Laserforce League Rules

Mercenary Guidelines Document

This document is for dealing with situations, in a Laserforce league tournament, where a team or teams have insufficient players, and the team must be completed with players who are not from the centre that team represents.


There are two different types of player replacement.

The first type is when a team arrives at the competition without a full complement of 6 players (assuming SM5). This type shall be termed "Mercenary."

The second type is when an otherwise full team suffers an injury or otherwise to a member of their team, who is then unable to continue. This type shall be termed "Replacement."


Mercenaries:

Mercenaries shall be selected from a pool of players who are not part of any representative Laserforce team. The Tournament Committee must be informed before the start of the competition of any team(s) that require mercenaries, and how many mercenaries will be required.

When placing mercenary players with teams, the committee must consider the following items: -

1) Skill level of the mercenary candidate.
2) What position this player will be expected to fill?
3) How well do the team and the mercenary know each other? (It could be possible a slightly less skilled player would be the better mercenary, because they blend better with the rest of the team. Also, if more then one mercenary is needed in any one competition, the committee must make sure that the distribution of mercenaries is the fairest for all teams.)


Replacements:

Replacements shall also be selected from the available pool of players. In selecting a replacement, the person selected should be as close as possible to skill as the person they are replacing. If the replacement selected is deemed to be of a lesser ability than the player he/she is replacing, then that player shall have no character class restriction.

If the replacement is deemed to be of greater ability, then the committee will decide on an appropriate character class restriction. For centres that have a working SM level structure, the visiting teams shall try to integrate their players into that structure as best they can. This is to help to facilitate any replacement that may be required. For centres that don't have a SM level structure, it should be expected to a reasonable level that the captains should be able to compare the abilities of their players, to other players available.

The committee, who will also determine the character class restriction, if any, must ratify every replacement. This decision will be final.

This document covers most situations in which a team will require extra players. If a situation arises that is not covered as above, the committee will make their decision based on their judgement.

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Document History:
First Draft 1/4/2001 by Stallion
Revised 15/05/2001 by Tragedy
Submitted 31/5/2001 by Stallion