Deathball Tendency Sign-up Thread

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Deathball Tendency Sign-up Thread

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Post by Zakken » Mon Mar 25, 2019 5:43 am

Sign-ups for the Deathball Tendency are now open, as suggested by the ZCA community! You may sign up either by posting the required information here, or on the ZCA Discord group's respective channel.

Time table:
Sign-ups start: onday, March 25th
Sign-ups end & draft begins: Saturday, March 30th @ 6:00 PM EST
Tournament starts: Saturday, March 30th @ 7:00 PM EST
Tournament duration: 2.5 to 3 hours

Map pool:
MAP05: Thirty Six
MAP09: UAC Center
MAP13: Fort Tundra
MAP17: Straight Shot
MAP20: Fortress Collision

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Nickname: Zakken
Country: Brazil
Captain: Yes/No
Preferred contact: DCWC Discord
Spoiler: Tendency Series Ruleset v1.05 (February 16th, 2019) (Open)
I - Team structure
1. Auction draft:
1.1. All participating players are signed up as free agents, and are given the option to volunteer as captains;
1.2. Team rosters will be assembled by way of an auction draft. Captains will be hand-picked based on skill level, reliability and willingness to take on such a role;
1.3. At the day of the event, captains will be given a fictional budget of $20, which will be spent bidding on free agents to be drafted to their teams;
1.4. Each drafted player must be acquired by a minimum of $1 and a maximum of $19.

2. Each team is comprised of an assigned captain and two other players;
3. Teams must be named in accordance to general decency rules (aka common sense);
4. Trading between teams is not allowed.
5. In the event that a team is down by one member in-between matches, they are allowed to trade in somebody who wasn't drafted that is of roughly the same skill level as the missing member, as per consensus of the Tendency captains. The skill level priority is as follows:
5.1. Same skill level;
5.2. Higher skill level;
5.3. Lower skill level;
6. Free agents may be used for the purpose of these emergency trades, but players from outside the tournament may also be traded in if they are willing to participate. Free agents and outside players are seen as similarly-privileged entities, and are subjected to the same priority as seen in rule #5.

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II - Game structure
1. Games will be played on the [NY] Zandronum Competition Alliance servers by default, on Zandronum 3.0. Teams may agree to play in other servers, as long as they meet the tournament standards:
- [NY] Zandronum Competition Alliance: XCTF2019 Practice/ Game #1 - 45.76.13.232:10667
- [NY] Zandronum Competition Alliance: XCTF2019 Practice/ Game #2 - 45.76.13.232:10668
- [NY] Zandronum Competition Alliance: DeathBall Game/Prac #1 - 45.76.13.232:10672
- [NY] Zandronum Competition Alliance: DeathBall Game/Prac #2 - 45.76.13.232:10671
2. For CTF, the map set to be used is xctf2019v3.pk3, as is the currently utilised WAD in regular private CTF. For Deathball, the mapset is the one that comes with deathballv18-rc1.pk3;
3. All matches follow a 3 vs. 3, 5 captures, 10 minutes format. Sudden death is turned ON;
4. All matches are best-of-3 on three different maps selected by the two teams facing each other in each game. The map pool is comprised of 5 maps (that are disclosed as sign-ups open), and the map selection for each round is done in this order:
- a coinflip determines a winner and a loser;
- the coinflip winner chooses whether they want to ban first or let the opposing team ban first;
- one team bans the first map, the other team bans the second map;
- the team that banned first picks the round 1 map, the team that banned second picks the round 2 map;
- the last remaining map becomes the round 3 map;
5. Matches continue regardless of what predicaments any player may face. The players themselves are responsible for issues such as connection problems, not the administration;
6. In the event that a server crashes or severely lags in the middle of a match, it must be restarted at the same time frame and team scores as they were before the server crash took place.

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III - Tournament structure
1. The tournament structure depends on how many teams are formed:
- round-robin for 4 or less teams;
- double-elimination for 5 or more teams;

2. Round-robin structure:
2.1. Each team plays all of the other teams, in an order that will be determined once the tournament begins;
2.2. The top 3 teams with the best win/loss record move on to the playoffs, with #1 playing the winner of #2 vs #3.
2.3. Tiebreaking criteria between two or more teams are as follows. Only one team advances to the next stage per tie-breaking step:
2.3.1. head-to-head (highest priority);
2.3.2. strength of victory;
2.3.3. best round win percentage;
2.3.4. best flag for/flag against ratio;
2.3.5. coin toss/dice roll (lowest priority).

3. Double-elimination structure:
3.1. All teams are seeded randomly. Standard double-elimination settings apply;
3.2. There is no bracket reset in grand finals. Only one set is played between the two finalists.

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IV - Player duties
1. Recordings:
1.1. Every player who participates in any match must record and upload a demo or livestream from said match if requested by the administration;
1.2. If players fail to comply with their demo/livestream uploads if demanded, their team forfeits all games where said player participated in.

2. Captains are urged to make themselves available an hour before the event begins (6:00 PM EST) in order to do the auction draft;
3. Players who sign-up must attend to the event at the specified time (7:00 PM EST). Offenders will be barred from Tendency for one tournament, with increasing punishments for repeat offenders.

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V - Rules of conduct
1. Be respectful to other players, especially when they are practising or playing their matches;
2. Show commitment to your matches. This goes double for captains;
3. Cheating is strictly prohibited. Cheating is not limited to, but is characterised by: utilising wallhacks, aimbots, ping manipulators (lag switches) and getting metagame intel from a third party (ghosting). Offenders will be banned for all foreseeable Tendency events.
4. Players who receive bans from the ZCA server cluster (e.g. in private CTF, public CTF) for any reason will not be allowed to play until their bans expire;
5. That's about it. Be nice to your fellow competitors and give this tournament the respect it deserves and everything will be a-ok!!!

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Re: Deathball Tendency Sign-up Thread

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Post by Zakken » Tue May 21, 2019 5:59 am

RESULTS
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1st. [SR50] SteamRoll50
:flag_br: Zakken, :flag_ca: Water, :flag_us: 100% Newb

2nd. [FRANK] Frank
:flag_ca: Razor, :flag_ar: thebestkiller, :flag_us: Aerial

3rd. [OJ] Orange Juice
:flag_ae: Dsparil, :flag_us: Ace, :flag_fr: Slaerd

4th. [TPTTIGTW] The Pro Team that Is Going to Win
:flag_gb: 99, :flag_us: Edd, :flag_au: DoomJoshuaBoy

It's been a very interesting and fun tournament, thank you guys so much for coming.

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