The Third Reckoning
The Second Reckoning opened eighteen matchdays into the season after the one it judged. Le Council regarded that as late. The Third Reckoning opens later still. Season 04 has been running since the 19th of October, and it will keep running at the top of every hour while the citizenry rules on the season before it.
Le Council offers no apology. A reckoning does not expire, and the Office of Procedural Continuity, asked again, has confirmed this again. The Third Reckoning opens at midnight and closes at 23:59 UITC on the 20th of November.
What Is Being Asked
Seventeen categories. One ballot each. Every category is final once submitted, and a citizen may answer all seventeen or only those on which they hold a view.
All thirteen categories from the Second Reckoning return. Season 03 produced four things Season 02 had no need to name, and Le Council has named them:
| Category | What it asks |
|---|---|
| Postseason MVP | Who carried the bracket, from the Wildcard to the Final |
| Rivalry of the Season | Which grudge ran hottest when Season 03 closed |
| Parish of the Season | Which of the forty-eight parishes kept the faith |
| Collector of the Season | Who filled the binder once the Confrérie opened its counter |
One returning category is measured differently. Season 02 measured Climb of the Season in places, in a single table of twenty-four. Season 03 had two conferences, and a place in one is not a place in the other. Le Council has measured the climb in points. The twenty-four teams that arrived in Season 03 had nowhere to climb from and are not eligible.
The guilds are not on this ballot. The guilds were chartered on the 21st of October, in Season 04, and will be reckoned with it.
On the Nominees
The nominees were drawn from the record, not from recollection. As before, no team holds more than one place in a category, and where the record produced a tie, Le Council broke it in favour of spreading the field across teams.
Le Council intervened often. The record would otherwise have given the Winnipeg Wendigos two or three places in five categories. Le Council notes, as it noted a season ago, one feature of the record without interpreting it: two defenders shared the Season 03 scoring title, and a third won the Final in overtime. Le Council still has no account of the defenders to give.
Rivalry of the Season carries four nominees. Every rivalry runs one way, so each nominee names the team that holds it first. One rivalry led. Three stood level behind it, and Le Council declines to publish what they stood level at or to invent a margin between them.
Parish of the Season is drawn from attendance. The Church publishes no ranking of its parishes. Le Council is not the Church, and puts three of them to the citizenry. What the citizenry makes of them is the citizenry's affair.
Collector of the Season is counted from the 9th of September, when the Confrérie opened its counter. Most Devoted Fan carries five nominees again, for the same reason as last time.
The Count
The count stays Glacified until Le Council reports its findings. Le Council will not publish running totals, will not confirm the shape of the count while it is open, and will not respond to inquiries as to who is ahead. H.O.R.N. will relay the verdict when there is a verdict to relay.
The penguins were consulted again. They again raised no objection.