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Blocked account

Help, I can't do anything on the site and it says I'm blocked!

If you have been blocked, you would have received a private FUMBBL message from the admins, hopefully describing the rules violation. Messages can be found in the top right of the FUMBBL web page. Please read the message to understand what you have been blocked for.

If you are unsure about what your block is for, or you want to clear everything up directly, please contact the admin team. Please be courteous and patient - sometimes there may not be an admin at their keyboard at that moment.

If you have been blocked for dropping a game, you may still send FUMBBL messages (see the Messages link in the top right) to other players, and it is STRONGLY suggested that you take the time to message your opponent asking for a time to finish your game. Dropping a game is a serious offence, and repeated offences will lead to more powerful punishments including team retirements, blocking for a week, or all the way to permanent account blockage.

The site automatically blocks new accounts which sign up from the same IP as another blocked account. This is to stop blocked coaches restarting with a new account. This often catches out players who log in from shared servers at universities and Internet cafes. If you get caught by this rule, contact the admin team to get yourself unblocked... but be warned that the admins need to have proof that you're not really the old blocked coach trying to subvert the system.

If you have been blocked for playing the same coach too much, or playing coaches on the same IP, be aware of the general rule that admins use for deciding if you should be blocked: you should not play more than 1 in 10 games against any one coach using teams that are in the Competitive division. You can play amongst your friends as much as you like and we don't mind, but you have to use League division teams.