Welcome back to the eighth iteration of the Pro Bowl, this year with all seven clans of the Brotherhood participating as well as The Council. The 2024 Pro Bowl will pit two teams, the Frog-dogs and Rotworms, led by leaders from each clan and made up of equal parts of each clan's roster. The Pro Bowl will be hosted by the assembled Consuls of the Brotherhood. The team captains will be a mix of the summit and senior members of all seven clans.

Pro Bowl VIII is a three-week, multi-event competition designed to test each and every member of the Brotherhood. An opening week zero event will determine which order the team captains will have in a draft-style event led by the Pro Bowl organizers. The team captains will alternate their selections until the entire roster of all seven clans and the Council are split between them. Once the roster is set, the two teams will battle it out in a series of 32 additional competitions spread over the course of three weeks. Events will include the standard fare of Fiction, Graphics, Gaming, and Trivia, along with some less common events designed to help test each member of the Clans.

Schedule:

• Prologue Event: August 26th - September 1st
• Week One: September 2nd - September 8th
• Week Two: September 9th - September 15th
• Week Three: September 16th - September 22nd

Upon completion of the final scoring, the team with the highest cumulative score will be declared the winner!

Scoring:

Each individual will earn five points per event they participate in. Participation is defined as a valid submission for an event. Simply signing up for an event or uploading an unqualified submission will not count. You have to put in the effort in order to receive the reward. Participation will earn 5 points.

In addition to participation points, the top three individuals in each competition will earn placement modifier points. First place will earn 4 points, second place will earn 3 points, and third place will earn 2 points, and all other entries will earn 1 point. Events themselves will have modifiers based on their perceived difficulty/level of effort required. For example: the modifier for fiction will be 3, the modifier for gaming/graphics/poetry will be 2, and no modifier will be added to puzzle/trivia/flash events.

Grading formula: (Placement Score * Event Modifier) + Participation = Event Score

At the end of the competition, the individual scores for all three weeks will be added up, and the top scoring individuals will earn novae or crescents for the overall competition (ties will be broken on total entries, then total top 3 placements, then total 1sts, then total 2nds, then total 3rds). Total scores for both teams, including the Week Zero event, will determine the victorious team.