Shell League

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**Shell League** is a Shell Shockers e-sports tournament where the players from different clans/teams come together to compete. The league features a variety of teams or clans. Each clan is part of the tournament for a season with the winner getting ultra rare prizes

Many of the clans are made up of highly skilled players, who are enlisted by people in the existing clan. Shell League was the first league which offered clans a place to compete for prizes hence why it is the biggest league in the shell shockers community today.

## Shell League

The League has also introduced different branches for players not located in North America including Shell League Europe. Recently, the league has replaced the original game mode, known as classic, with the Coop Kings mode. In Coop Kings, clans play first to 5 points in the KOTC game mode. Shell League offers some of the rarest prizes to the season winner's as they have platnium tier'd code support from BWD including bucks, flames and albinos. Exclusive personal clan stamps or hats are made just for the winning team. The main clan members and players are given the stamp

The League also hosts occasional special events and tournaments, including 2v2s, 1v1s, and content creator games for extremely rare and exclusive prizes such.

### History

Shell League was founded in 2018 by discord users ArkangelTyreal and Oopa\_Mag. The first recorded scrimmage was a 4 v 4 between the teams KoW and USA. The League exploded in popularity, with a member count peaking to 7000+. Two other branches were created shortly after. The first was Pre League, where 8 new and upcoming teams competed in a regular season as well as a special tournament called the Carton Cutoffs, where the top teams would advance to Shell League. The other was Shell League Oceania, a league for players in the Oceania region. Originally, the Shell League was a round robin tournament, with 2 divisions that held 8 similarly skilled teams. This was replaced with a Swiss style tournament at the start of season 5 (Later iterations of the league would again use a round-robin format). Shell League also released an EU league for European players. Traditionally, at the conclusion of each season, an all-star game is played, and a season MVP is chosen. During the league's prime, season MVPs were rewarded with a $20 gift card and a rare skull bandana item code. Unfortunately many of the League's most prominent members, including the founders, have moved on from Shell Shockers. The demand for competitive Shell Shockers has been steadily declining since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, and it is currently unclear what the future of the League will look like. The league is still currently running seasons but is barely holding up due to lack of interests from players and in game changes which are moving players away from the game. Today the league is run/owned by alrtxd.

### Controversies

Over the years, Shell League has been involved in a fair deal of controversy, including accusations of bias management, toxic members and staff, and rampant cheating. The use of hacks during official games for a competitive advantage, as well as alting, where a single player creates multiple discord accounts in order to compete on many teams at once, has been well documented throughout the league's history and still remains an issue. The league has tried to mitigate these problems through the use of player legitimacy verification and vetting staff members, but these have not been foolproof. Despite these pitfalls, the league has still succeeded in entertaining 1000s of players and viewers, and will hopefully continue to for years to come.

### Shell League Discord Servers

*Shell League | Coop Kings* Discord: https://discord.gg/Rfzq4E9eqg

*Shell League | Classic* Discord: https://discord.gg/shell-league-classic-na-510692432833151017

*Shell League | Europe* Discord: https://discord.gg/M9KkavnssD

*If any of these invites don't work please leave a comment below saying so.*

## Classic Format Rules

### Basic Match rules:

- 4v4, 3v3 or 5v5 (depending on the number of players available on each team)

- RPEGG is BANNED unless its a 4v4 or 5v5 and even if 4v4 or 5v5 only one person in each team can wield the RPEGG.

- Once you are eliminated stay dead for the round no respawns or despawns once round starts (if you despawn you are considered dead, no exceptions)

- Switch teams and sides after a round ends - Best of 7 rounds (first to 4 rounds)

- All games played on Castle - Players start the round after the word "go" is typed ex: (3, 2, 1, GO) - Shooting before GO will result in the round being redone.

- You must have your clan tag in your name and your name discord name.

- Only 1 substitute per game, swapping players out before round 1 starts is NOT considered subbing.

- All guns, stamps, and hats are allowed.

- Cheating will be met with a full-season ban for the player if found guilty and a redo (if a match is affected) for the match.

- You ARE allowed to change weapons between rounds but NOT during a round/after a round has started.

### Team Eligibility Rules:

- A team may have no fewer than six members and cannot exceed twenty members in their roster.

- A player cannot sustain membership on two teams at the same time, so be loyal.

- A team must only have one leader at any given time. A team may only have one co-leader at any given time.

- The team leader of any given team may only transition once a season; limit does not apply to scenarios where team leadership is transferred due to the team leader leaving the team.

- In order to be eligible to play for a team, the player must have that team role prior to the match.

The Official Shell League Rulebook

The Official Shell League Europe Rulebook