Enjoy the final week of your holidays! (Or vacation of some of us. :P )

http://www.ugcleague.com/home_tf2h_newsitem.cfm?newsitem=3318

Some major points from the list of major changes to UGC this season:

• The pre-season match (pl_barnblitz_pro4) has been pushed back to Monday January 20th. We will be using the week before the match to scrim and practice to determine our starting roster for this match. Practice times will be announced later on.
  
• Max roster size have been increased from 18 players to 21 (execpt for NA Platinum, which is at 15).
  
• Platinum is at 15 because... there is currently a $2,000 cash prize for the winning teams this season! (Sorry, this only applies to NA Plat for now but UGC says they are thinking about extend this to include other divisions in future seasons)
  
• The summer season will be a full season this time complete with playoffs, titles, medals, and quite possibly $$$$!

The Short Circuit and the Crit-a-Cola are now banned.

To learn more about this rule, in addition to other regulations, please read the UGC Rules, which has been recently updated.

Quick info: http://www.ugcleague.com/info_tf2h.cfm
Rules: http://www.ugcleague.com/rules_tf2h.cfm

It's quite a lot to read, so please take some time to do so this week. Remember that knowing the current rules of the league is required for every participant in UGC.