Everything You Need to Know AboutCricgasm Auction League (CAL)

Yes. You need a free CAL account to create or join a tournament and to see your auction and squad information. Registration takes just a minute.

Register your account, then create your tournament, build your player list, set your rules and invite your teams. The How CAL Works page walks through every step.

Yes. One account can run several tournaments and can also join tournaments run by other organizers.

Organizers pay once when they activate a tournament, based on the number of teams. Teams invited to a tournament join without a fee. There is no subscription. See the pricing section here or the Pricing page for current prices.

No. CAL is designed to be easy to understand while giving cricket fans enough depth to make smart bidding and squad-building decisions.

Players are presented one at a time. Teams bid within their available budget, and the highest valid bid wins when the countdown ends. Squad rules and Max Bid/Player automatically keep your bids within the allowed limits.

Yes. Your league, squad and auction information remains available after the auction, so you can review your results later.

No. CAL is designed for fun and competitive engagement around cricket auctions. CAL does not offer or administer cash prizes, winnings, betting or monetary rewards.

CAL is priced once per tournament, based on the number of teams. Current prices are shown above and on the Pricing page.

No. CAL has no subscription. You pay once when you activate a tournament.

The organizer pays once when activating the tournament. Teams invited to a tournament join without an additional CAL fee.

Pricing is based on the number of teams in your tournament. Adding teams later means paying only the difference to the next tier.

CAL may run launch offers from time to time. When an offer is active, the discount and expiry date are shown on the Pricing page. Standard prices apply after the offer ends.

In an online auction, each player has a countdown. Bidding stays open for 12 seconds, followed by Any Further Bids? for 10 seconds and Final Call for 10 seconds. New bids restart the countdown, while bids during Final Call restart a new 10-second Final Call. If no new bid arrives, the player is sold to the highest bidder. Read the Live Bidding rules.

Yes. Use the Custom Bid box instead of the Raise Bid button. Your bid must be at least the next valid bid, within your Max Bid/Player, and follow the league’s configured bid increment. Bid Range shows the lowest and highest valid amounts.

Max Bid/Player updates live and reserves enough budget to complete your remaining squad requirements. Bids above your maximum are automatically blocked, helping ensure you can still complete your squad.

The player goes unsold and returns to the unsold pool. Teams still short of a full squad can nominate up to 5 players for a final round and up to 3 players in each further round.

The first bid successfully registered by the system stands. The other team is asked to refresh and place another bid.

No. Local tournament auctions do not use scheduled breaks. The organizer controls the pace of the auction.

Every rule is on the Auction Rules page: how teams join, budgets, squad composition, bidding and compliance for local tournaments.

Every auction opens with four practice players: Demo Batter, Demo WK, Demo AR and Demo Bowler. They let you try bidding and see how the auction room works before the real players come up.

No. Bids on demo players do not change your purse, your squad or the auction results. They are practice only and are never counted.

No. Demo players never join a squad, never earn points and never appear in the standings.

CAL is built for local tournaments. You create the tournament with your own player pool, then customize the budgets, squad rules and auction format for your teams.

Organizers can customize the team budget, individual budgets, squad size, role and player limits, combination rules, bid increments, the player rotation sequence, and online or offline bidding.

A tournament supports 2 to 30 teams.

Yes. The organizer can set one standard budget or assign individual budgets to specific teams, such as for fixed-price retentions or budget carried forward from a previous season.

Dynamic Bid Tiers allow the organizer to set up to five bid-increment levels, with the increment increasing as the current bid rises. This provides more control over bidding at different price levels.

Yes. The organizer creates the player list with ratings, roles, base prices and player details. Players can also register themselves through an invite link, subject to organizer approval.

No. CAL runs the auction and builds the squads. Your tournament matches and scoring are run by you outside CAL.

Yes. Auto-Assign uses player ratings to create balanced teams without budgets or bidding. The organizer can clear the teams and run Auto-Assign again for a different combination.

The organizer can add one Icon Player, one Manager and one Owner to each team at no cost. They occupy squad spots but do not require bidding.

Yes. Choose offline bidding for a live, on-site auction. The organizer records each sale in the room, and the auction can also be streamed live on YouTube.

The league organizer manages the auction through the CAL organizer console, including players, teams, budgets, rules, invitations and the auction itself.

Yes. Every organizer can create one free Demo Auction to learn the system. It is instant, with no approval and no payment, and runs with 2 teams of 11 players using practice players.

You can have one Demo Auction at a time. Delete it from its console whenever you want a fresh one. Only you can see it: it never appears in the list of available leagues.