Hi everyone,

I've been meaning to make this post for weeks now so thought I better finally get it posted in case anyone wants to take the torch and begin planning for the future.

I'll get straight to the point - I've decided to retire as a League Admin. This means that I have no current plans of running any of my leagues anymore.

I hope that my retirement doesn't mean that HSL and HPL will die. I'd love for someone else to be willing to take the reins and run either or both of them for the community in the future. If anyone is keen on taking over either of the leagues, just shoot me a DM on discord and I can help you to get started organising things.

Lastly, a huge thanks to everyone who has participated in the leagues that I've run over all these years now. The 3v3 League was on its knees at the end of S9 when I took over and not only did I revive it but also grew it to such a level where record sign up numbers had the league thriving. Before I left the 3v3 league admin team after like S18, the community had enjoyed a number of highly successful seasons with me in charge and it was time to move on to new projects. That's when I started HPL (Real Soccer league), which was a lot fun building a small competition from the ground up and watching it grow each season. Then most recently I launched HSL (4v4 league), which was probably the biggest/most successful season that I have ever been in charge of and it was very fulfilling finally getting HBANZ onto the same competitive game mode as the rest of the world.

Anyway, my point in all that is that I wouldn't have been able to do any of it without you all. It was a fair bit of work at times to run these leagues but I was happy to do it because you guys always kept me motivated to. As a community, you made these leagues mean something special and that's why I wanted to run them for you season after season. So thank you, whether you played, captained, streamed, admined, helped organise, commentated, spent all day arguing on chatango about league incidents or simply trolled in chatango during league games - whatever your involvement was you were an important part of the fabric of these leagues over the years and I thank you very much for that.

I know I made some good decisions along with some bad decisions over the years but no one is perfect I guess. I just hope I was able to provide a fun platform for you all to enjoy some competitive Hax on a Sunday evening.

It's been a pleasure guys ❤

1. Drag
   
2. Fank009
   
3. KC
   
4. Mirilage
   
5. Willba victory
   

1. Drag
   
2. EBUS
   
3. Envy
   
4. fank009
   
5. Frenchy
   
6. KC
   
7. Matsui
   
8. Maxie
   
9. Mems
   
10. Mirilage
    
11. NZKills
    
12. Softyy
    

1. Polls will remain open until the end of D1 and D2 finals, after which the top 2 in each category will be announced
   
2. You can only vote once - voting for yourself will be ignored
   
3. Where applicable, the badges will be transferred from the previous holders to the current
   
4. Points will be awarded as follows: 3 points for first choice, 2 points for second choice, 1 point for third choice, 0 points for no vote
   
5. Your vote is not public
   

• Angst
  
• Chad
  
• EBUS
  
• Drag
  
• Lacker
  
• Fank009
  
• Matsui
  
• Maxie
  
• Richie
  

• Lacker
  
• Fank009
  
• Matsui
  
• Winky
  

Hello frints, it is I your administrator Juicy Tampon.

There has been talks between me and a few other fellow local haxball superstars to have a meetup where we can all indulge in some yummy all you can eat KBBQ around the inner west. If you'd be interested in going we are currently looking at Saturday 10th April evening to meet. Provided we're not all socially awkward weirdo's in person and people are keen we could head out to the city for a drink and to help wingman @envy as I've been told he's been going through a bit of a dry season. 

I've added a poll above just to see how many people are keen to come out so that I can look at making reservations, etc as needed. If the date doesn't suit and there is enough people who'd like to come at a different date we can look at organising this for a different weekend. 

Maybe even @Kuma will come out and say hello

TL;DR Haxball Meet roughly 7pm on 10/04/21 for Korean BBQ 
 

Dearest members,

Please read below before voting in the poll above!

As you are aware, we have completed the end of an exciting season. The efforts of our league admins has not gone unnoticed, and the HBANZ Development Team would further like to extend their appreciation by awarding the top two streamers and top two commentators with a badge on their profile. The badges will last until the end of next season, after which the awards will be transferred to the next top streamers and commentators.

We feel this will not only encourage the involvement of those who have not yet streamed or commentated before, but also encourage existing award-winners to maintain their status.

I want to take this opportunity to personally thank Fank for his efforts throughout the season - for streaming, commentating, managing statistics and overall running the league rooms. I would like to also like to thank the wider admin team, NZK and Juicy.



The first Streamer Award goes to @fank009! Fank has consistently provided quality streaming services throughout the season. I think we can all agree he is deserving of this badge.

The second Stream Award goes to @Lacker! Lacker has made the effort to stream using his school computer while providing exciting and energetic commentary.



The first Commentator Award goes to @~13! Drag has provided insightful, entertaining and amusing commentary on a majority of games throughout this league - despite living in a completely different time zone.

The second Commentator Award will be decided by the poll. I believe there are several close runner-ups and it was a difficult decision. Polls will close on 29th March after the D2 finals are complete. If you think I have left out someone from the poll, please let me know soon.

- Winky

Winky's 1v1 Elo - Classic & Multiball!



https://hbanz.org/forum/elo.php
(click on your name in the ladder for ELO Profile)
 

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1. #[id] to send a challenge to a player
   
2. !help to see all commands
   
3. !a to see all accepted challenges
   
4. !p to see all pending challenges
   
5. !cancel to cancel all your challenges with no penalty
   
6. !me to view your person statistics
   
7. #[id] PM to send a personal message
   
8. !mute to mute chat (you should still get notified when its your turn to play)
   
9. !users to see a list of logged in users that you can challenge
   
10. Type !help in chat to see all the updated commands
    

1. [Done] Recorded replays and match stats for every game https://hbanz.org/forum/eloreplays.php
   
2. [Done] Categories based on rating (e.g. like Chess you have IM, GM, etc.) https://hbanz.org/forum/elo.php
   
3. [Done] Colours for these categories - to be applied as team colours, chat font colour, on the ladder, etc.
   
4. [Ceebs] Player betting - this is ambitious but I have some ideas for it that may take time to implement but I want to see if this room is popular first before investing more time in this
   
5. [Done] ELO is still being tweaked. The one you see on the ELO page on HBANZ is not necessarily the same as the one used in the bot. ELO may be reset if I have made big changes to the bot. When finalized I will announce it here and there will be no intention for further resetting.
   
6. [Done] !p command to only show challenges involving you
   
7. [Done] Other cosmetic changes with the announcements
   
8. [Done] Reset all stats, ELO, replays, match history
   
9. [Done] Direct replay link is announced in game after a match, rather than to the general page
   
10. [Done] Regular messages to appear in replays, (except for tagged messages which we can't do much about)
    
11. [Done - but paused for now] ELO reduces by 1 each day if you are above 1200
    
12. [Done] ELO Profiles with head-to-head information
    

1. ELO changes was very sensitive. This was so we have a good starting point for players when they first join and reach the rating they deserve quicker. It was reduced slightly due to rapid number of games played.
   
2. Cancelled games now works properly. Before it used to skip games if a player appeared in the queue consecutively. It is now fixed.
   
3. !pending and !accepted reduced to !p and !a.
   
4. !p command now only shows those related to you. Previously it was showing all pending challenges in the room.
   
5. Added the above in "What else are you going to add?" section
   
6. Added individual ELO profiles
   

1. The bot will display the total score, visually, on the field! Yes, it rearranges segments and joints in the stadium like a calculator display on the field after each shot. When the ball is touched, this display is changed to show the number of attempts you have remaining, until the next shot is taken.
   
2. The average score, shots and angles for all attempts is displayed to the user. Getting a maximum average has no significance at this point besides displaying some sort of level of consistency.
   
3. World record for score, speed and angle is saved.
   
4. Personal best scores, speeds and angles are saved for each logged in player. These are checked independently (i.e. the WR or PB total score, speed and angle are not necessarily from the same shot - in fact, they rarely will be since a high angle often sacrifices speed).
   
5. Replays are automatically saved whenever a personal best or world record is detected - so please make sure you are logged in.
   
6. If you are not logged in, you can still enjoy having 10 attempts and seeing you "session best", which are your best scores since you have been in the room. However, these will be lost when the player leaves the room.
   
7. We noticed while testing that it is takes some skill to get low speed and angle, which is why we have also recorded all-time personal minimum scores and session minimum scores (for guests). World record minimum score, speed and angle is also saved.
   
8. Type "!help" in chat to see a list of commands.
   

• Enter "-" to remove yourself from the room
  
• It will detect leaving players and adjust map size
  
• It displays number of lives after each goal
  
• It can support 2-12 players
  
• The server is hosted in Singapore, so players internationally and locally will get decent ping!
  

The server is up now!

https://www.haxball.com/play?c=D3YYtQr4Ps4
 

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Enjoy

- Winky