OK, so the third season of the NDZHL is starting to get back into motion and me and Neondan have decided to run it in the same way as the original season (3 teams) as this worked best for having enough players per team and timings. So we currently have two franchises for this season sorted out, the Mount Augusta Avalanche with myself as owner and the Swisston Snow Shovels with Neondan as the owner. These two teams were chosen as both cities have rinks, history in the league, shown potential and interest in having enough players for a team, and have good rail access (particularly MA with its nether portal).

Winning the 3rd franchise for your city

So several people have expressed an interest in being a franchise owner for this season, and seeing as we are only having 3 teams we must chose which city will get the team (although see my paragraph on minor leagues later). So we would like people who are interested to make a "bid" for the franchise in the comments. This should include things such as:

• Team Name

• Whether the city has a rink or is building one

• A list of potential players to show there is interest to play

• Previous NDZHL history, playing/owning.

• Rail access, nether portal?

And any other points you think will be important. A few things to take note of are, the season will hold games around 8-9pm GMT Saturday, as this is evening for Europe and afternoon for USA and so allows the most amount of people to make a game. The season will run for 4 weeks starting mid to late April. And team owners and possibly players will have to make around a 10 diamond deposit at the start of the season (which they will redeem at the end, plus extra). The idea of this is to encourage players to turn up to games on time and the extra is a way of paying the players (as this has been the problem of the previous two seasons.)

Minor League

If your team is not made into third franchise, and there is enough interest we will be looking into setting up a minor league, a less serious league which will be a serious of friendlies between the teams. The idea of this is to include cities that have missed out, spread the sport and let teams prove they are worthy of being in the major league for coming seasons (as there may be possible expansions depending on this seasons success).

Overall

It takes a lot of effort organizing players as a team owner but is a ton of fun and would be great if we could grow the league and get some enthusiastic team owners on board!