Registrations close on 10th of June 14:00 | Check-In Begins at 13:00 & ends 13:45 on the 11th of June | Report Scores via the Bracket Page | Minimum Entry Requirement: 8 Players
Requirements:
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XP Per player [Double Elim]
1st: 250
2nd: 200
3rd: 160
4th: 140
5th-6th: 110
7th-8th: 90
9th-12th: 80
13th-16th: 70
17th-23rd: 60
24th-32nd: 50
GAME PLAY RULES
These are the “Game Play Rules” governing how the Title Game is played during the Tournament.
1.1. Gameplay
1.1.1. Game Settings
• Game Version: PlayStation 4
• Rounds: First to Two
• Timer: 90 seconds
• Stage Select: Random
• Interactables: On
1.1.2. Match Procedure
The following steps outline the process of playing a Match.
1) Players select their sides. 2) Players select their characters. Either Player may invoke Double Blind
Character Selection (as defined in Section 8.1.4). 3) The Players play the first Game of the Match. 4) The losing Player of the preceding Match may choose to change characters
and variations. 5) The next Game is played. 6) Repeat steps 4 and 5 for all subsequent Games until the Match is complete.
1.1.3. Side Selection
Players may mutually agree who sits on the left and right side, corresponding to Player 1 and Player 2 respectively. If Players cannot agree, the player with the higher seed will have side selection for the first and the third round. The player with the lower seed will have side selection in the second round.
1.1.4. Double Blind Character Selection
Either Player may request that a double blind selection occur. In this situation, a Tournament Organizer will be told, in secret, each of the Players’ choices for the first round. Both Players are to then select their first round character, with the staff validating the character selections.
1.1.5. Permitted Controllers
All standard fight sticks and controllers are permitted. Macro functions (e.g. turbo buttons) and wireless controllers other than DualShock 4 are not permitted. Players that use DualShock 4 but do not un-sync their controller after the Match are subject to disqualification at the discretion of Tournament Organizers.
1.2. Match Obligations
1.2.1. Punctuality
All Players must be physically present by the Match start time. Players that are not ready to play within ten (10) minutes of the Match start time are subject to penalties including a possible Match forfeiture.
1.2.2. Forfeits
Players may not voluntarily forfeit a Match without prior authorization from Tournament Organizers and, even with authorization, are subject to further penalties for forfeiting.
1.2.3. Hosting
The player with the higher seed will host the first and third match. The player with the lower seed will host the second match.
1.2.4. Connection Test
Both players are entitled to a connection test preceding the first match and the change of host for the second match.
Connection tests may only last up to 20 seconds of gameplay, after which players must return to character select.
If players do not agree to play on a certain connection. They must contact admin to test the connection via Discord support. The admin will make the ruling on the status of the match up.
If connection is unplayable on a player's host, the opposition will have priority host for the rest of the match.
If both connections are deemed unplayable, the match will be forfeit.
1.3. Match Disruptions
1.3.1. Pauses
If a Player either intentionally or accidentally pauses the Game by either pressing the start button or unplugging his or his opponent’s controller, the Player who paused forfeits the current Round.
1.3.2. Restarts
Tournament Organizers may order a Game or Match restart due to exceptional circumstances, such as if a bug significantly affects a Player’s ability to play or a Game or Match is unable to finish.
1.3.3. Stalling
Stalling, or excessively delaying the Game or Match, may result in a Game or Match forfeit at the discretion of Tournament Organizers.
1.4. Coaching
Players may designate one (1) individual to be their coach during each Tournament. Players may consult with the coach for a maximum of one (1) minute in between Games in a Match. Deliberately giving or receiving advice to/from any other person during a Game or Match is not allowed and may result in penalties for both parties.
1.5. Cheating
Any cheating, as determined by the Tournament Organizers in their sole discretion, will result in an immediate forfeiture and additional penalties depending on the severity of the infraction.
1.6. Names, Logos, and Branding Restrictions
Tournament Organizers reserve the right to reject, in their sole discretion, names, logos, avatars or branding that violate the Code of Conduct, including without limitation, any that:
● infringe upon the rights of any 3rd party rights without explicit written permission
● Resemble or are identical to a brand or trademark
● Resemble or are identical to another identity or person
● Resemble or are identical to the name or persona of League Entities or other Players.
1.7. Dress Code
All Players must wear appropriate attire at the LAN Tournaments. Jerseys and all other attire worn at the Tournament are subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 1.6 above.
1.8. Sponsorships; Other Content
Players have the ability to acquire sponsorships. However, sponsors or content falling under the following categories may not be displayed during official Tournament play:
● Brands in categories that have been granted exclusive sponsorship rights for the League or Tournament by Twitch or the Tournament Organizers
● Religious programming, political matters
● 900 numbers
● X-rated material
● Habit-forming drugs, drug related paraphernalia
● Herbal remedies or “miracle cure” products
● Tobacco products
● Any adult-oriented products or services (including adult-oriented pay per view programs and male enhancement products)
● Salacious products or services or other material which would generally be considered obscene or indecent
● Content that a reasonable person would deem objectionable, indecent, vulgar or offensive
● Content which promotes discrimination, hate, violence, the use of illegal substances, illegal activity, mail fraud, pyramid schemes, or investment opportunities or advice not permitted by applicable law
● Content which is unlawful, pornographic, libelous, defamatory, or violates a third party’s privacy or publicity rights
● Content which constitutes hate speech
● Content which discriminates, ridicules, advocates against, harasses, or attacks an individual or group on the basis of age, color, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability
● Any other activity that contravenes any applicable laws or regulations (including lotteries, illegal gambling products or other illegal wagering activity)
1.9. Penalties
Players who break the rules in this document are subject to penalties including (but not limited to) the following:
● Match Restart
● Loss of Game
● Match Forfeiture
● Removal from the tournament
● Temporary Player Bans
● Permanent Player Bans
Any penalties imposed on a Player may be made available to the public by Twitch and the Tournament Organizers in their sole discretion.
Should you have any questions about the Etiquette Guide, the Rules, the Tournament or player conduct please discuss with the Tournament administration team. Live Tournament support will be handled via the ACGL Discord server.
2.1. Match System
Players will be seeded based on XP. Should players have no XP they will be seeded at random to play against each other in ‘versus’ mode matches. The number of such matches will be decided by the Promoter in reasonably administering the Tournament
The winner of each match will progress to the next round of the bracket. Once the bracket is complete, XP will be awarded based on final placement.
3.1. Double Elimination
The matches will be ‘best of’ three (3) games, until only one competitor remains.
Each player will play a minimum of two matches per tournament.
The winner of each tournament will be determined by the grand final match of the tournament bracket.
The grand final match is played between the winner of the losers bracket final and the winner of the winners bracket final. The Losers Bracket final winner will be required to beat the Winner Bracket final winner twice (two best of three matches) in order to win the match.
4. 1 Connection Rules
4.1.1 Unable to Connect
In the event of players not being able to connect to one another, an admin must be contacted to test the connection of both players. If it is found that an admin cannot connect to a player, that player will be forfeited from the match. If an admin cannot connect to either player, the player with the higher seed will progress to the next round and forfeit that match accordingly.
In the event that a player’s connection comes into question, an admin may request a connection test from the player. Please note that a connection Type 1 is required, which indicates an Open Nat type.
4.1.2 Standard of connection
Please note that all matched must be played in the ACGL Room, which will allow administrators to monitor connections. Players must have a green bar connection in order to play the matches.
4.1.2 Connection test
All players are allowed a connection test against their opposition. For a connection test to be validated, a player must invite their opposition to a practice lobby. If a player is unsatisfied with their connection to an opposition, an admin must be contacted.
4.1.3 Disconnection
In the event that a player disconnects from a match, the player that disconnects from the match will forfeit that round of the match. (I.e.: One of the best of three matches). Video proof is required in the case of a dispute.
5.1 Character Selection
All characters, including DLC characters, will be allowed in the tournament.
1.1. General
The league administration has the right to decide outside or even against the rulebook in special cases to guarantee fair play.
1.2. Conduct
All players are asked to behave in a humane way towards other competitors, and to any member of the administration team; treat others as you would like to be treated! If a player is found guilty of misconduct by an administrator, they may receive penalty on XP or even banned from certain events. Also, teams risk league kicks, bans and expulsions from ACGL affiliated competitions.
1.2.1. Insults and offensive behaviour
All insults that happen during an ACGL-Match or on the ACGL platform, may be punished. This includes ingame chat of the corresponding game, Discord Messages and Match-Chat.
Insults that happen on external messengers are not taken into account.
Penalties:
· Penalty Points & barrages are given for incidents within ACGL-Matches
· Insults or inappropriate behaviour within Comments or other options for contacting a player, will result in a penalty with the severity being decided by Admin.
Severe incidents including, but not limited to the following points, may be punished in other ways:
· Extremist statements
· Threat of violence
· Sexual harassment
· Stalking
· severe insults
· pornographic linkings
The right to appeal is only with the injured.
1.2.2. Spamming
The excessive posting of futile, annoying or offensive contributions within the ACGL is considered as spamming. Spamming on the website (forums, match comments, player comments, support- and protest pages, etc) will be penalized by Admin. .
1.3. Matches, competitions, meetings
In all competitions there should be a fair playing field for all players.
Every encounter, whether a elimination, ladder match or other competition must be played according to the rules until it is complete and the result on the ACGL Discord group entered, or at events the result sheet is completed. Any encounter that did not take place, should be deleted. Matches will be played only by admins to delete exceptions. Matches that did not take place will be considered fake matches and will be punished.
It is not allowed for participants to bet on matches in their own competition. Betting against yourself (in team leagues: against your own team) will get you (in team leagues: your team) disqualified and the betting player banned for at least.
1.4. Game / client
In general, all programs which are not part of the original game, including custom-data and modifications, are not allowed in any ACGL game. All external voice programs are allowed (e.g. Teamspeak, Ventrilo, Discord etc.). Scripts and changes to the game's configuration are not allowed, unless they are partly or completely allowed by the league specific rules. Programs that provide an advantage during game play (e.g. drivers that allow the removing of walls) are forbidden. Any programs that change the game itself are forbidden.
1.5. Game Coverage
The ACGL reserves exclusive right to the coverage of ACGL matches. This includes all forms of transmission, including IRC Bots, Shoutcast-streams, HLTV and TV Broadcasts. The ACGL can assign the coverage rights of a match or of several matches to a third party or to the actual players themselves.
In this case, terms and conditions would have to be arranged with the ACGL management before the match.
In general, the ACGL will contact any player or team if they wish to broadcast one of their matches. If no contact is made, individual players are allowed to arrange their own broadcasts. Should the game take place on a server that ACGL administrators have no direct access to, it must be made sure that enough slots are available for the according clients.
1.6. Internal Texts
All texts written in either protest or support tickets, or written by the administrators to members of a certain league or tournament, cannot be published without the permission of the ACGL.
1.7. Language
The official language of this national section is English. All players should be able to communicate in English.
2.1. Deception
The attempt to deceive admins or other players with wrong or fake statements, information or data will not be tolerated.
2.2. Other unauthorized offences
Including but not limited to the abusing of bugs in the website.
These penalties are at the discretion of the responsible admin and are penalized according to severity.
2.3. Cheating
All forms of cheating in ACGL matches are forbidden and will be penalized by the ACGL.
Players found cheating outside of the ACGL may be barraged on the ACGL depending on the evidence available. Note, we do not accept publicly submitted demo or screenshot evidence in these cases.
Should it become known to the ACGL administrators that any form of cheating was used to the advantage of a player or a team during an ACGL match, the ACGL reserves the right to punish them to the full extent of the rules available. By breaking any rule a player risks being barred or completely excluded from a specific league or from all leagues. This also includes their team.
2.4. Distribution of cheats
Contributing to the distribution of cheats in any way is not allowed on ACGL. This includes but is not limited to referring to the name, website or logo of cheats anywhere on ACGL, such as player profiles, team profiles, forums, comments, etc.
Violating this rule will be punished from a warning up to exclusion from ACGL.
3.1. Player
An ACGL Account can only be created if the user is at least 13 years old. When registering, each player must provide an up-to-date and correct email address and it is the player’s responsibility to keep this up-to-date. To play in a tournament, a method of contact must be available and visible to all users in your player profile.
Also, the permanent residence must be chosen according to the country he/she is currently living in.
3.1.1. Multiaccounts
Each player in the ACGL must only have one account! If a player can not access his account and then creates a new one, then he/she must write a message to the ‘contact us’ section explaining in detail the reason for not being able to access the account.
3.1.2. Nicknames, Team Names and URL Aliases
We reserve the right to edit Nicknames and/or URL aliases, if they fail to comply with the following requirements.
Nicknames/aliases are forbidden if they:
· are protected by third-party rights and the user has no written permission
· resemble or if they are identical to a brand or trademark, no matter whether it has been registered or not
· resemble or if they are identical to a real person other than themselves
· resemble or if they are identical to the names of ACGL employees
· are nonsense
In addition to the above, any nicknames/team names/aliases that are purely commercial (e.g. product names), defamatory, pejorative, offensive, vulgar, obscene, anti-Semitic, inciting hatred, or offending against good manners are forbidden. Using alternative spelling, gibberish or wrong spelling in order to avoid the requirements mentioned above is illegal. We reserve the right to extend, change, exchange or delete these rules if necessary.
3.1.3. Photo
It would be appreciated if a player's photo clearly shows the face of the player, for adding anything else (graphics, other people, other parts of body, etc.) please use the logo function. For anything else please use the default.
3.1.4. Country
A player's country must be set to their country of residence. Deliberately faking the country of residence is punishable.
If a player's country of residence is changed in order to join the league/tournament falsely in order to join a ladder, they will punished. If the player does so and plays in a team match, the team will get removed from the tournament/league.
3.1.5. Nationality
A player's nationality must be set to their nationality that is proven by a current passport. Deliberately faking nationality is punishable.
3.2. Teams
A team's name does not have to be unique, but the ACGL reserves the right to refuse clans with the same or similar names as a well-known clan (e.g. If you named your team “Hard Core Gaming” or “Hard Kore Gaming” etc, that would not be allowed).
Names which are restricted by law will not be accepted and will be deleted and punished with penalty points if found. Also, names which go against all forms of etiquette and good manners will not be accepted.
If a team deletes its account because of a certain amount of active penalty points and registers a new account, the penalty points will be transferred to the new account if the team rejoins the same ladder. Furthermore 1 additional penalty will be added for the attempted deception.
The logo must represent the team and have some reference to the team's name or to the team's short handle. Copyrighted logos, or logos which go against etiquette and good manners will not be accepted.
3.2.1. Changing team names
A team can change its name at any time. This also applies when a team is restructured.
Changing a team's name in order to fool other teams is forbidden. Extremely long names, or consistent changing of team names is prohibited and can be punished with penalty points.
3.2.2. Team nationality
In general, during matches of ACGL national sections, at all times in-game a team must have more than 50% of its players that are residing in or have the nationality of the country or countries that the national section represents.
Exceptions, however, can be made. Please consult ‘Tournament Rules’ for game specific information relating to the select title.
3.2.3. Players in team
A player may only play for one team in a tournament or league.
3.2.4. Sponsors/partnerships
The ACGL administration reserves the right to prohibit or remove teams with sponsors or partners that are solely or widely known for pornographic, drug use or other adult/mature themes and products from partaking in ACGL events at any time.
4. Participation in prize tournaments
Unless otherwise explicitly permitted, it is not allowed for employees of ACGL, its subsidiaries or partners, or employees that are in some way connected to a respective tournament including sponsors, publishers or game developers, to participate in prize winning tournaments or qualification for prize winning tournaments.
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