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[samath]

Hello everyone!

Season 34 has begun! Log into Discord and say hello.

"Friendly and competitive" -- that's how we advertise the League, and a description that we do think the League achieves. But there are always ways that we can strive to be friendlier, some of which I'd like to highlight here.

Most of all, friendly League players are easy to schedule matches with. This is by far the most frequent complaint we get, that someone isn't responding to messages in a timely fashion or didn't show up at an agreed-upon time. Of course, life and mistakes happen, but please don't be the one to ruin the League experience for someone else.

In fact, there's something you can do right now to make all of this easier if you haven't already: Go to Discord and describe your general availability in your division channel. Are you going to be unavailable any of the weeks of the season? What time of day do you like to play?

It might seem like a small thing, but it's also friendlier to your opponents to use the same username in Discord as in the client. If you already have a Discord account with a different name, you can (and should!) change your nickname within the Dominion Discord to match your dominion.games username.

And finally, it's friendly to finish out the season and give all of your opponents the matches they signed up for. I posted some statistics last season showing overall improvement on that front, which thankfully continued: 92% of players successfully completed Season 33. In terms of total games played (to account for players who drop out near the end), we set a modern record of 93.5%, third-most ever after the much smaller Seasons 6 and 7.

Rules Changes

None of the rules have changed, but we have clarified and codified some details around player respectfulness and how moderators resolve conflicts. If you're curious, check out Rules & Regulations, sections VII and X.

Moderator Churn

We bid farewell to GreyEK, who did a great job moderating the last three seasons. In her place, we've recruited alibby1152 and crlundy, two experienced League players who are also spreadsheet gurus and have already been a big help on that front.

Here's to another successful League season!

SamE