Also just a little info on this, it has to do with how paypal interacts with mandatory tax reporting to the IRS.

https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2021-11-04-New-US-Tax-Reporting-Requirements-Your-Questions-Answered

Paypal went from required reporting of 20k+ to $600 dollars. So if we send the money to a leader, the leader will have a 1099-K of the winnings, whereas before it was manual reporting process. Keep in mind that while people won't get $600 for just one season, it's very possible for team leaders to get $600 over one year.

Sigafoo handles everything with prize money. We collect paypals, and he sends out payouts. Dave2 already linked the post detailing everything in regards to how much is collected, and where it all goes. The decisions are largely made by the HAs and Sigafoo himself, but as you can see only $300 goes towards site costs and less than $200 goes towards newbie mixes. The other part that doesn't get returned directly to the players via payouts goes to paypal's transactional fees. I really recommend reading the article if you haven't already, as it is incredibly thorough as to where the money goes.

Charis messaged me a few times regarding payouts, and if I recall correctly (I don't have the dms so I might be misremembering), but part of the reason there was a delay with your team was because we were having issues with the original paypal account your team provided. When we did get a paypal, I forwarded it to exa/sigafoo, however by then we were reramping the payout system.

I do agree transparency hasn't been the strongest with this particular instance, however I do think overall finances are rather transparent. We can likely try to release more indepth financial reports for the next few seasons, however those do take time to write up.

As for accountability among leadership, any more specifics/insight you could provide would be much appreciated. We're not perfect, and working as a group of volunteers often does mean things slip through the cracks, however we know this and are always looking to improve.

RGL is happy to announce Season 9 for Traditional 6s!

See the announcement here.

Some important dates of note:

• Sunday, May 15th - New team registration closes @ 11:59 PM EST
  
• Monday, May 16th - Invite Qualifiers begin
  
• Friday, May 20th - Last day for Qualifiers
  
• Sunday, May 22nd - Division placements finalized, division fee payment deadline, week 1 matches scheduled
  
• Tuesday, May 24th - Regular Season Begins
  
• Sunday, June 26th - Rosters lock @ 11:59 PM EST
  
• Thursday, July 14th - Last default match day of the regular season
  
• Sunday, July 17th - Last possible date for Invite matches
  
• Sunday, July 24th - Last possible day for regular season matches
  
• Tuesday, July 26th - Playoffs begin
  
• Saturday & Sunday, August 6th & 7th - RGL LAN for Invite playoffs
  
• Sunday, August 21st - Last possible date for playoff matches

Of note, invite playoffs is having a LAN this season. As such, we are limiting invite to 8 teams to allow for slightly fewer matches to give playoffs teams a slightly longer buffer time between the end of the season and lan weekend. We will also be releasing survey results soon, along with details over map pool changes and the like.

As with last season, if your team wishes to compete in invite or qualifiers, please message me on discord or steam (Both links can be found here.). For any invite qualifying teams, when you reach out I'll provide you with a list of all potential invite teams and whether or not they will be playing qualifiers.

Invite team spreadsheet can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cqC8lV43vvd6Br71uRoEnHkY6LX-KRIHv8seLx1ZttU/edit?usp=sharing

Note this is constantly being updated, and if something is wrong just lmk.

Feel free to post any questions here or to DM me directly!

https://clips.twitch.tv/ObservantCredulousPhoneArgieB8-VfvFyDkMbo6RkiID

1. fair enough
2. fair enough

me and perfection knew we were fucking with each other is another bit of context i think went unrecognized, none of it was serious. like we're on good terms and shit, and agree it was just banter. it was all in good fun, i really don't get the need for this thread with all that in mind.

wanna be really clear that i only said the don't be sexist shit because after channels were delinked, someone messaged me saying perfection was saying "really heinous shit", which i interpretted as he was being sexist. I am all for shit talk (obv), and apparently he just called me fat and ugly (which is fine, not bannable or anything), but i thought he was saying sexist shit which is crossing a line. i also ended it in the first place because people in the mumble were complaining about the pug starting, so i wanted to let things end for them to start. idk if the video shows it but in between me shit talking him he literally shit talks me back, says i'm bad and got carried to invite and that no one likes me and stuff. the real situation isn't just me railing on him, we were going back and forth.

i really don't get why i'm in the wrong here, we were shit talking eachother, i brought up shit about my life cause perfections a neet. He spends all night shit talking others, why is it when i do it i get a video made about me? is it because i had emotion in my voice? it's literally just shit talk.

Nothing i did here has anything to do with me being an rgl admin. Anything with perfection in the future I will sit out of discussions to avoid bias. I was pugging on my own time away from rgl, I think i'm allowed to shit talk if others are shit talking as well.

shoutout to det nyxi alexandros grape juice and frickmynick for gaming
shoutout to walrex and golden for dodging lan (!)
shoutout to marmaloo meyy habib and jay for being super chill gamers
shoutout to the g6 gamers u guys are nuts
shoutout to SKEEZ for WAVING TO ME WHEN I ASKED IN GAME (HI SKEEZ)
shoutout to reno hidi dolphin and all the lan staff u guys are goated
extra shoutout to reno for being amazing ily sm
shoutout to camper and noelle love u guys
shoutout to mirrorman for shouting me out on the cast

BIG SHOUTOUT TO BUMBO FOR PICKING ME AND MIRROR UP FROM THE AIRPORT UR A REAL GOAT

but until u decide to get real, its never gonna happen.

Gonna try to get in touch with DolphiN or TFTV about this!

Welcome to the “Draftomatic Cup” generously sponsored by fx. This is the inaugural RESUP event before LHTF2 LAN, meant to stir up a little bit of excitement and put a bit of cash in the pockets of players that may be traveling to LAN soon. If you’ve ever wondered what it might look like to split up the rosters of top teams, you won’t want to miss this! There will be a stream on twitch.tv/b4nny, but all participants are encouraged to stream their POVs as well.

What/When
1 Day Draft-Style Cup
Saturday 1/22/22, 9pm EST to ~1am EST
4-team double elimination bracket
BO1 matches until BO3 grand finals

Drafting
Captains will be b4nny, habib, jay, laz
Picking order will be drawn randomly, then follow a snake pattern (1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, etc)
Draft will occur on Thursday 1/20/22 at ~12am EST

Prizes
1st: $600
2nd: $240
3rd: $120
4th: $60

Ruleset
We will be using improved round timer and improved match timer plugins, available on http://na.serveme.tf now.

To be added to the player pool that the captains will draft from, post on the rgl thread, or message me (virgil) to be added. Link to playpool can be found here.

legend, insane dm, honestly could play invite before he took a break so i'd imagine he's still hyper goated

Added to the OP, spreadsheet is a work in progress but you can check that for what I have. I'll start linking rgl/steam pages and schedulers in the next day or two (hopefully).

As to the map discussion, I wanna establish two things:

First, in regards to the invite map pool, we're letting invite vote out/vote in maps based on the league wide map pool. For example, out of the 8 league wide maps, invite may vote out 2 of them and vote in 3 more. With this, they could vote out reckoner or metalworks, and vote back in bagel, granary, and badlands. It's up to them entirely.

Second, in regards to the league wide map pool, we do do surveys and are trying our best to find what maps people enjoy and which they don't enjoy (see villa being completely removed from the map pool in place of reckoner). We're going to give reckoner another season before reconsidering it's place, and similarly the koth rotation is something we are testing based on survey results as well.

For our most recent survey (Season 7), here are some results (just from the text document I have, no pretty formatting):
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cp_gullywash_final1
Results
11 (5%) - Very unenjoyable
20 (9%) - Unenjoyable
29 (14%) - Neutral
88 (42%) - Enjoyable
61 (29%) - Very Enjoyable
2 (1%) - I did not play this map this season

cp_metalworks
Results
18 (9%) - Very unenjoyable
20 (9%) - Unenjoyable
44 (21%) - Neutral
84 (40%) - Enjoyable
42 (20%) - Very Enjoyable
3 (1%) - I did not play this map this season

cp_snakewater_final1
Results
5 (2%) - Very unenjoyable
10 (5%) - Unenjoyable
26 (12%) - Neutral
87 (41%) - Enjoyable
80 (38%) - Very Enjoyable
3 (1%) - I did not play this map this season

cp_process_f9a
Results
9 (4%) - Very unenjoyable
9 (4%) - Unenjoyable
19 (9%) - Neutral
88 (42%) - Enjoyable
83 (39%) - Very Enjoyable
3 (1%) - I did not play this map this season

cp_sunshine
Results
4 (2%) - Very unenjoyable
8 (4%) - Unenjoyable
13 (6%) - Neutral
80 (38%) - Enjoyable
103 (49%) - Very Enjoyable
3 (1%) - I did not play this map this season

koth_clearcut_b15d
Results
17 (8%) - Very unenjoyable
21 (10%) - Unenjoyable
37 (18%) - Neutral
76 (36%) - Enjoyable
55 (26%) - Very Enjoyable
5 (2%) - I did not play this map this season

cp_reckoner_rc6
Results
36 (17%) - Very unenjoyable
39 (18%) - Unenjoyable
48 (23%) - Neutral
55 (26%) - Enjoyable
26 (12%) - Very Enjoyable
8 (4%) - I did not play this map this season

koth_bagel_rc5
Results
16 (8%) - Very unenjoyable
13 (6%) - Unenjoyable
30 (14%) - Neutral
76 (36%) - Enjoyable
73 (35%) - Very Enjoyable
3 (1%) - I did not play this map this season

[INVITE ONLY] cp_granary_rc2
Results
1 (1%) - Very unenjoyable
2 (1%) - Unenjoyable
3 (2%) - Neutral
6 (4%) - Enjoyable
5 (4%) - Very Enjoyable
118 (87%) - I did not play this map this season

[INVITE ONLY] How did you feel about experimental map (cp_granary_rc2)
Results
3 (3%) - Very unenjoyable
1 (1%) - Unenjoyable
2 (2%) - Neutral
5 (5%) - Enjoyable
3 (3%) - Very Enjoyable
3 (3%) - I did not play this map in a match this season
74 (81%) - I did not play this map in a match or scrim this season

[INVITE ONLY] How did you feel about the experimental map pool
Results
1 (3%) - Too large (too many maps)
1 (3%) - Too many unnecessary maps
20 (51%) - Appropriate
1 (3%) - Too small (not enough maps to choose from)
15 (38%) - Too small (not enough variety in maps)

[INVITE ONLY] Would you like to keep Granary for season 8, or would you like to vote for another map
Results
9 (41%) - Yes, keep Granary for season 8
9 (41%) - Neutral
4 (18%) - No, vote for another map
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Map results like these are why we are letting invite deviate from the regular map pool, as often invite's statistics vary greatly from the rest of the league. It also lets invite test out new things (such as granary) so we can consider adding it to the general map pool next time we revise it. However as is, we do want to give reckoner another season.

Playoffs aren't at LAN this season, they're just going to be tournament style.

Map pool for every div besides invite should be the same with product swapped for bagel.

also yea uhhh i just copy/pasted my post from last season and forgot to change 7 to 8 woops!

RGL is happy to announce Season 8 for Traditional 6s!

See the announcement here.

Some important dates of note:

• Friday, January 14th - New team registration closes @ 11:59 PM EST
  
• Friday, January 19th - Invite Qualifier sign ups close @ 11:59 PM EST
  
• Friday, January 21st - Invite Qualifiers begin
  
• Friday, January 28th - Last day for Qualifiers
  
• Sunday, January 30th - Division placements finalized, division fee payment deadline, week 1 matches scheduled
  
• Tuesday, February 1st - Regular Season Begins
  
• Sunday, March 6th - Rosters lock @ 11:59 PM EST
  
• Thursday, March 17th - Last default match day of the regular season
  
• Sunday, March 27th - Last possible day for regular season matches
  
• Tuesday, April 5th - Playoffs begin
  
• Sunday, May 1st - Last possible date for playoff matches

As with last season, if your team wishes to compete in invite or qualifiers, please message me on discord or steam (Both links can be found here.). For any invite qualifying teams, when you reach out I'll provide you with a list of all potential invite teams and whether or not they will be playing qualifiers.

Invite team spreadsheet can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qiEnlN5si9_so1_nw6pCavIjdM0tGfkXJMgd9VmFhG4/edit?usp=sharing

Note this is constantly being updated, and if something is wrong just lmk.

Feel free to post any questions here or to DM me directly!

We're typically very careful about how we analyze survey results like this. This time, we're specifically looking at how members of each div voted, and tracking how that changes as you move from lower to higher divs. Furthermore, you also had to have played last season to vote, so that helps a bit. I do get your concerns though, and I'll make sure we consider those moving forward.