Hi Coaches!
You should receive an email with the following information when you register your first student for a High School Esports League Fall 2024 season competition. We recommend saving the email or bookmarking this page as there is a lot of important information that will help you and your students throughout the course of the season.
First, here are some key dates you need to know:
September 16th – Preseason begins, Intramural queues open
September 30th – Fall Major regular season begins
November 11-14 – Final week of regular season queues, where participants may use an additional queue window if they need to make up a missed match.
November 20 – Playoffs begin (no matches the week of Thanksgiving)
Match-day Support
If this is your first season, we encourage you to view the following two videos with your students: Match Day Protocol and Understanding the Queue System. If you need help in real-time, the best place to start is the chat bubble at the bottom of every page on our website and platform.
For more resources, visit our Competition Help Site.
High School Esports League Competition and Platform Updates
We have continued to make changes to the competition platform and league rules in pursuit of the best student experience possible. All rulesets were edited to be clearer and more concise, and participants should re-read the rulesets prior to participating. Here are some notable changes from last school year:
General Competition Rules: The regular season has been increased to seven matches instead of last year’s six.
Splatoon™ 3: Adjusted the map selection procedure and increased the series length to best-of-9 to give students more playing time on more modes. (HSEL only)
Super Smash Bros.™ Ultimate 3 vs 3 Crew Battles: This is a new competition and ruleset, but all interested coaches are encouraged to review the “Best Practices” section of the rules, as each match may play differently depending on the amount of systems each school has available.
VALORANT: The map pool has been updated to reflect what is currently available for ranked matchmaking.
Leaderboards: We've refreshed the leaderboard UI to better display how ties are broken. Additionally, over last winter, we rebuilt the leaderboard tiebreaker commonly referred to as “head-to-head” to compare all participants with a tied win-loss record. Learn more here.
Playoff Schedule? Number of Brackets?
The round-by-round playoff schedule, along with the numbers of brackets and their participants will be announced during the fourth week of the regular season.
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