Gather Moderators 

With the increase in the number of Gathers over the past several weeks we have decided to start adding in Moderators to facilitate a smoother and more efficient process. Our team of Moderators will be able to remove AFK players from the Gather page, kick and move players to the correct TS3 Gather channels, and finally change maps and kick players on all NSL servers. Bans will still be assessed and executed by the Admin Team as a whole, meaning our Moderators will not be able to directly hand out bans. Please welcome our first two moderators: BauerJankins (EU) and mst3kld (NA).

On a similar note we'd like to address some complaints we've been receiving about recent Gather-related behavior. You should not be joining the next Gather until after the Win Banner displays. If you're someone that continuously joins well-before the round is actually over, we will begin booting you from the Gather with a temporary 10 minute ban before being able to rejoin. Another behavior that has been problematic is the practice of joining the other team before the round is over to negate any ELO loss/gain. This needs to end. It's bad mannered and if you didn't care about ELO then you wouldn't do it. You can expect consequences for it if you are caught doing it. Finally, we'd also like to remind everyone that the chatbox on the Gather page needs to stay friendly. Please avoid using crude and offensive language.

Mid-Season Standings

If you haven't been paying attention there have been a great mix of competition throughout the divisions. Here are the current leaders:

Division 1 - Lucky Chams 2-0-0 (8pts)

Division 2 - caste & Weld Mannered tied at 1-0-1 (6pts)

Division 3 - potaTAW 1-0-2 (7pts)

Division 4 - Flightless Lerks 2-0-1 (10pts)

Keep up the good work with scheduling! It seems like there are a lot of evenly matched teams throughout the league so it should make or an interesting playoffs push. There will be a cleanup week starting on the 1st of November with playoffs starting the Sunday after that (8th of November). All matches have to be played before the 8th, or else they will be forfeited

Polaris Civil War

The Polaris Civil War, a series where 2 teams made out of big youtubers fight each other to the death in several games, one game per week. Next week they will release the video where they are playing Natural Selection 2. With the popularity of these channels we will most likely see many new and returning players in NS2 so I would like to ask all of you to help them out as much as you can, and make sure the rounds are as fair as possible by not stacking, or even going for rounds where you could lose (who needs elo?). Anyways, this is a big chance to get more people to play NS2 and this is really needed.

So here is a list of bullet points to make it easier for the eyes:

• Please don't stack (most people don't anyways, but just throwing it out there)
• Please answer any questions people have, or even throw it out there that people can ask you questions whenever they have them.
• You can't help it if you completely destroy the enemy by yourself, just don't do it too often (if possible :p)

Link to UWE discussion about it: http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/139258/ns2-promotional-match-featuring-totalbiscuit-angry-joe

Get Involved!

The NSL is still looking for more refs, shoutcasters and other contributors. Please contact Vindaloo if you'd like to become a referee or Prommah to join the team of shoutcasters!