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TGL27madden · a standard a league qualifies for. There is no application, no fee and nobody to ask — five things the site already measures, checked every time somebody looks.
1 of 5 tests passing.
Nothing to apply for. Clear all five and the crest appears on this league's card by itself, the next time anybody looks.
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It advances
4+ advances in 60 days, never quiet for 14
Advance the league. A rhythm is the one thing a recruit cannot find out any other way.
1 in 60 days · never quiet more than 1 day
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The record runs deep enough to mean it
20 owner-weeks on the books
20 more weeks of play and this one answers itself. The ledger only counts weeks that have gone by since it started.
0 on the books
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Its games get played
90% of fixtures, league-wide
not enough on the books yet
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Every seat is taken
no team without an owner
Fill the open teams, or fold them. A league advertising itself with empty seats is advertising the empty seats.
22 open of 32
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The staff play their own games
every commissioner who holds a team at 90%+
no commissioner holds a team
Why these five.
They are the questions a recruit is actually asking and cannot find out any other way: does it advance, do the games get played, has it done it long enough to prove it, is there a seat, and does the man running it play his own. Every answer is measured rather than claimed — a badge you can talk your way into is a badge people learn to ignore, and then the honest commissioner is worse off than before it existed.
Completion comes from the Passport ledger, which only counts weeks that have gone by since it started recording, so a brand-new league is not penalised for a history nobody observed.