SEAL
SEAL, The Seasonal Echo All-star League, is the original off-season league that uses a one of a kind “auction draft” to create unique teams each season. The goal of SEAL is to encourage players to play with people they normally don't play with competitively. Dispersing the competitive player base also allows the newer players to get their name out there while also giving experienced players the opportunity to scout up and coming players.
During season 1, SEAL stood for Summer Echo Arena League, during season 2 this changed to Seasonal Echo Arena League to apply to all seasons, and in season 3 it stands for Seasonal Echo All-star League. SEAL typically occurs between seasons of VRML.
Season 1[edit | edit source]
The draft for SEAL Season 1 occurred on June 5th 2020. Games started at 3pm EST on both Saturday, June 13th 2020 and Sunday, June 14th 2020
The Swiss bracket had 5 rounds on Saturday, after all 5 rounds are played the top 4 teams moved on to day two, in which they went head to head in a double elimination bracket on Sunday to determine the overall winner. There were 19 teams competing in total, with 4 players on each team.
Top four teams from the swiss bracket on the first day:
1st - Team Orca - Jaywalker, ChocoLIT, Supremebuns, and FartingCrab
2nd - Splash - Game, Jlgraham, DivertingRose, and MrNateBro
3rd - Oceans 11.5 - Zzenith, Chrome, Dipman, and Mozzy
4th - Killer Orca Pod - B-love, Cruisen, Phillabust, Kaiden-
SEAL Season 1 Winners:
Oceans 11.5: Zzenith, Chrome-, Mozzy-, and DipMan
Swiss Bracket:
https://challonge.com/SEALSwiss
Finals Bracket:
https://challonge.com/SEALFinals
Selection of casted matches:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf7YI2lMvTyGZx_so8aWuwHzcnPHLQ2-v
Season 2[edit | edit source]
SEAL Season 2 was announced on Sept 28th 2020, and the draft occurred at 8PM EST on October 9th 2020.
After the draft, there was a week to let teams prepare, then matches began on October 18th 2020.
There were 2 matches every week, using the same Swiss format as last season while allowing teams to schedule their matches more freely. To allow this to happen, the first match of each week was played between Sunday-Wednesday of that week. Once all of the Sunday-Wednesday matches were completed, the 2nd set of matchups were released, which were played between Thursday-Saturday.
After the 3 weeks were finished, the top 4 teams played in a double elimination bracket on Saturday, November 14th 2020 for the finals!
Top four teams that participated in the Finals:
- The walking Seals (6-0)
- Seal Team Styx (5-1)
- Pali’s Pumpkins (4-2)
- Da Spooky Seals (4-2)
SEAL Season 2 Winners:
The Walking Seals: StufMuff, Game-, Conamara_Chaos, and Superbuddy
Season 2 winners were awarded seal plushies and stickers with the SEAL logo from VRWear.
Draft Video:
https://youtu.be/2OKznxJKdEA
Full bracket information:
https://challonge.com/iom5vqdv
Full team information:
https://tinyurl.com/y66dswjx
Finals Bracket:
https://challonge.com/2s85y2ae
Season 3[edit | edit source]
Format[edit | edit source]
SEAL runs with the same rules as VRML and games will start one week after the draft. they will last an to be determined amount of time until Finals which will be a double bracket elimination style finals
Draft[edit | edit source]
At 8PM eastern on May 28th and possibly 6PM est on May 29th all of the captains will go into a voice channel muted. The draft will be split into "rounds" of Bidding.
Nomination Phase[edit | edit source]
Nominations will take place the week before draft. The captains will be assigned a random order, this order will determine the order of nomination. All captains (in said random order) will nominate a player that they are interested in bidding on (a player cannot be nominated twice). This is just to ensure that the bidding phase goes as quickly as possible by ensuring that a player being bid on has at least one captain who is actually interested in bidding for that player. The nomination phase has no direct impact on who you as a captain will be able to draft, this is to speed things up by having captains pick the order of the bidding. After all captains have nominated a player they would like to bid on a list will be generated for the order of the draft
Bidding Phase[edit | edit source]
After all captains have nominated a player they would like to bid on a list will be generated for the order of the draft, the Bidding will start. Players will then be bid on in the order they were nominated. Once the casters / auctioneers have covered the info on a person the captains will be able to start bidding in a locked channel. The player will go to the captain with the highest bid. The amount of money the captains have left and their rosters will be updated in a spreadsheet that the players can view.
Bidding will continue until every captain has a full team of 4 players
Captains will be given a budget based on the rank of the highest ranking (according to the VRML website as of the day of the draft) team they played for in the last VRML Season
| Division | Budget |
|---|---|
| Master | 1250 |
| H. Diamond | 1350 |
| Diamond | 1500 |
| Gold | 1650 |
| Silver | 1750 |
| Bronze | 1900 |
Substitutes[edit | edit source]
If your team needs a sub, you must send a message in #seal-captains @ ing SEAL Captains, listing the player you are replacing and with whom you are replacing them with.
If any other captain takes issue with the chosen substitute (ie. because the sub is of a higher value than the player they are replacing), they have the choice to "veto" the substitution and state their concern in the #seal-captains (please @ Mod s when doing this as well). The SEAL mods will then review the case and make a decision either way on whether or not the substitution is allowed.
With this being said, any substitution must follow this format. You must go through these steps in order to make changes to your roster in any way, any substitution that does not go through this process is NOT ALLOWED. Please keep this in mind and give yourself adequate time to go through the steps before any match is scheduled to take place. The SEAL mods will be the ones making the ruling based on the concerns raised, so the veto better be for real reasons (don't abuse this). We will make a ruling as fast as possible and get back to the captain in question.
Schedule[edit | edit source]
The draft for SEAL Season 3 will take place on Friday, May 28th 2021 and Saturday, May 29th 2021. There will then be a week before the official season begins to allow teams to get ready for the season, after which 4 weeks of matches will take place starting on Monday, June 7th 2021.
There will be 2 matches every week which will can be scheduled for any point within each week, unlike last season to reduce the schedule difficulty from last season. After the 4 weeks are finished, the top 4 teams will play in a double elimination bracket on Saturday, July 10th for the finals!
