Only 12 teams will be invited to participate in Swish League when it begins this coming November. Each team will be carefully selected after a meticulous interview process, in which we will inquire not about the skill level of the players on your roster, but the efficiency & reliability of your brand as a whole.
It will start with 12 teams broken up into 2 conferences with 6 teams each. There will be a 16 game regular season. Not every team makes the playoffs. The team with the worst record will be removed from the league for the following season & replaced by a team on the waiting list.
Most of the brands you see posting roster reveals wouldn't get accepted. Your roster needs to be announced by Nov 1st & it is the only roster you'll be allowed to use in Swish until 2K28. No snaking, no loading up on other accounts, no picking up players in the middle of the season, or worse -- during the playoffs. The monetary cost to pick players up & make roster moves are substantial; $300 payable to the league per roster move, and an additional $300 to the franchise of a Swish team you're taking the player from. In-season roster pickups will be provided for you by the League, & teams will be assigned randoms.
Like SIBA, integrity is Swish League's #1 priority. We know what killed BYOT. Aside from the morons who actually run these BYOT leagues, the community itself, and the sponsors especially, did their part to cannibalize these leagues for their own benefit. You cant fault the players for not caring about brands anymore when the brands themselves never cared enough about their players to not discard them after a few rough tournaments. We're not gonna follow the blueprint of the past.
Stats, record books, archives, legacy, all the things that make SIBA stand out will be a part of Swish from day 1. In Swish, you'll have to actually win with the boys you started this 2K with. As the league grows under these roster standards, the only respectable place to win a BYOT ring will be in Swish. We want to make it HARDER to win here, not easier, by letting teams change their rosters around every other week. Power won't be consolidated toward the top 3 or 4 teams.
I'm just gonna come out and say that you're an idiot if you dont interview for Swish. Your brand owner/sponsor won't be someone worth playing for once Swish grows the way SIBA has. It's just inevitable. The players just wanna play, and they're gonna gravitate towards the most competitive & fun environment. Nobodys better at building that than us.
If you haven't already interviewed, contact
@PxndaOutHere or
@ethicaIhoop or
@cchoops246. We will give another orientation for prospective teams in the near future.
It's your money on the line. Dont throw it away in leagues that cant even bother to do a voice check.