RTL: REDLINE TEAM LEAGUE (Vestigial Trial Season)

If it's tIme for Redline Derby Racing...and time for another season of RTL.

...and Cher. (I don't know why, but she's immune to the apocalypse.)

This is the sixth season of the RTL pits teams of Redline Derby Racing participants against each other in weekly head-to-head action...hoping not merely to score points but WINS!

Our first season was the Blind Trial Season--where no interaction by any player was required. It was run merely to prove the concept--whether RTL brings more fun and enjoyment to the Redline Derby Racers! After an exciting season, the consensus is that it was! The second season was run as an Active Trial Season--where individual Team Captains were in charge of roster moves, as was the third season (known as the Continuing Trial Season), the fourth season (known as the Refining Trial Season) and the fifth season (known as the Ultimate Trial Season). This season is the Vestigial Trial Season...if only because we limp into this season knowing that we don't have nearly enough active participants to really do this idea correctly. (...and yet, like a Romero zombie...we...just...won't...die.)

Teams were originally determined by the individual player rankings from Season 5 to create eight teams of four players each, and they were adjusted throughout the Blind Trial Season, Active Trial Season, Continuing Trial Season, Refining Trial Season and Ultimate Trial Season to produce the teams that we have today.

Let's now meet the teams of this year's RTL Vestigial Trial Season!

NASH RAMBLERS: Redline Derby (C), iowastockcars, ToyCarJunkie, longklaw
PONTIAC FIREBIRDS: WorpeX (C), GsR microracing, 4UBRAT, NerveHammerFTE
HUDSON HORNETS: Nightstalker, Goolzjr, dasimon1, hwminion58(+)
MERCURY COUGARS: newman39, Dominic Lim, kybusch18, handy man

AMC JAVELINS: seattlegreyy(C), EconoCarl, HW fanatic(%), HW Track(&)
STUDEBAKER LARKS: Mcjiggles9 (C), vidmouse(###), Fully loaded(####), Fastest of the Fastest($)
PLYMOUTH VALIANTS: Atlcelica, multispeed, KYCAT, AMH 412(++)
STUTZ BEARCATS: SSLS6 (C), clifford shaw, Bane, Lil'Grabber

IN SEASON ROSTER MOVES:
(C) Official and Active Team Captains
(#) YESCAR1 replaced HW fanatic on the Studebaker Larks before Tournament One
(##) Chikknsnot replaced JDC 442 Racing on the AMC Javelins before Tournament One
(###) vidmouse replaced Kracon on the Studebaker Larks before Tournament One
(####) fully loaded replaced YESCAR1 on the Studebaker Larks before Tournament One
(#####) latinroc replaced ConceptTA on the AMC Javelins before Tournament One
(%) HW fanatic replaced Chikknsnot on the AMC Javelins before Tournament Five
(%%) Kracon replaced latinroc on the AMC Javelins before Tournament Five
(&) HW Track replaced Kracon on the AMC Javelins before Tournament Seven
(+) hwminion58 replaced Goolz11 on the Hudson Hornets before Tournament Eleven
(++) AMH 412 replaced Trigantara on the Plymouth Valiants before Tournament Eleven
($) Fastest of the Fastest replaced keldarion on the Studebaker Larks before Tournament Fifteen.

AVAILABLE FREE AGENTS:
latinroc(%%), Kracon(&), Chikknsnot(%), RetiredCMSGT, ConceptTA(#####), Metz, Okky Baskoro, YESCAR1(#), ElQuinto, Goolz11(+), Trigantara(++), NEO Racing Team, Adam Heyn, Calde692, Medders501, mustangcollector, Lucky luke luke, Nxt2doc, lscott3, keldarion($), Vuvuzaylor, Bret1266, foxxer2001, davidrivera, Adam_Heyn, SpocketFTE, hyaki, The Rapido, harrow397, camaro track, Divisional Consolation Games (seedings re-ranked after Opening Round)
LA SALLE #4 HUDSON HORNETS 33 at LA SALLE #3 MERCURY COUGARS 26
TUCKER #4 STUTZ BEARCATS 35 at TUCKER #3 AMC JAVELINS 31

SEASON CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT
Championship Game aka the GreyyCup VI (neutral site game)
LA SALLE CHAMPION: NASH RAMBLERS 25
versus
TUCKER CHAMPION: PLYMOUTH VALIANTS 42

VESTIGIAL TRIAL SEASON CHAMPIONS: PLYMOUTH VALIANTS

VESTIGIAL TRIAL SEASON RULES
a) TEAMS--A team is currently defined as being made up of no more and no less than four Redline Derby Racing Fantasy League players. One player is the Team Captain and is responsible for roster decisions.
b) SCORING--The tournament scores for every member on the team are added up and then divided by 10. That is your team's score for that match.
b-1) HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE--The "home" team's score has any fraction rounded up and the "away" team's score has any fraction rounded down. (There is, obviously, no home field advantage in a neutral site game--and both teams will have fractions rounded down.)
c) WINNING--After comparing the scores of the two teams in a particular match, the team with the highest score wins. If the scores are tied, even after or because of the home field advantage, then that game ends in a tie.
d) ROSTER MOVES--Each team captain is in control of their team's roster and, during the regular season, can sign free agents. Roster moves cannot be made once the playoffs begin until the playoffs are over.
d-1) CONTINUITY--A player that has been moved off of a team's roster cannot be reacquired by the team that had moved him off their roster for the immediately following week's worth of tournaments. If that team wants to try to reacquire that player, they must wait until after the next week's worth of tournaments.
e) FREE AGENTS--Any player that is not on a team is considered to be a free agent. A team captain can release a player on their roster and sign a player from the pool of free agents. All free agent requests are made by the team captain sending a private message to the league commissioner (seattlegreyy) detailing both the player to be released and the player they would like to sign. All free agent requests received on the same day will be processed, all at once, at the end of that day. All free agent requests received on the same day will be prioritized according to the then current team standings and records--with the teams with the worst records getting their requests processed first. If, due to prioritized free agent request processing, a requested free agent is no longer available, the request will be denied. When a free agent request is accepted, it takes effect immediately.
e-1) BEST AVAILABLE FREE AGENT REQUESTS--A team captain may choose to request the "best available" free agent, instead of requesting a specific player. Doing so avoids having a free agent request denied due to prioritized free agent request processing. The decision of which free agent is the "best available" will be made by the team commissioner using the same method used during the Blind Trial Season.
f) TEAM HISTORY--This Ultimate Trial Season will continue with the team names that were determined arbitrarily before the beginning of the Blind Trial Season and with the rosters as they were developed through the Continuing Trial Season, Blind Trial Season, Active Trial Season, Refining Trial Seasons and Ultimate Trial Seasons, with the exceptions of changes due to Team Captaincy issues.