“No throne is legit until it has been defended.” – I said that shit.
Welcome to Season VII. Blessed be the Lombardi fruit.
ORGANIZATION
As you know by now, we have reduced league ownership to 12 members. Senior leader correspondence this week was a shadowed assessment of corporate loyalty. Loyalty is a cohesive force that forges individual teams into a league and advances fidelity. We don’t need any owners volunteering to ‘sit one out’ competing in our theatre of war, much less sitting on our board of directors. We don’t need that seditious burden at our proverbial table. This includes you Schoolya’gain – you’re safe for now, but you’ve been put on notice. Locate and harness that allegiance within.
REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE
This change improves our market cap and should reduce opportunity cost significantly this season. This change to a 12-team roster also means that Constitutional Amendments 15.2 and 15.3 are enacted. The first week’s lineup will be established based on the results of the previous season. The 1st place finisher will play the 2nd place finisher; the 3rd place finisher will play the 4th place finisher; and so on. If teams have been retired or removed, the standings simply shift up.
Following the conclusion of Week 12, after we’ve each played each other once, we will manually set the schedule for the final week of the regular season based on the current league standings. Week 13 will be a true test of which team best deserves that position in the playoffs. For this week, the 1st place standing will play the 2nd place standing; the 3rd place standing will play the 4th place standing; and so on.
DRAFT
This year’s draft will be held on Saturday, August 25th at 9:00 am. Draft location is TL3 Headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. All Team Owners are expected to attend.
Weekend festivities begin Friday, August 24th at 2:00 pm. The tentative weekend schedule is as follows:
Friday: Golf Outing TBD (options available: DC Virtual, TopGolf, FootGolf, go play actual golf); followed by BBQ and evening Poker
Saturday: Live TL3 Draft; Paintball Outing at Hogback; multiple Loudon Co. microbrewery stops; followed by BBQ and evening Poker
The tentative draft order has been set. See the Draft Center page for a preliminary look. With the Consolation Bracket Champion on hiatus, that guaranteed #4 pick is not filled and the order shifts up. A follow-up post announcing the first overall draft pick is imminent.
LEAGUE DUES
Pay your dues. See the updated League Dues page for details and a public snapshot of your TL3 credit report. Under his eye.
LEAGUE HISTORY
The League History page has been updated to include the results of our 2017 season. Organized by win percentage, Trouble Hunter is the winningest program at 22-10. She finished 4th and 5th in her two seasons, with a Regular Season Championship in her rookie year. Get that money girl.
The Lombardi Three 