how are you suppose to sign up for this?

Just post on the forum to sign up, ump. I take it that you want to join? Also, as Master Bjarke is the one inviting new players, it'd be good to send him a message.

@ Bjarke. Sultan pulled out of the league, so you might want to update your predictions for Group A.

Just a note to all those participants in the league who have not joined their Group Tournament yet.

All tournaments will be beginning on Sunday, January 31st. Please accept your tournament invitations by then if you still wish to participate in the small earth league.

If you do not want to participate, please disregard this message.

There is also still time for new players who want to join.

Thank you, and good luck in Season 4,

huddyj (League Coordinator)

Would like to join in this!

Would like to join.

No worries Noobster11, I've messaged Master Bjarke, and he should add you to one of the expansion groups soon. Season starts on Sunday, so make sure you keep an eye out for the tournament invitation and accept it before then.

Still a couple of open slots for new players.

Only 2 days left to join the league before season 4 kicks off! Check your tournament invitations!

New players can still sign up here.

I would like to join please.

Ok, I'll ask Bjarke to add you graemes. Starts on Sunday, so keep an eye out for your invitation and accept it before then.

Just 1 day left before season 4 begins! Welcome to all our new players, and the best of luck to all participants this season. :)

Finally locking in my predictions (I already did it, technically, but that was before the surge of new players, and I think a couple change my predictions. I also have fun doing this :P). Also, I changed a couple x)

A: huddyj, Buns, Bjarke
B: Arkanton, smiley, TWOLKER
C: Алексей, Don, iNsAnE
D: cookie, Prab, Bonsai
E: Baer, skull, PhucilliJerry
F: Ink, Legi, Skilled
G1: Oh Noes, Hades, INSIDE
G2: AI, Turkish, Noobster

Yeah, few changes, but I think this is more accurate (For some reason I forgot Baer last time in my E predictions. He's damn good, better than skull perhaps, but idk)

Ox, do you want to join the league? I don't think your predictions actually count for the competition unless you are actually participating in the league. Master Bjarke can add you to an expansion group if you want. I like your predictions, though, especially me coming out on top for the 3rd season in a row. :)

(Group) (1st) (2nd) (3rd)
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A: huddyj , Master Bjarke , Buns157

B: Arkanton , TWOLKER , Smileyleg

C: Master Turtle , Don , Алексей

D: cookie , Bonsai80 , zanbato

E: ALE , Taji , szwenk

F: Ink Splatoon , Mr. Legi , large shrimp

G1: Oh Noes , Hades , INSIDE

G2: AI , Turkish , Ameter

I have now written down all predictions in an excel sheet to keep score (mroe work than I had expected it to be :P). We have 20 contestants and with tournaments starting later today it is the last chance if anyone want to make changes - Im especially saying this to the 4 people who have not put a prediction on all groups. If you want to make changes, send me a MESSAGE (I am not going though edited post in this thread again to see if you changed something)

Also on that note let me put up a list of favorites in the different groups based on how they are predicted:

Group A:
Seems to be a battle between me and huddyj for the title with Buns as third contestant. Huddyj, the defending champion, seems to be the favorite with 11/19 predictions putting him first. I follow with 7/19 and Buns have 1/19 (since Buns predicts that he will take all 3 top 3 spots). As dark horses for top 3 are mslasm and Rocky1 who each are predicted as 3rd by two people.
1st huddyj
2nd Master Bjarke
3rd Buns157

Group B:
Arkanton is the clear favorite with 13/19 predicting him as first. TWOLKER have 5/19 and smiley have one (not his own prediction). USA biches and Dacian Novac are commenly mentioned in top 3 as well.
1st: Arkanton
2nd: Twolker
3rd: smileyleg/USA biches

Group C:
Алексей (7), Master Turtle (6), Don(4), Ryzys (1), and Insane (1) are all predicted as winners of this group, which seems quite close based on predictions. Furthermore is Legacy, Slydog and BlacKnight all predicted in top 3 making 8/10 people in the group predictions for top 3. Top battle is between Turtle and Алексей. Although Алексей have the most 1st Turtle is predicted to finishes higher than him by 11/19 people.
1st Master Turtle
2nd Алексей
3rd Don

Group D:
cookie (13), Bonsai80 (4), Prabster Realm (1), Matt451 (1), and Corvus5 (1) are predicted as first place finishers (note that this is the only group that all 20 participants have predicted). Furthermore Des, Wenyun, Fleecemaster, Zanbato har all fairly frequent fliers in the top 3 predictions, leaving this group quite open in the battle for top 3, although cookie is a clear favorite for the 1st place. 9/10 players in this group is thereby predicted in the top 3 making for an interesting group!
1st: Cookie
2nd: Bonsai80
3rd: Des/Fleecemaster/wenyun

Group E:
ALE is the favorite with 13/19 first places (note that he have the highest rate of any player in any group - dont let the pool of wisdom down ALE!). Taji, Szwenk (which a lot of players have spelled Szwenj for some reason) and Baer are each predicted as first places finishes by two people. Further top 3 candidates are Danerduo, Skull, PhucillJerry, japan77 and ipg also putting this group at 9/10 players represented in the picks despite the large lead to ALE.
1st: ALE
2nd: Taji
3rd: Szwenk

Group F:
Ink Splatoon (8), Mr. Legi (4), Large Shrimp (2), lh70 (2), Masterpierround (1), and Lord of Shadows (1) is in the mix for first in this group. Gardo91, Skilled and Oilspotter are all meantioned for top 3 more than once as well. As Lord of Shadows and Gardo have still not joined they seem a bit doubtful though :P.
1st Ink Splatoon
2nd. Mr. Legi
3rd: Large Shrimp

Group G1:
The first of the expansion groups with all new players. Although some of this new players seem a bit familiar to me - and possible also to everyone else. At least we have only 3 players mentioned for the top 3, if we exclude j willy 47 putting himself in his 3rd place prediction. Otherwise everyone predicts at top 3 with a combination of Oh Noes, Inside and Hades. Oh Noes is predicted as first 10 times, while Inside and Hades gets 4 and 3 1sts respectively. Hades is generally ranked higher than Inside though as no less than 8 predictors (out of 17) have the exact same top three with:
1st Oh Noes
2nd: Hades
3rd: Inside

Group G2:
This expansion group seems almost as onesided as G1 in the predictions. AI and Turkish split almost all the predicted 1st and 2nd places, except Ameter and dr. Love pushing AI down to 3rd on 1 occasion each. Despite Turkish not being predicted worse than 2nd by anyone it is still AI who pulls of the honor of being group favorite with 11/17 predictions to finish in first (Turkish thus have 6 of course). For a possible close fight for 3rd are Ameter (1 2nd 7 3rd) and dr. Love (1 2nd 4 3rd) possibly challenged by Noobster and Oxygen with 3 and 1 3rds respectively.
1st AI
2nd Turkish
3rd Ameter

what time will this league start?

Master Bjarke loved that prediction
i find it fascinating and accurate but lets see how it goes
my moneys on that prediction

The league starts today. I will start the tournaments that I am hosting now and huddyj will start when he gets online I guess (he have not been online so far today). Good luck everyone :)

Sorry, I was out all of Sunday (Monday morning here). Just started all the groups. Bad luck to those who picked USA Biches. He messaged me to say he won't be competing, and I did edit the group post on page 1 a few days ago to let people know.

All the best everyone!

I feel sad for 2 reasons, no one mentioned me among the top 3 and also because I was the only one relegated from group E lol... but anyway, I'm excited for this new season :D

So the close groups are D&E?, in which all but 1 person per league is considered a viable candidate for the top 3?

Welp, I'm gonna have to try.