The Pre-Season offers teams to prepare for the harsh upcoming season.
A couple of minor sponsors are financing these games, granting teams inducement funds worth 1d6*10K (rolled at start of the season).


Registered teams may play up to 3 friendlies before the beginning of the actual season.
Teams may play in any order they wish but teams may face the same team at maximum twice during the Pre-Season Friendlies phase.

There are no Great Bribery phases during this time of the season and Corruption cards can’t be activated.

All Missing Next Game Injuries will be healed before the next season phase begins.

Tournaments for registered teams organized by different sponsors ahead of the season.
Teams can win prizes that might give them an advantage during the actual season. Tournaments can also include special rules.

Pre-Season Tournaments include a Player Market one day before kick-off open for participating teams. These markets may include players unlocked due tournament environment.
Corruption cards cannot be activated.

All Missing Next Game Injuries will be healed before the next season phase begins.

A 1d6 roll by the league officials at the beginning of the Pre-Season decides which tournament will be held.

An additional deck of Black Market Cards according to the tournament gets unlocked for the upcoming season.

The league’s most corrupt employee, the Accounting Chiefgoblin disappeared with all the league’s money! And he took the cheerleaders with him!
The league’s Petty Cash is emptied, all teams lose their rostered Cheerleaders, DF is reduced to 1 for every registered and unregistered team.

A failed charity leads to a tournament in the cheap backyards of the league’s former stadiums. With nearly no professional organization left, hopefully these games will raise fan interest so the league can prosper once again.
King of the Hill Tournament, all registered teams must join.

Teams gain no additional Pre-Match Inducement funds and lose half of their regular winnings (transferred to the league’s Petty Cash).

All suffered Missing Next Game Injuries will be healed after the tournament before the Season begins.

Winner gets 1 DF.
Winner of the Big Cheat gains influence and receives two Random Corruption Cards.

A famous festival organized by Halflings to showcase their finest cuisine. From time to time some Trolls raid the event and eat all the Halflings. Sponsors
of the XXXL see this as a perfect opportunity for a pre-season tournament to showcase the upcoming season.

King of the Hill Tournament, only registered teams with trolls are invited to join.Trolls lose Always Hungry for the duration of the tournament.

All suffered Missing Next Game Injuries will be healed after the tournament before the Season begins.

Winner gets 1 additional DF.
Winner gets a free Halfling Cook that stays with the team until Season Reset.

The Star Insurance Guild, one of the league’s biggest and most important sponsors organizes a tournament and wants to see the best possible players to promote their most expensive products.

King of the Hill Tournament, all registered teams can join.
At the beginning of each round the participating teams take part in a lottery to gain one random player from the current Free Agent pool.
Free Agents won in a lottery can be rostered as if under Exclusive Rights for the duration of the tournament but won’t cost any upkeep.
The players return to the Free Agent pool after the tournament.

All suffered Missing Next Game Injuries will be healed after the tournament before the Season begins. Any Free Agent Animosity will be set back to null before the Season begins.

Winner gets 1 additional DF.
Winner gets a Magic Potion.

Magic Potion:
The Magic Potion can be used between match days to heal any kind of non lethal injury (Missing Next Game, Stat loss, Niggle). The Magic Potion can be used on any of the team’s regular rostered players including Free Agents playing under an Exclusive Contract who would otherwise leave the team.

A small tournament organized in collaboration with the Undertaker’s Gazette. They make a living with funerals and wish to prosper by creating a dangerous tournament. Rumors about a Liche Priest being behind this have been squashed.

King of the Hill Tournament, all registered teams are invited to join.
A Spiked Ball is used to play.
Players that get killed during this tournament will reappear as reborn undead variants for the opposing team after the match.

All Missing Next Game Injuries will be healed before the Season begins.

Winner loses 1 DF.
Winner gains the specialist Necromancer who stays with the team until death or Season Reset.

The highly popular Squig Westminster Festival invites the teams of the XXXL to showcase their skills!

Knockout Tournament, all registered teams invited to join.
For the duration of this tournament every participating team gets one free Squig Hopper and access to hire otherwise locked Squig related players.

All suffered Missing Next Game Injuries will be healed after the tournament before the Season begins.

Winner gets 1 additional DF.
Winner of the Westminster Invitational gets to keep rostered Squig(s) for the remainder of the upcoming season.

The Cultists invite the players of the XXXL to find the right sacrifice for a new Mutation experiment!

King of the Hill Tournament, all registered teams invited to join.
Coaches can hire Warpstone Cultists for the duration of the tournament.

All suffered Missing Next Game Injuries will be healed after the tournament before the Season begins.

Winner gets 1 additional DF.
Winner gets the chance to sacrifice one Goblin player of any team that participated in the tournament in a Warpstone Ceremony.