McMurdo Monoliths

At a glance

McMurdo Station, Antarctica—plays at The Remote Range, capacity 2,347,816. Plays in La Conférence du Verglas.

A monolith frozen in Antarctic ice. Ancient and immovable. The Monoliths are slow, heavy, and inevitable. The penguins have always been here. They were here before The Almighty Ice. They will be here after.

Identity

• City: McMurdo Station, Antarctica
• Arena: The Remote Range
• Capacity: 2,347,816
• Colors: #1A1A1A / #D9E5EC
• Conference: La Conférence du Verglas

Arena modifier—Penguins

Visiting team’s physicality and aggression stats are suppressed. You can’t play mean in front of 2,347,816 penguins. They’re watching. They’re disappointed in you.

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The arena—lore

The Remote Range is the largest arena in the world by capacity. Its 2,347,816 seats are occupied by penguins. The human population of McMurdo Station—approximately 1,000 in summer, 200 in winter—also attends, but they are a rounding error. The Penguins modifier suppresses visiting team aggression and physicality. Le Council’s behavioral scientists attribute this to the psychological effect of being watched by over two million silent, attentive birds. Players report feeling ‘judged’ and ‘gently disappointed.’ The Monoliths are the league’s slowest team, their play style as immovable and patient as the monolith from which they take their name. Nobody knows what the monolith is. It was there before The Almighty Ice. The penguins were there before the monolith. The penguins will be here after.

The arena—building

The building, if it can be called that, is an amphitheater carved from the Antarctic ice shelf. There are no walls. There are no doors. The seating is the landscape itself—concentric rings of packed snow and ice descending to the rink, extending outward for kilometers in every direction. The ‘capacity’ of 2,347,816 reflects the penguin colonies that occupy these natural terraces, sitting in orderly rows with a patience that suggests they understand what they’re watching. A small heated structure near the rink provides seating for the human attendees—McMurdo staff and the rare visiting dignitary—with glass walls for viewing. The rink itself is indistinguishable from the surrounding ice except for the boards and nets, which were installed by Le Council and are the only manufactured objects visible in any direction. The monolith stands beyond the far end of the rink, approximately 400 meters from The Almighty Ice surface. It is black. It is smooth. It does not reflect light. Le Council has measured it. The measurements are Glacified. The Remote Range is not a building. It is a place where Hockay happens to occur, in front of an audience that was already assembled.

Season 03

Seventh in the Verglas on 59 points. Lost the quarterfinal to Medellín 2-1, taking one game in a shootout.

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S.H.I.F.T. movements

Season 03 window · 12–17 October 2026

• Trade. Received Da-hye Seo (G) from Busan Blizzards in goal. Sent Cora McAllister (G) the other way, round one.
• Trade. Received Sipho Nkosi (RW) from São Paulo Serpents for the second line. Sent Elena Varga (RW) the other way, round one.
• Trade. Received Rautea Maraetaata (D) from Tahiti Tsunami for the second defence pair. Sent Amira Hassan (D) the other way, round two.
• Trade. Sent Yumi Takeda (C) to Nairobi Narwhals. Received Zawadi Mutua (C) in return, for the third line, round two.

Season 02 window · 10–14 August 2026

• Trade. Received Facundo Álvarez (RW) from Ushuaia Undertow for the third line. Sent Diego Fuentes (RW) the other way.

See the S.H.I.F.T. for how a movement is filed, voted, and registered.

See also

• Teams overview—all 48 franchises.
• The conferences—how the Verglas and the Givre were sorted.
• Arena modifiers—the mechanic behind Penguins.
• Glossary—every term, A–Z.