Editing 2024 ICPL season (section)

== Organisation and formats ==

The league operated a programme of major and affiliate tournaments. Its website, archived shortly after the concluding Cup in February 2025, separately labelled these as its 2024–25 major and affiliate events.[5]

Team Smoke's contemporary season account described the championship calculation as using a team's best minor result, its major result and its championship result. PBLeagues specified that the three highest ten-player scores counted, with no more than one regional result included.[1][6]

Professional and amateur teams could share playing brackets at minor tournaments while retaining separate classification results. Team Smoke contrasted this with major tournaments, where teams played within their respective divisions.[6]

The divisions offered varied between events. Ten-player classifications included Professional and Amateur, while five-player competition included Open and Amateur. The Lone Star Open additionally offered Amateur B classifications.[7–14]

The archived league overview described capture-the-flag competition on woodland, hyperball, mounds and hybrid fields. Its published marker provisions permitted mechanical markers and electronic markers capped at 5.5 balls per second.[5]