1.1. Clan: An association of players, building a managed team is called a “clan” in the following. Every clan needs to have a web presence, including a roster and information upon the clan structure and the official clan representatives. Clans can apply for an invitation to be able to attend qualification events for the NGL ONE and NGL TWO league during the application period which will be announced on www.ngl-one.com
1.2. Teams and Team Manager: The clans are announcing line-ups of four (4) players. Those line-ups are called teams in the following. Each clan announces a responsible clan member, making decisions and representing the clan in front of the league administration: a Team Manager is responsible for a Clan and is the entity that will receive the prize if its clan wins.
1.3. Players: Players attending the NGL ONE and NGL TWO league must be part of one and only one clan. A player is not allowed to represent another clan online or offline, which includes all possible Warcraft III gaming activities in national and international tournaments and leagues. It also includes that a player is not allowed to play under the name of a different clan or wear another clan’s uniform. Excluded from this rule are tournaments and leagues officially offered by Blizzard Entertainment and venues not offering prize money. Players are also allowed to represent a regional allstar team or a national team in special competitions.
1.4. Membership: Being a member of a clan or being authorized to represent a clan in the NGL ONE and NGL TWO depends only on the information published in the team account, not on any information published on any other web presence.
1.5. League Officials: Referees are assigned by the NGL ONE to observe, judge and administer matches. The Headreferee is allowed to supersede rules and decisions of any Referee. The Supervisor is the ultimate authority concerning any decision.

2.1. All clans declare with their participation in the league to agree to and comply with the rules and regulations of the NGL ONE and NGL TWO. All attending Warcraft III players must be at least 14 years old.
2.2. Clans participating at the league agree to a non-disclosure policy. Clan representatives and players are not allowed to disclose internal discussions, decisions and communication protocols. Clans violating the non-disclosure policy can receive penalty points, become suspended or banned from the league.
2.3. All clan representatives and players recognize that all stated days and times mentioned in the rules and regulations refer to Central European Timezone (CET = GMT +01:00)

3.1. The team manager has to ensure that all players of his clan and all representatives read, understand, accept and comply with the rules & regulations of the NGL ONE.
3.2. Every player has to upload an adequate picture of himself and to ensure to complete his profile within 10 days after joining the clan. Ignoring this, can result in Penalty Points for the clan.
3.3. Each team has to send at least one captain or organizer into the private irc-channels of NGL ONE or NGL TWO due to communication reasons.
3.4. The team manager is also liable to arrange the matchdate with the competing clan before the beginning of the according matchday and announce the line-up through the administration interface of the leagues homepage until 30 minutes before the scheduled start of the according clanwar.
3.5. Additionally each team representative has to enter a statement towards the upcoming clanwar at the same time.
3.6. The line-ups will then be published automatically and cannot be changed anymore. Before the line-ups are published they can be edited.
3.7. A new player needs to be added by the team manager to the clan’s roster on the NGL ONE and NGL TWO homepage to be regarded as a part of the clan. The player is not allowed to play the same matchday he is joining the clan. If the player has played for a different clan in the league before, he is not allowed to play against clans he already faced with his former clan in the same season again. To be allowed to play on the league finals or the relegation match a player has to be added before the end of the 8th matchday. A player is only allowed to play either in the NGL TWO Qualifier or the relegation match (ranked 8th place of NGL ONE vs. ranked 3rd place of NGL TWO).
3.8. If a player has been part of a team that has been removed during a season the rule mentioned in 3.7. is going to be invalid. The player is allowed to play on the next matchday.
3.9. The league is not responsible for additional agreements between players and clans. Additional agreements are only allowed if they do not violate the rules and regulations of the league, but will not be considered through any proceedings of the league. The NGL ONE reserves the right to change the rules and regulations at any time without prior notice to the attending clans.
3.10. Clans cancelling their participation in NGL TWO season on their own decision may not attend the qualification for the next season. When a team cancels its participation during the season or the finals, gets suspended or banned from the league, all played and open matches will be set as a 4-0 default win for the opposing teams and has no claim for payment of the attendance fee or prize money.
3.11. By attending this competition, clans and players acknowledge, without limitation to comply with the rules and regulations of the league and with the decisions of the league officials. The application of these rules and regulations is at the sole discretion of the league officials. Any decision from league officials will supersede these rules and regulations to preserve the spirit of competition.

4.1. Clans that would like to participate at the next NGL TWO Season will have to apply in a written form. This application has to arrive within the time that is announced by the league officials.
4.2. The Qualification features 16 teams playing in a full double-elimination grid. When a clan is defeated twice in the Qualification it will be eliminated from the competition.
4.3. Teams coming down from NGL TWO Seasons (ranked 8th, 9th and 10th) will take the top 3 seeds  of the Qualification according to their ranking from the previous NGL TWO Season.
4.4. Teams may get no penalty points during the Qualification but warnings. Every team that gets more than four warnings from league officials (every delict that would be punished in the season corresponds to one warning) can be suspended from the Qualification.

5.1. One matchday has a length of two usual weeks, starting Monday at 12:00AM (0:00) and ends Sunday at 11:59 PM (23:59). On each matchday a participating clan is playing a clanwar against another clan, facing each of the other clans once in a season. The matchdays and the matchups are set by the league administration.
5.2. The clanwars have to be played on certain times given by the league administration and scheduled at one of the following times during the period of a matchday:

The clans have to agree upon one of these matchdates until Saturday 23:59 (11:59PM) before the beginning of the according matchday. Clanwars or single matches cannot be postponed by the teams anymore, when the teams agreed upon a matchdate or their matchdate is set by the league administration.
5.3. If there is no possibility of scheduling the teams have to contact a league official. Teams which scheduled not in time receive one Penalty Point every 24 hours.

League format
Procedure of a clanwar
Game settings & Mappool
Ranking, Prize Money and Attendence Fee
Penalty Points