The season is done! Congrat's to Ruthless Bastard - supreme champ. Honourable mentions to Grona, Widzisz and Timon for winning their groups undefeated. I will post full results shortly.

There are only a few dropouts that I am aware of: Hangblague in D wishes to resign and Luxis, Zakyman, LastApparatus and King Tut dropped out (see the "boot" rule) during the season. This means moving forward we have 7 from A & G; 6 from B,C,E,F and H1; 5 from D; 4 from H2. Fewer superpromotions than in the past.

If any of those wish to stay in, please let me know. Also, if you wish to not be included, please let me know so we can have full round robins of 7 in each group. Here, for now is the pattern I see for promotions and relegations. I'll follow up soon with the results and where you fit in for season 10.

Capital letters denote Season 10 groups. Small letters denote origin of season 9 finalists.

A: aaaaabb
B: aabbbcc
C: bcccdde
D: cddeeff
E: deeffgg
F: efgggH1,H2
G: fggH1,H2,H1,H2
H: H1,H2,H1,H1, newcomers,including sarutobi, Bluemonkey, General Gror, Pink, bobbob000,Unreality

As in the past, H may be split into 2 groups. Comments? Questions?

why this time nobosy from C Group get superpromoted in A like lasts seasons?
Also soon i will go on vacation, if start on meanwhile new season please wait my join.

Superpromotions are implemented only when it is necessary to fill vacancies above. I will respect vacations, and expect to set groups up very soon.

The following is the resulting placements for Season 10, with the results of Season 9 shown in parentheses:

GROUP A
Ruthless Bastard (5-1)
Dreuj (4-2)
NoobSchool (4-2)
Frankdeslimste (3-3)
Heyheuhei (3-3)
Grona (promoted from B, 6-0)
Tenshi (promoted from B, 5-1)

GROUP B
Old Surehand (relegated, 1-5)
Chewie (relegated, 1-5)
Aper (3-3)
El Zilcho (3-3)
Niko (2-4)
Gnuffone (promoted from C, 5-1)
Mighty Whale (4-2, promoted from C in a tie-breaker)

GROUP C
Ze (relegated, 2-4)
Z-Dog (4-2)
Ineffable (4-2)
Marc2013 (2-4)
ChrisCMU (promoted from D, 4-1)
Mr. Miyagi (promoted from D, 3-2)
Summer (super-promoted from E, 4-1)

GROUP D
Turing (relegated, 1-5)
Naivete (3-2)
Mirror (2-3)
Apollo (promoted from E, 3-2)
Marechal Lannes (promoted from E, 3-2)
Widzisz (superpromoted from F, 6-0)
Featherbucket (superpromoted from F, 5-1)

GROUP E
AwesomeGuy (relegated, 0-5)
Min34 (2-3)
Potato (2-3)
Razeev (promoted from F, 4-2)
nich (promoted from F, 3-3)
Dutch Desire (superpromoted from G, 5-1)
Flyingbender (superpromoted from G, 4-2)

GROUP F
Flyinghawk (relegated, 1-4)
General Mac (2-4)
Aranka (promoted from G, 3-3)
Pushover (promoted from G, 3-3)
ferede (promoted from G, 2-4)
kszyhoo (superpromoted from H1, 4-1)
Timon (superpromoted from H2, 4-0)

GROUP G
nayrb11 (relegated, 2-4)
General Arun (2-4)
Green Dragon (2-4)
Dom 365 (promoted from H1, 4-1)
Ekstone (promoted from H2, 3-1)
Wakanarai (promoted from H1, 3-2)
Photon (promoted from H2, 2-2)

GROUP H
Andersault (3-2)
SNinja (1-4)
Timdrie (0-5)
All newcomers

Should be some interesting battles with clan mates next season (A: Frank/grona/Noobschool, B: Old Surehand/Fridge/Gnuffone, C: Ineffable/marc/ChrisCMU/Summer)

Also, why was Photon promoted at 2-2 in H and Andersault was not at 3-2 in H?

Also REGL battle in Group E

Because he played in group H1 and got 4rd place there (unfortunatelz with better "score" than 3rd in group H2

Chris you also forget the 3 warlighters in group G but i can understand if you looked over it

Well, I also don't know who the 3rd one is (Arun, Elkstone, Photon?). But yes, I wouldn't call those epic battles, sorry.

Chokecherry - please let us play the tiebreaker bis. I wouldn't want to get ahead of the two players tied with me just because one of them was on vacation when you created the tiebreaker thus unable to join it and the other booted because of the shortened boottime. We will do our best to make it quick.

OK - we will go with the second attempt at a Group C tie-breaker as requested. Here it is for those who wish to follow:

http://warlight.net/MultiPlayer?TournamentID=5784

Winner gets the last promotion to B.

Please note, this will delay season 10 a bit more than expected.

Ouch, tough break for Andersault.

Hi, I need to leave the league after this season. It's been great, thanks for running it.

@wakanarai
Can you understand? :P
I hope, you will understand as well why I will be so glad when you write to me gg :)

Well said Ekstone ;)

I have no cure for ignorance though :(

Zilcho, thanks for letting us know. This new opening has has several cascading effects, including making the Group C tie-breaker unnecessary and giving Andersault the promotion he deserves. Here is the new pattern for Season 10:

A: aaaaabb
B: aabbccc
C: bccddde
D: cdeeeff
E: defffgg
F: efggh1,h2,h1
G: gggh1,h2,h1,h2
H: h1,h2,h1, newcomers

I expect I can get the new season started within a couple of days, so watch your tournament invitations.

Whoops, made a mistake there about the tie-breaker. Two of the three will be promoted to B instead of one, but the tie-breaker still needs to resolve who remains in C, so there may be a bit of delay yet after all. Sorry for the confusion.

And why the second place of H1 promoted to F and not from H2?
I think we should play tie-break for that place as well, no?

I imagine it's because, according to CC's graphic, 6 H1's are continuing. Only 4 from H2 are..

It seems I am a bit late to the party. If there are any openings for next season I would like to play.

Yes. There became room for 3 H's in F, rather than 2. I have to rank the H's in a logical way, and it seemed to me that while you are both 2nd in your groups, Dom365 is slightly to be preferred for going 4-1 rather than 3-1 (or 5th last rather than 4th last). That isn't Ekstone's fault, of course, but that is how that ball bounced.

If the two of you prefer to fight for that last super-promotion man-to-man, go ahead and set up a quick game before the tie-breaker ends. I'll honour the result if you BOTH confirm.