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All administrative decisions pertaining to the first edition of the Chinese Premier League will go here, with relevant precedents from previous tournaments linked below. As always, the general tournament rules and guidelines are also in effect for CNPL. Manager selfbuys/retains will be done in this thread as well.
The following retentions have become official:
The Pearl River Slowpokes have retained the following players: TyCarter - 20k
The Infernal Reign Charizard have retained the following players: Unowndragon - 20k
The Seven Nights Stardust have retained the following players: Metallica126 - 20k
The Inner Focus Swords have retained the following players: cen344uu - 20k
Week1 - 2025/1/27（GMT+8）
Dawn of Lightning vs Piplup Waltz
Jiangmen Steelixes vs Infernal Regin Charizard
Pearl River Slowpokes vs Inner Focus Swords
Seven Nights Stardust vs Oblivion Wing
Week2 - 2025/2/3（GMT+8）
Dawn of Lightning vs Seven Nights Stardust
Piplup Waltz vs Jiangmen Steelixes
Infernal Regin Charizard vs Pearl River Slowpokes
Oblivion Wing vs Inner Focus Swords
Week3 - 2025/2/10（GMT+8）
Dawn of Lightning vs Oblivion Wing
Piplup Waltz vs Infernal Regin Charizard
Pearl River Slowpokes vs Jiangmen Steelixes
Seven Nights Stardust vs Inner Focus Swords
Week4 - 2025/2/17（GMT+8）
Dawn of Lightning vs Inner Focus Swords
Piplup Waltz vs Pearl River Slowpokes
Jiangmen Steelixes vs Seven Nights Stardust
Oblivion Wing vs Infernal Regin Charizard
Week5 - 2025/2/24（GMT+8）
Dawn of Lightning vs Pearl River Slowpokes
Oblivion Wing vs Piplup Waltz
Jiangmen Steelixes vs Inner Focus Swords
Seven Nights Stardust vs Infernal Regin Charizard
Week6 - 2025/3/3（GMT+8）
Dawn of Lightning vs Infernal Regin Charizard
Piplup Waltz vs Inner Focus Swords
Jiangmen Steelixes vs Oblivion Wing
Pearl River Slowpokes vs Seven Nights Stardust
Week7 - 2025/3/10（GMT+8）
Dawn of Lightning vs Jiangmen Steelixes
Inner Focus Swords vs Infernal Regin Charizard
Piplup Waltz vs Seven Nights Stardust
Oblivion Wing vs Pearl River Slowpokes
After SPHZ conducted a Chinese test, the managers voted not to approve SPHZ's Chinese communication ability, and Oblivion Wing could not meet the requirements of the special rules, so SPHZ will be sell back and Oblivion Wing has selected liliou as their replacement player.
. Roaring Moon is not allowed in your team, unless it remains in NDOU after the suspect vote, carrying Roaring Moon in the game will be a direct penalty!
Suzuya has been sold back by Infernal Regin Charizard for failing to meet minimum activity standards. Suzuya has been inactive in their team discord server.Suzuya has been removed from the team and will be ineligible to play in the next iteration of CNPL.
The Infernal Regin Charizard have picked Tenebricite as their replacement. Tenebricite will be eligible to play from week 5.
Beleth has been sold back by Oblivion Wing for failing to meet minimum activity standards. Beleth has been inactive in their team discord server.Beleth has been removed from the team and will be ineligible to play in the next iteration of CNPL.
The Oblivion Wing have picked Shuixin as their replacement. shuixin will be eligible to play from week 5.
RE: Petros
Because of cancering behavior of Petros, and quite the Jiangmen Steelixes' group chat during the week, so Petros has been removed from the team and will be ineligible to play in the next iteration of CNPL.
The Jiangmen Steelixes have picked Dugtrio Is Broken as their replacement. Dugtrio Is Broken will be eligible to play for the rest of the weeks.
