AC Christmas Cup Discussion

[Roflcopter]

The signup thread will be posted at 12pm.
Signup ends at 2pm GMT on Sunday, 21 December.
Matches start shortly after.

Staff: Roflcopter (admin), Million (ref), Vanquish (ref)
Servers: se-rc.tk (ports: 1111, 2222, 3333) donated by Vanquish
us-rc.tk (ports: 1111, 2222, 3333) donated by yopa
aura.woop.ac (ports: 1999, 2999, 3999, 4999) donated by w00p

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AC Christmas Cup is a 3v3 CTF cup taking place on 21 December and finishing the same day! The cup is single elimination.

Signups open at 12pm GMT, 21 December. A team must consist of at least three players including a captain. At 2pm GMT, teams will be seeded and randomly placed into a tree. Matches start shortly after!

If teams agree a server to play their match on then that server will be used. If no agreement can be made a referee will decide a server which, on balance of pings, packet jump and stability is fairest.

If a team is later than 15 minutes to field their team a referee may declare them to have forfeited. Generally referees will try hard to avoid this.

For each match a random map will be selected from the pool. The map will be played twice, once from each side. The team that scores the most total flags wins and progresses to the next round.

The map pool is: shine, elevation, desert3, ingress, gothic, urban, sunset, mines, power, swamp, werk, lainio

Tiebreak maps are also randomly selected for each match. In the event both teams score the same number of flags, teams are switched and a tiebreak map is played on both sides. This is repeated until one team has more flags.

Intentionally using bugs is not allowed. If a player drops a flag into an inaccessible location the enemy team will be awarded one extra flag to their score.

Teams are entitled to two benched players in addition to the three that play. During a match a player may substitute another provided (s)he waits at least 5 seconds before spawning. Players may play on if a player disconnects. For this reason, please bring a substitute!

Spectators are allowed at the discretion of the referee but they may not talk or interrupt the match.

Players should be polite to one another. Referees may impose match bans to players who don't meet the standard!

Players that have been proven to cheat in the last 6 months may not play. Players should use their well-known names for signup and play with those names if requested by a referee. In any case, players should not use purposely confusing or misleading names.

We ask that the winning team take responsibility for collecting demos (and ideally screenshots too) and posting them to the tournament thread.

We can't predict every eventuality; referees may improvise!