Here we go!

Welcome back to a new exciting season VII featuring Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, 1vs1 and soon FFA ladders.

If you check out the BL staff page you will notice two new faces, Splinter and Horda. Welcome guys.

Let's start with the bad news: the FFA ladders aren't yet included because Elandrion and I discovered a critical bug in the beta test stage which forces us to rewrite mainparts of the code. But the FFA ladders will be added soon once we have fixed the bug.

The Ghost Recon Siege ladder has been removed due the unpredictable attacker/defense distribution. Monoman is currently working on a beta where we can select who is who due the team color so may we will reintroduce the ladder later midseason.

The GhR Team ladder now also includes the domination and *DBL domination gametype.

The 1vs1 ladders are following the relating game rules. To participate at a 1vs1 ladder you only have to register yourself at the BL site. Then go to your user settings and select the ladder you would like to participate. The submission system ("Submit a PvP cb") is very similiar to the clan submission system. The 1vs1 ladders don't have finals and you can play against each other as often as you want.

The Raven Shield ladder rules can be found at the BL rules page now. In a few sentences they are very similiar to the old R6 and RS rules except that you play at max 5 matches (1 map/match) and each match is a best of 3. The first clan with 2 wins is the winner of the match.

All clan application have now been granted. Clan leaders have to go to the clan management and activate their clan for the desired ladders.

Good luck everybody,

*DAMN Mauti

ps: only the rule version after this post has been made is correct 2.2 BL rules version.