[SDC] Tournament Format and Rules.

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The format of Shooter Duo Championship will be as following:​

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Group Stage ​

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Here, Every team plays each other once, and the top two teams with the most points accumulated after three games advance to the knockout stage. ​

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Teams receive 3 points for a win and zero points for a loss.​

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In-case more than one team end up with the exact same number of matches won, the team with the most extra rounds won will get a better placement in the ranking of their respective group. ​

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Games in Group Stage are all Best of 1.​

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Knockout Stage​

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Second part of the tournament is even easier to understand. It's a Round of 16, with a single-elimination bracket, if your team loses, you're out of the tournament.​

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Round of 16, Quarter-Finals and Semi-Finals Games are Best of 3.​

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The Grand Final.​

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The Grand Final is going to be played as a Best of 5.​

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TOURNAMENT RULES
This table contains instructions that you need to know and the rules you must follow during the tournament.​

All Tournament Matches are going to be recorded and later uploaded on Youtube.
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Chat Rules:

• Both team players and referees are the only ones who are allowed to speak in main chat.
  
• Any kind of insulting, begging or flaming is going to be punished with a mute.
  
• Players cannot be punished without a warning.
  
• Keep the main chat as clean as possible.
  

General Rules:

• Only the listed players are allowed to play.
  

• Players are not able to play for more than 1 team.
  
• It's not allowed to use any form of cheating/glitching that give you an unfair advantage.
  
• If anyone is cheating/hacking, he will be banned and the team will be disqualified.
  
• If someone is lagging while the map is running, we will ask both teams if they agree to free the round. If opponent team don't agree, we will keep playing the round without the lagging player.
  
• Each team can free up to 4 times, each free counts for 5 minutes.
  
• If participant times out before the map starts, we wait for 5 minutes. If he doesn't attend back, the opponent team wins the map.
  
• If participant times out 15 seconds after the map started, we will free the round.
  
• If someone is lagging too much, we can wait up to 5 minutes per round till the player fixes his ping, if he doesn't fix after 4 rounds, the other team will be declared winner.
  
• If map durations expire before the last players died, the round is going to be restarted, only the last players alive will keep playing.
  
• If one of both teams doesn't present on the server at specified date and time, the team on the server wins by w.o.
  
• If both teams don't present on the server at specified date and time, the match will be postponed and the date will be chosen by the organizers.
  
• Standby time is 15 minutes for late teams.
  

Shooter Rules:

• Low Jump is the chosen gamemode for this tournament.
  
• Ground-Kills are allowed.
  
• Map duration is 5 minutes long.
  
• Mods that affect gameplay are prohibited.
  
• In case of camping, participant will be blown up and possibly eliminated without the possibility of replacing him in the team roster.
  
• If map durations expires before the last players died, the round is going to be restarted and only the last players will keep playing.
  
• Ghostmode is disabled.
  
• FPS Limiter command on F8 (fps_limit=value) is allowed, but the allowed values are: Minimum of 50, Maximum of 60.
  
• FPS Warnings & Kicks: Minimum of 45, Maximum of 60.
  
• Ping Warnings & Kicks: Maximum of 350, or a spike of 50ms above your average ping.
  
• If we caught anyone abusing any of the 3 last rules mentioned above, the player will be banned and removed from the tournament.
  

MAP RULES

• All maps are gonna be played with Infernus, no other vehicle is allowed.
  
• Event organization team will provide a good variety of shooter maps before the tournament starts.
  

[SIZE= 18px]Last Update: 10/08/2024.[/SIZE]​