Starbow, 3rd Series of Season One 02/17/2017

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Tournament Format

NASL Season One is 4 tournaments that feed into a season playoff.  This is the 3rd tournament of the season. Each tournament is play at your pace.  Players have up to 1 week to finish a best of 5 match.  Tournaments can take as long as 4 weeks or as little as 1 day depending on how fast players as a whole  choose to play.  Players earn points based off their finish placement.   The top 8 ranked player will play in the playoffs at the end of the season.

Game

Starbow mod with in the SC2 arcade.  Community found at Discord:  https://discord.gg/0mnjXjS2e2a7YclO

Prize Pool:  $75 USD For Season One

Prize money is earned by 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers of the season playoffs.  The top 3 finishers prize will be equal to the points they accumulated over the season with 100 point = $1 USD.   Prized are paid via play pal only and can take up to 7 days to process.

Tournament 1 to 4.

• 1st place 500 points
• 2nd place 300 points
  
• 3rd - 4th 200 points 
• 5th - 8th 100 points
  

Season Finals PLAYOFFS

• 1st place 2000 points & prize pay out
  
• 2nd place 1000 points & prize pay out
  
• 3rd place Prize pay out
  

RULES:

1. Event Calendar: The Event can last up to 4 weeks with each round of play corresponding to each week.  Players may play ahead as the bracket is updated. Player may not play ahead to the next round until the bracket is updated to reflect the new standing for themselves.
   

   • Thursday (6:00 PM CST) Sign ups close.
     
   • Friday (12:01 AM CST) Brackets locked players may start the round of 16 the winner will send in his or her replays.  Players may keep playing their matches of each round as showed on the bracket and send in replays.
   • Saturday  (9:00 PM CST) report scheduled match times to arctichydra.
   • Next Wednesday (6:00 PM CST) All Round of 16 games not played and submitted are forfeit.
     
   • Next Wednesday (6:00 PM CST) All Round of 8 games not played and submitted are forfeit.
   • Next Wednesday (6:00 PM CST) All Round of 4 games not played and submitted are forfeit.
   • Next Wednesday (6:00 PM CST) All Round of 2 games not played and submitted are forfeit.

2. Chat Channel & Discord: In game players will meet in the Starbow chat channle. Discord Server.   https://discord.gg/yrRtQ  This is where results will be reported to the Event Administrator and uploads of replays will be privet messaged to Arctic Hydra with text stating the Tournament Series #, The round of play, the palyers, and the results.  example  -   Series 1, Round of 16 Bob vs Rob . Rob won 3 to 2. 
   
3. Server: In all inter-server matches, Americas will be the default server. Home server will be default for all intra-server matches. Players may play on a different server than the default server ONLY if both players agree.
4. Race Switching: Allowed between rounds of play, NOT between game with in a best of "x" series. Random may not be played as it changes your race between game with in a best of "x" series.
   
5. Game Invites: In the event of live casting only players and casters will be invited to casted games, no extraneous observers. If players choose to invite observers to non-casted games they are welcome to. The reason for this policy is to present a clean professional stream, encourage viewers to watch the stream, and eliminate as much lag and interruption as possible. Once you have finished a match, please wait for the casted match of the current round to finish before beginning your next match OR get permission to begin from the event admin in the chat channel. We would like to be able to show a variety of players, not follow the same player through the bracket. Also, depending on volunteer availability, the casters may need to be acting as administrators and we want to always have a match to present on stream.
6. Series Length:  All matches are Best of 5.
   
7. Vetoes: There are no Vetoes to be used.
8. Conditions: Minimum of 8 players are needed to qualify for prize money
9. Seeding:  Player Seeding is done at the discretion of the event organizer based of past starbow performance of the player.  Seeding is only applied to the tournament bracket when there is a uneven number of players.
10. No Shows:  Players have until 9:00PM CST to make contact with their opponent and report the agreed date/time of their match to Arctichydra over discord.  If you can't find your opponent keep looking until Saturday, then report it to arctichhydra.  If your opponent does not show up at your agreed time, PM arctichydra.  I will pull a opponent form the waiting list.  If no players are available you will get a pass onto the next round.  eliminated players may place them self on the waiting list as well.
11. Maps: Each match will start on a designated starting map for game 1 (see below).  The map played on for games 2 through 5 will be picked from the pool listed. the loser from the previous game will pick the next map.  A map can only be used one time unless listed for more than one use.
    

MAP POOL

Round of 16: BO5 Starting Map: Neo Tau Cross

Map Pool: Fighting Spirit (2 uses), Neo Desert Tech (2 uses)

Quarterfinals: BO5 Starting Map:  Match Point 2.0

Map Pool: Circuit Breaker (2 uses), Luna (2 uses)

Semifinals: BO5 Starting Map: Soul Star

Map Pool: Neo Desert Tech (2 uses), Luna (2 uses)

Finals: BO5 Starting Map: Longinus 2.0 NASBL

Map Pool: Circuit Breaker (2 uses) , Fighting Spirit (2 uses)