FBDL Season 1 Rulebook

1. Introduction

Final Boss Draft League (FBDL) is a competitive, community-driven League of Legends draft league designed to test player skill, adaptability, and teamwork in a structured seasonal format. This rulebook exists to clearly outline league expectations, procedures, and competitive standards to ensure a fair, organized, and enjoyable experience for all participants.

FBDL staff reserve the right to interpret, clarify, or amend rules when necessary to preserve competitive integrity or address unforeseen situations. Any changes will be communicated clearly and applied at staff discretion.

By participating in Final Boss Draft League, all players acknowledge that they have read, understood, and agreed to abide by the rules and expectations outlined in this document.

2. Schedule

• Draft: January 10
• Regular Season: Jan 17/18 - Feb 14/15
• Playoffs Semifinals: Feb 21 / Feb 22
• Playoffs Finals: Feb 28 / Mar 1
• Games begin at 8:00 PM EST

3. Player Eligibility

3.1 Riot Account

3.1.1 The player must abide by Riot Games' account policy. Players that violate the policy are subject to punishment by Riot Games and subsequently the Final Boss Draft League.

3.1.2 The player must provide ALL of their accounts and any alternates to the website that have been played on within the past 2 full seasons. If a player plays on an account that is not added to the website during the season, they will be given a warning. Further infractions could result in disciplinary action.

3.1.3 Discovery of undisclosed accounts (especially if they are higher in rank than submitted accounts) is subject to disciplinary action by the Final Boss Draft League.

3.1.4 If a player's Riot account is suspended, the player is subject to removal from the Final Boss Draft League until the suspension has ended.

3.1.5 If a player's Riot account has been permanently banned, they are subject to removal from participation in the Final Boss Draft League.

3.2 Name Changes

3.2.1 In accordance with (3.1.2), Players are responsible for submitting name changes on the website prior to playing on the name changed account in an FBDL capacity.

3.3 Player Acceptance

3.3.1 Player acceptance is at the full discretion of the Final Boss Draft League.

3.3.2 AFTER the season sign-up sheet has been released, but BEFORE the season's official start, players will receive a confirmation message from the Final Boss Draft League Staff. This message will ask to confirm the players season availability, roles, and acknowledgement that they have read/will abide by the rules. Once the player confirms this, they will be accepted into the draft class for that season.

3.4 Captaining

3.4.1 During sign-ups, the player may decide to check the box to become a season captain. Season captains are selected at the discretion of the Final Boss Draft League administrative staff.

3.4.2 Captains will receive a separate confirmation message from player participants via Final Boss Draft League staff. Once confirmed, that individual will be a captain that season.

3.4.3 Captains must be players as well.

3.4.4 Captains are responsible for creating and managing team Discords, creating and submitting rosters on each game day in a timely manner, keeping players up to date on team related business, being the point of contact for their team for FBDL staff, and overall ensuring their players have a quality experience to the best of their ability.

4. Draft

4.1 Draft Board Formation

4.1.1 Players who signed up and are confirmed for the league will be placed on a draft board. Each player will have 2 roles that they have selected during sign-up and can play for the remainder of the tournament.

4.1.2 Each player will be assigned to Tiers 1-3 based on relative skill, with Tier 1 being the perceived strongest players.

4.1.3 Players will be assigned point values within Tiers to further differentiate relative value. This point value will be used during the season in many different ways.

4.2 Captain Pick Order

4.2.1 The draft will proceed in a modified snake order. Captain pick order will be determined randomly (8 team example below).

4.3 Draft Processes

4.3.1 Prior to or during the draft, captains may trade any combination of players/pick spots with one another. Trades must be submitted to Final Boss Draft League staff and approved before taking effect.

4.3.2 Rounds 1-3: Captains may only select players from Tier 1. Rounds 4-7: Captains may only select players from Tier 3. Rounds 8-11: Captains may only select players from Tier 2 until all players have been selected to a team.

5. Roster Management

5.1 Game Requirements

5.1.1 The maximum games that can be played by a player throughout the season is 16 games.

5.1.2 The minimum games that MUST be played by each player is 13 games.

5.1.3 If a team is unable to meet the minimum game requirements come season end, they will be ineligible for playoffs.

5.1.4 If a team attempts to use a player who is already at the maximum game amount, the game will be an automatic forfeit.

5.2 Trading

5.2.1 Trades may include any combination of players so long that each roster maintains 11 players.

5.2.2 All trades must be submitted to FBDL staff in the captains channel.

5.2.3 Trades must be approved by FBDL staff before taking effect.

5.2.4 Trades may occur at any time during the season up until the trade deadline (February 13th).

5.3 Substitutes

5.3.1 Substitutes for the regular season will only happen if a player needs to be dropped from a team for the remainder of the season.

5.3.2 All subs will be approved at the discretion of the Final Boss Draft League Admin team. Any subs not approved by staff cannot play that series.

5.4 Roles

5.4.1 Players must play one of the two roles they are assigned.

5.4.2 Rosters may be submitted with players in any order, as long as each player is slotted in one of their two assigned roles. Which roles each player is playing may be changed from the roster submission at any point up until game start, as long as each player is still playing one of their two assigned roles.

5.4.3 Captains are given two role swaps per season to use for free. These role swaps are able to swap a SINGLE role on a SINGLE player on their roster to a different role. They are also permitted three additional role swaps after the first two are used, but each one after the first two will cost the team 2 points deducted from their total points in standings.

6. Regular Season Procedures

6.1 Pre-Game

6.1.1 Rosters for game 1 are to be submitted by 7:45pm EST on the day of each series. For following games rosters are to be submitted within 10 minutes following the previous game's conclusion, and players are expected to be in lobby ready to start draft within 5 minutes after that (15 minutes after previous game's) conclusion. Penalties for being late are -1 ban/10 minutes late until 30 minutes late where the game will be an automatic forfeit. These penalties are barring extenuating circumstances that may adjust this ruling based on staff discretion.

6.1.2 Due to players being locked to two roles, they may play either of these roles and are not required to inform the other team of which of the two roles each player will be playing. Rosters may be submitted out of order as long as each player loads into game playing one of their two designated roles.

6.2 Lobby Setup

6.2.1 Tournament codes will be given out by admins, these lobbies will be used for all games.

6.2.2 In most circumstances, players are not forced to be in role order, but it is preferred. However, for streamed games, players must be in role order in the lobby following draft.

6.3 Side Select

6.3.1 Side select for the first game of the series will be given to the team with the lower point value roster.

6.3.2 For games 2 and 3 of the series, the team who lost the previous game will have side-select in the next game.

6.4 Discord

6.4.1 Prior to game start, all 5 players in the game must be present in their team's respective discord call. Only the 5 players actively playing are allowed in the call during the game.

6.5 Champion Select

6.5.1 Champion select will be done using 3rd party draft tools (drafter.gg, draftlol.dawe.gg, etc.)

6.5.2 Whichever team is on the blue side is responsible by default for preparing the draft tool, but either team can.

6.5.3 Teams are responsible for making sure picks and bans in the in-client draft following the 3rd party draft are accurate.

6.5.4 In client champion select, players may not swap champions after there is 30 seconds remaining on the countdown clock until the game begins.

6.5.5 If a player asks the opposing team to line up in role order, they are required to do so.

6.5.6 Teams must have their roles selected in the lobby prior to stating they are ready in lobby chat. Additionally, both teams (and production if the game is streamed) must have stated they are ready in lobby chat before the game is started.

6.6 New Champions/Reworks

6.6.1 All new or reworked champions will be unavailable to play for 2 weeks following their release.

6.7 Bugs

6.7.1 Bugged champions/items etc. will be announced via an announcement prior to games and will be unavailable for the described time period in the announcement.

6.8 Pauses

6.8.1 Each team is allotted 20 minutes of pause time per series. Pauses cannot take place during combat (up to staff discretion).

6.9 Results

6.9.1 Game results are to be reported in the #match results channel and on the website.

7. Regular Season Standings

7.1 Point System

7.1.1 Standings will be determined by the amount of points a team has. (Note: While this correlates with win/loss, it considers additional factors to adjust to a final value.) The teams with the most points will be at the top of the standings, the teams with the least points will be at the bottom of the standings.

7.1.2 Each team will be rewarded 10 points for a game win.

7.1.3 Additionally, there are ways for a team to gain or lose points based on the incentives listed below:

7.1.4 Points (with incentives) will be automatically updated in real time to show standings after game day has concluded (aside from unique champions).

Example standings with incentive calculations can be found below:

7.2 Tiebreakers

7.2.1 Should any number of teams have the exact same number of points, tie breakers will be determined in order as follows:

• Total wins
• Head-to-Head

8. Playoffs

8.1 Qualification and Subs

8.1.1 The top 4 teams will qualify for the playoff bracket.

8.1.2 All subs will be approved at the discretion of the Final Boss Draft League Admin team. Any subs not approved by staff cannot play that series.

8.1.3 Substitutes will last for the duration of the entire series played.

8.1.4 Subs must be confirmed with staff 48 hours before series start or penalties will be applied based on the severity of the infraction (default penalty would be loss of ban for each game they play).

8.2 Bracket Stage

8.2.1 The bracket stage will follow a standard bracket format, where seeding (1-4) will be determined first based on your regular season finish.

8.2.2 Prior to the bracket stage, the team who finished first seed in regular season will choose their opponent in the first round from seeds three and four, and the remaining team will face the second seed team from regular season.

8.2.3 The bracket stage will be a best of 7 format, with the first team to win 4 games advancing to the next round.

9. Playoff Format

9.1 Best of 7 Format

9.1.1 All rosters for all games will be submitted blindly (captains will become aware of their opponents roster(s) after both have been submitted) by both captains.

9.1.2 No player may exceed a maximum of 4 games during the series.

9.1.3 Games 1 & 2 rosters will be submitted and played simultaneously first.

9.2 Games 1 & 2

9.2.1 Rosters:

• Each roster must be completely unique (no player may appear in both rosters).
• The higher point valued roster between the two will be referred to has the “high point roster”.
• The lower point valued roster between the two will be referred to as the “low point roster”.
• The 1 player who does not play in either roster will be referred to from here on out as the “withheld player”.

9.2.2 Side-Select:

• For both games 1 & 2, the lower pv roster in the matchup will get side-select (Note: this COULD mean that one team gets or loses side-select for BOTH games).

9.2.3 Game Order:

• Games 1 & 2 will be played concurrently.
• Each teams' “high point roster” will play against the opposing teams “high point roster.
• Each teams “low point roster” will play against the opposing teams “low point roster”.

9.3 Games 3 & 4

9.3.1 Rosters:

• After the conclusion of the first two games, games 3 & 4 rosters will be submitted at the same time.
• Roster submission rules will follow the exact same format as games 1 & 2 with the following exception; the “withheld player” must play in BOTH games 3 & 4.

9.3.2 Side-Select:

• The team with the losing series record (0-2) will have side-select regardless of rosters in game 3.
• If the series score is even (1-1), the team with the higher point “withheld player” gets side-select.
• Game 4 side-select will be given to the team who did not have it in game 3.

9.3.3 Game Order:

• Games will be played 1 at a time, not concurrently.
• If a team is down 0-2 in the series, that captain may choose which roster plays first (high or low) for game 3.
• In the event that the series score is 1-1, the team whose “withheld player” is a higher pv will get to choose which roster (high or low) plays first for game 3. (If both are the same, 2 out of 3 rock, paper, scissors).

9.4 Game 5

9.4.1 From here on out, rosters will be submitted one at a time and games will be played one at a time.

9.4.2 Rosters:

• Submitted following the conclusion of game 4.
• By the end of game 5, every player must have played 2 games.
• May not contain the “withheld player”.

9.4.3 Side-Select:

• The team with the losing series record (1-3) will have side-select regardless of rosters.
• If series score is even (2-2), the lower roster pv will be given side-select.

9.5 Game 6

9.5.1 Rosters:

• Submitted following the conclusion of game 5.
• The “withheld player” must be included in this game OR in game 7.

9.5.2 Side-Select:

• The team with the losing series record (2-3) will have side-select regardless of rosters.

9.6 Game 7

9.6.1 Rosters:

• Submitted following the conclusion of game 6.
• By the end of game 7, every player must have played 3 games.
• The “withheld player” must be included in this game OR have been included in game 6.

9.6.2 Side-Select:

• The team who lost game 6 will be given side-select.

10. Player Conduct & Disciplinary Action

10.1 Expectations

10.1.1 Players are expected to follow all server rules outlined in the Discord in Discord chats as well as in-game chats in official FBDL matches.

10.2 Punishments

10.2.1 Infractions to these rules and how these rules are defined are up to staff discretion and will be carried out as such.

10.2.2 If you believe a staff member is abusing their power and executing punishments or interpreting rules unfairly, please open a ticket and report this behavior.