Tavern Cup Series #1

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Tavern Cup Series Guidelines:

Signups and League Breakdown

• Tavern Series is a monthly 1v1 single elimination tournament.

• Players can sign up for the upcoming tournament by following the Challonge Community page. This tournament is open to all players regardless of region or skill level, and the default host will be US West.

• Check-ins will open 1 hours before the tournament starts. You must check-in if you wish to participate in the tournament.

• If your opponent fails to show within 20 minutes of the start of the tournament, contact Stag3craft#3611 on discord.

• Each season of the Tavern Cup Series season will consist of 11 events (Jan.-Nov.), which are open to all players. Players will accumulate points in these qualifying tournaments.

• Top 16 players at the end of the series will move on to the Tavern Cup Championship in December.

Challenge Matches/Extra Ladder Points

o   At the end of each Tavern Cup Series tournament, can challenge one another for extra points towards the ladder leader board.

o   The matches will be held on the second and third Thursday of each month.

o   Each match win equals 15 extra points to the winner towards the players overall ladder ranking.

o   Any two players may challenge one another.

o   Both players MUST agree to the challenge and contact Stag3craft#3611 on discord for challenge match scheduling.

o   All challenge matches with be fully casted.

Prizes

• All Tavern Cup Series qualifying tournaments will pay out $75 to the first-place winner.

• All Tavern Cup Series qualifying tournaments will pay out $25 to Second place.

• Each Tavern Crawl Championship will pay out $TBD to first place and $TBD to second place.

• No prize money for any Challenge Tournaments .

Map Pool

• Amazonia

• Concealed Hill

• Echo Isles

• Terenas Stand LV

• Twisted Meadows

• Northern Isles

• Last Refuge

Vetoes

• Finals round is a best of 5 match. All other rounds are best of 3.

The higher seed will veto first. Lower seed will select the first map.

• Players will veto 1 by 1 until only 3 maps are left (5 for finals).

• All subsequent maps are picked by the loser of the previous game based off the leftover maps in the pool.

• Races must be communicated prior to vetos occurring. Races may not be changed after vetoes occur for that specific round. Races may be changed each round; admin needs to be notified about race change too.

Seeding

• The top 16 of each Tavern Series are awarded points based on the following:

• 1st – 100 points

• 2nd - 60 points

• 3rd through 4th - 40 points

• 5th through 8th - 30 points

• 9th through 16th - 20 point

• Challenge Matches -15 Extra Points

• Players can see their current ranking in the discord server where it will be posted after each tournament.

• All points reset at the start of each new season.

• The grid is generated by completing the below actions in order:

• All placements are randomly generated by the Challonge bracket generator when each tournament begins.

Hosting

• Unless otherwise agreed upon, each player will take turns hosting the first two games of the series (four if in the finals).

• The final host of the series will default to a US West host.

• Exceptions to this rule would be if there is an acceptable midpoint host (i.e. Australia player vs European player would likely use a US East host).

• Contact Stag3craft or another admin if a dispute needs to be settled.

Completed Match

o After completing a match, both players need to confirm their win or loss to the admin.

Disputes/Questions/Admin Support

• Official channel for the tournament is the RTS Productions #Tavern Series discord channel here #WC3_Taven Cup and Battle.net channel “TavC”.

• [email protected]

 Disconnects

o In the event of a disconnect during the first four minutes of the match, the game will be restarted if there was no contact yet between the participants. The participants have to call a referee if the problem occurs frequently.

o If a participant disconnects after the fourth minute has passed, it is up to the needs to make the decision!

o   If the disconnected participant was clearly winning the match, the replay needs to be sent to a referee who will then decide whether the match has to be restarted or not. 

o   In case of a rematch the participants have to choose the same races they picked in the initial match. If a participant chose random races, the same race has to be picked which was randomized in the initial match.

Default Wins

o   Under the following circumstances a participant is allowed to claim a default win by contacting a referee.

o   The opponent didn't show up until 15 minutes after the match has been scheduled by the organisers. Under certain circumstances and in order to ensure fair play, the referees are allowed to increase/decrease the deadline of 15 minutes.

Official Tavern Cup Series Admins- Admin can address issues that come up as necessary

o   Admin_Stag3craft

o   Arkinator

Rule Violation & Punishment

o   Any breach of the rules may be punished with a default loss or disqualification from the Tavern Cups.

Legal Process

o   Legal proceedings are not permitted.