Settings and general instructions
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Organisation
Tournament staff consist of:
Every staff member in this list represents this tournament. AoCGroup administrators and moderators do not take part in this tournament other than website administration side. If you have anything to ask about the tournament your primary person to contact should be DreaIVIS or post at General discussion forum.
Settings
Map: Arabia
Civilisation: Huns
Size: Tiny (2 players)
Difficulty: Standard
Resources: Standard
Reveal Map: Normal
Population Limit: 200
Game Speed: Normal
Victory Condition: Conquest
Cheats: Disabled
Recorded Game: Enabled
Other Settings : Default / Normal
Tournament format
Qualified players from sign up will advance to First Stage.
First Stage is best of 5 format. 256 players can take part in First Stage. First player to get three wins will advance to the next round. Remember that fans want to see as many recs as possible. Play all 5 games if you have time.
First round will start Wednesday 4th of November.
First round will end Sunday 22nd of November.
Second round will end Sunday 29th of November.
Third round will end Sunday 6th of December.
Fourth round will end Sunday 13th of December.
Fifth round will end Sunday 20th of December.
League stage
8 best players from First Stage will advance to League Stage. Anycall_pd1 has the right to choose 0-2 players who advance to league stage with the 8 players from First Stage. In league stage everyone play head to head. Each round will last one week. Each round you have to play 5 games.
Won games will be added together. Four best players will advance to semi-finals. If players have a tie then the advancing player will be player(s) who have won more games. If they still have a tie then the advancing player will be decided from head to head round. If for some very odd reason they still have a tie then we will use a dice.
Semi-finals
4 best players from League Stage will solve who will battle for the championship and who will battle for third place. Each round will last one week. The games will be best of 7- format. Winner of League Stage will play against the last qualifying player (1st place vs 4th place) and 2nd qualifyer will play against 3rd qualifyer.
Finals
In the finals winners of semi-final will battle for championship and total of 1000$ (USD). Losers of semi-final matches will battle for third place and total of 300$ (USD). The games are best of 7- format.
Rules
Restart rule
Each player has two possilibites for restart during one round. If a player wants to restart before the 5th minute of the game, the map can be restarted. Last possible time for restart is 05:00.
Example:
Round 1
Game 1 Dreams restarts.
Game 2 Dreams restarts.
Game 3 Dreams can't restart because he already restart two times.
Game 4 Enemy 1 restarts.
Game 5 Enemy 1 restarts.
Game 6 No restart allowed. Both players have used their two possibilities to restart.
Round 2
Game 1 Dreams restarts.
Game 2 Dreams restarts.
Game 3 Dreams can't restart because he already restart two times.
Game 4 Enemy 2 restarts.
Game 5 Neither one of the players restart.
Game 6 Enemy 2 restarts.
Game 7 No restart allowed. Both players have used their two possibilities to restart.
#SPECIAL RULE. Every participant must respect their opponent. Bad behaviour (determined by staff who use common sense) will end up in a immediate disqualification from the tournament. This is a tournament of great skills, cunningness, competition but also good will. The community is small and we should respect each and everyone in it. Anykind of racism, flaming or bad sportmanship will be considered as bad behaviour. Laming and mindgames in game is allowed, it's part of the game.
Additional rules
#1. Cheating is PROHIBITED. Players using any kind of cheating (including smurfing) or not following the rules will be disqualified and banned. Cheaters have always been caught in tournaments. If you cheat, you will bled guilty at attempted fraud or petty theft (there is money in stake), depending how your goverment has made the laws.
#2. Each person can play in the tournament using only ONE nickname. If a player is caught using more than 1 nickname in the tournament, he will be disqualified and banned.
#3. In case of disconnections, the game must be restored right after the drop. If game dropped before 10 minutes the game must be replayed. If restoring is not possible or there is a reason to believe that the disconnection was made on purpose, the tourney staff should be informed and a final decision will be taken after all the facts are checked/cleared by the tournament admins. Remember to make sure that you have "Multi"-folder in your "Save Game"-folder;
#4. All the recorded games must be posted right after the match played by the winner, in the correct Forum (with correct TOPIC title - example: R1 StorM_Blizzard vs _DauT_). Please remember to post the result in the topic (subject) description. The recorded games MUST be uploaded in one single pack in the first post of the topic. The GAME FILES MUST be renamed in the following format before they are packed and posted: Master of the Huns S1 Stage Round Player A vs Player B Game (number).mgx (check this thread for examples). The RESTARTED GAME FILE(s) also MUST be renamed in following format: Master of the Huns S1 Stage Round Player A vs Player B Game (number) (reset).mgx . If games are named and/or uploaded incorrectly, or the topic title is wrong, the result won`t be accepted before the problem is fixed (if round deadline passes, players could be disqualified).
#5. In case of restored games, a screenshot proving that the game was finished must be posted instead of the recorded game.
#6. If a game is not recorded, then it must be replayed (this doesn't apply to dropped games, where the recorded game isn't available after the game restore);
#7. Rules and settings can be added/modified at any time, and the staff will inform about any change here in forums and changes will be marked by red color;
#8. All the games must be played on Voobly (www.voobly.com);
#9. Prizes will be sent ONLY by Paypal (www.paypal.com), and sending fees and other taxes might be discounted from the full prize;
#10. By signing-up in the tournament, you agree with all the tournament rules, settings and conditions.
#11. Smurf accounts (unknown player or unknown player with low game amount) wont be accepted. Every unknown player has to make a clarification who they are.
#12. Cooping is not allowed. Only tournament staff can coop in a tournament game. Otherwise it will be disqualified.
#13. You have to use the exact name that you signed up with. Using another nickname will result in a warning and the result from those games will be nullified.
#14. If players can't get into an agreement about the playing time, they have to play the games at admin time or ask for postpone from one of the following staff members: DreaIVIS, BugA_the_Great, 3mn0nwodog. If you don't ask for postpone or can't make it in time before the round ends, both players will be disqualified. Admin time is the last resort and should not be used until it's the last option. Admin time is 13:00 GMT Sunday.
#15. If other player doesn't show inside 30 minutes after the scheduled time you have to post your admin win request in admin win- request topic.