Hello and welcome to UGC League DOTA 2 Season 5 Week One! All active teams have been scheduled and the schedule is posted. Please log into your Team Leader account as soon as possible and post in your Match Comms to best decide a time to face off against your opponenet for the week. If a match time cannot be agreed upon then the default time of Sunday @ 7pm must be honored. 

We are sad to announce that several divisions do not have the teams registered to remain active for this season. For that reason the only divisions we will be playing with this season are Western Invite, Central Invite, NA Steel, NA Iron, and SA Iron. We apologize to other teams that have registered. However, we do not have enough teams active in those regions to field a decent sized division. We are working on this for Season 6. 

To follow up with this, we will be keeping all new team registration open throughout the length of Season 5. This means that any team looking to sign up late may do so in any of our non-invite divisions. Any team that does sign up late will not be awarded points for missed weeks.

Here are some notes for the season:

• All games are a Best of Two series. 
• In game 1 the "Home" team chooses whether they would like Radiant/Dire and the "Away" team chooses if they would like first pick/ban. In game two these roles reverse. 
• Under no circumstance may a team use an unrostered standin. Teams may edit rosters at any time and roster up to 10 members. If you need a standin simply have them join your roster and update their MMR on our site. Any team that uses an unrostered standin is subject to penalty.
• Under no circumstance may there be a non-UGC approved caster in the broadcasting slot.

UGC is actively seeking dedicated staff from all regions! If you are interested in being apart of our ever-growing team then simply send us an application at dota2 @ ugcleague . com

Best of luck to all teams this season.

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