As you may have noticed, JJNet has received some minor visual updates here and there. One of the updates that was much more a of a major change under the hood than just a visual update, was to make clan squad pages to display columns for league statuses of each player. In practice, you can now see whether a player is set as 'playing for the clan in that league' for the league-column in question. You can choose any of the participating clans to inspect for an example. This feature was made primarily to support the updated rule of §4: Multi-clanning, where a player can be a member in multiple clans simultaneously, but play only for one at a time per league.
The league columns-feature has been already communicated out to the clan leaders of the currently known active clans, but this newspost is more of a public disclaimer of the same feature for any new or re-awakening clans out there, that such a change has been made. What the change means in practice, is that from now on clan leaders (team managers) are able to change the league statuses of the players in their clan's squad list via team management (actually they were also able to do that before, but this feature wasn't utilised as such). The players (JJNet users) are also able to change their own league statuses in each clan they belong to by themselves via My Teams.
Primarily, the responsibility would fall on the players themselves to know which league they are playing in for each clan they belong to, as they may change it from time to time, based on clans they join/leave. However, team managers can also assist with this task, especially, if they haven't checked for their clan's squad lists for a long time, to make sure that each player is marked active for the correct leagues.
Additionally, players who join clans via their squad page may now choose which league they want to play for in that clan (CTF, MULTI or BOTH and the default is BOTH). This is set via a dropdown menu on the clan's squad page which also now prompts for the users to double check their setting. A corresponding selector is also available in the New teammates-page for team managers, who are adding players manually into their clan.
Since we in the rules council acknowledge that it may take a while for people to get used to the new feature, we have decided to have a transition period of 3 months before we fully utilise the new feature. Which means, that people have time until the end of March 2022 to get used to the new league columns-feature. After that, playing matches for JJNet with illegal league status settings on JJNet may become punishable.
Besides the league columns-feature, we have also slightly updated the ranking table to display up to two different kinds of award icons per clan; The ladder season victories (chalice-icon) and individual player awards (star-icon).
Thank you for your attention and have a pleasant journey!
