half way point.

Playoffs will be handled differently: For each division 2nd and 3rd will play and then the 1st plays the winner. Then the winners of each division will play each other.

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