These rules can change at any time. It is the players responsibility to read and stay up to date with the tournament rules.
Rules
- Manipulation of creep waves in or close to the base with Behemoth's Fissure is not allowed
- Pulling Legion mid lane creeps to the neutral creep camps is not allowed
- Pulling Hellbourne bottom lane creeps to the ancient neutral creep camp is not allowed
- Using bugs or glitches in the game to your advantage is not allowed
Regulations
- Players must use English when typing in public chat
- Spectators are not allowed, except for the tournament admins and approved casters/cameramen
- Players that are participating in the tournament are not allowed to livestream their matches
- Teams will need to provide their team roster (maximum 7 players) first time they sign up for one of their qualifiers
- Teams roster can have a maximum of 2 player changes during the whole season
- Using smurf accounts or lending your account for ringing is not allowed
- To start a game a team needs to have 5 players from their roster which they reported during sign up for their first qualifier
- Teams cannot be late more than 5 minutes to check in to their game and an additional 10 minutes to join it. This means all players must be sitting and ready to play within 15 minutes of the match start time. In the case of a second or subsequent round of play, this 15 minutes starts when the new game is hosted or at the call of a tournament admin
- Teams that don't show up for their play time will be disqualified from the whole season. At this point the other team will receive a bye for the round
- Forfeiting a game during the qualifiers will lose the team half the points they earned during that tourney
- Remake is not allowed if you miss-picked or if a team wants to replace a player
- The semi-finals and the finals will be hosted by one of the admins
In-Game Settings
- Game Mode: Banning Pick
- Map: Forest of Caldavar
- Team Size: Five versus Five
- Advanced Game Options: Tournament Rules
Server Picking
- The teams host the game on a mutually agreed server
- If the teams can not agree on a server, the tournament admin will force a ruling
- If the tournament admin is not present, teams are to follow the below "suggested server choice"
- Pick order is determined by /roll 2, the winning team gets to choose the pick order
- The team with the server disadvantage gets to pick the side by default
- In case of even server the sides is decided by /roll 2 (alternate side in best of three/five matchups)
Suggested Server Choice:
For Qualifiers:- SEA vs USW - JPN server
- SEA vs USE - USW server
- SEA vs EU - USW server
- SEA vs Russia - USE
- USW vs EU - USE server
- USW vs Russia - Higher seed gets server preference between USE/EU
- USE vs EU - Higher seed gets server preference between USE/EU.
- USE vs Russia - EU server
- South America vs EU/Russia - USE server
- AUS vs USA - JPN server
- AUS vs EU - Higher seed gets server preference between USW/USE
For the Invitational:- SEA vs USW - JPN server
- SEA vs USE - USW server
- SEA vs EU - USW server
- SEA vs Russia - USE server
- USW vs EU - USE server
- USW vs Russia -Server preference to higher seed between USE/EU, then alternate.
- USE vs EU - Server preference to higher seed between USE/EU, then alternate.
- USE vs Russia - EU server
- South America vs EU/Russia - USE server
- AUS vs USA - JPN server
- AUS vs EU - Server preference to higher seed between USW/USE, then alternate.
Player Misbehavior
Excessive flaming, trolling, spamming or any other form of bad manners by any player will result in:
- If an admin is observing the game:
- a warning
- a disqualification of the team who's member is doing it from the whole season
- If an admin is not observing the game:
- the team that suffered above mentioned bad manners from the opposing team can report such behavior to the admin after the game
- in case that the admin confirms such behavior took place he can either give the team a warning or directly disqualify the team from the whole season
