This is based on the CBA, MOU, and various CapFriendly FAQs.
If you have any questions, feel free to comment or message me.
Note: Various games played thresholds may be pro-rated due to the shortened 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons. Consult CapFriendly or message me if you have any questions.
All dates below are tentative. Check the schedule for more up-to-date information.

Salary Cap

The upper limit is $87.7M (projected), and the lower limit is $64.7M (projected). Though you are allowed to exceed the upper limit by 10% in the offseason, we will require you to have a plan for how to get back under the cap by the end of the sim.
Resources:

• What is the value of cap space?

Contracts

For the sake of simplifying contracts, all contract negotiations and signings will be done using average annual value (AAV). Salary structure and signing bonuses will not be considered, with the exceptions of complying with minimum salaries ($775k for the 2023-24 season and beyond) and maximum salaries (an AAV equal to 20% of the current salary cap upper limit).

Basic Definitions

• Standard player contract (SPC) - the sole form of employment contract used for all player signings
• Entry-level contract (ELC) - most players’ first contract, carries certain restrictions
• Unrestricted free agent (UFA) - can sign with any team
• Restricted free agent (RFA) - if they sign with another team, the original team has the right to match the contract or receive draft pick compensation
• Group 1 Player - players under an ELC
• Group 2 Player or RFA - most RFAs fit under this category
• Group 3 Player or UFA - players with 7 accrued seasons or 27 years old
• Group 4 RFA - defected players
• Group 5 UFA (currently irrelevant) - players with 10 accrued seasons who made less than the average league salary in the prior season
• Group 6 UFA - players 25 or older who played few enough NHL games to become a UFA
• 10.2(c) - players without the professional years required to become a Group 2 RFA and receive a qualifying offer. Can only negotiate with the team holding the player's rights.

Contract & Roster Limits

During the regular season (before the day of the Trade Deadline) each team may have a maximum of 23 players on their Active Roster and a minimum of 18 skaters and 2 goalies.
Each club may have a maximum of 50 SPCs and must have a minimum of 24 players and 3 goalkeepers. In this sim, we will also require each team to have at least 40 SPCs by the end. Players who meet the following conditions do not count towards this contract limit:

1. Are 18 or 19 years old
2. Are in a junior league
3. Have not played 11 NHL games in one season

Note: the roster sheets currently assume every player eligible for this exemption is assigned to Juniors. If you wish to have that player(s) on your opening day roster, please ask me to correct this (as it will affect the number of contract slots you have available).
A club's reserve list (signed players, unsigned draft picks, and defected players) may not exceed 90 players.
Resources:

• CapFriendly Reserve List FAQ

Buried Contracts

For one-way NHL contracts of players reassigned to the AHL, the player's salary cap hit, minus the sum of the minimum NHL salary (for the respective season) and $375k, still counts towards the team’s salary cap total. This implies up to $1.15M can be buried this season per contract.
If a player signs a multi-year contract at 35 years or older (as of June 30 before the effective contract), the player's cap hit counts against the team's cap hit regardless of whether, or where, the player is active. However, a team will receive a $100k relief off of the team's salary cap hit, if a 35+ contract player is playing in the minor leagues after the first year of their contract.

Entry-Level Contracts

Players younger than 25 as of September 15 of the year of their first NHL contract must sign an ELC, all of which are two-way contracts with a maximum AAV of $950k (players drafted in 2022) or $925k (players drafted before 2022). The length of an ELC depends on the player's age:

• 18-21 years old: 3 years
• 22-23 years old: 2 years
• 24 years old: 1 year

European players (players drafted from a team outside North America or undrafted players) ages 25-27 must sign a one-year ELC.
If a player signed to an ELC is 18 or 19 years old and does not play in a minimum of 10 NHL games (including both regular season and playoffs), their contract is considered to "slide", or extend, by one year. Signing bonuses do not slide, which can change the AAV of the player's contract.
Resources:

• The benefits of an Entry Level Slide

Contract Length

Clubs may sign a player to an SPC with a term of up to 8 years only if that player was on such club's Reserve List as of and since the most recent Trade Deadline. For UFAs, this right expires when the player hits free agency (i.e., on Sun. June 23rd, 11:59pm ET). Otherwise, the term limit for SPCs is 7 years.

No-Trade Clauses

A No-Move Clause (NMC), No-Trade Clause (NTC), or Modified No-Trade Clause (M-NTC) can be added to a player's contract in the years after they are eligible as a Group 3 player (7 accrued seasons or 27 years old). These clauses restrict the player from being traded without his consent. An NMC also restricts a player from being placed on waivers and assigned to minors without consent. These clauses do not exempt a player from a buyout or contract termination.

Performance Bonuses

Clubs may pay players who meet one of the following criteria a performance bonus:

1. The player is on an ELC.
2. The player has signed a one-year contract and is over 35 years old.
3. The player has signed a one-year contract after returning from a long-term injury (has played 400 or more games, and spent 100 or more days on the Injured Reserve in the last year of their most recent contract).

Performance bonuses count against the cap, however, a team can only exceed the upper limit by a maximum of 7.5% (the overage of which counts towards the next season's cap hit).
Resources:

• How potential Performance Bonuses might hinder the Leafs next season (from 2017)

Group 6 Unrestricted Free Agents

A player whose contract is expiring and meets all of the following conditions shall become a Group 6 UFA:

1. The player is 25 years or older (as of June 30th).
2. The player has completed 3 or more professional seasons - qualified by 11 or more professional games (for an 18/19 year old player), or 1 or more professional games (for a player 20 or older) while under an SPC.
3. The player has played fewer than 80 NHL games for a skater, or 28 NHL games of 30 minutes or greater for a goaltender.

Restricted Free Agents

Qualifying Offers

A qualifying offer (QO) is an official one-year SPC offer. Clubs have until Sun. June 23rd, 5pm ET to submit their QOs. Submitting a QO gives the club the right of first refusal to match any offer sheet submitted, or receive draft pick compensation. If the player rejects the qualifying offer, he will remain an RFA with their rights retained by the club. If a player does not receive a qualifying offer, he becomes a UFA.
A minimum QO is calculated from the player's base salary (excluding all bonuses) as follows:

• 105% of the base salary if the base salary is less than $1,000,000. However, the minimum QO shall not exceed $1,000,000.
• 100% of the base salary if the base salary is equal to or greater than $1,000,000.
• For contracts signed after the 2020 Memorandum of Understanding, if the minimum qualifying offer would otherwise be greater than 120% of the AAV of the contract, the minimum qualifying offer will instead be 120% of the AAV.

The QO must be a one-way offer if the following three requirements are met (a goaltender is considered to have played a game if they are on the bench as a backup):

1. The player played in 180 NHL games in the previous three seasons.
2. The player played in 60 NHL games in the previous season.
3. The player did not clear waivers in the previous season.

Qualifying offers expire on Wed. July 10th, 5pm ET.
Note: If an RFA has signed a contract in another league, the NHL club may extend a QO to retain that player's rights. These players are marked on the roster sheets as signed in another league.
Resources:

• CapFriendly Qualifying Offer Calculator

Offer Sheet Compensation

Only Group 2 and 4 RFAs may be signed to an offer sheet. However, clubs only receive draft pick compensation for Group 2 RFAs.

Compensation must be entirely in the next draft (for this sim: 2025) unless multiple of the same round of pick is required (e.g. two first-rounders). In that case, you may skip one year (e.g. two 1sts could be 2025 and 2026 OR 2025 and 2027 OR 2026 and 2027).

Compensation is determined by the AAV outlined in the offer made by the submitting club. The AAV for an offer sheet, which determines the compensation required, is derived by dividing the total contract value by the lesser of the contract length or 5 years. The AAV thresholds are readjusted each season and are based on the average league salary for that season.
Compensation for the 2024 offseason is as follows:

AAV (1-5 years)	AAV (6 years)	AAV (7 years)	Compensation
$1,415,740 or less	$1,179,783 or less	$1,011,243 or less	No compensation
$1,415,741 - $2,145,061	$1,179,784 - $1,787,551	$1,011,244 - $1,532,186	One 3rd Round Pick
$2,145,062 - $4,290,125	$1,787,552 - $3,575,104	$1,532,187 - $3,064,375	One 2nd Round Pick
$4,290,126 - $6,435,186	$3,575,105 - $5,362,655	$3,064,376 - $4,596,561	One 1st Round Pick, One 3rd Round Pick
$6,435,187 - $8,580,250	$5,362,656 - $7,150,208	$4,596,562 - $6,128,750	One 1st Round Pick, One 2nd Round Pick, One 3rd Round Pick
$8,580,251 - $10,725,314	$7,150,209 - $8,937,762	$6,128,751 - $7,660,939	Two 1st Round Picks, One 2nd Round Pick, One 3rd Round Pick
$10,725,315 or more	$8,937,763 or more	$7,660,940 or more	Four 1st Round Picks

The club that receives an Offer Sheet has 7 days to match the offer or accept the draft pick compensation. If the receiving club matches the Offer Sheet, they are bound to the contract details outlined in the offer, must respect all aspects of the contract (such as any NTCs), and cannot trade that player for 1 year from the date of the contract signing.
Resources:

• CapFriendly Offer Sheet Calculator
• CapFriendly Offer Sheet FAQ

Buyouts

Teams are permitted to buy out a player's contract to obtain a reduced salary cap hit for twice the remaining length of the contract. The buyout amount is a function of the player's age at the time of the buyout, and is as follows:

• 1/3 of the remaining contract value, if the player is younger than 26 at the time of the buyout
• 2/3 of the remaining contract value, if the player is 26 or older at the time of the buyout

The team still takes a cap hit, and the cap hit by year is calculated as follows:

1. Multiply the remaining salary (excluding signing bonuses) by the buyout amount (as determined by age) to obtain the total buyout cost
2. Spread the total buyout cost evenly over twice the remaining contract years
3. Determine the savings by subtracting the annual buyout cost from Step 2. by the player's salary (excluding signing bonuses)
4. Determine the remaining cap hit by subtracting the savings from Step 3. by the player's AAV (including signing bonuses)

A player can only be bought out after clearing unconditional waivers. A waiver claim by another team pre-empts the buyout process. If a player has a no-movement clause, the player can reject the option of waivers and proceed directly to the buyout process.
A 35+ contract that is bought out receives no salary cap relief. An injured player (who was injured as a result of his job) is entitled to his remaining salary, so long as such injury continues, and therefore cannot be bought out.
Resources:

• CapFriendly Buyout Calculator
• CapFriendly Buyout FAQ

Waivers

When a player is reassigned from the NHL to another league, they must pass through waivers (unless they are exempt).
Waiver requests are processed each day at 2pm ET, and are subject to a 24-hour claim period, expiring at 2pm ET the following day.
The sim will have two waiver windows: unconditional waivers (for buyouts) run from Mon. June 17th until Sun. June 23rd and the normal waiver window will run from Thu. July 25th until Sat. August 3rd.
Waiver priority is determined by the lowest percentage of possible standings points at the time of the waiver request (or, when outside the regular season or through October 31st, by the previous season's standings). Tiebreakers: lowest ROW percentage, the fewest number of points in head-to-head games (excluding "odd games"), lowest goal differential per game. Therefore, waiver priority throughout the sim is as follows:

Order	Team	Order	Team	Order	Team
1	SJS	12	PHI	22	NSH
2	CHI	13	MIN	23	TOR
3	ANA	14	PIT	24	EDM
4	CBJ	15	DET	25	COL
5	MTL	16	WSH	26	BOS
6	UT	17	STL	27	VAN
7	OTT	18	NYI	28	FLA
8	SEA	19	VGK	29	WPG
9	CGY	20	TBL	30	CAR
10	NJD	21	LAK	31	DAL
11	BUF			32	NYR

Resources:

• CapFriendly Waivers FAQ

Waiver Exemptions

Age is defined as follows:

• If a player turns 18 between January 1 and September 15 in the entry-draft calendar year preceding the first season of the player's ELC, they are considered 18
• Otherwise, if a player turns 19 (or older) before December 31 in the entry-draft calendar year preceding the first season of the player's ELC, they are considered 19 (or older)

For players 20 years or older, the year in which they play their first professional game under an NHL contract is their first year toward the waiver exemption.
Whichever comes first in this table indicates when a player is no longer exempt:

Age	Years from Signing (Skaters)	NHL Games Played (Skaters)	Years from Signing (Goalies)	NHL Games Played (Goalies)
18	5	160	6	80
19	4	160	5	80
20	3	160	4	80
21	3	80	4	60
22	3	70	4	60
23	3	60	3	60
24	2	60	2	60
25+	1		1

There is an exception (to the above) for 18- and 19-year-olds: if a skater plays 11 NHL games or more, the year exemption reduces to 3, and the following two seasons will count against this regardless of games played. For goalies, the year exemption reduces to 4, and the following three seasons will count against this regardless of games played.
Otherwise:

1. A player does not need to pass through waivers if he has not been on the NHL active roster for a cumulative 30 days since last clearing waivers, and has not played in 10 or more NHL games.
2. Any player who consented to a Conditioning Loan can be loaned to a minor league club for a maximum of 14 days without passing through waivers.
3. A player who was previously on long-term injured reserve (LTIR), may be loaned to a minor league club for a maximum of 6 days or 3 games to determine if the player is fit to play. This player does not need to pass through waivers

Examples of players that do or do not require waivers.
Resources:

• CapFriendly Waivers Calculator

Long-Term Injured Reserve

There are two approaches to using LTIR for cap relief:

1. Put the player on LTIR before the season starts. You can be over at the start of the season, but only get relief for how much the contract is over at the time he is placed on LTIR. Note: offseason cap accounting applies.
2. Put the player on LTIR after the start of the season. You need to be under the cap at the beginning of the season but get full relief.

The LTIR salary relief cannot be used to pay bonuses. Any excess relief does not accumulate.
At this point, the following players are eligible for LTIR: Nicklas Bäckström (WSH), Ryan Ellis (PHI), Ryan Johansen (PHI), Robin Lehner (VGK), Tucker Poolman (VAN), Carey Price (MTL), and Shea Weber (UT). GMs can petition the commissioners to add players to this list, including relevant information such as the player, injury, and timeline for return.
Resources:

• Clearing up some misconceptions about LTIR
• CapFriendly LTIR FAQ

Retained Salary Transactions

When a team trades a player, they can retain a part of his salary (and cap hit). The team that retains the salary pays the retained percentage of the salary and retains the percentage of the cap hit (until the contract expires). The following requirements must be met:

1. The percentage retained cannot exceed 50% of the player’s salary (including all bonuses) and cap hit.
2. The same percentage must be retained for both the player’s salary and cap hit, and cannot be modified year-to-year. As a result, the same amount must be retained through the remainder of the contract.
3. All teams are limited to a maximum of 3 retained salary contracts per season.
4. Teams cannot retain an aggregate amount of more than 15% of the Salary Cap Upper Limit.
5. Players’ contracts are limited to 2 retained salary transactions per contract.

Once a retained salary transaction occurs, there are various limitations:

• A team cannot re-acquire a player for whom they have retained salary for a minimum of one year after the transaction date (unless the player's contract expires or is terminated before the one-year date).
• All teams involved in a retained salary transaction will have cap implications if the contract is bought out or terminated.
• Teams who retain salary on a player's contract, will have the full value of the cap hit act against the team's salary cap total, regardless of whether the player is reassigned to the minors by their current team.

Such transactions will require a compelling explanation.

Salary Arbitration

We are not doing salary arbitration as part of this sim. If you feel that a GM and/or agent is negotiating for an RFA in bad faith, contact a commissioner.

Miscellaneous

Performance bonuses count against the cap, however, a team can only exceed the upper limit by a maximum of 7.5% (the overage of which counts towards the next season's cap hit).
Teams may not commit more salary to next season than 110% of the current salary cap (i.e. exceed their tagging space).
Players claimed off waivers cannot be traded to another club (until the termination of the Playoffs of the season in which he was acquired) unless he is first offered on the same terms to the club(s) that previously issued a claim (and the offer has been refused).
If you have any questions, feel free to comment below or DM sandman730. If we need to clarify some things, we will do so.

Alright, let's get on with Part 2. If this is the first post you're seeing, I recently completed a challenge I'd set for myself to win 100 championships in a row on Insane Difficulty and wanted to write up how it happened, both for personal insight and to share some cool discoveries so you could experiment and learn from what I did, extend it, and have fun and be more effective playing on your own.
In Part 1, we talked about building some Fundamental Knowledge - https://old.reddit.com/BasketballGM/comments/1cyrenplaying_bbgm_at_a_high_level_part_1_fundamental/ - I shared some thoughts on how to build a baseline of quality knowledge around both basketball statistics and the BasketballGM codebase.
I'd originally wrote a different part 2, on Resource Management. I was 2000 words in, but frankly it was kind of dry and I don't think it got the point across well. So I'm instead going to write a faster high-level overview of the Mindset and Principles behind playing at a high level. I think there's obviously specific applicability here to BBGM and the type of ironman consecutive championship streaks I was going for, but maybe also some general life applicability.
Before getting into BBGM specifically — and I'll put up a spoilers warning once we get to that point — I want to talk a little about "navigating the world successfully" in general. I believe it's possible, in almost all fields, to have better performance by thinking carefully and deliberately about what the best course of action is in a situation, and then training in a disciplined execution of that action.
I also believe that there's often overlooked opportunities in the world. Part of this comes from studying baseball statistics in the early 2000's. It's still mind-blowing to me that people didn't realize that on-base percentage was worth paying as much attention to as batting average. I mean, professional baseball had been going for almost a century, but high OBP were undervalued until really not that very long ago.
A personal story, too, about both spotting and failing to spot opportunities. Around 10 years ago, I was in Asia for work a lot and my ex and I would go to the horse races in Hong Kong just as a fun way to have a day out. She's always had an exceptional perceptive ability and a strong knowledge of physiology. She's a businesswoman, but also an athlete and yoga instructor as hobbies.
When we went to the horse races, she'd take a close look at all the horses and the jockeys, and focus in intently on which horses looked strong, energetic, calm, etc on the day of the race. She'd tell me which horses looked the best for any given heat of races. I'd then look at all the statistics and try to match them up. Very frequently, she'd say, "Oh that one, Lucky Trails, that horse is super strong and the jockey looks calm and in control too. That one's great." And I'd look at the math and be like, "well babe, you're probably right but unfortunately that's the #1 favorite for this race." So she'd go through and tell me which horses and jockeys looked good for each race, and I'd go through the odds and payouts for each one of them. When she really liked a horse that was ranked like #7 in betting odds, we'd go wager on that horse to come in top 3 (win, place, or show) — and those bets hit a lot. Every time we went to the track, it more than paid for our day out and our food, and we left with a bit of money too.
Cute little story, huh? Well, that's only half of it. One thing I still kick myself about, ever-so-slightly, is I saw this pattern where we possibly had advantage in those horse races but never followed up. I just had this kind of mentally lazy intuitive sense of "ehhh, there can't be huge edge there or someone else would've taken it already." Well, lo and behold, some years later I came across this article in Bloomberg - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-03/the-gambler-who-cracked-the-horse-racing-code
It turns out that someone else had the same lines of initial insights as us, but maximized on it and formalized it, and won over a billion dollars doing so. I don't know if we could have done it at that high of a level - maybe not - but there was at least hundreds of thousands of dollars sitting there if you took the insight that, "we can derive predictive physical performance factors of horses on the day of the race via skilled observation and then find mis-priced bets." That was always available. We saw it, did it together and had fun doing it, but then missed the full significance of it. We just had fun, and our winnings covered some meals. We didn't build on it or systematize it in any way. Now, we both had good jobs and work lives and whatever, it's not any great loss, but I still think about this occasionally. There's often untapped opportunities just laying all over the place in the world if you just pay attention and then think carefully.
Ok, let's talk about BasketballGM.
NOTE: "SPOILERS" FOLLOW. IF YOU'RE NEW AND WANT THE JOY OF DISCOVERY, TRIAL AND ERROR, AND LEARNING ON YOUR OWN — THEN YOU MIGHT WANT TO SKIP THIS FOR NOW AND COME BACK LATER.
(2) MINDSET: At the end of the day, BBGM is a purely thinking endeavor — you don't need dexterity, or strength, or charisma to play. To get the best results, you simply need to accurately assess the information in front of you and make the best decisions you can. This is harder than it sounds.
2A. The first thing is you want to take both a "learning mindset" and "scientist mindset" to playing. Sooner or later, anyone who plays the game long enough will have a seemingly overpowered 70-win #1 seed to lose in bizarre fashion to to a 42-40 record #8 seed. Whenever something unexpected happens like this, you want to ask "Why?" and thoroughly investigate until you have a good answer, so that you can develop effective countermeasures going forwards. Many but not all upsets occur because an otherwise bad team has 3 or more of the best 3-point shooters in the league, with decent passing/assists, and they shoot just lights out enough to squeak by your team in 4 games out of 7. Very frustrating when it happens. But if you study and analyze why you lost a season, and study the opposing roster and game logs, you can often develop countermeasures. From time to time, I'll now check all the tallest players in the league and all the best 3-point shooters in the league. If some mix of them is starting to aggregate together, I'll try to trade for 1 or 2 to use as backups for my squad, or just trade a "solid but underwhelming starter" for all the high-variance highly efficient players on one squad and spread them throughout the league. By doing this type of investigation whenever anything goes wrong (or right), you can develop both "principles" — general rules to follow — as well as different strategies and tactics.
2B. Adopt the habit of regularly inquiring. After you play BBGM for a while, you tend to get a sense of some situations where it would be impossible to trade for a given player. But even now, I'm constantly surprised at how sometimes a team will undervalue a prospect or starter I like, or be willing to trade good future first-round picks in a good draft when it seems clear as day they'll be hopelessly bad in a couple years. To play at a high level, get in the habit of inquiring what a team would ask in trades for the top prospects in the league, productive players on great contracts, and their future firsts. You can take any team, click on a future first, and ask "What would you want for this in a trade?" — and see if you can find a fit. Contenders will almost always sell near-term first-round picks, so if there's a really great draft coming up, it can be worth aggressively working to get as many FRPs in it as possible. I'm also surprised where I sometimes get a really great deal on a prospect. You should also occasionally use the Trading Block to see what offers you'd get for any given player on your team: sometimes you'll get 90% of the production in a cheaper contract plus additional useful pieces. You won't know unless you cultivate the habit of doing this.
2C. Be willing to take a break and think before making a critical decision. Again, I played with the goal of a 100 year consecutive championship streak, but I think this really applies to any league. If you have overwhelmingly the best player in the league who is at an 85 OVR but they're only 80% likely to re-sign, that might be one of the most critical decisions you make in your run, and it could well influence the next 10-15 years of gameplay. Both paths are dangerous — you might be dead in the near future if they walk for nothing, or you might not have enough firepower if there isn't a great trade available for them. In those cases, identify your top 2-3 options and then like go get lunch or literally sleep on it and come back the next day. When I take a break before making a call like that, I usually make better decisions even if I wasn't actively trying to think about it. Recognizing when a decision like that is critical and taking the time to get it right is really important... aside from just generally solid gameplay, in many leagues you'll make 3-5 high leverage decisions around a key trade that will have a disproportionate impact. If you're doing a long mentally intense challenge like 100 consecutive streaks, you really owe it to yourself to make the best possible decision out of those high-leverage moments.
2D. Disciplined Execution: There's really no way around it if you want to play at a high level. There's a variety of boring best practices that, if you don't implement them, you're leaving too much on the table.
Whenever you've got a great trade offer in hand, before you click accept you should figure out if there's a second better trade offer. Click the "Save Trade" button and ask around before pulling the trigger.
Many times you'll have something like the #8 pick in a draft and there's two players you like equally but don't have the resources to trade to get both of them. In that case, you should almost always trade down one pick at a time and accumulate extra assets until one of those players is taken — you can almost always get at least a future second-round pick for moving down one slot early in the draft, and sometimes you can pick up a good prospect or veteran. Sometimes, rarely, I've gotten a first-rounder for moving down one spot. You also get your draft pick on a slightly cheaper contract, which helps ever-so-slightly with your finances. Over the course of a 100 year run, you might well pick up 40-60 second-round picks total for doing this whenever the draft board looks like that. It's frankly kind of boring mechanically executing on those trades for second rounders to move down one slot at a time, but the game is too difficult when playing at a high level to leave free value on the table.
Unless there's a specific good reason not to (like a player is expiring that year and wants playing time), you should always rest your aging productive players and most essential players after you lock up home court advantage for the whole playoffs. That means going into your roster screen, setting playing time to 0, and dragging that player specifically out of the starting lineup (otherwise they play 5 minutes before subbing out). Injuries after the trade deadline are very often a factor in losing a streak, and the boring 30 second hassle of tweaking all the playing times to 0 for rest reduces that risk.
Finally, I've lost a 30+ year streak and a 50+ year streak by being lazy. I get to the trade deadline, my squad is pretty good and the top challenger isn't that great... my team is the favorite, but not the overwhelming favorite. And I think "I should probably trade for one more backup or upgrade one starter just to be sure we win this year." And then sometimes I get this really stupid lazy idea of "ehhh, screw it, it'll be fine." Usually it will be fine, but after you lose a 50+ year streak to doing that, where one backup rebounder or guard would've saved you, you eventually stop doing this. But much better to simply cultivate the mindset that you're just going to execute in a disciplined way when you're playing at a serious challenge, and then just do it. It's also a useful life skill.
(3) PRINCIPLES: I'm fond of Ray Dalio's definition of a Principle: "Principles are concepts that can be applied over and over again in similar circumstances as distinct from narrow answers to specific questions. Every game has principles that successful players master to achieve winning results. So does life. Principles are ways of successfully dealing with the laws of nature or the laws of life. Those who understand more of them and understand them well know how to interact with the world more effectively than those who know fewer of them or know them less well." (His original internal document to his hedge fund, called Principles, is still worth reading - https://ia800207.us.archive.org/27/items/BridgewaterRayDalioPrinciples/Bridgewater%20-%20Ray%20Dalio%20-%20Principles.pdf ). I think it's critical to both form your own principles about high level play through trial and error, and adopt other people's effective principles by learning them, testing them, and implementing them if they work.
3A. The biggest realization I had about BasketballGM is this: for a large market team like New York, with skilled scouting/drafting/trading, the game gives you enough raw materials to have on average the best team every single year once you get rolling. So the key to winning consecutively is to reduce variance as much as possible.
3B. No single recipe: Critical principle for playing BBGM at a high level — there is no single recipe for success. Yes, there are many constants that are always true, and there are many strategies that often work. However, any given league will have over 500 players in it at a given time spread between all the team rosters, free agents, and upcoming draft picks. Each of those players has 15 different attributes that can range from 0-100, ages that vary from 19 to 40+, different mixes of the four mood traits, and a mix of contracts ranging from $1M to $42M and from 1 year to 5 years remaining. I don't know how many unique combinations of game state there can possibly be, but it's an incredibly unfathomably large number. All sorts of weird permutations of leagues can emerge, sometimes with "floods" of great players at a particular position, or just many superstar-quality players in general; others with "droughts" where there are no conventionally great players at a position, or no young excellent prospects at all (literally - I've seen it happen), or no excellent aging veterans on good contracts. Which leads to the next point...
3C. Work with what the game gives you: as much as possible, I try to avoid getting a huge "trade penalty" (it looks like: "-4 Worried he'll be traded away") where players refuse to sign with you because you've made too many recent trades, especially if they have the "Loyalty" personality trait. But sometimes, you wind up with a roster where all your veterans are in hard decline, your prospects are okay but not ready yet, and there's a very dominant team you'll need to face in the playoffs that currently is going to beat you. Sometimes you'll need to incur a gigantic trade penalty fixing your roster during a season where you got hit with bad regression, making a whole lot of trades in the process. This can take multiple years of low trading to fix, exacerbated by the fact that you'll likely want to trade away some of your expiring free agents for value because they'll refuse to re-sign. But sometimes that's exactly what you need to do to survive a rough season. For a long time, I had a rule that I'd never trade any player that had a realistic chance of becoming the best player in their league at their position — but that's obviously wrong when you stop and think about it... if there's a lot of good prospects and good aging veterans at the same position, it's less critical to have the very best player there and it might make sense to trade them. Obviously, in a consecutive championships attempt, you might be forced to trade the high-potential 23 year old for an exceptional player to survive a rough year. You've got to work with what the game gives you.
3D. Think multiple years ahead: the further you look out, the harder it gets to predict what will happen due to the nature of the random nature of the progression/regression system, both for yourself and for rival teams. However, many things are perfectly predictable in a 3-year time horizon. You should always be looking at the next 3 drafts to see if there's an incredibly dominant potential superstar at the top of it, and aggressively accumulating first-round draft picks in that draft if so. You should think a little about the different potential aging curves of all your players by position, and reason about how likely it will be they can be a contributor in subsequent years. You should look at who is coming for future re-signings dates and make rough approximations of whether there might be a risk to re-sign and what type of contract they'll likely ask for. In particular, if you have an incredibly dominant superstar player that's a critical re-signing priority but who has the Loyalty trait, that should influence all your decisions around trades even 2-3 years out, because you'll want the trade penalty to be at zero and you'll want a roster that comes into season robust so you don't need to make trades that year. This often means trading away even decent quality young players in their expiring year instead of re-signing them so you don't wind up deep into the luxury tax and get forced to make trades to fix your luxury tax in the superstar's walk year. You also want robust players who will age well going into that year. On the opposite end of the spectrum, you should always be mindful when your roster has no promising prospects to do a certain job in the future — if you've got two aging centers and no prospects, that's a potential risk. This was my final roster at the end of the 100 year run - https://imgur.com/a/gxJWJud - while it looks overpowered and was overpowered, that roster is going to be a huge problem in the near future. That team is already thin at ball-handling and has no young prospects who are future ball-handlers. The roster is already expensive, and while it's very strong and still on the upswing, in 2-3 years it'll be declining. The best player, Gourley, is due to re-sign in two years and has the Loyalty trait. That roster would dominate the next 1-2 years with only minor tweaks around picking up some veteran guards, but will start to be huge problem in 3-5 years if some of that expensive present value isn't converted into relevant future value ASAP. Team implosions in BBGM occasionally happen due to nasty RNG with multiple years of roster-wide regression in a row... but very often you can see a potential roster implosion coming in advance, and start making moves to give yourself the best chance to be in a good spot in 3-4 years.
3E. Balance present value and future value: Generally speaking, it's almost always possible in BBGM to exchange present value for future value, by trading players who are currently good for younger prospects and/or draft picks — and vice-versa. You want enough present value to safely and comfortably win the championship in the current year — more on that in a moment — but then you usually want to exchange as much of your present value as you can for future value. It's not needed to go 80-2 with a +30 margin-of-victory if the second best team in the league is 50-30 with a +8 margin-of-victory and huge holes in their lineup. You can usually get a lower payroll, more profitability, and add some mix of draft picks and prospects in that case.
3F. The goal is not to build the best team possible, but to win the championship this year and in future years.
3G: It's perfectly acceptable and often correct to "lose" trades if you have a huge surplus of present value. Example: facing weak opposition, you have one of those overpowered 80-2 type teams that projects to have all core jobs on the team more than adequately covered for the next 2-3 years and you have a 27 year old 70 OVR really good player whose contract is expiring. In that case, trade them for the best offer you can get, even if it's not fair value — otherwise you'd have either let them depart for nothing or re-sign them to a big contract and take the age 28 likely regression, where they likely are worth less trade value next year. The best offer might only be a "pretty good" prospect and a couple draft picks, and that's fine because you don't need the present value. I've sometimes happily "lost" 2-for-1 trades where I give up an excellent veteran and a pretty good prospect for only a slightly better prospect, but where the upgrade in prospect quality was the best way to convert the unnecessary veteran's present value into future value.
3H: You need to be sufficiently better than the second best team. There's no precise rule here, but I usually find being +10 points better in margin-of-victory is around the breaking point. I usually feel quite comfortable if at +12, +14, or more. I'm usually uncomfortable if it's less than +10, and kind of right on the edge around 10. If the second-best team has a much more dominant player than you at any position (say, an 82 OVR guard or an 85 height center) you need more; if the second best team has a lot of assists and 3-point shooting (which is higher variance) you need more; if the other team is a very "conventional" team that has no unique advantages, you can get away with slightly less. If you have very good players that aren't getting many minutes because your team is stacked, you can get away with slightly less.
3I. You want a "margin of safety" every year, which includes two things. The first is being sufficiently better than the second-best team that you're going to win almost any single time. The second point is that you want redundancy on every core job on the team. You should look at your roster and think about what would happen if any given player had a season ending injury after the trade deadline. When you have a superstar center with high endurance who plays 40+ minutes and a good aging very tall backup center, it can feel a little silly trading for an additional center, FC, or other tall strong rebounder and interior defender — but that's what'll often save your season if your top guy goes down with an injury. In the ideal world, it's rising prospects who aren't quite ready to contribute yet standing in as your backups but that's not always possible. Safety comes from both being sufficiently better and having relevant backups. To flag one thing specifically, if you only have one viable perimeter defender ("DP" tag) and they get injured, you're likely screwed. This is particularly rough because perimeter defenders tend to be young, athletic, and hard to trade for so you should generally be looking to regularly develop DP prospects.
(Ok, this is getting long. Let's do three more and save the rest for part 3.)
3J. Change your evaluation of players based on how they good are relative to the rest of the league. Sometimes the best center in the league, who is the rebounding leader and a strong defender, will be only 68 height and would otherwise be unremarkable. In that case, get that center. If there's a drought on in a key position or role, look to acquire and hold on to players of that type even if they're not conventionally great. Sometimes a 57 OVR guard is the 5th best guard in the league, and you often want them in that case.
3K. Take into account current and future opposition. It's usually acceptable to trade a bunch of middling first round picks to a very small market team like St. Louis, and usually a disastrously bad idea to make that trade to Los Angeles or Mexico City. Which brings us to our final point:
3L. Model the worst-case scenario and ask whether you can live with it. Practically speaking, even if a team like St. Louis has a few good prospects develop at once, they won't be able to re-sign all of them. They'll have low facilities spending and the penalty for being a small market team, so it's highly likely at least 1-2 prospects will depart 3 years after the draft even if they all hit, and the prospects are less likely to hit big because of low spending on coaching. Meanwhile, LA and MXC have the highest chance to retain their players and become a super team. More on this in a future part, but you want to do everything in your power to make sure that rival superteams don't form, and you never want to give the initial building blocks of a superteam to one of the other big market teams. Also for worst-case scenario thinking — before you trade away a very good veteran because you have good rising young players, ask if those young players would be productive if they regress (often - no) and then look at whether there's likely to be acceptable trades if that happens. We all tend to like to think about the best-case scenario where things go great, but you get through the downswings by making sure you'll be in okay situation even if the worst-case scenario happens.
Whew, that was long! There's still points to cover, but hopefully we're building a good foundation together with some general principles mixed with specific examples. Questions, comments, and feedback are welcome and appreciated.

Starting a CFM with the all time roster I created. It's open now and will start playing today but will stay in week 1 until Sunday 5/26. Looking for 13 more players, let me know if you'd like to join.
Video showing all team's rosters: https://youtu.be/pWfzHFqIwl0
PDF list of all players added to the game:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VsFTThaAiFntQqHR_RijemvvIN_WkZE9/view?usp=sharing
Been working on the roster since early December to get all players gear, details, faces, ratings and abilities as accurate as possible using 3 different top 100 lists, 1 book, and a lot of google and PFR research. I believe it is the most accurate and most expansive all time roster. I limited the number of top tier players so because of EA's limit on XF and SS development traits. I'll be doing this again in the Madden 25 and College Football 25 but it'll take months so this is what I've got for a while now.

Starting a CFM with the all time roster I created. It's open now and will start playing today but will stay in week 1 until Sunday 5/26. Looking for 13 more players, let me know if you'd like to join.
Video showing all team's rosters: https://youtu.be/pWfzHFqIwl0
PDF list of all players added to the game:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VsFTThaAiFntQqHR_RijemvvIN_WkZE9/view?usp=sharing
Been working on the roster since early December to get all players gear, details, faces, ratings and abilities as accurate as possible using 3 different top 100 lists, 1 book, and a lot of google and PFR research. I believe it is the most accurate and most expansive all time roster. Let me know if there are players you'd want to see added! I limited the number of top tier players so because of EA's limit on XF and SS development traits. I'll be doing this again in the Madden 25 and College Football 25 but it'll take months so this is what I've got for a while now.

Hello,
I saw that the agenda for the 6/5 handgun roster board meeting is available. I figured this would be interesting for some on this forum: https://mdsp.maryland.gov/Organization/Office%20of%20Equity%20and%20Inclusion/Pages/CriminalInvestigationBureau/LicensingDivision/HandgunRosteAgenda%20June%202024.pdf

2024-2025 Team Salary Outlook:
I wanted to do a deep dive of the teams current salary cap situation going into next year. Who is under contract? Who is a Free Agent? What types of exceptions will the Knicks potentially have avialable to use?
I made the majority of the assumptions you will see related to the team's fianaces based off of the the Collective Bargaining Agreement (See Below).
References: July 2023 Collective Bargaining Agreement
4 Key Numbers we should all care about below are:

2024-2025 Salary Cap	Tax Level	1st Apron Level	2nd Apron Level
≈141M	≈171.3M	≈178.7M	≈189.5M

Below is what the Payroll currently stands at as per Basketball Reference.
Below is the Source used to determine Salaries for 1st Round selections this year

Salary

Player	Age	2024-2025
Julius Randle	29	30,317,760
Jalen Brunson	27	24,960,001
Bojan Bogdanovic	34	19,032,8501
OG Anunoby	26	19,928,5712
Mitchell Robinson	25	14,318,182
Josh Hart	28	18,144,000
Donte DiVincenzo	27	11,445,000
Jericho Sims	25	2,092,3443
Miles Mcbride	23	4,710,144
2024 24th 1st Round Pick		2,361,500
2022 25th 1st Round Pick		2,266,700
Total Team Salary	26.7	130,544,2024

^{1 Partially Guarenteed Contract for 2,000,000
2 Player Option
3 Team Option
4 Includes Team Option for Sims Only}
If OG opted into his PO the team salary would be at 149,577,052M
Notable Free Agents

• Unrestricted Free Agent (UFA)Bird
• UFA-Early Bird
• (RFA) Restricted Free Agent

Player	Type	Cap Hold
Alec Burks	UFA- Bird	19,930,240
Isaiah Hartenstein	UFA- Early Bird	12,018,657
Precious Achiwa	RFA	13,138,578
OG Anunoby	UFA-Bird	29, 892,856

Other Considerations

• We can only offer Hartenstein about 16.2M (due to his early bird rights) in his next contract which is 175% of his previous salary. With 8% raises each year the total maximum contract we can offer him is about 4/72M.
  
• What exceptions will we have access to Non Taxpayer MLE? MLE? credit to u/Traditional-Smoke-72 in his post breaking it down what roster moves we can make to have access to it. To summarize any shot at the Non Tax Payer MLE we would need OG to opt in to his PO if not most likely we will still have access to the taxpayer MLE worst case scenario which starts at roughly 5.4M in contract lengths of 2 years.
  

2024-2025 Team Salary Outlook:
I wanted to do a deep dive of the teams current salary cap situation going into next year. Who is under contract? Who is a Free Agent? What types of exceptions will the Knicks potentially have avialable to use?
I made the majority of the assumptions you will see related to the team's fianaces based off of the the Collective Bargaining Agreement (See Below).
References: July 2023 Collective Bargaining Agreement
4 Key Numbers we should all care about below are:

2024-2025 Salary Cap	Tax Level	1st Apron Level	2nd Apron Level
≈141M	≈171.3M	≈178.7M	≈189.5M

Below is what the Payroll currently stands at as per Basketball Reference.
Below is the Source used to determine Salaries for 1st Round selections this year

Salary

Player	Age	2024-2025
Julius Randle	29	30,317,760
Jalen Brunson	27	24,960,001
Bojan Bogdanovic	34	19,032,8501
OG Anunoby	26	19,928,5712
Mitchell Robinson	25	14,318,182
Josh Hart	28	18,144,000
Donte DiVincenzo	27	11,445,000
Jericho Sims	25	2,092,3443
Miles Mcbride	23	4,710,144
2024 24th 1st Round Pick		2,361,500
2025 25th 1st Round Pick		2,266,700
Total Team Salary	26.7	130,544,2024

^{1 Partially Guarenteed Contract for 2,000,000
2 Player Option
3 Team Option
4 Includes Team Option for Sims Only}
If OG opted into his PO the team salary would be at 149,577,052
Notable Free Agents

• Unrestricted Free Agent (UFA)Bird
• UFA-Early Bird
• RFA) Restricted Free Agent

Player	Type	Cap Hold
Alec Burks	UFA- Bird	19,930,240
Isaiah Hartenstein	UFA- Early Bird	12,018,657
Precious Achiwa	RFA	13,138,578
OG Anunoby	UFA-Bird	29, 892,856

Other Considerations

• We can only offer Hartenstein about 16.2M (due to his early bird rights) in his next contract which is 175% of his previos salary. With 8% raises each year the total maximum contract we can offer him is about 4/72M.
  
• What exceptions will we have access to Non Taxpayer MLE? MLE? credit to u/Traditional-Smoke-72 in his post breaking it down what roster moves we can make to have access to it. To summarize any shot at the Non Tax Payer MLE we would need OG to opt in if not most likely we will still have access to the taxpayer MLE worst case scenario which starts at roughly 5.4M in contract lenths of 2 years.
  

One of my coworkers asked me to be a reference for his California license. There's a section on the form that says:
"Professional references who hold licenses in states other than California, or are legally authorized to practice engineering outside the U.S., must provide sufficient documentation of their license information, including jurisdiction, issue date and expiration date. If the license information needs to be translated to English, please include a notarized translation."
I've looked all over the support documents on the CA PELS website, and I can't find any specifics of what they want for this. Will a screenshot of my state's PE roster work? A PDF of my pocket card? Or do I need to scan and save my certificate?

https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/quadrant2024
Header Image ^[Imgur]
Next weekend, Halo esports is taking over London!
Team Quadrant will be hosting the first-ever Halo Infinite EU Major at the Twickenham Stadium from May 31st to June 2nd. Join us as the world's best teams throw down for their share of $250,000 and a paid trip to the HCS Atlanta Major this summer!
The action kicks off Friday May 31st at 7a ET / 12p BST - Watch live on Twitch and YouTube!

Contents

• Key Info
• Tickets
• Pool Play
• $5K FFA
• Side Events
• Travel
• FAQ

Halo Championship Series Major London 2024, hosted by team Quadrant. ^[Imgur]

Key Info

Date: May 31 - June 2 Location: London UK Venue: Twickenham Stadium	Tickets: Available Now! Team Pass: Available Now! Watch: Twitch + YouTube	4v4 Prize Pool: $250,000 FFA Prize Pool: $5,000 Side Events: $5,000

Tickets & Team Pass

Join us live from London - Grab your tickets now!

GA 3-Day Tickets

Buy Tickets

- Price: £30.00 - Entry into the venue for the entirety of the event. - Free Access to compete in FFA and Side Tournaments. - GA will receive a Halo Waypoint token that unlocks all in-game Twitch Drops offered during the event.

Discount Codes

In order to provide extra value to fans and also allow fans to support their favorite teams directly, you can use any of the codes below at check out to receive a 10% discount on your tickets. When you save 10%, the Teams receive 10%!

CLOUD9 COMPLEXITY *FAZE * *OPTIC * SENTINELS SPACESTATION QUADRANT

Support your favorite team and get a discount on spectator tickets. If you use a team's code, be sure to share on Twitter and tag the teams so they know you've supported them!
Halo players competing in the Open Bracket at the H C S Arlington Major 2024 ^[Imgur]

Team Pass

Team passes are available now - Assemble your squad and throw down live in London!
Buy Team Pass
If you plan on competing at any HCS events, be sure to check out the links below!

- 2024 HCS Major Event Rules - 2024 HCS Player HandBook - 2024 HCS Code of Conduct

Tournament Format

HCS Major tournament structure for 2024 will be similar to the tried-and-true format we used in Year 2.

- 64-Team Open Bracket - 16-Team Pool Play - 12-Team Champ Bracket

Open Bracket

It wouldn't be a proper HCS Major without a bustling passion pit.

- Open Bracket will start and end on Friday May 31st - Top 4 teams will advance to Pool Play

Congratulations to the following teams on earning Travel Coverage to compete through the London Major Open Bracket!

NA Native Gaming - aPG - Barcode - Gilkey - Mikwen	EU Mamma Mia - i7948 - Mqse - Phlux - Shad	MX SWAT Esports - Acid - Drift - Noblc - Tapping Buttons	ANZ MindFreak - Plasma - Scoobmeistr - Swayz - Wryce

Pool Play

Pool Play at the London Major will feature 12 Auto-Qualified teams and 4 teams from the Open Bracket.

- 4 Pools of 4 - Single Round Robin - 1st/2nd in Pools go to Winners Round 1 - 3rd in Pools go to Lower Round 1 - 4th in Pools is eliminated

Pool Play Qualified Teams
HCS London Major - Pool Play Teams ^[Imgur]

CHAMPIONSHIP BRACKET

The Championship Bracket is where the best of the best will clash for their share of $250,000 and a paid trip to the HCS Atlanta Major!

- 12-Team Double Elimination - Top 6 teams will lock in those seeds at the HCS Atlanta Major

$250K 4V4 PRIZE BREAKDOWN

1st: $100,000 2nd: $60,000 3rd: $30,000 4th: $17,500 5-6: $8,000 7-8: $5,000 9-12: $2,500 13-16: $1,625

Team Quadrant celebrating with a fist bump on the H C S mainstage ^[Imgur]

$5,000 FFA Tournament

As with every Major, HCS London will feature a $5,000 FFA tournament open to all event attendees!
Registration will take place on site!
FFA PRIZE BREAKDOWN

1st: $2,000 2nd: $1,200 3rd: $800 4th: $425 5th: $200 6th: $150 7th: $125 8th: $100

HCS Side Events

Attendees will have the chance to compete in side tournaments featuring various Halo titles! Registration will take place on site and will be first come, first served - see the schedule below!
HCS London Major - Side Events ^[Imgur]

FRIDAY, MAY 31 MCC Halo 3 2v2 - Prize: 1st. $600 / 2nd. $250 - Capacity: 16 Teams - Sign-ups: 3:45p BST - Start: 5:15p BST Halo 5 2v2 - Prize: 1st. $600 / 2nd. $250 - Capacity: 16 Teams - Sign-ups: 4:45p BST - Start: 6:15p BST	SATURDAY, JUNE 1 Halo Infinite 2v2 - Prize: 1st. $1,200 / 2nd. $500 - Capacity: 64 Teams - Sign-ups: 12:00p BST - Start: 2:15p BST MCC Halo 3 4v4 - Prize: 1st. $1,200 / 2nd. $400 - Capacity: 16 Teams - Sign-ups: 4:30p BST - Start: 5:45p BST

Spartan Cosplayer enjoying Halo Infinite matches in the crowd at an HCS event ^[Imgur]

Where To Watch

Catch all the action live May 31 - June 2.

A Stream: ** Twitch.tv/Halo *B Stream: * Twitch.tv/HCS **C Stream: Twitch.tv/HCS_Red D Stream: Twitch.tv/HCS_Blue All Streams: YouTube.com/@HCS Co-Streamers: Halo Infinite Live Streams

Twitch Drops

Tune into the HCS London Major all weekend and you will unlock exclusive Twitch Drops!
Stay tuned to @HCS on socials for more info on which Drops will be available!

Travel

Airport: London Heathrow (LHR) Ground Transportation : Uber Hotels: Click here for a list of nearby hotels.

Image ^[Imgur]

FAQ

Event FAQ

When will the HCS Major London 2024 take place?	The HCS Major London 2024 will take place May 31-June 2, 2024.
Where is the event taking place?	The HCS Major London 2024 will take place at the Twickenham Stadium. Twickenham Stadium, 200 Whitton Rd, Twickenham TW2 7BA, United Kingdom
Where can I purchase tickets?	You can purchase Spectator passes here.
I am with the press and would like to cover the event. Who should I reach out to for information?	Please contact events@quadrant.gg and xboxpress@assemblyinc.com.
I can't attend the event, but want to watch online. Where can I tune in?	You can tune into these links to watch the action: Twitch A stream - twitch.tv/halo B stream - twitch.tv/hcs C stream - twitch.tv/hcs_red D stream - twitch.tv/hcs_blue YouTube All Streams - YouTube.com/@HCS
Is there an age limit?	All 4v4 and FFA Players must be 13 years of age or older to compete at HCS Major London. Players 13 years of age or older require a signed parental consent form if under the age of 18. Spectators 13 years of age or older require a signed parental consent form if under the age of 18. Spectators under 13 years of age will need to be accompanied by guardian. Children ages 3 and under will not require a ticket, but will require a completed parental consent form and be accompanied by a guardian at all times. Download the Parental Consent Form. Please bring the completed form to the event and have ready to hand in at the ticketing desk.
What if I am under the age limit at the time of qualification but meet the age requirements by the event date? Can I still participate?	Players will need to be of age by May 22, 2024 to compete.
What time do the doors open?	Doors open at 10:00 AM BST
Where should I park and is parking free?	Please refer to the Twickenham Website for Parking Info. https://www.twickenhamstadium.com/getting-here
Do you have appropriate seating and parking for individuals with medical conditions?	The event is ADA compliant and accessible.
Are pets allowed?	Only service animals are allowed at the event.
What is your bag policy?	Spectators: All Bags must be clear and under 12in x 12in x 6in to be allowed in the venue, and are subject to wanding and searches as needed. Wallets and wristlets no larger than 5in x 8in x 1in are permitted - Anything larger must follow the clear bag guidelines.
Are there any prohibited items?	Halo Championship Series Prohibited Items ACCEPTABLE: - Cosplay and other costumes determined to be safe by security - Prop/Replica weapons as part of cosplay or other costumes: Must be submitted to security for review. Cannot contain a functioning bolt mechanism or fire a projectile of any kind. Any bow-type weapons must be unstrung or strung with a low-tensile thread. All prop arrows must have soft, non-metal, blunted tips made out of foam or cardboard only. Cannot be pointed at any individual in such a way to cause fear of harm or distress. Cosplay firearms must have brightly colored safety tips. Must be visibly tagged and visually identified as “safe” or “peace bonded”. - Cell Phones - Action cameras, such as GoPro’s - Prescription medication (you must have the prescription/label in your name with you) PROHIBITED ITEMS* (below list is a guide, not all inclusive): - Illegal or illicit substances, drugs, or drug paraphernalia - Weapons of any kind including, but not limited to, guns, ammo, pocket knives, sharp-edge blades, self-defense sprays, or any item deemed as unsafe by security staff. - Flammable items or liquids including aerosols and fireworks - Bags lager than 12″ x 12″ x 6″ max - Coolers, sleeping bags, tents, and chairs: An exception will be made for medically necessary items after thorough inspection. - Outside alcohol - Outside food and beverage - Bicycles, skateboards, hover-boards, scooters, or personal motorized vehicles - Drones or unmanned aerial vehicles - Animals except for service animals assisting an individual with a disability. “Comfort,” “therapy” or “emotional support” animals do not meet the ADA definition of a service animal. Security may permit working dogs or other animals as required. - Laser pens, laser pointers, or similar focused light devices - Noisemakers such as megaphones, air horns, sirens, whistles, or other devices which may interfere with others’ experience - Any item that is not lawfully permitted to be carried in the locality or City of Seattle - Additional items may be prohibited at the discretion of Microsoft staff or security *Note: Prohibited items and items determined to not be appropriate for entry into Halo Championship Series will be the responsibility of the attendee and cannot be accepted, stored, or checked by Microsoft or Convention Center.
What are the closest hotels to the event venue?	Please use this link to find nearby hotels options and rates.
I have other questions – where’s the best place to ask them?	For London specific questions, email us at events@quadrant.gg For HCS program and eligibility questions, email us at HCS@ee.gg

Player FAQ

Where can I find the Event Rules?	Click Here: HCS London Major 2024 Rules
Where can I find the Handbook & Code of Conduct?	Click Below: - HCS Handbook **** - Code of Conduct
Will there be a Free-For-All (FFA) competition at this event?	Yes! The event will feature a free-to-enter Halo Infinite FFA tournament, which will be open for up to 512 players and spectators. Best of luck to those competing for their share of $5,000! Must have a Spectator ticket to participate. Registration will take place on site!
I don't live in the UK. Can I still compete in this tournament?	To check your specific country’s eligibility, please see the list of eligible countries as listed in the Handbook here.
Is there a limit to the number of teams eligible to compete in this tournament?	Yes. The 4v4 tournament open bracket has a max capacity of 48 teams.
When do rosters lock?	For Pool Play and Travel Coverage teams: 6:00 PM EST on Monday, May 13th. If teams earned travel coverage via the Major #2 Online Qualifier they must retain that same roster. For all other teams, roster lock is Monday, May 27th at 10:00a EST / 3:00p BST.
What equipment should I bring if I'm competing?	All players competing must bring: - Your preferred wired peripheral (Xbox wired Controller or Mouse and Keyboard) - USB cord required for your preferred peripheral - Headset with no power outlet and a 3.5 mm plug - Wired Earbuds (needed for Feature Station and Main Stage play) - If you plan on competing with Keyboard & Mouse, you must submit your model number for each device to hcs@ee.gg ahead of the event. Mixamps will be provided. Bringing backup equipment is recommended.
Which monitors will be used for the tournament?	All tournament and warmup monitors will be the Zowie XL2540K model.
How do I earn travel coverage?	Lodging and travel coverage will be offered to 12 pool play teams based on previous Major placement, placement in the Major #2 Qualifier, and HCS Points. Additionally, 1 NA team& 1 EU team will be granted travel coverage based on aggregate points after the Major #2 Qualifier. 1 ANZ team & 1 MX team will be granted travel coverage based on placing 1st in their respective Open Championships. NA Players may qualify through: Top two (2) placement in the Major #2 Online Qualifier. Top two (2) in HCS points after the Major #2 Online Qualifier EU Players may qualify through: 1st place in the Major #2 Online Qualifier. Highest team aggregate HCS points after the Major #2 Online Qualifier MX Players may qualify through: 1st place in the Major #1 Open Championship. ANZ Players may qualify through: 1st place in the Major #1 Open Championship. For further information including complete tournament format and seeding , please review the Event Rules. Note: Teams who earn travel coverage for the HCS London Major 2024 via the Major #2 Online Qualifier must compete with the same roster.
How does travel coverage work?	More information on how to use earned travel coverage will be delivered to qualified teams after the completion of the Major #2 Online Qualifier.
What is the Prizing Breakdown?	HCS Major 4v4 - $250,000 prize pool 1st: $100,000 2nd: $60,000 3rd: $30,000 4th: $17,500 5th/6th: $8,000 7th/8th: $5,000 9th - 12th: $2,500 13th - 16th: $1,625 HCS Major Free-For-All - $5,000 prize pool 1st: $2,000 2nd: $1,200 3rd: $800 4th: $425 5th: $200 6th: $150 7th: $125 8th: $100
What is the Pro Point Breakdown?	Pro Points Breakdown - HCS Major 4v4 (Team Total) 1st - 25,000 2nd - 15,000 3rd - 11,000 4th - 9,000 5th - 6th 8,000 7th - 8th 7,000 9th - 12th 5,500 13th - 16th 4,500 17th - 20th 3,000 21st - 24th 2,000 25th - 32nd 1,800 33rd - 40th 1,600 41st - 56th 1,400 57th - 72nd 1,000 Pro Points Breakdown - HCS Major Free-For-All 1st: 15,000 2nd: 13,500 3rd: 12,750 4th: 12,000 5th: 11,250 6th: 10,500 7th: 9,750 8th: 9,000 9th - 10th: 6,000 11th - 12th: 5,250 13th - 14th: 4,500 15th - 16th: 3,750 17th - 20th: 2,800 21st - 24th: 2,450 25th - 28th: 2,000 29th - 32nd: 1,650 33rd - 40th: 1,300 41st - 48th: 1,125 49th - 56th: 950 57th - 64th: 750 65th - 128th: 375
I have other questions – where’s the best place to ask them?	For London specific questions, email us at events@quadrant.gg For HCS program and eligibility questions, email us at HCS@ee.gg

Ticket FAQ

What types of payment do you accept? Online and onsite?	All major credit cards are accepted. Cash payments will not be accepted at the event.
How will I get my tickets if I buy them online?	You will receive a confirmation email from Eventbrite with a QR code and printable tickets. Digital or print tickets will be accepted and scanned at the door at the event.
What if my tickets are lost or stolen?	Please contact events@quadrant.gg for more info.
Do you offer refunds?	We offer refunds up till 7 days before the event. Note: Eventbrite's fee is nonrefundable.
What if the event is cancelled?	If the event is cancelled all tickets purchased will be refunded in full.
Can I show my tickets on my phone at the door or do I need to have the physical tickets with me?	Digital or print tickets will be accepted and QR codes scanned upon entry. You must have all members of the parties accounted for with multiple tickets present to check in at the same time. Tickets are only scanned once. Fans will receive a wristband that corresponds with their ticket type.
Do you offer military or senior citizen discounts?	If you are purchasing a ticket online - please use the code MILITARY or SENIOR to receive 10% off your ticket. For the Military discount, please be prepared to present your Military ID. For a senior discount, you must be 55+ years of age. Any questions about codes or eligibility please email HCSeventsNA@ee.gg.
What does general admission mean?	General Admission (GA) refers to seating or standing areas that are not assigned or reserved.
Will my seats be together?	Seating or standing areas are occupied on a first-come, first-served basis.
What should I do if I don't receive my tickets?	Please contact events@quadrant.gg for more info.
Is my multi-day ticket good for either or both days?	3 Day GA tickets are acceptable for all days of the event. You will receive a wristband or credentials that you must keep with you for all of the days to re-enter.
The name on the ticket doesn't match the attendee’s name. Is that okay?	This is allowed, however you must have all members of the parties accounted for with multiple tickets present to check in at the same time. Tickets are only scanned once.

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Hello! I am a software engineer focusing on web development. One of my hobbies is designing tools for RPGs (one of my recent projects is Monad5, a game aid for Shadowrun).
I recently discovered Delta Green and immediately fell in love with it. Straight away I wanted to make some tool for it. I especially love the in-universe feel of the handbooks and adventures and it inspires me for my work.
I was wondering if there is any sort of character generator or manager that allows you to create and run characters. I saw the fillable PDF in the sidebar, but I was thinking of something more interactive, allowing you to make rolls, manage a roster of agents, etc.
If not, would there be an appetite for something like it? I would love to make it, but there's no point if nobody will use it. If the game runs through agents fast enough for it not to be useful, or if the system is simple enough that no management is necessary, then maybe this isn't a useful idea!
Related question - does anybody know where I can find information about using Delta Green materials in fan products like this? I had a look for some sort of policy, but couldn't find anything.
Thanks!
^{PS. I tried to pick a flair, but I'm not sure what some of them mean. Sorry if I got it wrong.}

https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/openseries2024
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The road to the HCS London Major has begun!
The HCS Open Series returns as players in all regions fight for their chance to compete live in London on May 31 to June 2.
Have what it takes to claim glory? Register for free and compete for Cash & HCS Points!
Tournament Registration

CONTENTS

• Tournament Dates
• How To Compete
• Team Leaderboards
• NA Results
• EU Results
• MX Results
• ANZ Results

HCS OPEN SERIES DATES

NA : Starts @ 12p ET APR 21, APR 25: Open APR 27-28: Open MAY 5, MAY 9: Open MAY 11-12: Major #2 Qualifier	EU : Starts @ 12p BST APR 21: Open APR 28: Open MAY 5: Open MAY 12: Major #2 Qualifier	MX : Starts @ 12p CT APR 21: Open APR 28: Open MAY 5: Open MAY 12: Open Championship	ANZ : Starts @ 12p AEST APR 21: Open APR 28: Open MAY 5: Open MAY 12: Open Championship

Note: NA's Open Series' will take place over 2 Days. (Day 1 ends at Top 12 and will continue on Day 2.)

HOW TO COMPETE

Want to see how you stack up against players in your region? Follow the steps below and prove you have what it takes to claim glory!
Heads up, competitors - Be sure to check out the Player Handbook and Code of Conduct!

• 2024 HCS Player HandBook
• 2024 HCS Code of Conduct
  STEP 1: Create FACEIT Account Official HCS tournaments take place over at FACEIT. You will need to create an account and link it with your Halo GamerTag.
  

FACEIT Registration
STEP 2: Sign up for the next tournament. Assemble your squad and register for FREE in your region. Your teammates will also need FACEIT accounts to join your team!
Tournament Registration
STEP 3: Climb the HCS Points Leaderboard. Compete for Cash Prizes as you climb the HCS Points Leaderboards ahead of the Major Qualifiers.
HCS Player Leaderboards
STEP 4: Qualify for the HCS Majors. Place well in the Major Qualifiers or stack up enough HCS Points to secure Travel Coverage to compete live at the next HCS Major! (Click below for more details on how to qualify for the HCS London Major.)
HCS London Major 2024

HCS LEADERBOARDS

Here's a look at the HCS Leaderboards following Week 3 of the HCS Open Series: Road to London!
NOTE: Due to the open nature of our tournaments, some rosters may not be up-to-date. Unless a roster change has been announced, rosters shown are taken from the last official HCS tournament they played in.
HCS Points Leaderboards
HCS Open Series: Road to London - Week 3 Leaderboard North America ^[Imgur]
Check out the full HCS Player Leaderboards below!
HCS Player Leaderboards

NA Results

The GreenWall returns to form.
Congratulations to your NA Week 3 Champions - OpTic Gaming!
NA Champions
North America HCS Open Series Week 3 Champions, Optic Gaming. ^[Imgur]

Open #3: Champions Team: OpTic Gaming - DeadZone - FormaL - Lucid - Trippy	Open #2: Champions Team: Spacestation - Bound - Eco - Lqgend - Stellur	Open #1: Champions Team: Rebellion - Cykul - MentaL - Soul Snipe - Suppressed

NA Final Results
North America HCS Open Series Week 3 Final Results ^[Imgur]

Open #3: Results Full Bracket Tournament VOD by LVT Halo - LVTHalo (Day 1) - LVTHalo (Day 2)	Open #2: Results Full Bracket Tournament VOD by LVT Halo - LVTHalo (Day 1) - LVTHalo (Day 2)	Open #1: Results Full Bracket Tournament VOD by LVT Halo - LVTHalo (Day 1) - LVTHalo (Day 2)

EU Results

P1 for Quadrant as they go back-to-back in the EU HCS Open Series - congratulations!
EU Champions
Europe HCS Open Series Week 3 Champions, Quadrant. ^[Imgur]

Open #3: Champions Team: Quadrant - Glory - Sica - SLG - Snipedrone	Open #2: Champions Team: Quadrant - Glory - Sica - SLG - Snipedrone	Open #1: Champions Team: Foe - Jimbo - Mighty - Tchik - Wutum

EU Final Results
Europe HCS Open Series Week 3 Final Results ^[Imgur]

Open #3: Results Full Bracket Tournament VOD by Euro Halo League - EU Open #3	Open #2: Results Full Bracket Tournament VOD by Euro Halo League - EU Open #2	** Open #1: Results** Full Bracket Tournament VOD by Euro Halo League - EU Open #1

MX RESULTS

Team SWAT Esports claw back from the lower bracket to keep the streak alive in MX - congratluations!
MX Champions
Mexico HCS Open Series Week 3 Champions, SWAT Esports. ^[Imgur]

Open #3: Champions Team: SWAT Esports - Acid - Drift - Noblc - Tapping Buttons	Open #2: Champions Team: SWAT Esports - Acid - Drift - Noblc - Tapping Buttons	Open #1: Champions Team: SWAT Esports - Acid - Drift - Noblc - Tapping Buttons

MX Final Results
Mexico HCS Open Series Week 3 Final Results ^[Imgur]

Open #3: Results Full Bracket	Open #2: Results Full Bracket	** Open #1: Results** Full Bracket

ANZ RESULTS

Team MindFreak is primed for London.
Congratulations to your Week 3 ANZ Champions!
ANZ Champions
Australia and New Zealand HCS Open Series Week 3 Champions, Mind Freak. ^[Imgur]

Open #3: Champions Team: MindFreak - Plasma - Scoobmeistr - Swayz - Wryce	Open #2: Champions Team: MindFreak - Plasma - Scoobmeistr - Swayz - Wryce	Open #1: Champions Team: MindFreak - Plasma - Scoobmeistr - Swayz - Wryce

ANZ Final Results
Australia and New Zealand HCS Open Series Week 3 Final Results ^[Imgur]

Open #3: Results Full Bracket	Open #2: Results Full Bracket	** Open #1: Results** Full Bracket

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"This book, it's a winner." - Donald Trump's endorsement of Gov. Kristi Noem's notorious political memoir, in which she boasts about shooting her dog and lies about meeting Kim Jong Un.

The Struggle Israel

A Gaza ceasefire failed to materialize as talks continue to avert a potentially devastating assault on the city of Rafah by Israeli forces.

• Hopes of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas appeared to fall through Monday as diplomats continued negotiating and Israel said it would move ahead with its imminent invasion of Rafah. Palestinians in Gaza had celebrated when Hamas officials said they accepted a ceasefire-for-hostages agreement. But Israeli officials quickly dismissed Hamas’ claim, saying Hamas had accepted a different version than the one on offer.
  
• Israel warned Gazans sheltering in Rafah to evacuate a humanitarian zone, suggesting the Israel Defense Forces may launch an operation there soon. Some strikes have already started, the IDF said. The United Nations human rights chief denounced the evacuation order as “inconceivable” and “inhumane,” warning that Gazans essentially have nowhere left to go without aid. Cindy McCain, head of the U.N.’s World Food Program said Sunday that Northern Gaza has entered a “full-blown famine.” Official famine declarations require meeting three grim benchmarks that U.N. officials say are close to being realized in Gaza.
  
• In the U.S., four Palestinian children arrived in New York to receive medical care. The Biden Administration is considering admitting Palestinians fleeing Gaza under the refugee assistance program, according to CBS News, though the White House hasn’t confirmed the decision. Columbia University canceled its campus-wide commencement ceremonies scheduled for May 15 in the wake of crackdowns on protests, though individual schools and facilities will still have ceremonies. Meanwhile, journalists and media workers covering the war in Gaza received a Pulitzer Prize special citation Monday. As of this week, 97 journalists and media workers have been killed covering the war, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
  

U.S. officials are in the region trying to salvage the deal, while Israel says it’s still up for more talks. The next few days seem critical.

Look No Further Than Crooked Media

Freaking out about the presidential election? Take a few minutes to breathe deep, unclench your jaw, and focus your attention on some down ballot races instead. In a special new episode of "Liberal Tiers," Tommy Vietor and Brian Tyler Cohen draft the Most Extreme Republican Candidates running in 2024, with the help of the Vote Save America team! Get acquainted with this year’s roster of shameless Trump wannabes, from Arizona's Kari "strap on a glock" Lake and Florida's resident 'Filthy Rich' reality star Fabian Basabe. Head to Pod Save America’s YouTube page to watch, and make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode!

Under The Radar

Disgraced former President Donald Trump now appears to be officially on notice that another violation of the gag order in his New York election-interference & hush-money trial would mean jail. After finding Trump in contempt for the 10th time today, Judge Juan Merchan said fining Trump for non-compliance isn’t working. “Going forward, this court will have to consider a jail sanction,” Merchan warned.
This dynamic raises some gnarly questions. Will Trump risk a jail cell to burnish his self-styled martyrdom and raise more campaign cash? Does he actually have the guts to take the ride to Rikers like his former CFO, Allen Weisselberg has done, twice? How much self-control does Trump actually have over his jumpy Twitter-thumbs? And what does jailing a former Commander-in-Chief even look like, practically speaking?
After court, Trump told reporters jail is a “sacrifice” he’d do “any day.” For days Trump’s been falsely stating that Merchan's gag order keeps him from testifying on his own behalf. Today he added that the Constitution is “much more important than jail.” This could be the empty bluster of a blow-hard, or what Trump imagines is grounds for appeal if he’s convicted. For better, or worse, we’re all about to find out.

What Else?

Trump veep pick-me Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) refused over the weekend to say what she and literally everyone else knows to be true: That she’s never met North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. Noem keeps saying she moved to remove the story from her book as soon as “it came to my attention”...which, amusingly, does NOT explain why she blew right through the fabricated Kim tale when she recorded the audiobook version.
Noem has apparently been itching for years to tell the story of how she very leaderishly shot her 14-month-old dog in a gravel pit: She wanted to include the horrible episode in her first book, but literally her entire team of agents, publicists and a ghost writer managed to cut it, according to Politico.
Noem, who insists on tripling down on the importance of shooting dogs, also suggested Joe Biden’s dog, Commander — who has a reputation for biting people — should be shot, too. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called the comments “disturbing.”
GOP and veep c’mon-pick-MEE Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) arguably out-clowned Noem on Sunday by repeatedly refusing to say he’d honor the results of the 2024 election. WANTED: MAGA VP. Must lie about the election.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) met for two hours with Speaker Mike Johson, who’s she’s threatening to try to oust. She doesn’t have the votes now that Dems are pledging to protect Johnson, but, as ever,she loves to be at the center of GOP chaos. They’re planning to meet again tomorrow. There’s truly no one to root for here, which is, in a way, kind of relaxing!
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced he’s running for re-election to a fourth term in the U.S. Senate in November. Sanders, who’s 82, reiterated his opposition to Pres. Biden’s policies toward Israel and Gaza, but also his support for Biden's re-election.
The Republican who served as Georgia’s Lieutenant Governor when Trump tried to steal the 2020 election there says he’s voting for Joe Biden. “I am voting for a decent person I disagree with on policy over a criminal defendant without a moral compass," Geoff Duncan wrote on Monday.
Did Texas GOP Congressman Troy Nehls receive one Bronze Star medal, or two? And why does the congressman continue wearing a Combat Infantryman Badge lapel pin from his time in Afghanistan when the award was revoked in March, 2023?

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Light At The End Of The Email

An eighth-grade boy in Wisconsin named Acie Holland III saved a speeding bus full of students from a near crash when the driver became unresponsive due to a medical emergency. Holland took charge, applied the brakes, and safely parked the bus, quite frankly making Keanu Reeves look like an amateur.
Canceling billions of dollars in student debt isn’t just for Joe Biden’s America. Australia can do it to…for up to 3 million Aussie borrowers.
After over a year of bargaining, Condé Nast reached a tentative agreement with its unionized workers on Monday, just hours before the company’s famed annual Met Gala, which union members had threatened to picket. This season’s hottest trend? A fair contract.

Enjoy

Keara Sullivan on Twitter: "Best friends are so crazy like wow this person would kill for me but also if I mispronounce a word in front of them they will make fun of me for it forever"

Livestream:
www.fsaelive.com
SAE was kind enough to host a Know Before You Go presentation with a lot of useful information for teams and students who have never attended competition or need a refresher. The slides for KBYG are here:
https://www.fsaeonline.com/CompResources/2024/9f34197e-c630-4e73-95b1-2f5ef4553e07/2024-Know-Before-You-Go.pdf
Download the FSAE Mobile App for push notification updates. Make sure you have the MAY competition selected in the app as the June event differs.
There is fsaeonline intranet on site. To connect:

1. Connect to the "SAE-GuestsAndTeams"
2. Password: welcometeams
3. Point your browser to: http://mobile.fsaeonline.com

With the wifi you have access to use the Formula SAE App, and:

1. Review & verify your Static, Dynamic, and Endurance results
2. View real time results any time during the competition
3. Report any problems with your results: Static and Dynamic problem reports are accepted until 6PM on Dynamic Day Endurance problem reports are accepted up until 15 minutes after the Endurance Event ends

Review the sponsored awards here:
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Keep a close eye on the schedules and maps posted to the app and on https://fsaeonline.com/app/CompetitionResources.aspx. Take some time to review the event descriptions as well; there's valuable information especially for the static events.
Teams must PRINT their Fast Track Roster from SAE.org, sign it, and bring it with them to registration onsite. They must also PRINT the Cost Report Addenda if they filled it out and also turn it in at registration. We will NOT be accepting Cost Report Addenda on Thursday at the Cost Event.
Some notable events on the schedule:
Site is open 7:30 AM - 7:30 PM all days except Design Finalists on Friday only and extended hours Saturday
Wednesday

• 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM Welcome Meeting - Main Tent

Thursday

• 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Driver Meeting (Brake, Noise & Practice) - Mandatory Main Tent
• 8:30 AM - Design Opens
• 9:00 AM - Tech, Fuel, Cost Open
• 9:30 AM - Tilt Opens
• 10:00 AM - Noise Opens
• 10:30 AM - Brakes Opens
• 11:00 AM - Practice Opens
• ~6:00 PM Staging for Panoramic Photo
• 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Driver Meeting (All Friday Dynamics) - Mandatory Main Tent
• ~9:00 PM Design Finalists Announced Online

Friday

• 8:00 AM - Fuel, Tilt, Brakes, Noise, Practice Opens
• 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Autocross Course Walk
• 9:30 AM -10:30 AM Presentation Seminar Main Tent
• 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Acceleration and Skidpad Open
• 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM Autocross Open, closed for lunch 1-2
• 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Cost Feedback Seminar (I am doing this!) Main Tent

Saturday

• 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Endurance Course Walk
• ~6:00 PM - ~7:00 PM Public Design Review of Top Design Finalists Main Tent
• ~8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Awards Ceremony (in-person & live stream) Main Tent

Please make sure you send team members to each of the static event seminars. There's lots of good information there, and the best chance for teams to guarantee a better placement in competition is to improve in the static events.
Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/dYmg3A7jJ2
How are things looking? How are you feeling?

Greetings all,
I have 6 years of professional experience working in an academic department as a program coordinator in higher education. I am wondering- can the work I did during that job count as experience for the PMP certification requirements due to their start/end dates and my varying levels of involvement (ex. leading a smaller or sub-section of a project vs. leading the entire large scale project/program/initiative). I am jotting down 3 examples below, thanks in advance for your shared insights and guidance.
Example 1: Can I use the semesterly tutoring program I coordinated and led for my "project" experience? Since the tutoring program changed every semester (different budgets, course offerings, tutors/employees, participants, and academic skills workshops offered) can each semester of the tutoring program be considered a "project" with a start date (beginning of semester) and end date (last day of classes)? We did evaluations, analyzed data, and reported to upper administration and faculty during each semester to provide updates and evaluate how the "project" was going, but we also took the zoomed out approach/long term perspective where we compared all of the semesters to identify if there were any trends. (ex. do we always see the highest number of students in need of tutoring for Professor X's upper level calculus course? should we make a recommendation to the math department to maybe hire a TA/Teacher's Assistant for the class so there will be even more additional support for Professor X's future students?, or is there a particular course/subject which consistently has low enrollment and students rarely ever seek tutoring for, so we could eliminate offering tutor for that course/subject in the future?).
Does something like the tutoring program/project apply for the PMP certification experience requirement or is that something which falls outside of it? When writing this experience onto the application for the PMP exam: Would I need to make separate entries for each semester with their start/end dates (ex. Fall 2018 9/1/18-12/15/18, Spring 2019 1/15/19-5/11/19, Summer 5/15/19-8/31/19, etc.), or would I only list the tutoring once for the years September 2018- August 2023 and indicate in the description it changed each semester during that timeframe?
Example 2: I have other examples of projects I oversaw during my work there which I could use, but the one I am 100% most proud of is the one that took nearly all 6 years I worked there and that I dreamed of getting done from my very first day working there... Project Background/Venting: On my first day working there I was SHOCKED to find out everything the department did was paper based and my jaw dropped when I found a key which opened a large room stacked floor to ceiling with messy, disorganized papers and files. It was 2016 & nothing was electronic- it was a chaotic mess- but it makes sense since after starting the job I found out the previous staff had a not great reputation with lawsuit issues involved and they all mysteriously left the university abruptly on the same day (... neighboring departments assumed the entire staff was most likely terminated on the same day once a newly hired higher up administrator actually noticed what was going on and realized there was probably a lot of falsified annual data reporting going on).....
The modernization/software "project": Involved first hiring a team of student workers to assist with matching/sorting/organizing the loose paper files into folders, creating a student roster of all of the paper files and pulling their contact information off of the university's Banner system, drafting PDF letters for students based on information from those paper files which we saved to our university's servers, working with our IT services to create some rudimentary in-house workflow surveys for processing certain student and faculty requests (as a band-aid for the initial 1.5 years). Began interviewing and getting quotes to purchase specialized software for our department's needs, drafted proposals to upper administration, had a couple of false starts with actually getting the new software (lots of employee layoffs/turnover delayed the project), eventually got the green light to purchase it. Bought it, spent countless hours in the nitty gritty of making all of the fine tuned adjustments and setting up the software, meetings and exchanges with IT department and our software company.
Hired another team of student workers and some of our full time staff to create student profiles in the new software then spent nearly an entire summer scanning and uploading every single piece of paper that was in the big storage room to each student's profile. Ran some initial tests/trial runs with student letter distributions and various features involving faculty and campus partners.
Created videos and instructional materials to teach students, faculty, campus partners, prospective students/families, and our own full time staff how to use the software and its various features appropriate for their user level. Eventually launched the software and distributed the instructional materials. We continued to launch & roll out additional features of the software over time and monitosustain it. Went through the introduction, growth, maintenance, etc. phases. After setting up the software, I stayed for 1 full year to ensure the software was fully up & running and it would be sustainable for the department to use in the future before I left my job/the university...I finally mustered up the self-respect to seek a more stimulating career with compensation I can actually survive on (my dream is to be able to go to a grocery store someday and not be limited to only buying like Raamen noodles and $1.00 boxes of spaghetti... gosh I dream of being able to splurge on fancy things like a jar of pasta sauce and garlic bread to go with that spaghetti).
Example 3/Other potential "projects" experience: Other than the 2 examples above, I was also involved in numerous committees (I won't bother listing them all here) and served as an advisor to some student volunteer groups (student groups were responsible for creating events and hosting fundraisers throughout the year). I also facilitated some focus groups on campus climate and did research/reporting on a few select areas for the university's regional accreditation process, but I was not responsible for every aspect of the university's regional accreditation process.
Although I was involved in these committees, advising, and facilitation/research/auditing, can I use these for my PMP certification project experience even if I was not the primary/point person running/leading on the entire large scale project/project as a whole, but rather on these smaller aspects of the project/sub-projects?

https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/openseries2024
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The road to the HCS London Major has begun!
The HCS Open Series returns as players in all regions fight for their chance to compete live in London on May 31 to June 2.
Have what it takes to claim glory? Register for free and compete for Cash & HCS Points!
Tournament Registration

CONTENTS

• Tournament Dates
• How To Compete
• Team Leaderboards
• NA Results
• EU Results
• MX Results
• ANZ Results

HCS OPEN SERIES DATES

NA : Starts @ 12p ET APR 21, APR 25: Open APR 27-28: Open MAY 5, MAY 9: Open MAY 11-12: Major #2 Qualifier	EU : Starts @ 12p BST APR 21: Open APR 28: Open MAY 5: Open MAY 12: Major #2 Qualifier	MX : Starts @ 12p CT APR 21: Open APR 28: Open MAY 5: Open MAY 12: Open Championship	ANZ : Starts @ 12p AEST APR 21: Open APR 28: Open MAY 5: Open MAY 12: Open Championship

Note: NA's Open Series' will take place over 2 Days. (Day 1 ends at Top 12 and will continue on Day 2.)

HOW TO COMPETE

Want to see how you stack up against players in your region? Follow the steps below and prove you have what it takes to claim glory!
Heads up, competitors - Be sure to check out the Player Handbook and Code of Conduct!

• 2024 HCS Player HandBook
• 2024 HCS Code of Conduct
  STEP 1: Create FACEIT Account Official HCS tournaments take place over at FACEIT. You will need to create an account and link it with your Halo GamerTag.
  

FACEIT Registration
STEP 2: Sign up for the next tournament. Assemble your squad and register for FREE in your region. Your teammates will also need FACEIT accounts to join your team!
Tournament Registration
STEP 3: Climb the HCS Points Leaderboard. Compete for Cash Prizes as you climb the HCS Points Leaderboards ahead of the Major Qualifiers.
HCS Player Leaderboards
STEP 4: Qualify for the HCS Majors. Place well in the Major Qualifiers or stack up enough HCS Points to secure Travel Coverage to compete live at the next HCS Major! (Click below for more details on how to qualify for the HCS London Major.)
HCS London Major 2024

HCS LEADERBOARDS

Here's a look at the HCS Leaderboards following Week 2 of the HCS Open Series: Road to London!
NOTE: Due to the open nature of our tournaments, some rosters may not be up-to-date. Unless a roster change has been announced, rosters shown are taken from the last official HCS tournament they played in.
HCS Points Leaderboards
HCS Open Series: Road to London - Week 2 Leaderboard North America ^[Imgur]
Check out the full HCS Player Leaderboards below!
HCS Player Leaderboards

NA Results

Spacestation reclaims the throne in Week 2 of the NA HCS Open Series - Congratulations!
NA Champions
North America HCS Open Series Week 2 Champions, Spacestation. ^[Imgur]

Open #2: Champions Team: Spacestation - Bound - Eco - Lqgend - Stellur	Open #1: Champions Team: Rebellion - Cykul - MentaL - Soul Snipe - Suppressed

NA Final Results
North America HCS Open Series Week 2 Final Results ^[Imgur]

Open #2: Results Full Bracket Tournament VOD - LVTHalo (Day 1) - LVTHalo (Day 2)	Open #1: Results Full Bracket Tournament VOD - LVTHalo (Day 1) - LVTHalo (Day 2)

EU Results

Our London hosts find success in Week 2 of the EU HCS Open series - Congratulations, Quadrant!
EU Champions
Europe HCS Open Series Week 2 Champions, Quadrant. ^[Imgur]

Open #2: Champions Team: Quadrant - Glory - Sica - SLG - Snipedrone	Open #1: Champions Team: Foe - Jimbo - Mighty - Tchik - Wutum

EU Final Results
Europe HCS Open Series Week 2 Final Results ^[Imgur]

Open #2: Results Full Bracket Tournament VOD by Euro Halo League - EU Open #2	** Open #1: Results** Full Bracket Tournament VOD by Euro Halo League - EU Open #1

MX RESULTS

Their reign in Mexico continues.
Congratulations to your back-to-back MX HCS Open Series Champions - SWAT Esports!
MX Champions
Mexico HCS Open Series Week 2 Champions, SWAT Esports. ^[Imgur]

Open #2: Champions Team: SWAT Esports - Acid - Drift - Noblc - Tapping Buttons	Open #1: Champions Team: SWAT Esports - Acid - Drift - Noblc - Tapping Buttons

MX Final Results
Mexico HCS Open Series Week 2 Final Results ^[Imgur]

Open #2: Results Full Bracket	** Open #1: Results** Full Bracket

ANZ RESULTS

Team MindFreak remains on top in ANZ - Congratulations to your Week 2 Champions!
ANZ Champions
Australia and New Zealand HCS Open Series Week 2 Champions, Mind Freak. ^[Imgur]

Open #2: Champions Team: MindFreak - Plasma - Scoobmeistr - Swayz - Wryce	Open #1: Champions Team: MindFreak - Plasma - Scoobmeistr - Swayz - Wryce

ANZ Final Results
Australia and New Zealand HCS Open Series Week 2 Final Results ^[Imgur]

Open #2: Results Full Bracket	** Open #1: Results** Full Bracket

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There are a few third party services that provide man-in-the-middle LTI/nonLTI interoperability, but they are pricy and introduce security concerns.
There are a bunch of libraries and local service shims so your tool that has a proprietary API can talk to any LTI service provider (e.g. Canvas, Schoology, etc).
The reverse, not so much. I can't find a single library / app / container / service that I can run locally that will let my tool which already speaks LTI (or OneRoster, etc) connect to even one non-LTI provider with a proprietary API (e.g. Google Classroom), let alone more than one.
Is there some keyword I'm missing from my searches, or does this thing really not exist?

Due Diligence on IRIS BUSINESS SERVICES DISCLAIMER- before i move forward i would like to state a few things- 1) its a highly risky bet, its a microcap so the issues will always be there 2) i have a position in this stock so i may be biased , which is natural mkt cap-300 crores pe- 53.87 the marketplace of iris business services- There was a time when documents were submitted to financial and other regulators and governments in the form of Word, Excel, PDF, CVS, JSON, etc. These file formats were not machine-readable (that means they could not be read and then analyzed by computers). Because these documents were not machine-readable, the financial and regulatory world was prone to delayed information, hardly any analysis, frauds, misreporting, and the data collected had no practical use.
In comes a language called XBRL which is completely machine readable. If data is submitted in XBRL, machines can read and analyze it (using machine learning or AI software), analyze it on the fly, and exercise tighter controls, thereby cleaning up the economy and making their country investable and transparent.
This is what governments all over the world desire. That data is collected in time and analyzed immediately and acted upon. XBRL is preferred over 6 continents and the usage is growing by the day. Deloitte and many other services firms call it the future of reporting. And, when governments want data in a certain format, companies have no option but to comply.
While there are many XBRL professionals, there are a handful of companies that offer XBRL-enabled regulation and compliance technologies/software on the cloud (SaaS). Iris is one such company that owns cutting-edge products on the cloud that help governments collect data in machine-readable format, companies to create and submit data in the format that governments desire (XBRL), and individuals and other entities to consume the submitted data for analysis and research.
IRIS BUSINESS SERVICES- doesnt come under IT , it comes under regtech SAAS company which is a part of the booming fintech space . regtech is said to be able to grow by 20.1% cagr in the upcoming years as a industry
BUSINESS MODEL- Iris has 3 revenue-generating businesses
1) Collect 2) Create 3) Consume
in order of revenue intake create ranks top most at 57% collect soon after at 35% and consume at a mere 8% i will explain each part in depth- COLLECT- 1) iris helps governments and clients collect data my development of customised tools to suit their needs , this is done on request from there end known as a RFP ( Request for proposal) 2 ) the second step IRIS gives a bid to the party in question for the cost of making such a software, this may or maynot materialise based on what the client feels about the quotation, after this if it works out iris gets a DEVELOPERS FEE and also gets access to their software AMC wherein revenue recurs over the long term. Aside from customized software development, Iris also has 3 SaaS products in the Collect part of its business: 1) IRIS NOAH, which helps regulators manage and modify taxonomies (In Iris’ context, taxonomy is the logical and scientific process of arranging data into groups). 2) I-FILE, an electronic disclosure platform to help regulators collect pre validated data. 3) BUSHCHAT, a validator that ensures data is of desired quality before it flows into the regulatory platform.
This business is volatile in nature and many orders can arrive suddenly and some months may not witness any business at all. A typical contract can range anywhere between INR 25 lakhs or millions of USD depending on the scope of the job and the regulator’s needs. Some of their clients include -RBI, Qatar Financial Center, NSE, BSE, SEBI, Bank of Mauritius, and many more regulators around the world. Iris is present in 30 countries and its client list includes more than 30 regulators.
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CREATE-
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The Create section of the business helps enterprises (companies and other entities) stay in compliance by submitting data, as required by their country’s regulators, in the required format (XBRL). The demand for such products on the cloud is exploding as more and more countries mandate companies to submit information in machine-readable form. Iris owns the following products in this space:
1) IRIS CARBON: A SaaS app/tool (with XBRL /iXBRL layer integrated into the platform) that helps enterprises/companies create & generate compliance submissions to the regulator. This is the product that can help Iris generate multi billion $$$$ (and that’s just in India) going forward. It competes head to head globally with Workiva, which is the global leader in this space. Now, you will be amazed to learn that Iris Carbon rates almost equal to Workiva in customer satisfaction as per G2, the most trusted and reliable software rating service in the world. Check the graph below (the source is linked below): https://www.g2.com/categories/disclosure-management?utf8=✓&selected_view=grid#grid
Another thing to note is that Iris’s intangible assets (existing and under development) are just Rs 5 crores. This includes all their SaaS products. I cannot imagine the valuation that these tools will command in a marketplace that’s as hot as this! Workiva has a market capitalization of $5.71 billion while Iris’s market cap is just $19.7 million and both own similar products. 1) IRIS CARBON DISCLOSURE MANAGEMENT: A Office 365-based SaaS tool (Iris has a partnership on this with Microsoft) that allows clients to create effective compliance reports (Annual, ESG , Internal reports, etc)
2) IRIS GST: Helps Indian companies create GST filings.
3) IRIS iDEAL: Helps banks and financial institutions generate and schedule their XBRL submissions to the central bank.
CONSUME BUSINESS-
The Consume part of Iris’s business offers the following products: 1) ePASSBOOK: A web-based ledger that helps retail investors with financial planning. 2) WRITECLICK: A tool that generates automated news and research reports from structured data inputs. 3) PERIDOT: A mobile app that helps Small businesses check their customers’ risk profile by verifying their tax compliance status. Besides the products, Iris also provides customized solutions in the regulation technology space (RegTech) for regulators and companies. I haven’t taken these services into account while discussing the business verticals above.
Given the fast-expanding marketplace driven by the need to tighten controls, the fact that Iris has developed solid products that are giving its global competitor a run for its money, and Iris’s impressive and growing client list, I believe that some marketing push on a global scale will help Iris scale up tremendously. Another thing to note is that Iris plans to hire more domain experts to enrich their products. In the software world, brains are everything and if Iris adds to its existing roster of domain experts, it will likely go to the next level.

1. RECENT NEWS- iris made a new software for malaysian tax related business, the stock hit UC after the news today
2. few awards and accolades - https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-cm/iris-business-services-wins-award-for-india-s-best-fintech-122083000271_1.html

3.prestigious global award from the highly respected magazine called Central Banking. ( recent news) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/thank-you-rbi-swaminathan-s-inv3f/?trackingId=hPQ7PgYMQMS%2BAiPSme8VdQ%3D%3D
ceos message to shareholders ^
PROS AND CONS
pros- 1) its the only listed company in this space 2)they were a service based company that became a product based company, managment decided that either they change or the future will make them irrelevant 3) in several interviews the management strikes as honest and is very strict with regulations (dug they work in a field that needs this) and seems like they have a lot of integrity 4) no lack of aspiration , swaminathan keeps mentioning how he has every single country in the world to capture as his client, it goes very well with kedias SMILE analogy 5) i saw a article where the management gave out a notice about stake sale well in advance before it happened , along with the dates, a managment that is so transparent is hard to find find source attached- https://www.zeebiz.com/companies/news-iris-business-services-founder-announces-plan-for-sale-of-shares-217628#:~:text=As%20per%20an%20exchange%20filing,a%2038%20per%20cent%20stake. 6) a very old business, iris as a company has lasted for over 2 decades now they have seen the it boom the it burst the 2008 crisis and they are here , so the managment knows how to tackle a tricky situation 7)managment is attracting talents, they just took permission to issue esops to get their recruitment drive better (edited)
cons- 1) as with every small company they have a major issue, lack of funding, which means unlike competition like workiva which btw has 4.4 billion market cap , has a lt of money to burn , in fact last i saw they were still a lossmaking company , iris is profitable and management isnt keen on shaking its foundations 2) managment has taken 0 pay during the bad years, the higher ups have just started getting paid after 3-4 years of no pay (interview source) , they dont have significant personal funds which hinders the prospect of a rights issue as well 3) marketing is weak according to me but they are improving 4) shareholding may seem shaky but i am not too worried since such small companies come with much more headaches than shareholding
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noteable shareholders- we have madhusudan kela a ace investor holding around 5% of the company we also have several companies which seem to have a same director, upon research i found it beongs to one of the ex board members of iris, he holds significant chunk , i assume hes still close with managemnet to still hold 10+% of the company, so u can consider it as promotor group if u want