Season 2 Will Debut Soon
Season 02 is coming.
Le Council is aware this has been anticipated. Le Council is, on this occasion, ahead of schedule. What follows is a full accounting of what arrives with Season 02—not a summary, not a teaser, but the actual record of what citizens will find when the first game begins. Citizens who made parts of this possible deserve to read about it before it does.
What Has Arrived
The Medellín Mapaches, the Cairo Crocodiles, the Wellington Whales, and the Gander Geese are active. Their arenas are open. Their rosters are set. Le Council has published a full account of how this happened and declines to summarize it here—the document exists and contains everything Le Council is prepared to say on the subject at this time. It is available in the archive.
What Le Council wishes to address now is what else has arrived. There is more than the four teams. There is considerably more.
See the action with G.L.A.S.S.
The petition was received. The funding followed. G.L.A.S.S. is here.
Citizens of Hockay will already know the origin of the Graphical Live Audiovisual Streaming Service—it is on record. What Le Council wishes to address, now that G.L.A.S.S. is entering beta operations, is what it actually is to use it.
During any active game, G.L.A.S.S. renders the ice. Both teams are on it. You will see their formations shift as the play develops—back through neutral ice, into the offensive zone, retreating under pressure. You will see the puck move between carriers. You will see the goalie in net, reading what is coming. When a hit lands, you will see the impact. When a fight breaks out—and in Hockay, this is a matter of when, not if—you will see that too. The rink refreshes as events occur. Nothing is narrated. The ice speaks for itself.
Le Council notes that the word "beta" is doing genuine work here. G.L.A.S.S. will improve across the season. Le Council asks for patience where the glass is still being fitted to the frame. Citizens who funded this project built something real—Le Council intends to honor that with a full rollout that matches it.
In the meantime: it is live. It is open. Games begin at 12PM UITC. Find your fixture, find the rink, and watch.
Le Council will note, for the record, that Dot described G.L.A.S.S. as "familiar" before it was announced. JM asked her to clarify. She said, "Never mind. Just watch the ice." Le Council has elected to include this in the official record without comment.
The Community Has a Place to Speak
The forum is open. hockay.com/forum.
Le Council is aware that the petition for a community forum was also the occasion of the petition that funded G.L.A.S.S., and that some citizens are responsible for both, and that Le Council owes those citizens a significant debt of gratitude that Le Council is still working out how to express institutionally. This post is a beginning.
The forum is the product of that petition and the work of those who chose to build it. Le Council approved the request. The community delivered something more considered than Le Council anticipated—a full correspondence infrastructure, not merely a message board. Le Council has reviewed it. Le Council is impressed.
What citizens have built:
- A thread system with full replies and nested conversation
- Emoji reactions—a curated set, which Le Council's Discretionary Emoji Subcommittee spent longer debating than Le Council will admit
- @mentions, so that the person you are talking about knows they are being talked about
- Markdown, for those who write in it; plain text, for those who do not
- Soft deletion, which preserves the shape of a conversation even when a post is removed—a decision Le Council finds philosophically interesting and practically correct
Reading is open to all. Contributing requires an account and verified email. Le Council considers this the minimum viable standard of civic identity.
Moderation is active. Le Council has tools and people behind them. The forum is not a space for everything—conduct that falls outside the bounds of civil discourse will be addressed. Everything else is fair territory: standings arguments, modifier theory, unsolicited tactical analysis, questions Le Council has declined to answer in public, and questions Le Council has answered in ways that require further interrogation. All of it is welcome.
Le Council will add, as a standing notice: The Ice reads the forum. Le Council cannot explain the mechanism. Le Council has chosen to mention it anyway.
The Temporal Alignment Initiative
Beginning Season 02, Le Council is formally acknowledging consecutive daily engagement. Looney rewards earned through the daily claim are now subject to a multiplier that scales with unbroken attendance:
| Consecutive Days | Bonus |
|---|---|
| Day 3 | +10% |
| Day 7 | +25% |
| Day 14 | +50% |
| Day 28 | +100% |
Missing a day resets the count. The bonus at Day 28 doubles the base reward. Le Council chose this number deliberately. Le Council will not explain the deliberation.
The Ice has always known who shows up. Season 02 is the first season in which this knowledge produces a formal outcome.
The Daily Redistribution
Le Council has, beginning Season 02, instituted a daily levy on accumulated wealth.
Each day, Le Council assesses the ten wealthiest citizens of Hockay and collects ten percent of what each holds. The sum is pooled and divided, in equal measure, among every citizen who claimed their daily reward that day. What will not divide evenly is burned.
Le Council provides the following clarifications, in the interest of reducing correspondence on the matter:
- To receive a share, you need only claim your daily reward. Nothing further is asked.
- The levy falls on the ten largest balances. It is recalculated every day. Today's untouchable fortune contributes tomorrow, and a citizen who contributes may receive a share in return—provided they claimed.
- The remainder—the looneys that will not divide evenly across the eligible—is burned. Le Council retains none of it. Le Council retains nothing.
Le Council anticipates that the ten wealthiest citizens may hold opinions on the matter. The forum is open for precisely such opinions.
On Your Favourite Team
A small change that Le Council considers self-explanatory: on the betting board, the odds button for the team you have designated as your favourite now displays that team's colours.
Le Council did not build a feature into its favourite-team system to remain invisible. You set a favourite for a reason. The reason is now visible at a glance.
By the Numbers
Two additions for those who keep count.
Every player page now records hat tricks—the number of games in which a player has put three or more pucks in the net. The Ice has always counted. The count is now visible.
Your ledger now displays, at a glance, the total you currently have staked across every open market and the returns you stand to collect should every wager land. Le Council makes no representation as to whether they will.
Modifier Update
The modifier DOUBLE-OR-NOTHING has been retired from active rotation. Le Council is not providing a statement on this retirement beyond confirming that it occurred and that the decision was, in Le Council's assessment, correct. Four new modifiers are in effect at the four new arenas. They are documented in the modifier registry. Le Council recommends consulting the registry before placing bets in those venues.
Closing
Season 2 comprises 46 matchdays followed by the postseason. The schedule is set. The Ice is settled.
Le Council has noted that something is different this season. The instruments that normally assist Le Council in characterizing "different" have returned inconclusive readings. This is not the first time this has happened. Le Council is documenting it precisely because it is not the first time.
When Le Council has more to share, The Horn will sound.
Until then: the rink is visible, the forum is open, and twenty-four cities are playing Hockay.
Stick around.