Glossary

Championship Playoffs — the eight-team double-elimination bracket contested by the top four from each group, run over the final six weeks of a season.

Division — a tier of 14 teams. Numbered (Division 1, Division 2, …), never named Bronze/Silver/Gold, because those labels read as a judgment on a team rather than a starting point.

FACEIT — the third-party platform all matches are played on.

Group stage — the opening three weeks. A division’s 14 teams split into two groups of seven and play a six-game round robin, two matches a week.

Hub — hub.kanaliiga.fi, the platform running registration, fixtures, rosters, standings, results and payments. The authoritative record for anything operational.

Kanaliiga — a separate, established league whose Hub platform Fullstack League uses. Not an owner, operator or affiliate; see Registration and payment.

LFT / LFP — “looking for team” and “looking for players”, the two listing types in the Team Finder and the matching Discord forum channels.

Placement — the data-driven assignment of a team to a division before a season starts. Recalculated every season rather than inherited from the last one.

Placement review — the manual pass over placement results, used to catch cases the rating data gets wrong, such as obvious smurf stacks.

Promotion / relegation — moving up or down a division based on how a season finished. Describes last season’s result; it does not guarantee next season’s division number.

Relegation Group — the six teams that missed the top four, playing a single best-of-three round robin in parallel with the Championship Playoffs. Exists so no team’s season ends after three weeks.

Season — nine weeks of play: three weeks of group stage, then six weeks of Championship Playoffs and Relegation Group. Four seasons run per year.

Team Finder — the roster-building tool on the hub, with player and team listings, Steam-verified data and contact handoff through Discord.

The floor — 56 registered teams, four full divisions of 14. The hard minimum for a season to launch. 70 is the target, not the requirement.

Walkover — a match awarded without being played, typically after a no-show.