Season 3 has clocked off, lads. The leagues are settled, the promotions are banked, and before the new campaign kicks in on the 4th, the server's done what it always does best — turned the comedown into a party.

So forget the trophies for five minutes. Down here at the Times we don't hand gongs to clubs, we hand them to the *people* — the gobby ones, the gracious ones, the ones who'd argue the toss over a base rating until 2030. This is Skez's end-of-term report. Pin it to the fridge.

Most Valuable Big Heart: username_hamburgler

Two-and-twenty thousand, eight hundred and thirty-six messages. That's the meter on our HamBurgler, and the man is still hammering the keys — 625 in the last month alone. He'll cheerfully wind the room up one minute (he calls his own injection begging exactly what it is)...

Save Leamington please. Again.

...and then the next minute he's writing his lads a team talk Bill Shankly would've nodded at. Before the season's run-in he posted a full Churchillian rouser to the troops at Royal Leamington Spa — only he doesn't call it Royal Leamington Spa, does he. He calls it the Day Spa.

You are Leamington Day Spa. You are fighters. You are winners... One more game. One more win. The title is calling. Now go and answer it.

And when the dust settled, no one in the building summed up the spirit of the place better than him:

Congrats to the winners, the losers, the ones who got promoted and the ones who fought all season. Without each and every one of you. This all wouldn't be possible. 🥂 to season 3 and 🚀 to season 4!!

He's also the gaff's unpaid help desk — patiently walking newcomers through takeovers, transfer fees and "games are played Wednesday and Saturday's mostly." A "Holy fudge messi" here, a "Soccerrating update = 💋" there. Big gob, bigger heart. Gong well earned.

The GIF Warrior Who Roasts The Robot: cloudsv_

If hamburgler never sleeps, cloudsv_ never even sits down — 292 messages in the last seven days, 1,275 in a month, north of 21,000 in barely sixteen months in the gaff. Half of them are Tenor GIFs fired off like flares. The other half are him, gloriously, taking the mickey out of the moderation bot to its face.

Just to let u know. I paid CGPT plus and works a thousands times better than you. Just saying.

And then, with the timing of a proper wind-up merchant:

Don't get angry. We still love you. Who would ban us if u were not around?

He's the comic relief and the hype man rolled into one — "Time 2 buy with the CL money!", a cheeky "#FreeKvaradona" when a player's stuck, and a "how are you doing? fighting crime?" lobbed at whoever's playing hero that week. Never a dull scroll while this fella's online.

The Professor: Cipi | El Rincón del DT

While the room melts down over base ratings, one man sits at the front of the class with the chalk. Cipi — contributor badge, 1,086 days served, builder of the El Rincón del DT tools — spent half of last week patiently explaining to furious managers that the player-rating gripes were a data-provider quirk, not a Soccerverse stitch-up.

Mate, this is API thing, is not Soccerverse.

If you have to double (manual) check 7000 players every season, we will not have new players until 2030.

He cops a bit of pantomime stick in chat, our Cipi, but here's the side that doesn't make the headlines — the gracious one, congratulating a promotion rival the moment the season ended:

Nice season mate and at the end... the important thing is that we both are promoting. You deserve it to win, you leaded the group almost all the season, I just had a moment of glory, to take a picture leading 😄

Mr Fair Play: Gevenito

Every server needs the one who actually runs the awards night, and that's Gevenito — 1,115 days in, and a moderation record as clean as a fresh sheet. The man is the community's commissioner: he writes the criteria for Best Manager, Revelation Manager and Best Player, he runs the Fair Play votes, he opened the Season 4 FA applications, and he's the one floating sensible governance tweaks — like swapping a permanent frontend ban for a long suspension "but at the same time know there is redemption."

In between the paperwork he's also just a sound lad running Nice FC and lobbing out the warmest line in the building — a simple "wish you both the best of luck on Saturday." If there's a heart to the volunteer machine that keeps this place ticking, it beats here.

The Overlord Of Burgas: rosvorn

Every cast needs a villain, and Burgas has its very own. rosvorn rules the Bulgarian top flight outfit like a personal fiefdom — a thumping 31,636 influence, dwarfing every other holder, sitting on a club balance of 6.8M SVC. Off the pitch he's a proper market operator too, with 650.1K SVC churned through trades and a single biggest deal of 112,060 SVC.

He's the pantomime baddie the room loves to boo — and, tellingly, the one his sparring partners actually *miss* when he goes quiet. When a name still echoes round the gaff long after the man's logged off, that's not a troll. That's a legend with a black hat on.

The Roll Of Honour

And the supporting cast carried the season too. Klo of svbase.eu quietly types up the full AMA summary every time so the rest of us don't have to. The room itself turned into a love-in at the whistle:

It was a fantastic season for us. We achieved the double with Samsunspor —a club that has never won a league title or a cup in real life— winning both trophies in sv.

Congrats to all victors🥳... And congrats to all runners-up; your incredible performance to the final is no easy journey. 💐

tabard6 toasted back-to-back promotions and an "MLS next season... Stressful transfer market coming for me 😅", and snaus74 kept the whole gaff grinning with his usual nine-club victory lap.

That's your Class of Season 3, then. The gobby, the gracious, the professor, the commissioner and the overlord — every one of them a reason this server's the best little dressing room in football. See you all back in the gaff on the 4th. Mine's a brew. 🥂