TBL Challenge 10: Team Vote

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Along with the start of the Playoff Prediction League (see the news item below this one), we are also getting the ball rolling with Challenge 10. It's been a long time coming, but we now have the poll running to vote for which team to coach in our tenth Challenge. Go to this thread to vote. The poll will close at the end of Monday 14 April.

Whilst voting is going on, we are putting the finishing touches to a couple of rule tweaks which we will be announcing in time for the start of the Challenge. The most important change is that we will be having a single overall Challenge deadline rather than having individual deadlines for each quarter of the season. The idea behind this change is to let each user play at their own pace - you can play as many or as few seasons as you like before the deadline passes.

We know there's been increasing demand for a non-NHL Challenge and we're going to be experimenting with new rules to prepare for the possibility of a non-NHL team for Challenge 11. It's going to involve a lot of work and preparation and so that is why we've chosen to have an NHL team for Challenge 10. It'll give us the time we need to ensure that our first non-NHL Challenge is as challenging and as fun as possible. When the time comes, the poll for choosing the Challenge 11 team will include two NHL teams and two non-NHL teams. It will thus be up to the majority vote of the users to decide whether we go NHL or non-NHL. Watch this space!