Filed under: Premier League

For the last few seasons there's been two roster locks in Premier League covering Pro, IML and AML. From the start of round 1 of the regular season the rosters are locked. That means there's no more player movement between squads. If you're on a roster at that point you cannot switch teams, or leave your current team until the season is over. Players who are not on a roster can still be added to rosters by the league ops though. Then from round 4 onwards the full roster lock is in effect and no more players can join a squad.

The only amendment to this rule is if a squad joins a league during the season. At the discretion of the ops a new squad can take players from other rosters even if the lock is in effect. A good example of this is in AML a few seasons ago when ShitFuck replaced a dropped squad and most of their roster came from BlackNike. It looks like Integral are going to be added to IML in the next couple of weeks and although it looks like they already have a solid looking roster they may be allowed to take rostered players from other squads.

In the days leading up to the first roster lock there can be quite a bit of activity. So here's a quick round up of the transactions in Premier leading up to round 1:


Pro League
aiti (left Unhallowed, joined Assassins)
I should say re-joined. Aiti, according to him, is going to be inactive in Pro this season which is why, according to him, he's back on Ass. He was at their game yesterday, but didn't play. So Mop just had to settle for Dingo, Travis, brut and Bhang. Poor guy.

Sage (rejoined Exultant)
Sage actually asked for an AML rating, which he got (mostly I think as the ranking panel thought he was Sage_ from NW. As most of you know I'm on the AML ranking panel. I didn't rank Sage though as I haven't really seen him play and didn't know enough about him to give a yes or no on his appeal). But the most interesting thing about him is that he's ended back on Exultant after this post on the IML forums by Mr>$MOOTH.

roark (left Sterling)

7-Eleven (joined Sterling)

Tipsy Turtle (still on fucking Sterling)
Cloud>hv reminds me of a young cloud
Cloud>with less skill

Dantos (joined BIA)

Anamalech (joined BIA)
Me and Anam started playing subspace at around the same time and were on the same newbie Alpha squad together. Now I'm back aliased on an AML squad fighting for playing time, while he's going to be the key starter for BIA's playoff run. I hate you Jekyll =(

Bob Marley (rejoined Starseed)

BrokeStatus (joined Poke Her)

Pseudo (joined Creation)


IML
Kinetics (left Secret, joined Nightwatch)

Lemon Herb (joined Nightwatch)

targeter2 (joined FutureCrew)
targeter is pretty much a fulltime pb player now so it makes sense that he's ended up on FC

Br'er (left Prospect, joined Prospect, left Prospect, joined Prospect)
Well ... not really. But he did go on a name changing frenzy yesterday.

Jamuraan (left Secret, joined Liquid Inc.)

Kepi (joined Secret)
It's a shame Secret don't run a squad in AML anymore. Kepi could sub in for them during a match and get them thrown out of the playoffs. Ah ... good days.

Ho (left Striker)

LadyGaladriel (joined Liquid Inc.)

magic (joined Fly-NDeath)

noobie (joined Fly-NDeath)


AML
There's not much player movement in AML basically for two reasons. First of all this season AML is the smallest of the three leagues so that means less roster spots and less transactions as a whole. The second reason is the AML Rankings Panel. Players with a Pro or IML rating from past seasons who want to move down or players who have yet to get a rating need to be submitted by their caps to the ranking panel first to get a yes or no before they can be added to a roster. For this reason most of the player movement in AML happened well before the lock.

Nugaa & Toffe (joined BENCHERS UNITE)

Darq (joined BENCHERS UNITE)

Meekus (left StarFire Academy)

Pvc (left StarFire Academy)

Panny. (joined StarFire Academy)

vicious (left ReDS-AML)

Super Bunny (left ReDS, joined ReDS-AML)
DEMOTED!!!!11!ONE


You can check out all the rosters, plus find all the league transactions since the start of pre-season over on MasterRater.