Bay Area HeroClix League

Sets: Superman and Hulk

Draft Day: TBD, sometime after the first week of January.

Teams:

Teams will be chosen before draft day by the captains.

Assassination Round

Everyone removes one character slot from the draft pool. This is separate from the draft like in season 4.

Drafting

Teams will be split in two with each half going to a separate draft. Captains will choose how to split their teams.

Actual draft order will be random, but order will alternate between each team, so that all odd picks will be one team and all even picks the other team. It's possible that teams may get split up by day instead. This will depend on circumstances of player schedule.

Snake Draft

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

Teams

500 points

No feats, BFCs, or special objects (that aren't part of the character). ATAs TBD.

Games

50 minutes

Bonus Draft

No bonus draft this season.

Trading

Inner-Team: You may trade with members of your team as detailed below until you have played your 4th game.

Inter-Team: You may NOT trade with members of other teams.

Detailed

Draft Pools

For each set (not including Gravity Feeds); 3 of every common, 2 of every uncommon, 1 of every rare, and half of the super rares.

Super Rares

Superman: Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman, Swmp Thing, Zod

Hulk: Caiera, Ka-Zar, Black Bolt, Hulk, Red King

Assassination Round

All players will chose a single character slot to remove from the draft before the draft begins. (i.e. if you chose a common character all 3 will be removed from the draft). This will be done separately from the draft and will include all players.

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 for 8 rounds. Example: player in position 1 drafts first in every odd round and last in every even round.

Second Set Draft

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

Trading

You may not trade away a character that you have played. You may receive up to 4 characters and give up to 4 characters in trades.

Build Restrictions

You may only use characters that you drafted. You may not use more of a character than you drafted (i.e. you draft a single Kryptonian Soldier you may not put two on a team). If there are special rules for switching characters out, alter-egoes for instance, then you must have drafted both characters to switch them out. It might be easier to think of your entire collection as only consisting of characters you drafted, that is the baseline for any questions that arise.

Schedule

There may be a posted schedule to be used as a guide, but you are not forced to play by the listed schedule. You may play opponents in any order that you wish. You must play against every player from the opposing team.

Maps

We will only be using these maps for the season:

Gamma Range (Hulk)

Shadowland Fortress (Hulk)

Fortress of Solitude (Superman)

Metropolis (Superman)

Spaceship Crash Site (Secret Invasion)

The Asylum (Arkham)

Playoffs and Friendlies

It's encouraged to play members of your team for practice and strategy. We may have an end of season tournament or game depending on how the season progresses.

Reporting

The winner of the game has 72 hours in which to report the score. The score must be reported on the forums as described in the reporting thread on the forums. Every 24 hours late will be a loss of 10 points, if more than a week late a loss will be recorded. Everyone will be allowed one late reporting which will be accounted for at the end of the season; the worst violation will be removed.

Proxies/Substitutes/Drops

There will be no proxy players. If a player must leave the league for whatever reason the captains will find a replacement as soon as possible.

Champion

The team with the most wins will be declared the winner of season 5. If there is a tie in wins we will have a playoff between the top 3 players by record: 1 vs. 1; 2 vs. 2; 3 vs. 3.

Illegal Teams

It is the responsibility of both players to make sure that teams are legal before play. Please check your opponent's team before your game. You can make no appeals after the game has started. If the player of the illegal team loses, no extra penalties will occur for a first offense and the winner is capped at no more than 500 points. If the player with an illegal team wins they will be penalized in points by the amount equal to their overage for the first offense; any offense thereafter will be a loss and zero points.

Updated super rares, maps and trading.