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Wow -- amazing turnout and thank you for all of your stimulating questions. Hopefully I got to enough to keep you satisfied, and look forward to coming back to the Reddit community for another AMA soon.

Yours in the journey, Paul Rabil

We'll be making our HQ announcement very soon...in the coming days/week. Will also have offices in multiple cities. We need to establish a presence with other major team sports leagues, so we can capitalize on existing partnerships (NBC), build new ones, and support our players.

We have a great staff and are continuing to bring on top talent. You can submit your information in our CAREER section at premierlacrosseleague.com.

Awesome. Thanks for the questions. We have a great announcement calendar, built by our media team, that has the results for each of those topics. Some will arrive in the coming weeks, and others by the end of the year.

Chicago is a wonderful city, isn't it? I've hosted a number of engaging youth events there, and we know it's home to a quickly emerging lacrosse participant cohort -- as well as rabid sports fans.

You've got it.

Our tour-based premise had to do with 2 main factors:

1. In a pro sport like lacrosse, you're actually in fewer than 10 cities (vs. the NFL/NBA/MLB in 30+), thereby isolating the sport from a majority of markets. By going on tour, you can bring the pro games to established and emerging markets. We think that with a tour-based model, we become more national, where fans of lacrosse everywhere can pick their allegiance to team based on fandom, rather than city.

2. Lacrosse owners don't own venues. Which is a challenging piece -- for scheduling, operations, and TV opportunities. By going tour-based, we can choose the best stadiums that fit our experience, market demands, and TV programming opportunities.

Thanks for the question. LXM Pro Tour had a couple of concepts right: (1) bringing pro talent to new/emerging markets, and (2) adding an interactive layer to the pro games (music and youth tournaments).

While those two facets are important, our core ethos was taking the best players in the world, compensating them with FT wages, creating a competitive and seasonal schedule that culminates in a championship, and ensuring the games would be broadcasted and distributed in-homes and on-screens everywhere.

There will be a college draft every year. And more news coming soon around team formations, coaches, and team management.

Drafts will be conducted per application and eligibility (per the usual suspects of NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB).