Tournament Rules

1. Basic Rules


  • Cheating with the assistance of aim-assists, wallhacks, chams, etcetera are prohibited and will result in a ban from current and future events
  • Exploiting engine physics to exit maps or reach inaccessable areas will result in the offending team forfeiting the match and the responsible individual will be banned from the tournament
  • If your team ghosts you will forfeit the match and the player ghosting will be banned from the tournament. You must disclose the use of any VoIP services being used for team coordination.

2. Tournament Rules


  • There is 1 captain per team with a maximum of 8 players per team
  • After the Draft (explained below), each captain will be able to choose two alternate captains from the players they drafted and in what order they will substitute
  • 4 Teams Total
  • Everyone plays!
  • If the captain is present, he must choose players to sub out in round two in order to allow any team members on spectate a chance to participate
  • Captains reserve the right to remove and replace any team members they deem disruptive or a hindrance to team success
  • Registration will occur for a set period of time, afterwards registration will be closed.
  • Captains are chosen through a vote after registration is closed.
  • Those who indicate an interest in being a captain in their registration form will be put up for a vote for captain. The four who achieve the highest vote count will become captains.
  • Voting takes place the day after registration for the tournament closes.
  • Voting will take place over one 24 hour period
  • Each player who registered will be able to vote for up to 4 candidates
  • After 4 captains are chosen through the vote, each must take part in a draft which will allow them to assemble their team. The Draft process will be explained below.
  • Players not picked in the Seven Round Draft will be placed in the Sub Bank
  • Players within the Sub bank can fill in for teams that are in need of another player
  • Subs will be chosen by the date they registered for the tournament
  • If the captains fail to show up for a match and none of the alternates the captain has chosen are present, team members will choose a majority vote.
  • Team members for the first game will be chosen based on registration date to tournament.
  • If both teams fail to come up with 4 members, the match will be rescheduled.
  • All matches will be at least a 4v4 player match and can be no greater than an 8v8 match
  • Both teams are required to have an equal number of players
  • If a team loses a member during the match, the team will have one of three choices:
    • Use a player from the Sub Bank to fill in
    • Forefit the match
    • Play a man down
  • To win the match, the team must win the first two rounds. If there is a tie after two rounds, a Sudden Death will occur which is explained below.

3. Tournament Structure


  • Conditions for being the winning team are: the winning of at least one round and no less than a draw in the other round
  • A team is knocked out of the tournament if they lose two matches in the tournament


4. The Draft Procedure


  • If possible, a Live Draft will take place.
  • In the Live Draft, all four captains will chose their players in a 7 round draft (4 picks total per round)
  • Draft Order:
    • Round One
      • Pick One: Captain A
      • Pick Two: Captain B
      • Pick Three: Captain C
      • Pick Four: Captain D
    • Round Two
      • Pick Five: Captain D
      • Pick Six: Captain C
      • Pick Seven: Captain B
      • Pick Eight: Captain A
  • Those not chosen through the draft will be placed in the Sub Bank
  • If a Live Draft cannot be held, an Auto-Draft will be held.
  • Captains will submit a ranked list of the available players prior to the draft
  • The Auto-Draft format will be similar to the Live Draft in that the draft will be divided into rounds with each team being assigned specific picks in the draft
  • Trading:
  • In the one hour period after the draft's completion, 1 for 1 trades may be made.
  • During this time, the team lists are kept private.

5. Sudden Death Procedures

Survivor

If a tie occurs within the first 2 rounds, we restart the map on DSArena mini. Promptly we kill the nodes and eggs with rcon and they battle it out and see who wins (Best of 2 Rounds). The first team to win two games in a row wins overall.

6. Server Settings


Basic Settings
Sudden Deathg_suddenDeathTime 25
Timelimit timelimit 35
Unlagged g_unlagged 1
Share (off) what's the setting?
Movement Friendly Fire (off) what's the setting?
Friendly Fire g_friendlyFire 1
Building Friendly Fire g_friendlyBuildingFire 1
Build Points g_humanBuildPoints 100; g_alienBuildPoints 150
Private Messages g_privateMessages 0
Spectator Chat g_specChat 0
Voting g_allowVote 0
Standard Mark Deconstruction g_markDeconstruct 3


Playable Maps


The following default maps:
  • Tremor
  • Niveus
  • Karith
  • Nexus6
  • Arachnid2

The following custom maps:
  • ancient_remains_1-0
  • 1984b4
  • sectorb17
  • nano
  • bluedragon2_b3
  • utcs
  • metro-2-b2
  • eden (eden-b3)
  • thanatos_b3
  • cerebrus_final
  • gloom2b2
  • infested Pump Station (gloom3t)
  • station15
  • procyon
  • pulse
  • sedna-beta3
  • orion
  • thermal
  • veddak
  • meep_b2

Map choosing:

  • 4v4:
    • Nano/UTCS/bluedragon
  • 5v5:
    • gloom2beta2/Niveus/Tremor
  • 6v6:
    • Sectorb17/arachnid2/orion
  • 7v7:
    • Nexus6/1984b4/thermal
  • 8v8:
    • Metro-2-b2/Karith/Procyon
    • Both teams pick a map, If they pick the same map that is the map they will play. However if they pick two different maps they will play the third map that no one picked.

7. Match days


  • Saturday @ 5:00 est
  • Sunday @ 7:00 est
  • Every Saturday and Sunday we will have a match at a set time

Registration Form

  1. Tremulous Name
  2. Would you like to be a candidate for a Captain Position?
  3. What do you estimate your availability during Match Days will be?
  4. Do you agree with all the tournament rules?