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Before you sign up, please take a moment to read over the rules: Tournament Rules

To sign up, simply leave a reply with your ESO name. Please keep the following in mind when signing up:

• First-come, first-served. The first 32 players to sign up will be guaranteed tournament seeding. If there is enough interest, the tournament may be seeded for 64 players.
• To be eligible for sign ups, your main account must be above PR19 in TAD Supremacy or TAD Treaty according to the ELO website.
• You can only have one account at the same time playing in the tournament! (Please use your main account for playing in the tournament!)
• Please use your full and correctly written Ensemble Studios Online (ESO) account name, this will make it easier for us to sign you up for our tournament.
• You may sign up as a substitute player for the RO32, in case there are disqualifications. Simply mention that you would like to be a substitute.

Be sure to stick around on ESO Community to stay up to speed with any updates we may make regarding the tournament dates and other information!

Thank you for signing up and we wish you good luck! The tournament will begin on October 5th, 2015!



Time Line


Sign Ups
To be eligible for sign ups, your main account must be above PR19 in TAD Supremacy or TAD Treaty according the the ELO website.
September 14th, 2015 - October 2nd, 2015


Bracket Stages

Round of 32 (BO1)
October 5th, 2015 - October 11th, 2015

Round of 16 (BO1)
October 12th, 2015 - October 18th, 2015

Round of 8 (BO1)
October 19th, 2015 - October 25th, 2015

Semi-Finals (BO3)
October 26th, 2015 - November 1st, 2015

Finals (BO3) - 3rd/4th (BO3)
November 2nd, 2015 - November 8th, 2015



Tournament Rules



Civilization Restrictions

• French, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian may not be played in the tournament.
• In a Best-of-3, you must play 2 different civilizations, then you can play any civilization one more time.



Gameplay Rules

1.1 - Every player must respect their opponent, casters and organizers. Misbehavior will result in a warning and can lead into disqualification. Racism and/or insults will not be tolerated.

1.2 - Every game must be recorded.

1.3 - Every game must be played on ESO (Ensemble Studios Online).

1.4 - Every player may restart a game BEFORE the 2 minute mark when necessary. This is allowed ONCE per map when the game is NOT casted by an official caster. Restarts for CASTED games will be determined by the caster him/herself. The caster is allowed to restart a game as many times as necessary for optimal play.

1.5 - Every game must be played with the "Treaty - No Blockade" setting.

1.6 - Ships and docks are disallowed.

1.7 - Game modifications, BESIDES the Ekanta UI mod and building rotator mod, are disallowed.

1.8 - Every game must be conducted within half map. This means that before the treaty timer has expired, you may not collect resources or construct buildings past your half of the map. Treasure-collecting and scouting are allowed as normal.



Casting Rules

2.1 - It is every players responsibility to work with tournament staff for the casting of games.

2.2 - If the players and caster(s) determine that a selected match cannot be streamed due to lag, in order to provide an optimal environment for competitive play, the match may be streamed from the replays instead.
2.3 - Only casters that have been authorized by the tournament staff will be permitted to stream matches.

2.4 - The players in casted matches will be required to schedule their matches with their opponents and with the authorized caster(s).

2.5 - All streamed games must have a time delay of 2 minutes.

2.6 - The tournament staff reserves the right to extend the deadline of the match if deemed appropriate.

2.7 - All tournament streamed matches must be recorded.

2.8 - No additional observers may be present in games.



Disqualification Rules

3.1 - All external exploits and game modification software are forbidden. The tournament administration reserves the right to disqualify a player for use of any exploits to gain an unfair advantage.

3.2 - Exploits include but are not limited to: Map Hacks, Trainers, Explorer Revival Glitch, OOS / Intentional Lag (Stacked downloads or other game crashing exploits), and mods (zoom modification).

3.4 - If you suspect your opponent has violated any of the player integrity rules, finish the game and submit it for review with an explanation of why you think the game was unfair. If the tournament staff members find someone to be guilty of cheating, the cheater will be disqualified from the tournament.

3.5 - When a player disconnects from the internet BEFORE 10 minutes, the player can (when both agree) restart and replay the game. When the opponent does not agree to restart, the outcome of the game will be determined by the tournament staff.

3.6 - When a player disconnects AFTER 10 minutes, the players can (when both agree) restart and replay the game. When the opponent does not agree to restart, the player who lost connection will be given a loss.

3.7 - The registered account name must be the main account of its owner for proper seeding.




Scheduling Rules

4.1 Admins will make scheduling threads for matches.

4.2 - Players must respond simply with the times they are available to play. The admin will then select a time for the players to play from the available time. Players must then confirm their agreement.

4.3 - Posts in scheduling topics will be considered along with interaction with admins when making decisions regarding scheduling. Other communications will not be considered.



Seeding

5.1 - Players will be seeded by their Overall Treaty ELO on simple ELO. This seeding will be done automatically after signups close.



Map Pool and Map Rules

The map pool for the 2015 Treaty Cup consists of the following 3 maps:

New Deccan
New Andes
New Orinoco

6.1 - The map for RO32, RO16, and RO8 games will be based on a veto system. The player with the lower rank will be granted veto advantage and the ability to ban 1 map from the set. The other player will then select the map to be played from of the 2 remaining maps.

6.1.a - For example, Player 1 (PR28) has the veto advantage and bans New Orinoco. Player 2 (PR31) bans New Deccan, so the map played will be New Andes.

6.2 - Finals and Semi-Finals games will be played in this map order: New Deccan, New Andes, New Orinoco.



Staff

Admins
black_thought (Cometk)
charlemagen
dicktator_ (Conquerer999)
Lukas_L99

Map-creator
musketeer925

Casters
charlemagen
Milky__
plus guest casters