Welcome to the SAVE ARMS Champions League!
**GROUP STAGE**
The group stage will take place over 6 game weeks, starting Saturday June 17th 2023.
Players will play eachother twice, once as the 'Home' player and once as the 'Away' player. - The 'Home' player will choose the first stage to be played in the 7 game set. The Away player picks 2nd and 3rd Stages, Home 4th, Away 5th, Home 6th and the 7th stage will be whatever is left at that point.
The legal stages for this tournament are those of the EU standard -
Temple Grounds
Sparring Ring
Mausoleum
Buster Beach
DNA Lab
Via Dolce
Ninja
Once a stage has been played, it is banned for the remainder of the set.
- All 7 games must be played to completion, with each games' score being reported in full (i.e. 2-1 or 2-0.)
Points will be awarded not only for games won, but also for each round won as well.
Matches from each game week will be chosen to be streamed wherever possible, all matches are to be scheduled to be played whenever is most convenient for both players. Ideally these will happen within the relevant game week, however so long as all matches are completed before the Group Stage is scheduled to end there will be no issues.
The top 2 Players from each group will proceed to the Knockout Stage
**KNOCKOUTS**
Group Winners will be drawn against Group Runners Up for the quarter finals
Quarter Final and Semi Final matches will proceed in the same manner as group stage (2 Gameweeks, 1 Home, 1 away, 7 game sets)
In the unlikely event of a tied score at the end of the 2nd Game Week, the winner will be determined by **SUDDEN DEATH SHOOTOUT**
The Champions League Final will be contested under First to 10 rules.
The Winner will receive the SAVE ARMS CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Trophy