Tournaments Introduction
- All rules are to be followed and adhered to without exception. Enforced punishment for rule breakers or rule breaking will be at the Admin's discretion from anywhere up to being banned from all 4SG related mediums
- IRC will always be 100% enforced
- If mIRC does not work for you , then try our online chat client
Contents
Tournament Format
Divisions
Prizes
Losing or Forfeiting
Player/Team drop outs
Maps and Map Selection Process
Match Submissions
Cheating & Aliasing
Servers
Attitudes both in-game and in Forums
Lagging and Disconnections
Pauses/Time-outs and Breaks
Admins and Referees
Administrative Responsibility
Referee Responsibility
Referee's and Spectators in-game
Tournament Format
- All tournaments will specify whether there is a player signup limit or unlimited
- Tournament formats will vary between every competition to mix things up but are not applicable to change during running time, if you have a format suggestion for future tournaments we are always willing to discuss
- All tournaments will include specific Seeding rules, these methods will vary between individual numbering or collective grouping
- The positioning of the single elim play offs will be determined on how well opponents
do via their group stages, maps wins/loses, kills, deaths, opponent recognition
Divisions
All seasonal tournaments will have skill level divided divisions to keep things fun for players of all skill levels
Players may be able to choose a division preference, but the Administrative team will have the final say
Prizes
- Prizes change for each tournament, and are subject to change after announcement but not during competition run-time
- In the event the prize is for a team tournament the captain will receive the total amount of prizes for the team to distrubute between themselves
- Cash Prizes: one nz player must have a paypal account due to conversion costs
- Teams or players who forfeit finals matches (in which regards they would usually receive a prize) will not receive the allocated prize
Losing or Forfeiting
- Forfeiting is declared when a player or team organises and agrees or has been scheduled a match time to play at and does not show to play the match for that time (without 24 hour prior notice that plans have changed).
- Teams/Players will have 15 minutes after the scheduled time to get organised and in the server or the opponent will receive a forfeit win.
- Another process of forfeiting will be if both players or teams fail to attempt to schedule a match, and the date of the match to be played by has passed. This will be up to admin discretion whether or not an attempt has been made
- Players found forfeiting a match, although we do understand people have lives and sometimes may be away or have issues with their internet (DO NOT SIGN UP IF YOU ARE GOING AWAY). Unfortunately the tournament will be trying to keep to schedule 100% of the time so players that cannot organise their matches in time may face the forfeiting stick. Too many forfeits for a particular player will receive removal from this competition, and possible future competitions.
Player/Team drop outs
If a player wishes to no longer participate in the tournament, their spot will be become a bye if it is too late to fill the position.
Maps and Map Selection Process
Every tournament has a different map list and will be listed before signing up
Every tournament has a different map selection process and will be listed before signing up
In the event players are on equal overall points, map differences for that stage will come into play
If map difference is equal between the tied players, then frag difference for that stage will be counted
Match Submissions
On completion of matches, the winner is required to post the results + demo in the designated section. Information about how to do that can be found here
Should a demo not be provided or the results posted correctly that match will not be counted for
Included in your post should be:
- Screen shot of Each Map played (host here) or a quake live link to the game
You MUST have recorded and upload the demo via our new demo upload system
- demo of Each map played
Eg: ~ /record Player1vsPlayer2mapname (or something similar)
Players and Spectators can keep on track with rounds visually, which will be updated here http://www.4seasonsgaming.com
Cheating & Aliasing
Any player that is caught cheating will be removed from the tournament & possibly all future tournaments.
The same goes for anyone that has misrepresented themselves by using an Alias to register. Players found registering under more then one alias without the notification of an admin will be removed from the tournament and all future tournaments.
Players must use handicap 100 any less and the match will be considered thrown and that player will be expelled from the tournament and possibly future ones.
Any betting/match fixing that goes on will result in similar punishment for all involving parties
Servers
- All games will be played on private servers, unless not available
- The server location to be played on will be one which gives the least amount of difference in ping between both players, Eastern or Western advantage. The server which does will be used for all maps in that game.
- In the event the reverse pings on servers are equal or within a difference of 5 from each other, an allocation of 1/2 of the maps will be played on each players home turff with the higher seed choosing which server is player for which map
- In the event a tie breaker is needed. The total frag difference will be calculated between the two opponents for the whole match with the player holding a greater difference choosing the server
- If frag difference is equal a coin will be flipped by the Administrative team
- Due to public being able to spawn servers, admin's must receive passwords to player spawned tournament matches. If players refuse the match will not be counted
Attitudes both in-game and in Forums
All players must be on good behavior, and put aside past incidents or bad experiences with said player to avoid flaming, abuse, bad sportsmanship. We do not accept trolling of forums, nor do we accept it in matches. Focus on your game, and any unsportsmanlike behavior will be dealt with strictly.
Smileys are allowed but not to an excessive extent. No smileys may exceed the character limit of 7 and they are not to be pressed in a repetative consistant manner within short time spans. This will be judged by our Admin team and will be enforced this duel competition.
Lagging and Disconnections
Lagging is defined as any ping consistently reaching over 100. If before the beginning of a map or in between map breaks a lagging player can chose
- If the said match is not on the final day to play Sunday, play on, or reschedule can be decided
- If the said match is on the final day to play Sunday, play on or forfeit the match has to be decided
In the instance a player has lagged or dropped during a duel
- The match is to be restarted with the previous results and time accounted for. The restart is played with the remaining time left before the disconnection and with the same scores that were standing before the disconnection
- In the case both players agree to restart then that will be done instead
Pauses/Time-outs and Breaks
- Duelers are allowed 1 time-out per map via /timeout (in the console)
- Teams are allowed 3 time-outs per map via /timeout (in the console)
- Abusing this rule will be punished at admin discertion from the possibility of a warning to a forfeit of the map
- Time-outs only last 30 seconds each, and only work on private servers
- Pauses are only allowed by the referee or admin of the match, they are to include a total of 5 minutes per map. (Ie. 1st pause for a minute, 2nd pause for
2 minutes, 3rd pause for 2 minutes - in one map)
- The pause reason is negotiated from a player to the admin in game, at the admin/referee's discretion to accept/deny the reason should it not be worthy.
- Breaks are allowed for upto 5 minutes inbetween each map, no longer. Admin discretion on punishment for breaking this rule
- Players that wish to negotiate a longer break may do so with the admin/referee and is in discretion of the admin/referee of the match with or without desired approval from the opponent (but will obviously be included in the decision)
Admins and Referees
Are always put up on our staff page
If a player is claiming to be Staff and not on this page, alert an Admin immiedieatly
Administrative Responsibility
- Handle registration and player seeding (final say on our panels decisions)
- Organise groups for their respective divisions
- Forward complaints to myself, and handle any easy-solved problems
- Spectate Matches, and Record footage from both players
- Ensure they are actively around to help get newer/less tournament experienced players in contact with each other
- Help decide on rules/maps
- Enforce the home and away server system for WA participants
- Will get to watch the finals live
Referee Responsibility
- Forward complaints to myself, and handle any easy-solved problems
- Spectate Matches, and Record 3rd Person demo's
- Enforce the home and away server system for WA participants
- Will get to watch the finals live
- We are still looking for a few more ref's pm mick05
Referee's and Spectators in-game
We understand people love to watch games, as do we. Referee's will upload their demos of finals matches after the game.
- Spectators will be permitted to watch all group stage matches
- Only Staff and Donated Patron's will be permitted for finals
- Players will also be distributing demo's of each match
- Admins or Referee's should be present in all matches, finals more so then group stages
